Perfume is not a suitable gift. It probably smells like your own sweat.
If you can't imagine your personality without your perfume, then it means more than you think. You are truly tied with certain chemical fragrant substances. Simply put, the perfume you smell, contains similar scents as your own sweat.
If a woman has a favourite men's perfume, she smells like her chosen one. More precisely, like a partner's sweat.
This line also has a very intense effect on us.
Based on the scent, we feel ourselves, but also our opposites
We already know that our partner has to smell good. His scent is a reflection of a completely different genetic make-up. A similar scent of the opposite sex should repel us. Nature's safeguard against incest. The function of the sense of smell is also to alert to the meeting of two relatives.
The more different a partner is, the healthier the offspring is. The exciting sweat of your partner is therefore sweat, which is completely different from yours, literally as much as possible.
Our favorite perfume = our sweat scent
It's that simple. Studies actually show that the scents for us, which we prefer and smell pleasant to us, are scents, that match our body type, our natural body scent.
It kind of debunks the theory that by masking our body odor we confuse our partner. That only happens if the person totally falls for fashion trends, or doesn't pay attention to choosing a perfume. In that case, however, it could be that he actually doesn't like the scent and wears it just because he has to, or because someone gave it to him.
According to a recent study by scientists from Prague's Charles University, the reason why gifting scents often fails is that people prefer a perfume that smells more like themselves, and that we are more attracted to scents that we choose ourselves, rather than those chosen by someone else.
The scent is therefore an inappropriate gift for everyone. And a question on a date, whether the man smells good or not, could be - did you choose that perfume yourself?
If you fall in love with a certain scent, it means only one thing.
- Falling in love with a scent for yourself - there is something similar to the smell of your sweat in it.
- Falling in love with a scent for the opposite sex - there is something in it that would excite you about a potential partner.
I smell good to myself
You may have experienced a moment when you sweated freshly. And it smelled. Often by smell we check our clothes and know when to change. Sometimes it really stinks, but sometimes... we smell good to ourselves, even though it sounds a bit paradoxical, because we don't smell our own smell at all.
Fresh sweat exudes substances that smell good to us. They are our brand. We smell good to ourselves at a time when we are confident, content, happy.
No wonder, our sweat is not affected by stress, poor diet, or hormonal fluctuations. The body smells good by itself. But why do we find it pleasant?
Subconsciously, this scent reminds us of a feeling of safety, home, ourselves.
Therefore, people who claim that "they can't even smell themselves", and there is not a health problem behind that, often feel uncomfortable, stressed, not in their own skin in these moments and in general.
The scent of the same sex also guides us
According to studies published on the website wired.com, it is clear that women can surely recognize their sweaty t-shirt among others. The scent of other women's t-shirts repels them. Women's sense of smell is more sensitive. During ovulation, not only do we perceive other women in the period of ovulation better (and we will not like them, because they are theoretical competitors), but also during a long-term stay in a female collective, we can sense the cycles of other women.
Therefore it happens that a dominant woman shifts the cycles of her roommates to the mythical synchronization of cycles: Why? Scientists don't know, but we can speculate. Maybe so that all are in ovulation at once and a possible male has the least time to fertilize them all. Look for nature in everything.
Source: en.wikipedia.org, wired.com, allure.com
