Re: I don't trust people...

You can find the story on the Internet, and it's true.  During the 19th Century there was a boy found living wild with animals, somewhere in either Europe or Africa.  They estimated his age at 14.  He couldn't speak anything, so had obviously not had human intervention for many years.  A French physician adopted him and performed experiments on him.  One of the things the doctor found is that the boy had no "good" or "bad" reactions to odors.  He could have him smell putrid things or perfumes, and the boy reacted the same to all of them.  What we think of as good and bad, odors and otherwise, is all programming.  It's all in our head.  In reality it has no good or bad meaning.

During my tour in Korea the very first thing that struck me when I got there, was the aroma of the cities.  It's just different.  As I said before, everyone had the aroma of garlic on them.  The homes also all had attached outhouses (there were no flush toilets), not separate like here in the old days.  And honey carts laden with large wooden barrels loaded with the outhouse product were in the streets on their way to the farmers who spread it as fertilizer for their crops - that's why we were not allowed to eat anything from local markets.  But all of that created an aroma.  Within two months of my arrival there I never smelled a thing, except the garlic when I talked to a local.