We people don’t sniff each other, at least most of the time. But now scientists think that a way you find who is your immediate friend is through your smell. In a small study scientists found that if you become friends with someone you’ve never met immediately might be because you both have the same odors, whether that is good or bad.
Scientists dug deeper to see if this was actually true. To test this, Noam Sobel a scientist at Weizmann Institute of Science recruited 20 pairs of click friends, someone who immediately became friends with. The test subjects were told to stop eating food that would affect body odor for a few days, lay off any product that would make your body odor go away, bathe with unscented soap from the lab and were given clean t-shirts to wear the entire time. The results came back that, yes, their friends had a more similar body odor than compared to a stranger. Though their smells could be from many different factors. They could’ve eaten the same things and having a similar lifestyle. Then to double check everything was right they had a hundred plus strangers given the same orders the click friends did, and they put 2 strangers together based on a personality quiz and almost all the pairs had the same odors – 71 percent of the time.
Though this is cool, there are probably better ways to find friends and there are many factors that could mess up for smell method, so this is not a recommended way. Plus, you would look like an idiot.
Scientists dug deeper to see if this was actually true. To test this, Noam Sobel a scientist at Weizmann Institute of Science recruited 20 pairs of click friends, someone who immediately became friends with. The test subjects were told to stop eating food that would affect body odor for a few days, lay off any product that would make your body odor go away, bathe with unscented soap from the lab and were given clean t-shirts to wear the entire time. The results came back that, yes, their friends had a more similar body odor than compared to a stranger. Though their smells could be from many different factors. They could’ve eaten the same things and having a similar lifestyle. Then to double check everything was right they had a hundred plus strangers given the same orders the click friends did, and they put 2 strangers together based on a personality quiz and almost all the pairs had the same odors – 71 percent of the time.
Though this is cool, there are probably better ways to find friends and there are many factors that could mess up for smell method, so this is not a recommended way. Plus, you would look like an idiot.
