Do the Races Smell Different?

Repost from the old site.

From a very interesting discussion over at American Renaissance in an article about how the Pill disrupts women’s sense of smell. The article itself is interesting. Females have an evolutionarily developed sense of smell that makes them prefer males who differ in a set of genes called the major histocompatibility complex (MHC), which governs the immune system.

When they choose men with a different set of MHC genes, the offspring gets a complementary set of MHC genes or the best of both parties and has an increased resistance to disease. However, women on the Pill lose this preference. Researchers worried that women on the Pill might lose interest in their boyfriends or husbands while on the Pill.

But the comments were even more interesting. I have been wanting to write for a long time about the notion that some Whites say that Black people stink or smell bad. There did not seem to be a way of writing about this without sounding like a racist asshole, so I put it off.

A relative told me that many Whites say that Blacks smell bad. He even said that they are called “stink bugs” by some Hispanics here in California. I said that I had been around Blacks most of my life, including having Black girlfriends, Black best friends who I hung out with every day, and teaching whole classes full of Blacks every day for months on end, and I never noticed it.

It’s not really known what Blacks smell like to those who say they are stinkers. Some say they smell like sweat or onions, but a lot say that they just flat out stink, period.

There is also evidence that Northeast Asians find the odor of Blacks particularly offensive, perhaps moreso than Whites do. Asians also say that we Whites stink too, but not as much as Blacks do. They often say that we smell like red meat. Some of this may have to do with diet. But one White Vietnam vet said that Vietnamese could hardly smell Blacks at all but could smell a White a block away.

Even Hispanics are said to be stinky by some Whites.

So far, this post sounds pretty racist. Black folks are getting screwed like they always do. The other races think they’re stinky, and there’s no hope.

Ah.

But there is hope for Black folks. It seems that a lot of Blacks say that we Whites stink too. Equal time! In the comments to the article (which Amren will not keep and I could not get Google too cache), commenters noted that Blacks often refer to Whites as having a “wet dog smell.”

There is supposedly even a type of spray called “Wet Dog” that you can spray on yourself to give yourself a scent that Blacks hate, though this may be an urban myth. What a way to keep people away! Along the same lines, a female commenter said that a Black woman told her that Black females can’t stand to take showers with White women in gymnasiums or at school since they think White women smell terrible when they get wet.

Even other Whites say we Whites stink. A White woman said that White men often smell like corn on the cob. A White man said if you get a lot of White guys together in a locker room, they smell like rotten peppers.

I’m a little upset that in yet another lineup between the three great races, those darned cunning, inscrutable Oriental despots come out on top, smelling like a rose even.

But alas, all is not lost.

It seems that some Whites say that foreign-born Asians and FOB’s (recent immigrants) smell bad. It’s something like sesame oil plus old socks with a drop of rice wine. It’s subtle, but one woman described it as almost nauseating. A White man who served in Vietnam said that he could smell differences between Vietnamese and Chinese (the Chinese stunk worse), so there may be national variations in stinkiness. I’m happy that some folks think Asians stink too. All’s fair.

I supposedly have a great sense of smell, but I’ve been missing out on all these stinky races. I can’t detect any racial or ethnic differences in smell, though I used to work with this nice older White woman who smelled horrible for some reason.

But I find it amusing that in this area of dictatorially enforced anti-racism that so many Blacks, Whites, and Asians all think the other races stink.

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654 thoughts on “Do the Races Smell Different?”

  1. Some white people smell like a wet pack of puppies. Especially white women. White men you don’t have to deal with that anymore come on over to the dark side=the right side!

  2. I think ratchet hood rats,trailor trash rednecks, gross imigrants smell awful. I don’t believe they take showers… They look gross… Their hair is ugly and gross looking they should all get moved on an island… And island called The redneck hood plus immigrants…. America would be so much better without undedicated racist people…

  3. I worked in a hotel for a year, and there were people of all different ethnicities who stayed there and each group….had their own smell
    the black people staying there…smelled a combination of spicy(almost like a hot chili peppery smell) and musty/dusty
    the white people…smelled like ciggarette smoke, wet animal or a chemical floral smell like febreze or other air freshener, the indian people smelled of curry and armpit sweat, the asian people smelled like grease or oil and something sweet.
    my ex, even after a shower smelled like a clean, wet dog…whether he was sweaty from work and then got wet in rain, or just out of a 20 minute shower with good scrubbing, axe body wash and shampoo….he smelled like a clean wet dog. my ex and i are both white
    my friend just told me today that her 5 year old son smells like wet dog after he bathes, they are both white

  4. I have noticed that some white people have in their backs some “ecrin” glands so they smell a bit like urine, like sandal wood. It doesnt have to do with cleanliness. It is not armpit smell. It comes from their backs, e.gr. areas that are not hairy nor high in body temperature. Personally I find this smell disgusting, Even among people with mixed white race, some of them has the smell.

