Your Best Friend Probably Smells Like You

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The microbes that crawl all over us give us our unique scents. And research shows that not only do we prefer our own, but we tend to choose friends with a similar smell.
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@lysan1445 6 ай бұрын

In German, the equivalent of "they can't stand each other" literally translates as "they can't smell each other", implying they smell bad to each other.

@JeromeMillion 6 ай бұрын

And we have the exact same thing in French! "Je ne peux pas le sentir..." (I can't smell him...) For example. Meaning I don't trust him, I don't like him...

@Poodleinacan 6 ай бұрын

@@JeromeMillion except in French it has no relation to smell. It might be a derivative of "ressentir"

@velvetthundr 6 ай бұрын

Probably why Germans are so obsessed with opening their windows for airflow

@JeromeMillion 6 ай бұрын

I'm not sure. I think I've already seen something on this topic once and it was also about smell. I'll have to check ^^! But yeah I always thought it was about feeling in French not smelling. So I was a bit surprised too the first time.

@--..-...-..-.--.... 6 ай бұрын

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@liversinthefridge 6 ай бұрын

I wish they’d done online-only fast friends as part of the study. If one clicks with someone online, and you brought that pair together to smell each other, how likely would they be to rate the smell as better than average? That’s a truly blind study. Because it could be that people who get along have similar smells, and not that people with similar smells get along. Which would be cool. Because you could predict that people who meet online and get along would be more likely to have similar smells. Chicken or the egg.

@BeauMeztli 5 ай бұрын

Yes! I was thinking about this

@walkerx1813 5 ай бұрын

Now THAT would be fascinating

@RockTheBass 5 ай бұрын

I was thinking the same thing because my best friend and I met online and live about 2,300 miles apart, so we only hang out in person 1 - 2 times per year.

@Aethelhadas 5 ай бұрын

YES PLEASE

@Medytacjusz 5 ай бұрын

I don’t think the video implied the fact that the people who like each other also just happen to smell similarly or that our characters result in a specific smell? Rather, that having similar smells (ie smelling each other) helps us get along. People whose relationship is predominantly online probably have random smells because smell didn’t influence their online relationship.

@CouleeCosmonaut 6 ай бұрын

You can't smell your friends, but you can pick your friends by smell.

@pvic6959 6 ай бұрын

oh i can smell my friend. we started living together and oh boy does he smell. so if thats true, im scared about what i smell like because my nose burned a bit in some situations like when he pulled out his used clothes or shoes

@rodneytholanah7310 6 ай бұрын

🤣🤣

@MonkeyJedi99 6 ай бұрын

"You can pick your friends, you can pick your nose, but you can't pick your friend's nose. Unless they're REALLY good friends!"

@curiousnerdkitteh 6 ай бұрын

You can't always pick your family but maybe you can smell them.

@curiousnerdkitteh 6 ай бұрын

You can't pick your smell, but you can pick your nose. And you can pick what you smell. And actually you can somewhat pick your smell. Nevermind.

@mellissadalby1402 6 ай бұрын

Funny thing, I recently picked up "scented" cat litter by mistake. My roommate commented that he appreciated not smelling the cat pee all the time from the box. At the same time, I was thinking about how nasty and overwhelming the scented perfume smell was. I had apparently become nose blind to the cat pee smell. Thankfully, now I am becoming nose blind to the perfume smell (and the cats don't seem to mind either way).

@halem6580 6 ай бұрын

Scented cat litter has always given me a headache, and I associate it with litter that isn't scooped nearly enough because that's what I grew up with. I now use exclusively unscented litter, and haven't had any complaints with our current brand. Its funny, I wonder if the smell is just worse depending on the cat/litter combo

@paulfoss5385 6 ай бұрын

I always avoid scented products in general, but I actually changed my position on cat litter specifically, because sometimes I'll pet my cat and smell the scent on my hand, and I know to wash them.

@FrozEnbyWolf150 6 ай бұрын

I dislike the perfume smell, and so have all of my cats over the years. The problem is that it gets everywhere, because litter tends to get everywhere. I much prefer litters that have odor control, rather than a scent that covers it up. The biodegradable scoopable litters do a pretty good job of this, and I can compost the urine clumps afterward.

@Gordoniron 6 ай бұрын

Try Wood pellets, way better then clay cat litters. Smells like the wood your using and if your smelling pee it's past time your changed the litter anyway.

