A Broad Diversity of Volatile Carboxylic Acids, Released by a Bacterial Aminoacylase from Axilla Secretions, as Candidate Molecules for the Determination of Human-Body Odor Type

2006 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-20 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andreas Natsch ◽  
Samuel Derrer ◽  
Felix Flachsmann ◽  
Joachim Schmid
Keyword(s):  
Carboxylic Acids ◽  
Human Body ◽  
Body Odor ◽  
Human Body Odor

scholarly journals Does Human Body Odor Represent a Significant and Rewarding Social Signal to Individuals High in Social Openness?

PLoS ONE ◽  
2014 ◽  
Vol 9 (4) ◽  
pp. e94314 ◽  
Author(s):  
Katrin T. Lübke ◽  
Ilona Croy ◽  
Matthias Hoenen ◽  
Johannes Gerber ◽  
Bettina M. Pause ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Human Body ◽  
Body Odor ◽  
Social Signal ◽  
Human Body Odor

Human body-odor components and their determination

2011 ◽  
Vol 30 (5) ◽  
pp. 784-796 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sudhir Kumar Pandey ◽  
Ki-Hyun Kim
Keyword(s):  
Human Body ◽  
Body Odor ◽  
Human Body Odor

scholarly journals Human Body Odor

1980 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-12
Author(s):  
Robert Hart
Keyword(s):  
Human Body ◽  
Body Odor ◽  
Human Body Odor

The smell of us – crowdsourcing human body odor evaluation

2016 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Marguerite Benony ◽  
Marianne Cardon ◽  
Arnaud Ferré ◽  
Jean Coquet ◽  
Nathan Foulquier ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Human Body ◽  
Public Perception ◽  
Dynamic Range ◽  
Sexual Attraction ◽  
Body Odor ◽  
Evaluation Instrument ◽  
Web Based ◽  
Chemical Measurements ◽  
Odor Evaluation ◽  
Human Body Odor

Human body odor is produced when sweat-secreted compounds are metabolized by bacteria present on the skin. The resulting volatile mixture is often negatively perceived, motivating the use of personal cosmetic deodorants. Yet body odor may also be positively perceived in some contexts, and is proposed to play a role in sexual attraction, kin identification and social bonding. Because only human smellers can report the hedonic qualities of body odor, their persceptions are a valualbe complement to modern GC-MS-based quantitative chemical measurements. Here we present a crowdsourcing framework that engages volunteer smellers to characterize human sweat samples. Our approach seeks to reward both the sweat donor and the smeller with a web-based graphical interface that is informative, interesting, and fun. 300 samples from 87 individual donors were scored by 93 smellers for intensity, pleasantness, and a variety of odor descriptors. Body odor intensity and pleasantness were determined to vary with age, gender, and self-reported deodorant use. Counterintuitively, deodorant use showed no effect on the perceived intensity of body odor, and was associated with a decrease in the perceived pleasantness. From these data, we determine the precision and dynamic range of the volunteer nose as a body odor evaluation instrument and estimate the scale of crowdsourcing effort that would be required to precisely quantify the public perception of body odors.

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