  5. I’ve noticed distinctive smells amongst black people, Asians and white women and yet another for white men. I’m really curious to know the scientific cause. If it’s a hormone, some component of genetic makeup or diet. Perhaps it could be some combination of the above.

  6. At the risk of being labeled racist I find the Chinese women have the worst bad breath I have ever encountered. Some reak from quite a distance away. In planes, restaurants shops etc. can smell from two metres away.
    I have been to China many times and have had my Chinese friends stay with me here in Australia when thay have visited. They have told me that they can not smell the bad breath.
    Admittedly I get underarm Body Odour and I use a good quality colonge which they think it is odd to use perfume as they call it.
    Oh well, It will not ruin my friendships.

  7. getting back to the gene and the process by which you pass on your genes. This decision by a male or female is largely by the way they smell. there are a lot of pheromones released constantly and the person most apted to pick them up will be more responsive to that individual. what any studies show is beauty is only skin deep and your smell might be your greatest asset or your greatest obstacle to getting sex. There are no guarantees to any race ( if there were such a thing) being a particular smell or any race liking it. There is a gene war going on even today and a mates smell is the most important tool used to benefit the gene package of the next generation.

  8. What? Did you poll the entirety of each race? How the hell would you know what white people think about blacks or Asians or Hispanics? Because you’ve met a few people who think that verysun ethnicities smell a certain way in no way reflects an entire race of people you fucking imbecile.

  9. In China they say people with b.o. have fox scent. It’s rare enough to have a name. I guess it’s the monkey scent glands people have.

  10. Indian men tend to smell of curry and dirty feet if they don’t wash (might be caused by wearing flip flops all the time), just sayin… 😉

  11. Koreans think Chinese stink. At first I thought they were joking, but they are dead serious about it.
    I don’t think any races stink, unless they are too lazy to take a bath, and I haven’t ran into any. In the case of Indians, they don’t stink, but rather smell like curry.

    1. I noticed with Indians, their pungent odour came from the garlic and spices. With the Chinese it was more with their breath; at school I was always sandwiched between an Indian guy and a Chinese guy. Lol it was nasal assault from both sides. The Indian fellow reeked of spices and garlic and the Chinese man had a foul, fish smelling breath. Chinese and Indians don’t have bad hygiene, but rather poor dietary choices.

    2. @Jason Y
      Re: “I don’t think any races stink, unless they are too lazy to take a bath”
      In the case of some Indian men i’ve come across with really bad b.o it’s been more a case of unwilling to take enough time off work even to have a wash, lol…

  12. It seems like the “smell thing” is a common excuse to justify racial separation. Whether it has basis in scientific fact is debatable.

  13. Black people usually have oiler skin to protect them from the sun – I don’t know if this makes them smell much more than anyone else though…

    1. Blacks don’t have oilier skin. The skin elements that are in a person’s skin is in their hair and we know that blacks have dryer hair. How many black people have you seen with acne? Acne is “an inflammatory disease of the oil glands, causing pimples esp. on the face. “The protection comes from vitamin D, which melanin and the sun work together to create, which protect the skin.

  14. am black but I think it’s true that different races smell different, I wont call it a stink but yesmy white friends smell.different from my Asian friends and black friends…. not a stench, just different and pathognomic

  15. Have to disagree with everyone. Most Asian girls I have smelled and tasted are far less offensive than any other race (except a few pale white girls I have been with). I think Asian women are very clean and have a naturally ‘sweet’ smell about them.

    1. It is ironic that we talk about body odor on a website that ask, “what race were the ancient Egyptians.” One of the geographical adaptations of Africans is sparse body hair. Body hair was frowned upon by ancient Africans in general and by the ancient Egyptians and Sumerians in particular. The ancient Egyptians gave us perfume. Most African/American women I know use perfume.
      The Ancient Egyptians gave us soap, which is also ironic since ancient Europeans had much more body hair and did not use soap nor perfume. Body odor many times is a result of a person’s diet. So, there is no need to ascribe bad body odor to African/Americans and Latino/Americans. We already have the burden of racism weighting us down.

  16. I’m a vegan, and I think everyone stinks. I think this had to do more with genetics and type of food. I’m also half Mexican and half Asian/European. White men tend to smell like corn. The more they are unhealthy, the more they get a rotten cheese smell. I know one white guy that stinks so bad that I can’t even kiss him. He will take many showers and that stench never leaves. I have only met one person in my life that I preferred his stench, and he was a mix of black and Italian.