@98Zai 6 ай бұрын

Cats have super sense of smell. I wouldn't use anything scented or too aromatic around pets. Remember that they can't tell you if they're uncomfortable and will even hide serious injuries.

@michaelmeyers4843 6 ай бұрын

Now I'm amazed that our dogs love us no matter how we smell.

@sophiejones3554 6 ай бұрын

To be fair, their definition of smelling "nice" is probably different. Dogs strive for pack harmony: they show love in an effort to create stronger bonds between the people and animals they think of as family, regardless of personal preferences. However, dogs definitely DON'T love all humans equally and it IS based on smell. If you chose your dog at a breeder or shelter, knowingly or not, you picked one that responded well to your smell. Even a dog you found: smells travel, more than likely that dog knew you were coming long before you were aware of them. Even in a desperate situation, dogs will hide from people whose smell they don't like.

@faytleingod1851 6 ай бұрын

Because they always smell worse?

@onbearfeet 6 ай бұрын

I have a more-sensitive-than-average nose, so everyone has a smell to me--not as strong as what a dog smells, but enough that I can sniff a jacket and figure out who it belongs to. Everyone I explain this to thinks this means everyone stinks to me, so here's the little speech I give: No. The fact that I can smell you doesn't mean you stink. Having a smell is not the same as smelling bad. For most people, it's just information, like your eye color or the timbre of your voice. Yes, some people DO smell bad to me, but it's usually for a specific reason, like poor personal hygiene or an alcoholic bender. Most people don't smell especially good or bad, just like most people don't look especially good or bad. We just look, and smell, like us. I assume that's how dogs view it too. Most of us don't smell "bad" unless we smell specifically like a vet's office or something.

@curiousnerdkitteh 6 ай бұрын

Maybe they love us BECAUSE of how we smell. They're always sniffing us.

@The_Savage_Wombat 6 ай бұрын

Dogs love to smell the stinkiest things...each other's rears for example.

@siphonophore4 6 ай бұрын

I wonder if we are fully accounting for how cultural similarities, like diet, could be affecting body odor, and to what degree these cultural and socioeconomic similarities might facilitate two people clicking?

@anyascelticcreations 6 ай бұрын

Possibly. I had a roommate (platonic) years ago who I detested the smell of. He was of a different cultural and genetic background, but we ate mostly the same food while we lived together. After I moved out I went back to eating my own preference in foods, but soon noticed that I started to smell like him. That smell lingered on me for years - until I had an incident with a jacuzzi and pool that had the chemicals set way too high. I ended up with chemical burns from the chlorine. But the smell of my former roommate was finally gone. So I'm thinking in this case it was microbiome.

@summerwinter89 6 ай бұрын

@@anyascelticcreationsthats interesting.

@kelleren4840 6 ай бұрын

I'm so glad someone said this.

@kelleren4840 6 ай бұрын

@@anyascelticcreationsI had a very similar experience moving back from Uganda, where I lived for several months. One of the first things I noticed there was how strong and different the body odor was from what I was used to, but when I got back, I noticed I had it too. Oddly enough, it was only under my right armpit. My theory is, I'm a rather tall guy and I usually lift my right arm up when hugging someone, and was hugging a lot of coworkers there (it's super normal there). I think my right armpit simply got exposed to a lot of bare, sweaty shoulders and that transferred the microbiome to my that armpit. It stuck that way for a good 3-4 years after I got back and wasn't till I bought some prescription strength antimicrobrial soap that it finally went away. Very random, weird, interesting stuff.

@anyascelticcreations 6 ай бұрын

@@kelleren4840 Wow! That does sound like my experience with the roommate! Oddly enough, my right armpit has a different odor from the left, too. I think you might be onto something with the hug theory. Thankfully my experience with the chlorine seemed to kill pretty much everything. So my new smells are likely from someone I've hugged since. Interesting stuff for sure!

@monk607 6 ай бұрын

So my 4th baby, who is the second girl is now 2.5 yrs and the top of her head smells just like my dad used to. He passed 6 years ago. So imagine my shock when I got a wif of him, and then figured out it was my daughter! I often fall asleep to smelling he head. I hope it never goes away. My dad was my EVERYTHING, and died unexpectedly. It's the most amazing thing. Remember she's 2, he died 6 years ago... They never met

@RaisingMyWildflowers 6 ай бұрын

My youngest smells like my mother. She's 11 now and while she's lost the baby smell, she still smells like my mom. I bet your child will always smell like your dad.

