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2 years ago

My bio-nerd-brain needs to add smth to this (tl;dr at the end):

Your natural body scent is regulated by your pheromones. Pheromones are basically hormones for the outside of your body and often show themselves to the outside by smell.

In nature, they're used for multiple things, mostly for signaling your fertility and or your health.

Part of what is shown by your pheromones is how diverse your immune system is. So what kind of antibodies you could give to potential offspring.

When looking for a partner, you're passively looking for someone with a very different immune system to yours so your potential offspring could have a healthy immune system.

(This is also natures way of avoiding incest. Cause siblings got the same immune systems from their parents meaning the immune system of the siblings kid would be weaker than any other kids immune system their age)

So, if you like the natural smell of your partner, it's a big biological green flag

Tl;dr: You saying you think Toms natural scent smells nice just means you think you and him have very different immune systems

what kind of scent do you guys think tom has? i personally can't imagine him wearing cologne for some reason (which is a bit silly). he probably has some slightly sweet, very pleasant natural scent that is hard to describe. maybe laundry detergent or lemongrass


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