What’s that smell? What body odor reveals about you

Perfume, cologne, body washes and deodorant, all of these help to make us smell desirable. But even though we mask our natural scent with manufactured elixirs we still have a unique smell and it can reveal a lot about us.

4 amazing facts that our body odor reveals

Bug appeal

If you can’t bear to step outside because you fear being eaten alive from bugs, you have your scent to blame. A study that looked at twins uncovered that genes could play a role in a person’s likelihood of being bit by a mosquito. About 74 volunteers were asked to stick their hand in a Y-shaped tube, while their twin (fraternal or identical) put their hand on the other side. When the mosquitoes were released researchers documented who was bit more. In the case of identical twins they were bit evenly, fraternal twins, on the other hand, showed a different picture. One fraternal twin was bit more than the other revealing that their unique genes which make up their scent made them more prone to being bit.