Do You Think 'Old Person Smell' Is Real?
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2012/06/01 19:00:00
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We can still remember the funny smell our grandpa had ... kind of like a pair of slightly stinky socks. Turns out, it wasn't all in our head! A new study shows that elderly people have a distinct scent... old person smell, to be exact.
In the study, published this week in the journal PLoS ONE, participants were able to differentiate the armpit smell (ew) of people 75 and older. "The results of this study support the cross-culturally popular concept of an 'old person odor,'" the study says, according to LiveScience.
However, the old folks didn't necessarily smell bad. Elderly people were said to smell less unpleasant and to have less of an intense stink than young people (20 to 30 years old) and middle-aged people (45 to 55 years old). Men, in fact, were found to have the foulest, most intense smell in middle age, while women were found to have a weaker smell than men (no big surprise there). Do you think old people have a distinct smell?
However, the old folks didn't necessarily smell bad. Elderly people were said to smell less unpleasant and to have less of an intense stink than young people (20 to 30 years old) and middle-aged people (45 to 55 years old). Men, in fact, were found to have the foulest, most intense smell in middle age, while women were found to have a weaker smell than men (no big surprise there). Do you think old people have a distinct smell?
Top Opinion
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DeborahLakeHelen 2012/06/02 04:48:35No
+10Not particularly. I take care of elderly people for a living, and the only ones I've encountered that have an odor are those who need a bath.
CAN YOU BELIEVE what people get funding to study!?!!?!
HAVE SEX; STUDY-DRUNK-CHINESE-HOOKERS-S... TEST-the-STUCK-
UP-CRUEL-ONES'-NOSES-by-TAKIN...
It's not always "bad" (sometimes just really old perfume or something), just particular. People in general all have their own smells anyway (I've never had anyone else's house smell like mine and I rarely like it).
Though, now I'm curious if we ever smell "young" or is their sense of smell a little too deteriorated by that point? O_o
=.=
Who are YOU to ASK this SUPERCILIOUS QUESTION? YOU DO HAVE OLDER
RELATIVES? YOU'LL BE OLD SOMEDAY, TOO! AD NAUSEAM!
"SOMETHING IS BETTER LEFT UNSAID!" When it means "not nice, can hurt?"
(From an ex social-worker.)
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I LOVE my GRANDMA,
I MISS her EVERYDAY!
I MISS HOW HER HAIR SMELL
Like FRESH JASMINE BLOSSOM
and SCENT of hot LOTUS TEA.
I have HORRID PROBLEM with PERFUMES = MIGRAINES & NAUSEA. A few times, my
Hubba & I had to RUN Out of stores to GET AWAY from PERFUMES' ODORS.
- (But, of course, this isn't on EVERY old person. I've just known this from experience of certain old people.)
NO ONE will be YOUNG FOREVER;
Even with BOTOX and PLASTIC SURGERIES;
YOUR TURN WILL COME, YOUNGSTERS-NOW!