The Weird, Delightful Smells of Being Human
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- Опубликовано: 28 май 2024
- Let’s face it: humans stink! But that’s not always a bad thing - we use smells to interact with each other and navigate our lives.
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people with covid right now are watching this with immense jealousy and nostalgia
Can confirm kittens also have a "Baby smell" and it is delightful.
Yup ..with a little bit of butter and potatoes on the side its realy good 👌
Trichinellosis
@@frenchguyst-croissant3432 wat
Baby rats do too.. when my pet rats had their litters o could smell them before I saw them 😅
As do baby cows.
Working in a pediatric hospital, I can undeniably confirm that men also find that human babies smell good.
We all remember the smell of Play-Doh.
Who doesn't?
@@HShango i dont, but i remember plasticine 😉
I'm nearly 60 i used to love playdo especially its smell
And crayons
I don't
I'm a dad who helped raise three boys (all grown adults now). I love baby smell, but I remember it lasting a lot longer than 6 weeks. I would huff my kids' scalp well into toddlerhood.
This uncle is on the same page 💛🤗
@@jakobraahauge7299 As an uncle who helped raise a couple boys, I can also confirm.
My baby is 8 months old and she still has it. It's wonderful.
I think it also exists in reverse, I remember sniffing at my mother’s bedside and it was very calming as a toddler, lol. But this effect also faded away as I became older...
What if the chemical helps create the link in memory, that helps us believe we are getting the same reward every time. Pavlovian response mechanism, to a welcome stimuli, tends to be faster and stronger that rote alone. Could explain.
When I gave birth to my daughter I was amazed by how wonderful she smelled! And my sensitivity to her smell was so strong that I could find her with my eyes closed. I also could tell which of the babies in the room was mine! It was like being inside of some " the nature of mammals" documentary 😄
I'd like to see a study performed like this with like 20 babies in a room and the mother has a blindfold on to see if they can get it correct.
@@rdizzy1 intresting
That's very interesting
😅😅😅 That's cool!
@@rdizzy1 That would be cool! But do it at day two so they can also get used to the cry.
I notice people’s home smells! People who live together have similar smells, though it’s still a bit different from person to person. It passes onto their rooms, their cars, and their clothes. And it changes with the introduction of a new pet or new person, or when the people move houses.
I have memories attached to specific home smells, because I spent so much time with those people and in those houses. But I wouldn’t say home smells are inherently good or bad smells, they’re just kind of indescribably complex.
i know what you mean
i spent so much time with a friend from university and got pretty used to his smell
now recently he moved into a new home with his girlfriend and when we met again for the first time in months i immediately noticed how his smell had slightly but distinctly changed
not that he stinks or anything, but its definitely different
human sense of smell is underrated
Yeah I noticed it too in my childhood, every home have different smell, some homes more resemble lemons like fairy dishwashing liquid, some have wood oriented smells, some have mix of plastic and rubbery kinds of smell and so on
Yes! It's hard to explain but people smell a lot like their houses! Whenever I comeback home after being away for several weeks, I identify my house's smell. Even though I don't notice it when I'm home.
Most of the home smells of my friends were fried food and cigarette smoke, ick
Grandma's home
So good
The smell of celery, onion, garlic and ground beef cooking instantly brings up an emotional response for me. It is the scent of one of my favorite meals as a kid - goulash. It's like the one smell that reminds me of home.
WoW, how beautiful and emotional.
One day you’ll return home Mogyer.
@@kentam6891 *Magyar XD
Common in many cultures with variations of course.
Agreed!! 🥰
Oh, I can understand exactly. My Omi came over from Austria after WW2, and her cooking was incredible. One of the best was her goulash. I haven't attempted cooking it yet, but I will one day.
as a father of two, i gotta say ... i miss the "new baby" smell ... wow ... thanks for the memories hank ...grand-kids smell cool too... LOL
Except when they poop. Jesus H Christ in a Bottle! I'm far from queasy but baby poop is the stuff of nightmares.
And as a daughter, I miss my dad's BO. It goes both ways if your relationship is positive. Dad's gone so I no longer get to smell it. So hug yours even if they complain that you smell gross or something.
