RSS feedI don’t get the whole perfume thing. Never have. Probably never will. I mean, I like to smell nice, but I don’t like drowning in stench. Also, your olfactory sense adapts to constant smell, meaning any constant fragrance or stench around you, will soon be filtered out as if it were no longer there. I don’t know about you, but I’d prefer 100% of my smelling ability, not some 90% filtered version of it.
Anyway, simple perfumes are made up of between 10 to 30 different chemicals, whereas more complex perfumes can contain between 50 to 100. Perfumers have about 500 natural aromatics to choose from, and about 1000 aroma chemicals. Check out the International Fragrance Association for more details on how they’re made, and the various codes of conduct.
The main point about perfumes, and I’m not just talking about womens’ perfumes, but mens’ aftershave and deodorant as well, is that you select the perfume you think will attract a partner, whether that be the opposite or same sex.
So regardless whether we actually like a particular scent, the idea is to pick the one the best improves our chances of getting laid. We sacrifice one of our five important senses, for the sake of a root. I’m not so sure that putting up with some putrid stench all day justifies the 5 seconds of elation that it ultimately leads to, but your mileage may vary. Perhaps a hand job would be more appropriate than olfactory torture.
So turning this on its head, are we saying that we could tell a good root by their inability to smell, and we should be looking for partners with terminally damaged olfactory nerve endings? I wonder why Darwin never spotted this. An inability to smell of course means that they’re not affected by our overtly sexual fragrance, which means the best roots are in fact the ones that don’t actually try to come on to us. Interesting. I can attest that this is certainly my experience, no good root has ever come on to me.
In theory then, because the fragrance is selected to attract an appropriate partner, you could probably also tell the sexuality of someone by sniffing them. Now there’s an interesting exercise for your Saturday night out on the town. Let me know how you went.