By John Naish
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/health/article5106718.ece
Unique smelling point
Your body odour is so distinctively individual that it may be used to identify you in future as a sort of fragrant fingerprint, predict scientists at Monell Chemical Senses Centre in Philadelphia.
Their laboratory studies indicate that your body's underlying signature smell, or “odourprint”, is not only unique to you, but it also defies being masked by smelly diets that are heavy in garlic and spices, says a report in the science journal PLoS One.
Jae Kwak, the lead author, says that humans' unique genetically determined “odourprints” may have evolved so that we could identify each other. It is well known that smell is the sense most closely linked to memory formation. It also plays a strong role in emotional bonding.
Kwak's laboratory tests show that even eating huge amounts of garlic can't mask the signature of the volatile organic compounds that you dispel into the air around you. He adds that this finding “may open the possibility that devices such as electronic sensors can be developed to detect individual odourprints in humans”.
Human odourprint science may also lead us to new methods for diagnosing illnesses such as cancer, Monell Centre scientists have found. Researchers who sampled the air above skin-cancer basal cell tumours on 11 patients found a different profile of chemical compounds when compared with air located above the same skin sites on 11 healthy patients.
The investigators told a meeting of the American Chemical Society last month that chemical sensors could be developed that would offer early detection of diseases.
The science could even be used to discover your true biological age, a study of 25 volunteers by Monash University in Melbourne said. Their research, reported in the British Journal of Dermatology, found that the chemical profile of people's underarm scent changes as they grow older.
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Yes, this is true.
Ever have a woman's scent on your clothes after sex? I can identify different women blindfolded just by their natural scent. Proust and I both haha.
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/health/article5106718.ece
Unique smelling point
Your body odour is so distinctively individual that it may be used to identify you in future as a sort of fragrant fingerprint, predict scientists at Monell Chemical Senses Centre in Philadelphia.
Their laboratory studies indicate that your body's underlying signature smell, or “odourprint”, is not only unique to you, but it also defies being masked by smelly diets that are heavy in garlic and spices, says a report in the science journal PLoS One.
Jae Kwak, the lead author, says that humans' unique genetically determined “odourprints” may have evolved so that we could identify each other. It is well known that smell is the sense most closely linked to memory formation. It also plays a strong role in emotional bonding.
Kwak's laboratory tests show that even eating huge amounts of garlic can't mask the signature of the volatile organic compounds that you dispel into the air around you. He adds that this finding “may open the possibility that devices such as electronic sensors can be developed to detect individual odourprints in humans”.
Human odourprint science may also lead us to new methods for diagnosing illnesses such as cancer, Monell Centre scientists have found. Researchers who sampled the air above skin-cancer basal cell tumours on 11 patients found a different profile of chemical compounds when compared with air located above the same skin sites on 11 healthy patients.
The investigators told a meeting of the American Chemical Society last month that chemical sensors could be developed that would offer early detection of diseases.
The science could even be used to discover your true biological age, a study of 25 volunteers by Monash University in Melbourne said. Their research, reported in the British Journal of Dermatology, found that the chemical profile of people's underarm scent changes as they grow older.
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Yes, this is true.
Ever have a woman's scent on your clothes after sex? I can identify different women blindfolded just by their natural scent. Proust and I both haha.