@@adilsongoliveira YES ! The morning poop bombs are 🤢🤮
Oh hey I’m just a random kid so hi
I love the smell of rain. Especially when the storm is coming. Idk y tho lol
That’s my favourite smell. There is a name for it but I can’t remember what. Rain is my favourite…and we are in a horrible drought here in western Canada.
Petrichor
@@paulad.patterson4732 thank you 🙌🏼
@@DioneN also available in certain perfumes and colognes. It works extraordinarily well on some people.
@@paulad.patterson4732 "For the girl who's tired of waiting"
I can only speak for myself, of course. I was handed my first-born about a minute after he was born while the midwife/doctor sewed up my wife's bits as forceps had been required. There was a distinct smell that now I might describe as 'buttery' but also 'musky'. It was a real 'hind-brain' thing and a completely animal moment; if anyone had tried to take him away from me until I had finished getting to know him, I would have killed them. Stupidly powerful feeling.
parental sleeper agent activated!
As someone who watched a Ceasarian while chatting with the OB/Gyn (those are your wife's ovaries. Oh really, cool. No problem) I can attest it is the smell. When that hit I almost fainted (and would have were it not for a nurse who offered a stool saying "dad really needs to sit down now')
No, not the dopamine joy of mothers ('baby showers' aka 'pass the crack'. Funny as hell when you see what's happening biochemially). No. Total Brain Reboot. Party boy to provider in a matter of seconds. I don't give a rat's ass what researchers find, I KNOW this to be true.
I don't know anyone who thinks old people smell smells pleasurable. Quite the contrary. It really stinks. Sorry this study must have been made with people with no nose.
Lol!!! Dads do get it. And strangely too, men craving the scent (seek out babies to smell) are actually craving fatherhood again.
@@EbonyPope huh? I think the exact opposite. I think you are the first person I see that thinks like that. People take for granted that when you say "smells like grandpa" it is a very good smell (very commonly founs in books). Maybe it varies by genetics
Long after amniotic fluid and vernix are gone, baby scalp (top of head where lots of folks automatically rest their noses) has a pleasant scent of its own
Again SciShow Crew, add "Compilation" to the start of these blast from the past video titles!
You can kinda discern from the duration of the video! I usually use it and most of them, I got it right. But yeah, it doesn't hurt adding a tag to the title
I would take the new baby smell one step farther and say that that scent is addictive. I couldn't be away from my children for more than a few hours because I craved their smell. That stopped somewhere around 5 years old
My husband smells like babies idk why, he smells like a small child.
He doesn't look like a baby at all but he smells like a couple years old kid. I KNOW because I've worked as a nanny for a long time
A smelly smell that smells smelly.
😄😄
A miasma, if you will.
@@Robert_McGarry_Poems indeed. Indeed 👁👃🏾👁
My father had these strong memories when smelling old fashioned classrooms. He suffered from migraines as a child, and attacks always started with a heightened sense of smell.
Amazing! For me, one of the signs before a migraine attack is a preschool play room smell from my childhood... almost 60 years ago
The janitors orange saw dust stuff that he put on vomit in grade school… I got a migraine in the 4th grade and puked everywhere…I get a headache every time I catch that smell.
6 weeks? My son is over a year and I still love his smell 😭 but then again I also love my husband's smell
Well that helps 😅
"I'm a lumberjack and I'm okay.
I sleep all night and I work all day!"
havent seen a reference to that in some time
I wonder what Hank does in his spare time.
"You can tell right away if food goes bad"
That's true, except for milk. I like milk, I enjoy milk, I drink it a fair amount but good or bad, milk stinks to me. I've never been able to really tell if milk has gone bad or not cause it smells just as bad the day I buy it as the day it expires.
Though maybe I'd find it even more sickening if it was old and moldy.
@@michaeljackson8390 No.
@@michaeljackson8390 I like conspiracies as much as the next guy but calm down there buddy.
@liam Anderson 😂
@@michaeljackson8390 Wow he was correct! It did blow my mind! Never in my life did I think that someone could try a super obvious conspiracy theory link on a scishow video about baby smells!