  17. If there are white people that think that they don’t smell like dogs when they’re wet, I dare you walk into a room where a white woman is using a hot hair dryer. I’m white and I think it’s horrible! It’s nothing to be offended by, it is what it is!
    I have noticed that some people (black and white) smell like ham when they sweat and I have read that this is because of a high carb diet.
    As an athlete that spends a lot of time sweating with other people, I have also noticed the difference in smell between the races. Who cares? You’re made up of enzymes and these are part from your genetic make up and in part because of the food you put into your body. It’s neither good nor bad, it’s human.

  18. Diet may be one of the more obvious factors that may change odors on people, as smells tend to stick around a lot longer than we think. You are a lot more odious when you consume a diet high in sugar (including carbs) as I can attest to because I noticed I smelled better (though I didn’t stick to myself at first) when I was on a low carb, low red meat, no sugar diet. Perhaps less bacteria and less yeast make for better body odor.
    Although body odor may be a factor of diet and hygiene, I also believe it has a lot to do with finding a mate. Many studies suggest that we are attracted to the smell of a good mate, which may be some reason behind some people sensing a negative smell with people inside and outside their identified race (we are all the same race but may identify as white, black etc.). Their genes may not be a good match. I for one disliked the smell of one of my boyfriends (black) and I am black, but I love how my husband smells (he is black). One study conducted concluded that this is one reason we are not “attracted” to family members, because the closer they are to you on the family tree, the more “unattractive” their smell is to you.
    There is one point that my husband has smelled awful to me though and it had to do with his health. We found out he had walking pneumonia and fluid had built up around his heart and lungs. Hospitalized for a week, and came back smelling like roses again. So, it is also possible that some smells may be a sign of illness. I can “smell” when someone is sick but it is not really a bad smell just a noticeable change in odor.
    It also may be an underlying prejudice that affects our olfactory senses. If you dislike a person of a certain race, I am sure they are not going to smell like fresh daisies to you. On that note, it may say a lot about people because I actually have not identified any race as being smelly. Individuals within each race have smelled odd to me, but they were usually pretty hateful people, so I may have thought they literally stink when they were just being stinkers. For instance, most aged people smell “sweet” to me (of any race) although most people I have spoken to disagree. Is it because I have a lot of respect for elders or because they actually smell nice?
    Environment may be key. Like another reader, I can contend that food on clothing is another “smell” that we contribute to the person instead of the environment. You leaving your house and going to someone else’s home is only going to bring the smell of your home into theirs and make it that much more noticeable. Pets, hobbies (gardening, dancing, cooking, painting) also play a role in perceived smells. The chemicals you put in your hair (mouse, spritz, gel, grease, de-tangler, etc.), the soap you use for your face (Suave vs. Axe) , hands, skin (Aftershave, acne medication, moisturizer, sun tan lotion) also may make you smell different to another race because you may not have encountered the smells before. There is a thread on another site that asks whether other races use lotion as much as black people. Perhaps the lotions used are what are offensive and not the person. Chemicals you use to clean your home, dog, car, trophies, whatever can also linger. Anything outside of your comfort zone could be offensive, e.g. curry, garlic, onions, spices, or fish when even a small whiff of it is found on someone else.
    There are so many things that play a role in how a person smells to you (not actually smell in general), but race is definitely not one of them. Iit were we would probably not copulate outside of our identified race. After all, isn’t that the deciding factor? 😉

    1. Good read fetterden. You sound like somebody with a good nose. Woman are suppose to have better noses than men. It was once thought that a woman’s nose developed as a tool to weed out bad food for the children. I would say that a lot more is going on in that area for choosing a mate. S persons smell is of chemical makeup and its a window into that persons world.

  19. I don’t want to be offensive, but having done extensive sports with Black people, I have to say that most have a distinctive body odour irrespective of diet or hygiene. If you blindfold me and put me in two gyms, one full of black after exercising, and one non black, I would be able to detect the difference in NORMAL conditions be able to tell the difference. Obviously if all the black exercisers had used loads of anti of anti odour spray and not trained hard, it might be hard. Of both gyms were full of intensive garlic eaters, no difference would be n noticed. But black People, do have an distinctive odour irrespective of whether it’s caudex by bacterial reacting with sweat or whatever.Maybe it depends on peoples individual sense of Snell. But my understanding is black People themselves are often aware of the smell. Get over it. It’s reality.