@lukeGGlee 5 ай бұрын

doesnt the scalp smell bad though

@ikbintom 5 ай бұрын

🫂🫂🫂

@oooh19 5 ай бұрын

@@lukeGGleenope I bet she’s clean

@nahometesfay1112 5 ай бұрын

That is so weird yet so sweet

@dannykahn7246 6 ай бұрын

Opening a dating company based on smell could be a great idea. Lots of couples talk about "chemistry". Could collect sweat samples and match based on compatiability. The technology is avaliable, just need the marketing.

@charliecrossing 6 ай бұрын

That existed a while back! It was technically an art project, not a full fledged company, but they set people up on blind dates based on their results matching on smell preferences alone.

@angelinimartini 6 ай бұрын

@@charliecrossingI remember this! It went into a whole thing about how we can see how compatible we are genetically via how we smell to each other(plus how healthy offspring would be) and I thought this would be way better than the online dating that was going on at the time. I think this was before like Tinder and the other apps that followed became a ring but websites were still big.

@SharpBalisong 5 ай бұрын

You must be talking about women couples because I’ve never heard a man use the word “chemistry” in the realm of reltionships.

@shelby6 5 ай бұрын

@@SharpBalisong you must be an incel

@magpie913 5 ай бұрын

I actually met a dude on a dating app and for the first time I understood the concept of chemistry but in a very litteral way. We did not get along. Even tho we had similar values, we had very different views on life, but god, we could both agree that our odors made us go nuts for eachother. It was such a weird sensation that we belong together only for that "simple" aspect of chemistry that we shared

@tux_duh 6 ай бұрын

I hadnt seen a very close friend for a over a year and when she was on her way she called me and aaid "I swear to god I smell you rn, i hope you smell the same" I was honored

@YoJesusMorales 6 ай бұрын

It's so weird how much control our passengers have over us.

@shaider1982 6 ай бұрын

Supposedly, we also don't like the smell of the sweat of people we are genetically too close to procreate without possible dire consequences.

@dianafossi1295 6 ай бұрын

Ooohh this is cool

@meegy2 6 ай бұрын

Yeah I'm confused if this study applies to romantic relationships bc of this reason

@bjdefilippo447 6 ай бұрын

Yes. We inherit an MHC (major histocompatibility complex). So relatives have similar MHCs. Some folks used to refer to it as "incest repellant." Incidentally, taking certain oral contraceptives can change your scent preferences, as can pregnancy, so that we prefer scents like ours during what the body thinks is "nesting", and needing protection from non-family.

@vixxcelacea2778 6 ай бұрын

@@meegy2 Yup. In fact, scent changes based on hormones too. An ovulating person can smell differently, but we catch it subconsciously.

@anyascelticcreations 6 ай бұрын

I had this conversation with a roommate years ago. I disliked his scent intensely and we were trying to figure out why. We were guessing microbiome. Only we were from completely different races. So maybe we were too genetically different for our noses. Funny enough, we got along much better via text than in person, too.

@MegaJessness 6 ай бұрын

Y'know what's funny? I never really liked the smell of my own best friend's house, but I could tolerate it and got used to it very quickly. I think it had to do with the odors of her younger brothers. My bestie herself, tho? Her room in her childhood home smelled like mine. Explains a lot! We met when we were 7 :3

@jpopelish 6 ай бұрын

Our odors are not just determined by our genes. For years, I had smelly feet that even my children teased me about. But one time, I switched from wearing only Orlon socks to only cotton socks, and my foot smell diminished and changed to something a lot less repellent, almost over night, even though I was still wearing the same shoes.

@curiousnerdkitteh 6 ай бұрын

Ah, that's interesting! So people's different bacteria may literally react differently to different fabrics! That sounds like a good study to do! People are definitely invested in not smelling!

@BM1982.V2 5 ай бұрын

I agree that many things affect your scent. Especially diet but in your case it may be more of a case of the old socks trapped your odors and concentrated them to the point of smelling really bad, while the cotton socks allowed breathability so those same odors were allowed to dissipate to non detectable levels. Your odor may not have changed at all, just got stronger or weaker depending on breathability.

@BM1982.V2 5 ай бұрын

To add an anecdote, I wear sandles all summer and my feet don't smell much at all. Whenever I have to wear socks and shoes my feet smell a little bit. Not repulsive or anything but definitely can notice a difference. It doesn't mean my smell changed but socks and shoes trap odors far more than sandles do. Plus your feet sweat more when covered and the bacteria on your feet eat sweat to produce the odor. If your feet are breathing they are probably sweating less thus creating less odor.