This man sees a triangle play button like ANY OTHER PLAY BUTTON and sees Satan. He sees a patent number of 060606 and instantly thinks that person who holds it is the devil (I think he forgot how counting works). He sees the apple logo.... and instantly thinks its the garden of Eden apple. My absolute favourite is how he thinks that WALMART refers to martial law, and not..... a wall market
@@andreyrumming6842 Walmart actually refers to the founders of the company, the Waltons.
The diet of adults do contribute to their smell. You can smell a drinker or smoker from a mile even if they used mouthwash and bathed in perfume. Likewise, you can smell when people are sick, irrelevant of if they are even aware that they are sick.
In terms of memories, I always have a vivid recollection of a particular scenario, instance or timeline whenever I hear a song that I heard back then. It's like my mind is reminiscing the scenario respective of when I originally first heard the song.
That's called de ja vu.
pretty sure that's just nostalgia
A shoutout to those who make the flehmen grimace dispite not having a functional VNO.
Puppy milk breath, newborn babies, great soft smells. I also love how my husband smells when he doesn't wear deodorant for one (just one) day
your husband has hot guy musk
Running through a field after chocolate smell.
Well, Hank, chocolate smell is pretty ******* important, especially to Yours Truly.
Whenever one of us 4 women in my family was grumpy, angry, or crying, Dad would direct us to the chocolate before he would listen to us. Smart man.
I feel like in some form or capacity humns do produce pheromones because there is a specific scent in male body odor which is just so unreasonably attractive to me
I'd say if there are any human pheromones it's in the urine. Just ask young men how powerful a girl's bathroom smells and young woman how much a boys bathroom smells. Smells the girls don't notice in their own bathroom, nor the boys.. I think we are "tuned" to be able to tell when we are in an area frequented by the opposite sex. I notice it for my wife and daughter, but not myself or son at home.
Can confirm that new smell applies to some pets, new bird smell is amazing
I'm not kidding, parakeets smell wonderful
"Whatever happened to the kid who ate all the paste?"
Of course I know him. He's me.
Guilty. But it was Elmer's. Non - toxic and tasty.
I was smelling my baby girl's hair as she's waking up from her nap when I saw this notification... yep, baby odor effect is real, it's the best thing ever!
My little baby cousins have the sweetest smell. It's so incredible! It really make you love the little poop machines
just the best - it makes you feel happy all way inside out 💛🤗
After being married for several years (and becoming aware of my wife's monthly cycle, I realized that I could tell if any woman I was following, smelled fertile, even though I kept this knowledge to myself. At age 50 I while riding my motorcycle, I realized that sycamore trees give off a somewhat similar smell. Riding past a tree, caused this smell to be more noticable by changing the concentration of this chemical, more suddenly. It is a very distracting smell.
Pheromone products are somewhat effective as the placebo effect gives more confidence.
Idk I met my best friend at a rave because I was rolling on ecstasy and I could smell him from halfway across the room. He had on a cologne w pheromones in it! I could smell him before I saw him...
The scent of chocolate always attracts me. I may be able to track it for miles.
I've mentioned this before I do smell like my dad after a workout. It's true about the smell of childhood things and sounds also I noticed something when I was taking care of my sisters' kids they knew when I was near them, and their mom too when they were babies. I've heard of scientists saying something about that I already, but had known this by my observation. They knew everyone there before they could even see correctly.
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Can you PLEASE use periods. I think I had a stroke trying to read all this
@@knucklesskinner253 hold on
@@knucklesskinner253, I wonder my Grammarly isn't working, try again but pre-dial those three numbers just in case.
fortunately I smell like my maternal family - my dad is Danish and smells, well.. white
my mom was inuit - I get asked what perfume I use frequently. I don't use perfumes or perfumed products, nor do I use deodorant
When I was young I loved stealing bf’s coats and such, they had a special smell, I would make me feel really comfortable. Laying down on his bed was really nice too. There’s def something there.
Ikr I smell my bfs shirts sometimes when he’s at work.
It's prob not pheromones, but definitely something relating to memory and scents. Since you usually think positively of your mate/spouse, you begin to consider almost every aspect of them, to be positive, like their scent and such.
I loved snuggling into my dad's armpit as a child. I miss my dad :(
Honestly sounds like a hidden desire to return to the safety of parents, during early childhood. Maybe that is part of the drive to reproduce. Whatever it is, enjoy! 😉
My sense of smell is absolutely off the chain, it is crazy sensitive. When my son was very very fresh born (the first days) he smelled so offensive - so metallic.
