Perfume is good for special occasions, but natural body odor may be more seductive. Millions of dollars have been spent on creating perfumes and colognes, advertised to the public with the help of celebrities. But several studies conducted show that body odor could be the best way to attract someone.
According to the research done by Craig Roberts of the University of Stirling in England and Jan Havlíček of Charles University in Prague, Czech Republic, women are attracted to the smell of dominance in men.
One team found women tend to prefer the smell of dominant men and are particularly attracted to the smell of dominance during the most fertile stage of their menstrual cycle.The research also found that men prefer the smell of women during ovulation rather than during menstruation. Although Havlíček said “the changes in smell are quite subtle.”
The attraction to body odor depends on the person, as does the smell of perfume. Havlíček’s research team asked people to rate others’ smell with and without perfume.
It improved the smell of some more than others. Some actually smelled worse wearing perfume.The team also gave out important advice for those looking to pleasure their romantic partners. “Don’t buy perfume for your lower; let them choose it themselves,” said Havlíček.
The research revealed even more evidence that proved how smell affects each person differently. Claus Wedekind from the University of Lausanne in Switzerland said that perhaps some people use perfume because the smell is more universally liked.
In one of our experiments, we presented the same six [body] odors to 100 people and each of the odors was excellent to some and very bad to others, so maybe we just don’t want to risk smelling bad to some.Some researchers even believe our scent can even divulge aspects of our personality. Agnieszka Sorokowska of the University of Wroclaw in Poland held an experiment in which 60 men and women were asked to wear the same T-shirt for three nights so their smell seeped into the material.
Hundreds of volunteers were then asked to sniff the shirts and were able to successfully guess who was most neurotic, extroverted, and dominant based on the shirts’ smells. “Neuroticism and extroversion are very emotional traits and might change sweating rates and the composition of bacteria in the armpits, thus changing how a person smells,” said Sorokowska.
The idea that natural body odor is an attractive and desirable scent is not a new one. In Elizabethan England, girls would often place an apple slice under her armpit to absorb her smell and then present it to a potential suitor.
Traditional Balkan dancing also displays this idea. Dancers would place handkerchiefs under their armpits while they danced and sweated, and then wave the handkerchiefs under the noses of young women.
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