smell
From heavy breathing to lip-licking, some things are sexy from only one gender.
Women and men are wildly different. Ladies are soft, smell nice and are purty. Most dudes are lumpy/coarse, smell like motor oil and bear meat and are generally utilitarian in terms of looks. Because of your sensuality, delicateness and otherworldliness, there are a handful of sexy things you can totally get away with doing. But it is spectacularly weird and decidedly unsexy when we try the same moves.
1. Sniffing worn clothes. Evidently, the musk we gin up during the course of a day is a turn-on for ladies. You may smell our shirts or pillowcases for a shot of … Read More
Chemists have developed a beer-derived perfume; can it work even better than pheromones?
Make room on your perfume shelf for a new product!
Chemists in Seattle (natch) have developed a green byproduct of the beer brewing process, a personal scent created from the sludge that is created during beer making. The line, called Eos, is a carbon-neutral perfume product with versions for both women and men. The Scent of Attraction
This is not the first time developers have gone off the traditional scent menu. Last year Burger, King debuted a perfume called FLAME, said to be the intersection "where fire meets desire." Their pitch? "The Whopper sandwich is America's favorite burger. Flame … Read More
"I Married A Stranger" hopes to discredit the idea that seeing is believing.
We believe in love at first sight but the theory doesn't work quite as well if you take vision out of the equation.
Imagine falling for someone you've barely met let alone never laid eyes on? This is not the premise for a faceless Facebook application. It's the new Fox reality television show titled I Married a Stranger.
"Production has already been completed on the pilot, which centers on a woman who is in her late 30s and is eager to get hitched," reports Variety. "A group of friends and family are presented with five eligible men, … Read More
Things women smell, saying goodbye to old toys, lying to appear more attractive.
Love Bytes: three must click sex, dating and relationship links.Women notice stinkiness. Men don't. Did we really need a study to tell us this? [Dear Sugar]How to discard your old sex toys, without trashing the planet. [Em and Lo]Is it really lying if in your heart you feel like an astronaut? [Shine]Meeting people can feel like an advertising campaign. You accentuate the good and minimize the bad. So, stretching the truth is a tough balance. You want to have a good enough story to engage someone, but if you make it too good, they … Read More
Morning breath's mysterious appeal, when it comes from someone you love.
Anyone who's been in love, lust or a variation of the sort knows about becoming attached to a scent. Tommy Hilfiger cologne, Old Spice deodorant with a hint of sweat, and Trident gum all come to mind. The funky side of this olfactory attraction is when the reminding scent happens to be an unpleasant one.
Armpits, for example, are not famously sweet smelling. Yet, nestling into a man's nook and inhaling a mix of his natural body odor (with a trace of deodorant) can be comforting, arousing or both. The same goes for morning breath.
One of Nerve's "Date Machine" … Read More
Meeting the pets, hope sex and how "odorprints" determine who you marry.
Love Bytes: three must-click sex, dating and relationship links.
Forget meeting the parents; now it's meet the pets! Advice on how to create harmonious relationships with people, pets, and people with pets. [MSNBC]
Trend: hope sex. Can you guess what this is all about? [Huffington Post]
Hope is a physical as well as mental state," says Pepper Schwartz, PhD., professor of sociology at the University of Washington and author of Prime: Adventures and Advice About Sex, Love and the Sensual Years. "When we feel hopeful we produce positive hormones, such as adrenalin and dopamine, that energize and uplift our … Read More
Sex-specific scents and the attractive power of smell.
If you've ever smelled your man and thought, "Baby, I'd love to eat you on a cracker," science can explain.
In a recent study, Swiss researchers took sweat samples from men and women's armpits, mixed them with the enzymes from bacteria normally found there and discovered that men smell like cheese and women smell like grapefruits or onions. That's right: grapefruit or onion. So, if your man's ever been tempted to sprinkle sugar on you in the morning or sauté you in olive oil for taco night, there you have it.
Michelle can smell her ex, Alex, everywhere.
I think my nose is leading a mutiny against me. I'll go days without even a thought of Alex, and then all of a sudden I'll get a whiff of something that will bring back a flood of memories and interrupt my day.
For example: While I was dressing for work earlier this week (in the record-breaking heat, I might add), I reached for my favorite warm-weather perfume. The same perfume I used to spritz on before summer dates with Alex last year. Needless to say, this was a bad idea.
As soon as it hit my wrist, I was … Read More
Your nose knows which guy is right for you.
What happens when you're attracted to someone: Is it really his cute nose, or something going on deep inside both of your nostrils? According to this article, it's more likely to be the latter.
That inexplicable pull you feel toward your new crush has more to do than with the way he ruffles his feathers. While looks and personality are significant initially, true attraction is biological.
In fact, the way a person smells tells us about their genetic makeup, and when we decode this information we are comparing their DNA with our own. According to research, we subconsciously sniff out … Read More