I physically can't smell so I'm watching this without any previous experience
Please mark compilations as such. You did it in the past.
I def. think that looking into how newborn babies react to certain scents/how humans react to the smell of babies would be a good way of detecting any pheromones we might have, because we're such an absurdly parental and social species that it would be advantageous for our children (who are a drag to care for, to put it mildly) to have pheromone cues that elicit that reaction in other humans even if they're not related to them. Also, while it's likely not a pheromone cue at all, that distinct smell of sickness that people get regardless of what illness they have might be interesting to do further research on in the future
I love my dogs smell, especially his paws - they smell like popcorn 🍿❤️
I love our dog’s smell too! He smells kinda sweet and salty, like teriyaki sauce
I'm good at smelling sea breeze, rainfall, cut lawn and gasoline
according to my mom, i smelled really weird . not normal baby smell but she described it along the lines of vinegar mixed with garlic feet and something vaguely metalic as a baby. she said no matter how much she bathed me , i always had a weird smell. even as an adult my sweat smells stroooong by nature , even freshly showered , it still has a metalic smell to it and acidy smell
Hormonal imbalance? Maybe
Me and my family noticed my brother's body odor changed since he had chickenpox when he was 18 years old... we are both vaccinated, but I had it when I was 7 and he didn't get it from me, only got it much older. He was miserable for days... and then we all noticed his own smell changed (more than a decade later, he still has this odor), and I have no idea how the disease affected it.
Maybe it reset his immune system somewhat.
It wasn't that big of a change and might just coincide with the end of puberty and stopping smoking, but when my brother had cancer as a young man, I think his smell changed after chemo therapy and healing.
"... effecting other species..." yep, like the bull that ran my late wife up on to the porch 😂
I think the most amazing part about smelling anything is that your not smelling anything your hearing molecules with your nose
?????
@@alexwang982 you never heard of that, molecules land on little receptors in your nose and depending on how they vibrate determines what they smell like, thats why sionide smells like almonds because the molecules are similar. Blew my mind when I first learned it
@@alexwang982 www.ucl.ac.uk/news/2013/jan/secret-scent-lies-molecular-vibrations
No doubt, certain smells trigger old memories and can become imprinted for life. I'll never forget the smell of skunk. Not because it's bad (I've smelled much worse) but because it triggers a whole memory of a summer camp encounter. No, I wasn't sprayed. Another kid was. Served him right for throwing rocks at it.
And yes, babies and puppies both smell nice. I suspect, for similar reasons.
I love puppies and puppy breathe.
My dad doing dude ish. That orange cleaning stuff, I always thought it smelled good. But that strong glue stuff, I don't remember what it's called, I still hate it. But working somewhere & smelling the construction going on, it brought me way back. Like how I nailed his finger instead of a nail & he gave up on teaching me how to construct anything 🥴 right then. & How I thought Dr Seuss was the most pointless thing ever bc I had to all of sudden go find something else to get into.& I was just that young. Maybe its called rubber glue, rubber cement, idk
My theory is that our apocrine glands sweat glands, which are found in our armpits and groin & become active during puberty, release substances that serve as pheromones. 🤔
And I think we develop hair growth in those regions to retain those chemicals longer. We don’t need that hair to signal sexual maturity, as some “experts” think, because breasts and a larger male organ are a dead giveaway for that.
One thing about our "lack of smell ability" could also be we don't "train" it as often as our other senses , if you think about it we mostly try to visually ID things or register them audibly , we more often hear or see something wrong first , unless the smell is something we immediately ID as dangerous or simply FOUL like smoke or something rotting or egg farts . As an example, I've worked security for years , mostly in nightclubs, and despite likely having hearing damage from the loud music I will catch someone talking and immediately react to the "tone of voice" over any words I actually decipher or I'll scan a crowd and spot one guy in a particular "body stance" and begin preparing myself to act , but unless someone has some really strong odor either from cologne perfume or BO I don't notice it
i now want the scent collection: the many scents of hank through the years
I can't help but wonder what a Hank Smell smells like...
milky!