@jackielinde7568 6 ай бұрын

Intensely Odiferous is the name of my Ska band.

@IrisGlowingBlue 6 ай бұрын

@tr3vk4m 6 ай бұрын

that tracks

@benjaminjameskreger 6 ай бұрын

New Smash Bros tourney name.

@jackielinde7568 6 ай бұрын

@@benjaminjameskreger I'd imagine that's the name of the hall hosting a new Smash Bros (or any video game based tourney) would be called. Nothing but a combination of BO, sweat, and Axe Body Spray.

@thorr18BEM 6 ай бұрын

That's awesome.

@jesusarreola3169 6 ай бұрын

I did some time in the Marines and with that comes a wide array of people and also ridiculous stories. This one time we somehow came to the conversation of how different races/ethnicities smell and so we blind folded one guy and had him smell the blouses of people of different origin. Samples where white,asian, and latino and well he guessed them all right but he said he had a hardtime between asian and latino as they were very similar. It was pretty neat and funny

@MrCmon113 6 ай бұрын

I'm skeptical and awaiting replication. But it would make sense, since the Mexican might have American ancestors, who got there from Asia.

@micahbalala8248 5 ай бұрын

Were the Asians by any chance Filipinos?

@dragon-like-tendencies9519 6 ай бұрын

I have a case of 'click' friendship, where I just instantly clicked with another in childhood. We both moved to different areas, and the last time we saw each other was a year, the time before that was five years. We still talk online and play video games, she is my best friend and I consider no one else with that pleasure. I wonder if smell still has an impact, or at least a correlation in this case?

@BleuSquid 6 ай бұрын

I would've expected the complete opposite! I had a theory many years ago, inspired by some article I'd read, that people would want to be be in a relationship with those who smelled different. By partnering with someone who carried microbes different to our own, it would diversify our individual microbiomes, and thereby improving immunity and the survival chances of offspring. Perhaps the distinction here is friend vs partner, and could explain why some people are friends instead of partners, and vice versa.

@meegy2 6 ай бұрын

Yes! Wish they would've touched on that in the video

@fubytv731 6 ай бұрын

I figured we have different criteria between choosing friends and lovers.

@bjdefilippo447 6 ай бұрын

MHC complexes. We tend to be sexually attracted to different ones than what we inherited, presumably to discourage inbreeding. Incidentally, taking certain oral contraceptives can change your scent preferences, as can pregnancy, so that women prefer scents like their own during what the body thinks is "nesting", and signal safety/family.

@anyascelticcreations 6 ай бұрын

But not too different either. At least for romantic relationships. I wonder if that goes back to when there were different species of human, (Homosapien, Neanderthal, Denisovans, etc). Scientists now say that these different kinds of human could interbreed. But it looks like it might have been more difficult to mix genes from different species than from the same. I would imaging each species had a fairly unique microbiome. So maybe it was beneficial to prefer the scent of someone not too far off from our own.

@kirstenkremer-yq6yc 6 ай бұрын

@@anyascelticcreationsThey couldn't just interbreed, they definitely did. Thus Europeans tend to have about 4% Neanderthals' DNA and Asians some Denisovans' DNA. There are even theories that what happened with Neanderthals is to some extent similar to what's currently happening to polar bears in North America. (They interbreed with grizzlies, but the offspring bears more similarities with the grizzly side, and also there are more grizzlies, so the half-polar-bear offspring is most likely to mate with a grizzly, resulting in quarter-polar-bear-offspring and so on. So, it's a factor to polar bears going extinct while a small percentage of their DNA gets preserved in grizzlies.)

@jnzkngs 6 ай бұрын

Yes, daily bathing may have originated as an ad campaign for the Ivory soap corporation. But I have had the pleasure of working construction during a heat wave in August with a crew of Amish men who participate in animal agriculture and bathe usually only on Sundays. There is a very good reason that ad campaign worked as well as it has.

@ZaterahUniverse 5 ай бұрын

How did the Amish men smell?

@jnzkngs 5 ай бұрын

@@ZaterahUniverse like week old BO and manure. Made your sinuses burn. Nice guys tho.

@antonco2 6 ай бұрын

My best friend back in school had a really strong scent (not bad just strong). I would ask him sometimes if he could smell himself or me, and he would always say no, he was completely unaware. I on the other hand? I could enter a room full of people and know wether he had been in the room or not. I was always right, just because of the smell left over in the air

@antonco2 6 ай бұрын

@cuddles1767 It was not I swear lmao. It was just really hard to miss.