  20. Asians tend to have lower apocrine glands than other groups. This is a scientific fact. These glands secrete oils that are the main cause of body odor. Anything else on here is conjecture based on biased and probably racist bullshit. If you’re non-Asian, put up with it and argue on scientific credibility or shove it.
    My experience in terms of smell
    1) south asian/ middle eastern
    2) white/latin american
    3) blacks
    4) east asian

    1. Having said that, if aprocine counts are variable between races then they are probably variable between the individuals within a race as well and factors like general hygiene, diet, stress levels, and weight probably have something to do with it too.

  21. Interesting, there is no mention Middle Eastern people where do the People of Arabic heritage (rank)? I have noticed the men seem to be without proper hygiene plus adding huge amounts of cologne. The binary agent literally curls your nostrils and I swear like a RANK Champion fart you can taste it. Now that is foul.

    1. They are known for strong cologne, like French whores and their perfume. I’ve heard Persians use European colognes.

  22. Omg…Meximelts are so fat and the stinkiest. Why? So fat they can’t wipe their own a”’! No wonder roaches are their best friends!

  23. Whites really smell bad. When the red cross volunteers were giving relief goods after the typhoon hit my country, the victims could smell the armpits of the volunteers as they pass them the food. Haha. I think it’s because you are hairy and sweat a lot. But, the worst odor I’ve ever smelled was from a new guinean. It smelled like pepper, vinegar and garlic combined. As I entered the internet cafe, I instantly noticed the sharp smell coming from him. No wonder, no one wanted to seat beside him. African students in my country do not stink in general. The iranians used to stink a lot, but due to racists bullying them about their odor, they started showering a lot and wearing deodorants.

    1. Ok, pure african here, i think you guys should get together and try a simple experiment.1) Find a group of racially different people who have a generally similar diet, eg kids from the same boarding school, or sailors from the same barracks. 2) make them shower with the same brand of soap and make them change into new clothes 3) make them do an activity that would make them sweat 4) completely blindfold the doctor (who claims to be able to distinguish smell of races) and make him smell the subjects without touching them (the subjects should also not make any sound as it may give away accents) if the good doctor is able to pinpoint any particular race he claimed to be able to, then you can conclude that, that particular race has a distinct smell

      1. I can smell a Russian a mile away, they think it is manly smell and don’t wash often. If you wash a Chinese every hour it will still smell garlic from ther breath

    2. hikaru, not sure how impoverished your country is but sometimes food can stink. If the red cross volunteers only smelled bad when they passed out food, perhaps food was the culprit.

  24. I’ve traveled extensively and grew up living overseas. I have had exposure to many different peoples. From a personnel experience I have noticed different people of different cultures smell differently. Not completely across racial lines. Blacks from the Caribbean smell different from Blacks from America; In general though, Blacks smell earthy; Blacks from the Caribbean smell of spice and earth. Chinese smell slightly eggy/sulpherous, while other Asians don’t smell like the Chinese. Japanese don’t smell, or rather smell more like whites. Hispanics in Central America and the Caribbean basin smell spicy but Hispanics of the Andes don’t. Brazilians smell of coconut and spices. Arabs smell of sheep, like a wool sweater, while Middle Easterners from the mountains and the Iranian plateau smell like goat. Europeans smell like wet dog with a slightly curdled sour milk smell. Or like a wet dog that just lapped up some curdled/ sour milk. American whites smell like sour meat but very mild. Indians smell like curry but I don’t think that’s a revelation for anyone. I do love the smell though. Indonesians smell like coconut oil. So yeah, culture + race + diet equal scent. I don’t find any scent particularly odorous or onerous. I do have my favorites though, Indian women and Hispanic women from the Caribbean. I am by the way a white male, I smell like a wet dog, though with age I smell more sour.

  25. I am north asian.
    I don’t have much experience seeing many people up close.
    An underarm bad smell is called “Khulmas”. It is contagious! If you wear a shirt or jacket of a person who has khulmas, you get it permanently, and vice versa if you let your upper clothes wear to someone else with it, and you wear it later, even after washing it ,you still get”infected” with it for life. %100 of People of european origin have khulmas, it’s their natural smell.
    People with khulmas have to shower themselves at least twice a day, this is the only way to keep the smell down.
    Here is the funny story when I was a boy..
    I used to go to school by public bus and it was always packed. One very hot summer day I struggled myself in and found myself right underneath of an armpit of a russian, the bus was so packed I could not move away! A moment later I woke up laying at a sidewalk with a lady who stopped the bus and took me out of it because I passed out. The lady was very happy to do it because she also felt passing out.
    The so called whites here in the U.S. always smell different types of soaps and deodorants and I haven’t smelled khulmas from any of them. I’m sure however that they all have it. I guess they do a good job of showering twice a day rule+powders+deodorants.
    I can not tell anything about africans or hispanics. Chinese smell like garlic but I guess if you take all their garlic supply and throw far away in to the ocean, and wait at least a week they’ll be alright.