Farty
Given his response to "old people smell" I'd say Hank's gettin' a little up there...both in age and smell. 👴
Paper
Mint chew tobacco. And beer. Maybe propane. Maybe something smokey, like as in food
I haven't been able to smell since birth. My daughter also can't smell.
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my boyfriend, too! he has the ability to smell SUPER strong smells, though, but only sometimes--and he's not entirely sure why!
That's a blessing and a curse.
My husband can smell very little, and his father even less. There are some smells that my husband can smell, even though they are not as strong as other smells that he can't smell. It's weird.
Can't imagine being like that! My nose is so sensitive, i can even smell sick people. I had anosmia for over a week from covid a few months ago, and it was the worst and best days.
Assuming the smell theory to attract mates to be true in case of humans, I guess we’re just messing things up by using perfumes and deodorants.
And hormones
Some people must really think they stink, judging from the amount of (cheap) scent they cover themselves in. I hate the stink of cheap perfumes and aftershaves, especially since I can detect them with my tastebuds as well.
He talked about « sweaty lumberjack »… which means that women don’t smell as good as real men ;)
@@sebastienh1100 it was handsome lumberjack...
Cooked bread, coffee, bacon wakes me up
The main reason for not having analized pheromones is because their "aromatic-off gassing" time-period is kinda short, it's meant for a response from the sniffer to the sender. There are scents that do entice a specific response, w/o it being tied to a specific type of memory, it's just a reaction. Like a 20° temperature drop and the human-thermometer area of the chest shows it 😁, reactional type of response, so there are pheromones within humans that work based on primal instincts.
New puppy smell is awesome.
3 years ago I removed my body’s ability to produce testosterone and replaced it with estrogen. My body smells completely changed. Skin, hair, and - most strikingly - ears. My old clothes smell so weird and foreign, almost sour. Just more evidence of body chemistry dramatically shifting smells, in addition to age.
So you’re telling me there’s a chance!
the smell of fresh-cut wood or firewood reminds me of my mommom (and her home) because she does carpentry and has a wood burning stove, the smell of whatever very specific kind of mildew is in my parents' basement reminds me of my childhood home (specifically sitting down there on the shitty broken elliptical bike using a staple gun on an old wooden work bench we have) and the smell of onions cooking in butter just makes me happy because yummy
the mildew thing is so strange i know but i honestly love the smell so much, but ONLY the specific smell from my parents' basement. I've never been anywhere that it smelled exactly like that, but if I could somehow bottle it up so I could smell it whenever I wanted, good god would I. It's comforting and refreshing to me
Love SciShow, yaller awesome. Y’all had me laughing pretty good talkin about the leather smell. I’m from Texas and there ain’t nothing quite like walking into a saddlery or boot store. Or just a guy selling real handmade leather belts out of his truck or flea market. It’s a wonderful smell that I grew up with and experience daily.
Great episode!! Glad to know that those smells and memories are real. It has not diminished with age.❤
Got covid like 2 weeks ago still barely have any smell or taste
That symptom can last a long, long time…
You have to retrain your scent sense. Buy lemon,rose, eucalyptus, and clove oil and practice smelling each one for about ten seconds through each nostril, twice a day. I doubled it with drinking lion's mane mushroom coffee beforehand. This isn't crackpot pseudoscience, I ran it by my doctor after I had covid last year and recovered my sense of smell pretty quickly. Ask your doctor. The mushroom coffee helps regenerate neurons.
I got covid and I couldnt smell or taste for a while. They both have returned, but are different. Garlic, wine, onions, different meats, they all smell and taste different to me now. I like wine a lot more than I used too, but I dont like garlic or chicken thighs nearly as much. Our senses are really curious things
@@mal9369 you have parosmia! It's a smell distortion. I see a lot more people getting it after their smell starts to return after getting covid, myself included!
Hank: "We haven't identified any human pheromones."
Axe Body Spray: "😡"
My dog loves the baby smell. We had a baby at the house and I put my dog in another room. After the baby was gone my dog could not stop smelling everything the baby was in contact with.
Myself and a new man I met at work literally could not stay away from each other (no... We never got serious)... Our smell of one another was addicting to both of us. Seriously. It was insane. I was actually angry when I had to be in the same room with him because it activated my hind brain. The same reaction was for him too. Thank goodness we only worked together for a year because, even 12 years later I can remember his smell and I would totally like to bottle it and smell it again. ... I have thought about this many times over the years. I wish we could have both participated in a smell study.