@popenieafantome9527 5 ай бұрын

I’m similar about a half brother. I can smell if he was just in the room despite him no longer being there.

@burchified 6 ай бұрын

really makes me think about how I always found the members of my family so stinky. Concidentally, I never clicked with them, like I had been mixed up with another baby in the maternity ward.

@djackson37 6 ай бұрын

Maybe you were

@CWorgen5732 6 ай бұрын

Might be worth doing 23 and me. But also, out of the 5 people in my family, only one of us can't smell my BIL. Thankfully, it's the sister who married him 😂

@Gingergent07 6 ай бұрын

Honestly same. I'm a ginger and don't look like anyone in my family. Everyone always commented how my room smelled growing up but I always thought they smelled bad 😅

@donotgotthis 6 ай бұрын

Same here, never liked how any of my family memebrs smell for some reason. We're definitely related, tho.

@flavorlessquark8614 6 ай бұрын

Other people have pointed out that we also may not like the smell of people we are genetically close to to avoid inbreeding and such

@dragon-like-tendencies9519 6 ай бұрын

My family often got hand-me-down clothes from our friends families, and when we would go through what styles and colors we would claim, we'd often try to guess which house they came from, or even which sibling within the family. It became a joke, that even now, I have a specific shirt in my closet that I swear still smells like my friend from 10 years ago. I know it doesn't, and I hardly wear it anyways, but it's funny to hear. I wonder how often I chose a shirt based on the way it smelled rather than its color.

@anyascelticcreations 6 ай бұрын

That might be why thrift stores always smelled weird to me. Maybe there were just too many different people's smells.

@peteredwards2318 6 ай бұрын

My besty and I have been buds for over 20 years. We smell nothing alike. Not at all. I smell like burning brass and steel, mixed with rancid meat, tobacco smoke, and petrichor. My besty? She smells like herbs, plants, life, summer. We don't move in the same olfactory circles at all, but we've been tightest of pals anyway😁

@batya7 6 ай бұрын

Petrichor!

@caspenbee 6 ай бұрын

I hope that shows like this and microcosmos make different types of bacteria household names. I want it to be the next wave of common knowledge.

@bradleymuir6927 6 ай бұрын

They did an episode of Zoboomafoo covering personal scents. They pulled out some glass bottles of liquid with their matching signature colors, essence of Martin and essence of Chris, then proceeded to go around 'marking' things with their scent. Gross, funny, entertaining and educational. Those are the four words that describe that show 😂

@outlawbillionairez9780 6 ай бұрын

Ralph Wiggum.... "My kitten smells like cat food!"

@2023skidoo 6 ай бұрын

So if I don't have any friends, I must have no smell? That's great!

@censorsstarve 6 ай бұрын

Or maybe the other way around. On a serious note I had a friend in HS that smelled worse with certain deodorants, like axe. That's sad though I hope you were joking about not having friends.

@Skylancer727 6 ай бұрын

@@censorsstarve Hey I don't have friends either. I live the life free as a bird. Though at least bird can find a girlfriend. I probably should do something about that some day, though definitely on the back burner.

@sspfn 6 ай бұрын

If a tree falls in the forest and no one's around to smell it, does it make a scent?

@Shawnne86 6 ай бұрын

I was thinking the same thing! lol I have no “friends”- none I hang out with in person- or otherwise for that matter.. Note- This SOUNDS sad.. but it’s by choice. I’ve found that being “lonely” really is a state of mind. I used to be EXTREMELY social. But as I got older (currently 38) the less I felt I NEEDED friends. Friendships like relationships take time and effort. It started getting to a point where having friends felt like an obligation- and that should never be the case. I have friends I reach out to occasionally- check on them and so forth- but I’m typically happier having the majority of my day to myself (alone). Everyone is different. It might not work for you, but it has strengthened my relationship with myself- something I had avoided for 25+ years. If I want some human interaction- I go to the store, or coffee shop. Perks to living in the “Midwest”, I guess. (Many of us in the mitten, would disagree that we’re geographically in the Midwest although- the majority of strangers are “really friendly” and nice)

@censorsstarve 6 ай бұрын

@Skylancer727 First, be happy with yourself. Otherwise, it can do harm on you mentally in a relationship. And remember that those who mind don't matter and those that matter don't mind. Just be you.