  26. I don’t believe it should really matter, different diet & climate causes different smell. If you have good hygiene you should be fine. Yes I know a few Asian or black people who have and off putting scent. That doesn’t mean the whole race/nationality does.

  27. I banged over 1000 females. I do notice diff races smell different. Especially the Koreans because many have a tub if kimchi in the frig. But when the hot female pussy is in the air. Just ignore the smell and pound away. Doesn’t matter if they smell a little diff

  28. I’m a white lady, menopausal, never been on the Pill, and my white husband tells me I have the nose of a bloodhound.
    I just wrote the following comment on a blog about stinky soap, made from lard..
    -begin-
    I have slightly different experience. I have never made my own soap, but has studied to realize some use Lard. I keep kosher, so when supporting local soap makers, I always check labels or inquire politely as to which have vegetarian oils or which use beef or lamb tallow, and if they say lard, I pass on it.
    I recently received as a gift (somewhere unexpected) of a bar of “chocolate” soap made by a relative who does not keep kosher. She had showed photos on her social media and talked about it being “chocolate” (which it does look like), and I commented on it looking good. Quite awhile ago, the soap showed up. Was a month or more air drying before I got around to using it, and I think I am a few weeks into using it. Just this past week though, I started noticing a gross odor of rottenness or almost like moth balls, not sure. Kept cleaning my sink, baking soda, vinegar, the works and it “smell good” after awhile and then I kept smelling it. Today I went to wash my hands and used soap and got a whiff of that smell on my hands. I thought Oh No, not the soap! But I picked it up off the soap dish and about gagged. Then it occurred to me it must have been made with lard. I giggled stinky lard soap and found this website . There is no politically correct or discreet way to ask relative “what was that horrible mess you put in your soap?” So I thought I would read up. The previous answers make me think I have guessed correctly, although most talk about smell going away after being made. None talk about smell reactivating after being wet from use. I had to clean soap dish (2 part deal, bowl like with a drainer type “lid”) and that helped, but bar itself still rather stinky!
    -end-
    So then I went to another website suggested by google and I posted this comment on her site (LatinaLikeMe – I think it was called…):
    -begin-
    Curious, do “all” Mexicans eat pork or lard?
    I’ve met Mexicans who I knew kept Kosher and I never thought they smelled differently. I have also met people of other races who I thought did smell – and it wasn’t a lack of soap or shampoo cleanliness – it was from inside, and they would be talking about foods they ate, prepared with ham or lard. And at Mexican restaurants, we have to ask them all the times – are beans or chips fried in lard? Any pork in beans? Etc. (Many are switching to veggie oils because so many are vegetarian etc.).
    So today, and the reason I landed on this site, I discovered that some homemade soap I was given by a relative who does not keep kosher – I found the soap was giving off a horrible odor the past several days (after repeated scrubbing out the sink etc!). I have always checked labels on homemade soap products at farmer markets etc to make sure they were made of veggies oil or beef tallow. So I didn’t know this relative was going to mail me this and I don’t know what she used in this soap to make it smell bad (kind of reminds me of rotten meat or moth balls, but as I think about it, remembering living in apartments where my neighbors of all nationalities, many were cooking in lard or frying up some pork, etc.).
    So anyway I guess I am trying to figure out one answer, and thinking this article is a bit biased and assuming all Mexicans smell bad when I can tell you many smell nice and I believe a lot of it is the foods they eat. I have read that some of the Asian types think Americans smell gross because we eat too much fatty or red meats (beef, pork, etc). Perhaps we should consider that there is room for improvement for all people to eat better and all people to cut others some slack for smelling “bad” when we might be offensive smelling to those who are a different people and ear different kinds of foods.
    It’s a thought!!
    🙂
    -end-
    After seeing three different websites, where the only thing in common are the words “lard” and “stinky”, my collective thought is that I am happy to keep kosher, this bar of soap is going in the trash, and everybody smells good if they have no pork in their diets. I have eaten at kosher and Korean and Italian and Middle Eastern and Vietnamese and Japanese and Chinese and Indian and Pakistani and Lebanese and African and French restaurants, even Puerto Rican roadside “pollo” stands, vegetarian places, vegan foods, German restaurants (very hard to find foods not prepared with lard or pork, especially among the Amish or Mennonite Germans), and Irish foods, Mexican, or did I say that already… And the food at all those places is wonderful IF I avoid the pork and lard. I’ve eaten stuff and didn’t realize it had lard in it, until later when I started belching up horrible odor from my gut (alfalfa or charcoal tablets really help get that mess out of my body.).
    I am sure this is more than you wanted to know, but basically all of us are human race, different colors and flavors, and women do tend to be more scent observant, and we just do better and smell better if we avoid eating unclean meats like pork or lard. It’s not a “Jewish” thing. It’s a human thing.