The fact that newborns have the passages that fade with time would indicate that maybe it's used in bonding with the parent through smell (as it passes through the amygdala, the motivational hub that can help motivate a child to remain with the mother. The mother on the otherhand, is already queued to like the child as stated in the section about "baby smell". All women being positively affected by women makes a successful survival trait for the entire species, where bonding with the mom by specific smells introduced at a critical time in their childhood may introduce a physical basis for a child's bond with their mother.
That terrified baby 15:55 😂😂😂
Unrelated, but who remembers when there was Muscle Hank and other types of Hanks in the comments lmao. We need to get them baaack
So what's with the "Lord Howe Stick Insect" on the screen? We didn't get to hear anything about the bug during this video.
It was part of a scishow news where they do two stories. The first video was related to smelling so the added it to the compilation.
If I remember right, the stick bugs are critically endangered, and that half of the video talked about a new population of them getting found or something like that.
I love the smell of babies. They need to bottle that smell. Puppy breath is nice too, but not as great.
Think about the things you type before you type them friend 😂
@@TheIcenero dude I'm not talking about M.A.P. crap, or sacrificing them to Moloch. And if a woman said it, then you would have kept driving. Babies do smell fresh, and it is a unique scent. When our son was a baby I thought he smelled so good. But not in a creeper way. It's similar to how sun dried towels smell fresh.
That part about childhood smells and memory had me thinking about how all that alcohol 70% I've been using since last year always reminds me of my teenage years. One wiff of alcohol takes me back to the time I used to drink soda mixed with cheap vodka and cachaça
One of my husbands colleagues was pondering on “New Wife Smell”!
i can definitely confirm that ive followed the scent of stuff im interested in partaking, specifically at parties and social gatherings
I love the scent of self groomed adult cats😺😊.
3:08 I went to home depo so much as a child that the smell of fresh-cut boards and hardware noises make me remember walking around home depo
I love home depo man, mom used to let me run around in the little room set-ups lol
In the future we will have "new-baby-smell" for our cars
I like the smell of my pillow and sheets, not newly washed ones but after they've been slept in for a while. Half burying my face under the sheets feel sooo good.
13:33 oh wow this was a callout i wasnt expecting... thru the whole video i was thinking abt this exact thing because i have always had an association between pancakes and sundays in my childhood
I would like to see a video about the connection between taste and smell. I am considered a 'supertaster' because of my many tastebuds and I am highly sensitive to spicy foods. I also have a super sensitive nose. I can smell dead animals and natural gas way before my family. It can come in handy for safety reasons, but also very distracting at other times.
So the amygdala is the source of my lack of motivation, and why i know i should feel satisfied after completing tasks especially difficult but I do not.
If i remember feelings, what i felt by smell? And then something i did in my childhood past, can't actions skills like fighting just be triggered if i fill that *smell* that triggers what i've done, trained before, say gunpowder is the smell.
Hank! Can you do an episode on parosmia and covid? I've had this for over 5 months. Some people have had parosmia for over 15 months. A lot more people are getting it after having covid. It would be awesome if you did an episode on it!
Unfortunately for me, I rarely find something that smells good to me... I have very sensitive senses because of Autism, and I swear I hate smells. Too many times I had to stop breathing just to stop smelling. I do like some of them, but few, very few...
I'm not autistic but strong smells can actually make me feel faint. Especially some artificial perfumes.
@@pheart2381 That's even worse... I prefer soft or non existen smells (kinda hard to find that tho)
@@pheart2381 I can taste cheap perfumes. Why do people douse themselves in huge quantities of it?
Maybe they don’t wash, like people in the past who thought washing is unhealthy, and like the French kings, try to hide the fact they stink.
Babies smell nice (when they don’t have a full diaper) I have noticed that fear has a smell. I take care of animals and have noticed it. Also people. Maybe it’s a survival adaptation that we can recognize the smell of fear. Makes us look around for the source. This was a fascinating show. Thank you so much!
I can smell your fear.