@DoctorX17 6 ай бұрын

Not having a sense of smell, all this scent-based stuff fascinates me

@isaacl.r4609 6 ай бұрын

How does food taste for u

@DoctorX17 6 ай бұрын

@@isaacl.r4609 depends on what it is, but generally good? I never had a sense of smell so I don’t know how it would taste for me if I did have smell

@ChrispyNut 6 ай бұрын

Wait, did I miss mention of accustomisation to sensory stimuli, whereby we wouldn't notice an odor we're used to, but will notice one we're not. So we'd be more inclined to connect with someone new, if we're not "tolerating" their body odor that's different to what we're used to.

@Techforlife280 6 ай бұрын

Nobody smells like me.

@Entropic_StarKid 6 ай бұрын

My smells like you

@ashlirabid9614 6 ай бұрын

I do.

@waveofmist 6 ай бұрын

Aw. :(

@goodkill1 6 ай бұрын

No friends crew 🤜

@yoursexualizedgrandparents6929 6 ай бұрын

You're right, you are very stinky and sweaty, and I love taking a wiff every now and then

@Holycryptonite47 5 ай бұрын

Now all those romantic anime about the girl sniffing the guy's shirt make sense.

@GnarlyOatmeal 6 ай бұрын

I have always described people I immediately do not like as "They smell wrong". Now, I know that I was actually right. 😅

@Brambrew 5 ай бұрын

This is probably why "you stink" is an insult.

@daltimond 6 ай бұрын

"You smell like your friends." So I smell like nothing?

@FoamBanana 6 ай бұрын

Yall must be noseblind because i smell all my freinds, they are pretty much always pleasant... kinda like a faint caramel laundry detergent

@daltimond 6 ай бұрын

@@FoamBanana The joke is I don't have any friends.

@vocalsunleashed 6 ай бұрын

I somehow smell very similar to how my father did. He died in 2009 but I kept one of his worn t-shirts stuffed in a closet and some years ago it still smelled like him. And somehow my own smell is similar to his. It's very comforting, sometimes feeling like my dad is around though he hasn't been for nearly 15 years 😢 I miss him a lot...

@samsorensen9765 6 ай бұрын

Jokes on you, I don’t have any friends

@luffsserotaku3806 6 ай бұрын

I just thought about it recently, it's crazy how scishow amanzinly read our minds sometimes and other times surprise us... keep going guys

@JeanLoupRSmith 6 ай бұрын

in French when you can't stand someone you say "Je ne peux pas le sentir", literally "I can't smell him"

@user-qx1om2wj1h 6 ай бұрын

- sniffs - "yeah you smell like someone I can get along with."

@GearsNCarpentry 6 ай бұрын

Shout out to my fellow Abcc11 aa genotype holders, dry earwax and nearly no body odor for the win.

@LacrimosaTheNerd 6 ай бұрын

Does that mean you're less compatible with people you think smell bad? I've had a few friends that didn't smell very pleasant and now I'm curious.

@shelby6 5 ай бұрын

Not necessarily, some people just have bad BO

@A.D.540 3 ай бұрын

Thank God my friends smell like me, because I'm clean as hell. 🤣

@appalachiancat 6 ай бұрын

Wow, that would be an interesting dating app. Electronic nose matching you to your soul mate. 😂

@user-rx7pd1xv4k 5 ай бұрын

Underrated comment

@rayrocher6887 5 ай бұрын

Thanks for the research, variety, and consistency, look for good preferences,

@pierreabbat6157 6 ай бұрын

The nose knows!

@heathroush5343 6 ай бұрын

New meaning to the term, "smell yah later."

@TheAureliac 6 ай бұрын

With some people you just have that chemistry.

@Zero-4793 6 ай бұрын

now to get a smell detector tuned to your own scent, and use it to narrow down potential friends XD

@n07ju57hum4n 6 ай бұрын

presumptuous of you to assume I have a best friend

@dursty3226 5 ай бұрын

our real friends are the microbiome we made along the way

@Willow4526 6 ай бұрын

Ahh so that's why I had no friends, it's bcos I had no smell companions lol 😂

@anadventfollower1181 6 ай бұрын

My best friend is DEATH ???

@__-tz6xx 6 ай бұрын

You smell like DEATH?

@ag135i 6 ай бұрын

Because we are immune to our body odour and can't notice it much that's why we can stand the odour of our best friends as we can't notice it much it's the opposite for our not so best friends.

