(Although maybe not their breath. Last time I was in Japan I tried an iekei ramen place and smelled so much like garlic to myself I was too embarrassed to go outside for the next day or two.)
IIRC the lingering curry cooking smell is from fenugreek.
Imagine working at the office and whenever one of your co-workers comes up to talk to you he always sniffs incredibly deeply inbetween sentences.
https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2020/dec/24/d...
This is the first study on human axillary odour to sample a large number of subjects, and our findings are relevant to understanding the chemical nature of human odour, and efforts to design electronic sensors (e-nose) for biometric fingerprinting and disease diagnoses.
~ https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/abs/10.1098/rsif.2006...
Any updates on how that's panned out in the past decade; robustness in the face of diet change, application in the field, overt or covert, marketing sales of magicTech to LEO adjacent bodies, etc. ?
If I don't jog or do something strenuous for a week or two and then go for a hard sweaty run my shirt afterward smells like someone peed on it.
When I do jog/sweat regularly my body odor is completely neutral.
Sweat glands are under the skin, and a shower doesn’t touch them.
If they get cleaned up after their workouts, then yeah they probably don’t need it so much when actually working out.
Sitting in the cab/at home afterwards though will get a bit rank without it.
A lot of the vegans I know (a lot! I live in boulder) have a carb heavy diet.
Any way. The point isn't even about diet because diet is just one factor in body scent.
> The odour of the men on meat-free diets was on average rated as more attractive, more pleasant and less intense.
The article goes on to say:
"Fish and beans, for instance, can cause body odour because they're filled with trimethylamine, a very strong-smelling compound. There's even a health condition, called trimethylaminuria – also known as "fish odour syndrome" – which arises when the body can't turn trimethylamine into a non-smelly compound, says Beeson. "This can lead to a strong body odour," she says"
Kinda figures this is in the BritishBC.
Edit: I'm very happy for the down votes, because it gives me new data on a subset of current HN commenters. Musk really needs you because those Mars rockets aren't going to be a culinary paradise. He's probably going to just put in a row of push button dispensers for that stuff they dish out on the ship in The Matrix. Unclear if the tubes go directly to a row of hungry mouths, or even more efficiently right down into the stomachs.
> "To our surprise, those who were eating meat smelled slightly worse than when they were not eating meat," says Havlíček.
My guess would be non-adapted gut microbiome.
She said that it wasn't bad, but it was certainly odd. I stopped eating it (which is good for me, anyway), and I returned to my usual stinky self.
Anyway, the point I want to make is that when I am stressed or nervous I definitely find my sweat smells different (and bad). Unless it’s just some heightened awareness and I actually always smell that way but don’t notice, I’m pretty sure there is a real causal relationship.
tomcam•7h ago