is it just me or does anyone else notice that certain races have certain smells?

I actually haven’t noticed that myself…I’ve had friends of all varying races, and the only one who had a different scent was my friend from Bangladesh - she smelled like Indian food, lol

lol, i went into sybway and there were some type of indian raced people running it and the shop smelled like curry. i was talking to this chinese girl in school and her breath smelled like curry, rice, and cats. and i was with this muslim girl and her hair blew in the wind and got in my face and it smelled like curry and smoke. some black people i know smell like chicken and hairgrease.

i think its that people sometimes smell like what they eat

lol yea when i say different races i mean like chinese and indian decent.

when I come home from my friend’s house my mother say I smell like Haitan she would never tell me what that smells like.

lol

I notice every individual has a distinct scent, however I’ve noticed that. I’ll keep that in mind next time I hang out with a group of my friends and get back to ya on that, if I remember O_x(perhaps funmail me incase I forget?).

they be cooking stuff that smells like (bleep)

lol ok

lmao

they have this secret room with candle and writing on the wall and a lot of pictures of god I don’t like to go in there.

lmao thats kindof scary, but mabey its just a religious thing

why do they try to hind the door they paint the door the same color was the wall and put a carpet over it.

There’s a mix of facts and myth with this one. Pheromones and diet are key. Obviously, recent diet flavours breath, but as many other Brits now eat curry regularly, a ‘blinded breath-smelling’ would not help identify race! Some foods like high-dose garlic can be secreted by the sweat glands, but it varies by individual - that’s where some of the myth comes from. Sexual pheromones are mostly difficult to smell, especially as many now mask them with colognes etc, but there might be a better argument for genetic variance by race in this case. I doubt anyone has cared enough to do the research, but I guess there’d be no shortage of volunteers for a clinical program lol…

Maybe it’s a sacred place…that they don’t want anyone else to go in…or judge them for…?

I don’t think so. I think it’s probably just the food that they eat, or what they use to wash their clothes (different cultures use different types of detergents) , I know in my country there are these people called mennonites who we say smell “different” because they don’t believe in using aritifical soap or perfume , deoderant etc, they only ue natural stuff to bathe with and stuff like that and they use this special powder that’s supposed to be 100% natural ingredients.So it could just be stuff like that, what they are accustomed to using on their skin, what they put in their food, what they bathe with for example.

yeah ur black and u smell like crap :)

ok that was racist o.O

Whoa! : / that’s definitely racist.

um actually i smell like vanilla :) not crap but it was a good attempt at insulting me tho

lmao! nice come back :P

lol thanx

After living in Europe for 3 years and being in the Middle East for 1 year this is definitely true that different cultures smell different and I would say its because of different cultural hygiene standards, But as far as race, I would say its bogus. Just consider the culture and that is probably what makes the difference.

someone somewhere probably has done a study like that. I have read some interesting studies on pheromones… I have to say, some of the study designs they use are hilarious!

I have noticed it a little bit. Often its just from food, but also I have noticed it can be realted to differences in sebum production etc.

i have noticed it a little..