@Beutimus 6 ай бұрын

This video immediately reminded me of a first date where the person had a body odor...and it made me feel uncomfortable. The fact it looked like they were sweating and acted like they were anxious definitely made the whole situation a disaster. XD

@Martial-Mat 6 ай бұрын

Perhaps if you didn't act like a serial killer, they wouldn't be sweating so much? ;-)

@oracleofdelphi4533 6 ай бұрын

I hear this person's best friend probably smells too.

@sspfn 6 ай бұрын

Stress sweat always smells worse than regular sweat so that doesn't help!

@Martial-Mat 6 ай бұрын

@@sspfnThat's a good point!

@festerallday 6 ай бұрын

I've noticed that my group of friends that play d&d smell very similar to each other and my outdoorsy group of friends smell like each other. Both groups have their own general unique odor. And I do tend to gravitate more towards one group than the other in terms of everyday hangout. My wife even mentions that the group I don't hang with much smells bad to her

@christopherareed 6 ай бұрын

Imagine having friends 😅

@mysticalseapotato8303 6 ай бұрын

I haven't been in close proximity with my best friend for 8 years. He will 100% smell different to me.

@djinn4895 5 ай бұрын

My best friend cold stopped talking to me two months ago. I want my scent back. Thank you.

@clerns 6 ай бұрын

Bold of you to assume I have friends.

@catatonicbug7522 5 ай бұрын

So, my friends are determined by my smell, my smell is determined by bacteria, and the library of bacteria I have is determined by my jeans. So, I don't wear jeans. That must be why I have no friends!

@delphinidin 6 ай бұрын

I wonder how these findings would change with friends who became friends online rather than IRL?

@arkidie 5 ай бұрын

I always loved the smell of my friends house but it was very distinct from mine. They (twins) would sleep over sometimes and it was actually really nice to have their smell in my room even after they left.

@anandsharma7430 5 ай бұрын

I've been saying all my life, there is no real free will and no real choice. Life is an experience. Life happens to us, we don't live life.

@The_Savage_Wombat 6 ай бұрын

It's true. We often eat the same food which generates the same gas.

@scamperly 6 ай бұрын

Nice to know my scent is DEFINITELY unique.

@token3462 6 ай бұрын

That means all my friends smell Fukin Fabulous 😎

@pythonboi5816 6 ай бұрын

Ohhh So that’s why I got no friends

@UshioKiss 5 ай бұрын

I've noticed my sisters even have their own scents so its interesting how different we are despite being closely related.

@vixxcelacea2778 6 ай бұрын

I legit smell like roses and chocolate to myself (and it's not my deodorant). My partner disagrees LOLOLOL. it's weird that we smell something totally different. I really wanna use the E-nose and know what I ACTUALLY smell like.

@MinusMedley 5 ай бұрын

Makes you think about the entire deodorant/perfume topic. Considering some people have preferences there too.

@CallieCatCuddles 6 ай бұрын

I remember hearing something a long time ago about couples/wives who really liked how their spouses smelled had fewer problems with pregnancies. It waqs something about it being how our ancestors would be drawn to a specimen that would bring about a successful pregnancy and produce healthy children. This is an interesting "survival of the species" subject.

@Marta1Buck 5 ай бұрын

Sending this to my female friends, so we'll feel awkward when we hang out

@John-wf5dm 5 ай бұрын

Just sit there... ahh... There you go... *sniffs*

@miigon9117 6 ай бұрын

5:46 "its not you, it's just you smells."

@user-to2gh7sg3l 6 ай бұрын

I've noticed most gutterpunks have a distinct smell, they all intermingle too.... This is starting to make sense!

@onetwo9500 6 ай бұрын

THIS IS WHAT IVE BEEN SAYING TO MY FRIENDS FOR LIKE 4 YEARS AND THEY DONT BELIEVE ME!!!!

@bwerto2423 6 ай бұрын

If they don’t smell bad, they smell familiar

@Lady-V 5 ай бұрын

Jokes on you I live online I don't smell people!

@nillchen 5 ай бұрын

This makes perfect scents

@lucadia7554 4 ай бұрын

😂Cute.... why hasn't anyone else caught this. 😊

@josierice2829 6 ай бұрын

I really had a hard time taking this video seriously 😅😂

@ccf_1004 6 ай бұрын

I love listening to absurd science experiments that are still somehow based in logic

@The_Hagseed 5 ай бұрын

I don't smell like anything. Now it makes sense that I don't have friends.