    1. Sorry for typos above – Siri is rude about interjecting her spelling interpretations in my phone. That was “googled”, not giggle… But feel free to giggle away at any other similar typographical errors.
      Cheers!

    2. So anyway I guess I am trying to figure out one answer, and thinking this article is a bit biased and assuming all Mexicans smell bad when I can tell you many smell nice and I believe a lot of it is the foods they eat.

      Hello to my recollection, the article says nothing whatsoever about how Mexicans smell.

  29. Interesting that all different cultures have very distinct scents. It’s just what makes us all unique I guess, but obviously some people have a low tolerance for particular cultures. I’m black British of Ghanaian heritage, and have never had any complaints about my scent and nearly all cultures have been comfortably in close proximity with me at work etc. Some Africans can be smelly though, I find Nigerians smell like mothballs mixed with their traditional foods, due to the strong spices and their stubborn noteriety for not keeping windows closed when cooking thus their whole house and clothing smells of their cooking combined with mothballs. I find that Some whites smell like the “wet dog” smell particularly when they perspire, but due to their relatively mild diets which lack strong spices their scent is quite obscure. Carribeans don’t smell too bad in fact they are quite clean people so again it’s rare you get an upset nose around them but some of their diet contains strong spices so there are exceptions. Asians, particularly from Bangladesh or India tend to have a very pungent smell of onions and spices and it’s particularly offensive if they sweat… my goodness there’s some of them that work out at my gym and after a session if I’m as much as 50 yards away I’m having to hold my breath! You get to experience good variety of odours being in culturally diverse city like London. Moral of the story we all smell! 😀

  30. Seriously, the names a joke, but, my son is 1/4 black… how do i get rid of this horrible, over bearing odor? I habe literally wiped him down with vinglegar during a shower…. then he ended up smelling like fish.
    This is not a joke. There HAS to be a solution.

  31. My experience is we all can stink, But blacks have a burned corn smell that’s offensive to me personally. Not all just like any other race but some. Bring on the race comments I’m from Alabama. Iv never meet an Asian person in my life and am thirty seven years old. I know and are friends with many blacks and Hispanics. Blacks smell the most to me.

  32. Bathe with soap and scrubbing :
    When you wake up
    Before you go out in the evening
    Before you go to bed
    Teach all others to do the same.

  33. It’s all about personal hygiene and culture to some extent. Many people go for “all natural”, and I’m sorry, but there is no other way but you will stink. Human body naturally just does not produce nice smells. If it produces any, it’s just bad odours. It is in our hands to take daily showers and use products good enough to get rid of the particular smell. We have shower gels, nice smelling hair products, perfumes, and what not else. There is a high variety of these products and guess why? Because they have to meet needs of so many individuals. Culture has something to do in a way, for example people from India really do smell like curry but its mainly due to their diet. It’s also a fact that in general black people sweat a little bit more than whites while Asians sweat potentially less than whites. But there’s also individual differences, we cannot just label Asian- Non stinky, because there will be smelly people too.
    I’m a white male in his twenties and if I ever heard anything from people about my scent it’s just compliments. Thanks to Chanel, Dior, and the others.

  34. I really felt bad for searching the web because sometimes I notice a special odour with black people I meet.. definetely not bad, smelly or stinking but very nice, and wondered if this is just my imagination.
    And I wondered if there really is a thing as racial odour and how that differs around the world.
    But it is so heartbreaking reading about white people calling others “stinking” so I will never say anything about it.
    (Thank you for your article)

  35. I happen to know people of various races, 1 Danish and 1 Polish female, 1 African male, 2 Polish males, 3 Indian males, several Timors and eastern Indonesians (Papuanese). For me, the Danish woman, and the 3 Indians all smells bad. But the smell between the Danish and the Indian are different. Among the 3 Indians, they have a different intensity in smell although it is the same smell. Some of the Papuanese that I know smells like onion, some don’t. One of those Papuanese smells so bad that I can’t stand being next to him for longer than 1 minute. But I believe the problem with him is he don’t take bath cleanly if any as there are other Papuanese who don’t smell like him. The Polish, both girl and the males don’t smell. Thus, rather than race, I think the smell is more due to diet and personal hygene as both black and white can be not-smelly.

