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PaleHawkWoman -> RE: Do You Like To Wear Perfume/Cologne? (4/16/2008 11:52:18 PM)
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Honestly, I don't wear either. I prefer to be au natural, and am glad my husband doesn't use artificial aromas either. I like how he smells. Of course, most Native people do not have strong body odor anyway.
My sense of smell is, well... I could probably smell beer over the telephone. Most people wear way too much cologne/perfume, and probably do not realize how it mingles with the scents from the soap they bathed with, the deoderant they put on, the hair gel/spray/mousse they used when styling their hair, the detergent and fabric softener they used on their clothes, not to mention mouthwash, coffee, food, and other things, overlaying their own natural scent. Well, they usually don't but I sure do, and I usually avoid elevators and crowds first thing in the morning when all this stuff is fresh and in full force.
Strange as it may seem, how someone smells tells me things about them, and I'm not sure how to explain that. I can tell when one of us in the household is getting sick by changes in how the person smells, and there may be truth in the metaphor "smell a rat" as well.
There was a study done a few years back to determine how body odor and facial recognition/sexual attraction worked. Women were more apt to determine a man attractive when a cloth with male sweat was placed in close proximity then when none was placed. Also, women were more apt to respond with sexual arousal to male sweat(and the phermones in it) during ovulation than during menstruation(yeah, like that took a PhD to figure out).
Men, likewise were more apt to respond favorably to a female image- ven a less attractive one- when a cloth with female sweat was present than not, although less so than women did men.
Scent is known to play a role in male/female attraction and sexual relationships, and a recent study suggested that pregnant women release phermones which elicit a more protective response from their mates, while non-pregnant women release phermones which elicit sexual arousal from their mates, ostensibly to increase the chances of conception by increasing the male's sex drive and copulatory activity.
So that cologne that smells so good whilst courting might hide natural body scent that is far less attractive to the smeller, who then wonders what they thought was attractive about the smellee in the first place.
The nose always knows, apparently.
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