@matthewtopping2061 6 ай бұрын

I guarantee that my best friends don't smell like me, because I live in Japan and people don't hug one another very often here.

@savagesarethebest7251 6 ай бұрын

I can't believe that all those smells are an uncountious after thought. People smell. Really. A lot.. How can that not be a thing you notice?

@Michael-yi4mc 6 ай бұрын

I can’t even stand to smell myself.

@matthewcox7985 6 ай бұрын

You too? I also hate the overpowering perfumes of most antiperspirants!

@Michael-yi4mc 6 ай бұрын

@@matthewcox7985 perfume is also called stink pretty.

@stanislavmusil1386 5 ай бұрын

Oohhh.. finally an explanation why I don't have any musk

@JonnyTsunami728 6 ай бұрын

I guess it's a good thing I have no friends then.

@itwasaliens 5 ай бұрын

My best friend an I have been living together for 13 years and we can definitely smell each other when we stink.

@Nmethyltransferase 6 ай бұрын

4:34 RIP to the stock photography models who'll always be known as stinky. God forgives, the internet remembers forever.

@michaeltrinh4394 6 ай бұрын

My friends say that i have no smell.

@Nylak-Otter 6 ай бұрын

I am an animal behaviorist, and I know I smell naturally mildly positive or appealing to dogs and wild canids (yes, I've tested this; I work with nosework K9s as a side gig), and all of my friends are also dog-oriented people. I think it may be because we met through working/being involved in animal welfare or tolerate doggy-scent, though. 😂

@lylemata6672 5 ай бұрын

If my internet friends dont smell like me we're done.

@BingBongFairy 5 ай бұрын

I have always noticed distinct negative odors from the people who pretended to be my friends. I've never smelled anyone pleasant that wanted to be my friend, - not on purpose, mind you, my shnoz is just stupidly sensitive to abrasive smells

@elizabethramsey9295 6 ай бұрын

Maybe its because we like the same foods and wine 😂😂😂

@yourikhan4425 6 ай бұрын

I'm often puzzled by the very identifiable and unique smell of two of my friends (nothing bad, just very identifiable) They have a very different smell and, I believe, very different from mine. So there is that ...

@marycarolyn1293 6 ай бұрын

So does this have anything to do with how we pick a mate?

@neithermanc1 6 ай бұрын

personally if i don't like someone's smell i won't get intimate with them, so take that anecdotal evidence as you will

@RationallySkeptical 6 ай бұрын

I dont have any friends.

@sammorrow8420 6 ай бұрын

cart before the horse maybe? Hang out with someone long enough you get exposed to the same bacteria so that may be a large reason why friends have a simular smell.

@michaelam9738 6 ай бұрын

That's why they did the stranger experiment. It's in the video.

@racheljensen1823 6 ай бұрын

It makes me wonder if that's why kids love the smell of their parents so much, as kids seem to have an extra strong "sense" for it. I remember as a young child loving the smell of my parents' bed because it smelled like them Or why new moms adore, and lactate better smelling their newborns Interesting stuff :)

@donotgotthis 6 ай бұрын

Is that a thing?? Now I'm curious how many people like vs dislike how their families smell. I hate the way my parents and siblings smell, I figured it was an evolutionary thing to deter inbreeding. Like, if your genes are too similar you smell bad to each other was a way of communicating "stay away from me".

@racheljensen1823 6 ай бұрын

@@donotgotthis The new mom thing is true. After my son was born I kept being told to smell him to help with breastfeeding. Most women will tell you there is a specific "new baby smell" we are attracted to. I could smell it, my mom, ect, but not the men in my family. (Same when my nephews were born). As for parent smell, just my personal expierence. My 3 year old prefers our pillows, and my stepdaughter loved our dirty sheets when she was little... so maybe it varies person to person?

@donotgotthis 6 ай бұрын

@racheljensen1823 that's super interesting. I'd be curious to see if it's a stronger feeling as children that people grow out of. I feel like that'd make sense, since as kids we stay around parents for safety so we naturally *want* to be around them. Super cool to think about. I'm familiar with the new baby smell but it must just be a person to person thing because I never really liked that either, haha.¯\_(ツ)_/¯ maybe that's just me.

@racheljensen1823 6 ай бұрын

@@donotgotthis Probably. I know I'm not as sensitive as I was as a kid, and don't notice it as much if I sit on their bed. Granted, I'm not laying in it anymore as I did when I was a kid. However, it makes "sense" (haha)