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Can love change the way you smell?

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"We found that using different fragrance materials to reduce the impact of a man's body odour will work on the nose of other men — but won't work on the nose of women," says Wysocki.

"A woman's nose seems to be much more tuned into ... body odours. We can find fragrances that reduce the impact of body odour from women on men," he says.

"We think that, from an evolutionary perspective, that's because women need to gain as much information as possible about potential mates because they have a very limited number of times that they can have successful pregnancies."

Subjects asked to select a prospective date from the smell of a T-shirt they had worn usually preferred the scent of a person whose immune system was genetically quite different to their own, Wysocki says, giving potential offspring optimal protection.

"Whether this goes part way to explaining the chemistry behind physical attraction, we don't know, but it may be going on at the subconscious level."

Can love change the way you smell? - Ask an Expert (ABC Science)
So if you are gay. . .?

Interesting use of fragrance to get across a safety message.
Accident. New fragrance for women | scaryideas.com