I've always said babies smell wonderful, yet had moms tell me it was just spoiled milk!?!? It's their heads. Their heads smell like some sort of flower. I'm an uncle and great uncle a dozen times over. I know I'm not smelling spoiled milk. Their smell makes me want to cuddle them, and protect them, and wistfully wish I had been a father.
For childhood memories, I recall Georgia pines, and some sort of odor that was in the fog of Warner Robbins, GA, early 1970s, that reminded me of ham. No idea what that was. Old books smell a bit like vanilla, which is a component of all of my favourite colognes, including Coty's "Raw Vanilla," and Polo "Green," which also has two of my other favourite scents, lime oil, and cedar oil. Genuine rose oil is also a favourite. Meanwhile, I can't smell musk. Musk colognes, along with carnations, just smell like plastic to me. Strangely, because of a vinyl-coated crib bumper pad, the smell of vinyl relaxes me, making me want to sleep.
As for the smell of sweat, women's sweat makes me want to vomit, and my dad's was just gross, but other men's is extremely attracting. I'm not talking like unwashed homeless cumin sweat. That's gross. I'm talking gym workout with having showered that morning sweat. Men who wash that off or cover that up are less attractive. It's best when mixed with some of the other favourite odors. Work sweat with cedar, lime, and vanilla, is perfect. Meanwhile, thankfully, as someone getting older, I have an Asian allele that cause my sebaceous secretions to have less oil, so I should have less Nonenal. Yay? Meanwhile again, can someone do something about Cystic Fibrosis carrier breath?
Lol 16:03 now I will avoid 40+ yo 😂😂😂
Poor Hank he not ready for that dose of noneal.
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I've been around many babies in my life of many stages in infancy/toddlerhood and while I've had other people talk about the smell of babies I interacted with, I could never pick up on it. Baby kittens do have a specific smell though which is nice.
Memory and smell is so weird. In my experience it is the most jarring and effective way to trigger PTSD flashbacks
Everyone who's ever had a kid knows that babies smell wonderful. And it's not just women who are "susceptible" or sensitive to this. I'm an old guy who had 4 baby girls and now, years later, a grandson. Believe, every parent has always known this. I love science, but I don't need a study to confirm this.
when you see the "Free Smells" signs in a Jimmy Johns, they are referring to Hank Green's many smells
7:51 New text tone. Danger hank. Lol
I used to sniff my cat ALL the time and could tell when something was off like when he was stressed or ill. I mean I definitely couldn't magically identify what was wrong, but I was so used to his normal scent that when it wasn't the same, it stuck out to me and I'd worry. I miss him a lot.
You could add a fragrance Hank Smell to your merch
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This is too close for comfort in context of Gwyneth Paltrow’s vagina candle…
With extra nonenal for post-40 Hank.
too milky, not properly seasoned food, and overworked - but cute idea 😆
kittens smell lovely :3
A little like the same effect as little children - seriously agree with you! 😄
I love the smell of my adult cats fur as well
@@sebastienh1100 same xD
Smell definitely affects dads. I don't have kids, but caught almost all the men In my family sneaking a whiff of their babies head
Nothing better in this world then puppy breath fight me!
17:53 was that a dos equis commercial reference? -edit- yo how the hell did they know which part of the brain was responsible for smelling in the 1800s before MRIs?
I remember hearing about a man who went through a complete personality change after a train spike went through his forehead. Accidents like those and picking apart the brain by dissection perhaps?
I think I've got the baby smell thing figured out. We all live 9months within our respective mothers, in which everything she ingested was filtered to us through her. All nutrients came from her, so if our bodily excretions are the source of our sweet smell for our first six weeks, we have our mother to thank for that.
Doesn't explain why men also know the baby smell
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Men spend their first 9months developing in their mothers belly as well, of course the memory of the smell is there, and triggered when smelling a fresh baby.
I have anosmia for my entire life so I wish I could smell anything!
I only recently developed it, but have a medication that helps.
Sure does stink not being able to smell.
I read an article about a woman who could identify Parkinson's disease by smell long before it was diagnosed. I'd love to hear a scishow about that.
The smell of leather reminds me of the time I met Jensen Akels (infront of Daniel leather). I got autograph! He used my gold gel pen. I'll never forget it!
Not sure what happened with the gel pen, but I still have his autograph!! ♡