  36. This is weird…. I lost my sense of small a few years ago and now, after reading this, I feel I lost out? What happened? I loved the smell of a woman’s underarm with deodorant. I talking one to two days….. then it gets a bit too strong. But it was a turn on. I remember lots of scents that were turn ons. OK…. sometimes a person went too far or the smell of cooking got into the clothing… stuff like that… but…. leaving that behind, the scent of a woman was always a turn on. I don’t know. Maybe my nose wasn’t working right back then either.

  37. I lived in China and I found that the Chinese, especially in winter mostly in the North smell like garlic and its strong especially in the taxi cabs or when they get close to you.
    Black people especially from Africa have a large odor, I cant explain it but if you smell it you will know. African Americans are a little bit different than this.
    White people smell like Butter, i once had a teacher in grade 4 that smelt like butter. Also the fat white kids smell like they havent wiped their a** properly. Never met a black kid who smells like that!
    Hispanic people havent really got a “basic” descriptive odor. I think its similar to whites. I think its what we eat or our hygenic standards, and some, well they cant help smelling like s***.

  38. It may or may not be relevant but I know several dog groomers who tell me that dogs with darker hair and skin smell different than the lighter ones. hmmm?

  39. Knowing that the German cockaroach was brought here by hordes of dirty, filthy Germans and other low life scum from the neighboring countries, and that all European immigrants are saltwater wetbacks, the white races leave a stench cloud over the towns and cities in which they call home

  40. It’s probably more about diet, environmental factors and small differences in the oil exceptions and amounts discreted. I absolutely find black men or mix men to smell great! My roommate is a person of color and she smells extremely strong. A sugary musty smell. I can’t stand it but I am sure I stink sometimes too. She says differently but who knows. I think a piece left out should be sexual attraction, I am not attracted to black women whatsoever or Asian persons for some reason. While I am 98% into men only, there are some beautiful women who might make me think. Mostly these women are white, mixed black and white, Asian and white, and Latina. So I think smell plays a part in that but the brain is so complex to try and break it down to absolutes doesn’t work. It’s a collective with several systems working concurrently.

  41. It’s quite likely that on a genetic basis races have variation in both sense of smell and the odour them emit. Coriander is a famous example for me. The smell is disgusting as well as the taste, like soap but you get people who love it. I think some gene candidates have already been found for that.
    The problem is though, sense of smell is also heavily incluenced by environment. What you grow up around, what smells you associate with things, certain smells you can become numb to over time, smoking and many other things you consume can impact your sense of smell, etc.
    Additionally to that, what people eat, their state of health can effect how they smell as well. Patterns in smell for this reason are very likely to be more personal.
    On that note I haven’t really noticed much racial difference in smell. Most people cover up their BO and I don’t hang around much in gyms. Crowded trains rarely make it clear where smells are coming from when there is a smell. Growing up in a multicultural community tends to dull it out.
    The differences I used to notice a lot more before taking up smoking and are not or do not appear to be based on body odour. Some Asians can have a typical often overwhelmingly nasty spicy smell which tends to make you stay away. Various peoples can smell of tobacco and smoke. British people can sometimes have the dreaded too much coffee breath of death that smells vaguely like turd. Black people and long haired or shaggy people often smell like gangja. A strange thing with black people, sometimes they smell strongly of kind of soap and turd. I am not sure what it is but I’ve noticed it enough that something must be going on there. I would say that it might be washing and leaving a fair bit of the soap on but the smell seems to strong for that and the almost poop like aspect to it suggests another ingredient. Another posibility might be from their buttcleaning habits imported from their place of origin where TP isn’t the norm. A lot here are from Nigeria and I think the ones with the smell on average tend to be particularly dark if I remember right so it could very well be that. It’s very few of them but enough to notice over the years. You also get the fat or clearly not taking care of themselves people that smell like urine and turd.
    I think a lot of the time people are smelling the residue of food on others. A lot of food is surprisingly pervasive. If I eat something sugary, the stickiness just spreads around the lips all over the hands, etc. Oily things are the same. It’s really pervasive.
    What is funny is that if there are some smells that only some races really tend to smell those can be used for a means of segregation. Perhaps the Asians are dousing themselves in some of those spices deliberately? Who knows? All I know is that some of these smells are enough to make me clear the room.

  42. I am White man married to a Black, brought up in a Black area, mostly dated Black. I find Asians smelly. Chinese smell makes me sick. We all smell. Is this why nature wants us not to mix. And why we always fight against each other’s race. I love you all. Be at peace.

  43. Sigh…as i become older my olfactory seems to be less sensitive. Now it doesn’t seem to exist at all, sigh. I would give up my legs to smell dead rotting fish ! I can only go by memory. In elementary school one of those remarkable red heads with the freckles and hair that seemed to glow had a funny smell. it was sort of like rotting cheddar cheese. honest, i’m not kidding. but this is subjective. i’ve read and heard other people who said red heads had a similar smell. And red heads seemed sort of sticky skin. but this is school boy and girl ages and we probably were all pretty smelly and sticky in our own ways. especially in a catholic skill and your nervous and sweating to get ready for inevitable nun from hell stabbing you in the side with her chalk board pointer or an arbitrary “put your hands out bobby you bad boy” and get whacked umpteen times. the back of your hands always bled
    In high school I was happy to quit prep school in the 9th grade with all that hazing and nonsense.(preppies are like frat boys. individually they are so silently, secretly in doubt of their ability to be a self starter, afraid of going out in the city, country, where ever and can’t start a conversation with the most disarming stranger).
    I transferred to a public school(for those of you in Great Britain i mean a free, state school). I loved it. We had such a cross section of kids from different socio-economic statuses, colors of skin, and so on. Some of my best friends were black or african american. (btw, this is mid 1970’s). There was a different smell but it was not offensive, just different. I noticed that when i met a new black friend his or her hands were rather clammy. And I noticed that blacks seemed to give off more body heat. So if it was cold on the bus or the car i’d deliberately pick out a black guy or gal to sit next to. If it was a rainy muddy track and field meet i competed in, waiting or after my races, i’d pop open my big umbrella which was always in my locker, and scream to fellow team mates who were black hey come and share my umbrella !!!
    i’ve never researched why blacks seemed to give off more heat or had clammy hands. Since they were still a minority of about 20% in my high school and the deep south whites killing and lynching blacks and the turbulent race riots of the late 60’s, i think blacks were still nervous and/or angry in the mid 1970’s.
    I remember reading the part auto biography by Malcolm x, when he was invited to eat with white people when he was a child. He wrote something to the effect that white people smell like uncooked chicken. i’ve heard it from other blacks too.
    In college….hmmm….ah ??? i don’t even remember. wonder why that is ?
    The main thing is we are all homo sapiens. you can take any two fertile man and woman of any ethnicity and they will have a baby(i’d stay away from trying to procreate with anyone left on Pitcairn Island or a blue blood like the despicably wealthy house of Windsor member…I would love to punch that cockscomb Prince Harry. and no its not because he’s a red head). We have slight differences in appearance and tiny differences in physiology but we are the same species. the black capped chickadee can procreate with grey tufted titmouse and have baby little bird. they are in the same bird species and look much different than any two ethnicities in homo sapiens.
    So when it comes to Species, their is only one race, the human race. so lets start treating each other as equals and love one another
    more to write, but i have to get up at the crack of 5pm, give or take an hour or two tomorrow
    peace, love and joy to all

    1. I would prefer to use the word “types” to races. There is only one specis of domestic cat but many types. Siamanese cats are a different type of cat from Persians or European moggies. And it’s not just appearance. Siamanese are known to be very vocal. Is it possible that genectic isolation and mutation could produce slight similar differences in human types? I would say very possible. The ancient Romans regarded black Africans as being “musical”. I beleive it possible that black Africans are more able at music. That doesn’t mean other types are not musical or all blacks budding BB kings. Just a slight genectic propensity…

  44. Growing up in a 1970’s white, lower-middle class neighborhood, the only people I noticed that smelled different were the kids who probably didn’t bathe so much…dirty smell or cigarette smoke. As I got older and worked with African American people, I noticed that some had a heavy fried food or cooking grease smell. So I can only think this has to do with the type of food that is cooked in the home. As an adult, I notice the same with Indian people who smell spicy. Even my daughter came home from school one day and asked, “Why do black people smell like french fries?” I never mentioned my own observations to her.

  45. We all have smells …. As we are all different & have different diets as well. According to “My Nose”
    Some White people smell like “Wet Dogs” Some Chinese people smell like “Urine”
    Some Hispanics people smell like “Rotten or Sour milk/cheese”
    Some Black people smell like “Onions”
    Some Vietnamese smell like “Garlic”

  46. I have very little to zero respect for people who judge how others smell. I love people of all races and I doubt scents have very much to do with race. People need to stop finding ways to be divided. At the end of the day we’re all only human beings. Get over it.

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