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What makes people of different races smell differently?

I've noticed that blacks, asians, and whites all have distinct smells. Blacks usually are the most noticeable, but it's almost always true unless they're wearing deoderant/perfume/wtv. So why is that?

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  • 1 decade ago
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    Black people only wash their hair once every one to two months.

    Gross, isn't it?

  • 5 years ago

    actually every person period has a different smell. some people you smell their hair products or their lotions. or perfume. and if you take all of that away, it's their personal scent. and none of it has to do with race. i hate the ignorance also. i don't like the scent of some black people's hair products and i really don't like the smell of some white people's hair products. it's not the person it's what's on the person. on the same side there are some hair products i like the smell of for both races. but if your perfume stinks it stinks it doesn't matter what your race is! sorry i just had to add to what you were saying because i hate hearing those ignorant remarks myself!!

  • Asians don't smell

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Body_odor

    One study suggests that body odor is genetically determined by a gene that also codes the type of earwax one has.[4][5] East Asians (those of Chinese, Japanese and Korean descent) have the type of sweat glands that even after hitting puberty still don't produce the chemicals found in the perspiration of other ancestral groups. East Asians evidently have a greater chance of having the 'dry' earwax type and reduced axial sweating and odor. This may be due to adaptation to colder climates.[6]

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    It all depends on the trailer trash. If it's been decomposing for a few days or a few weeks.

    That's all I can think of and oh, they are not Black. They are whites. It's so gross and these ones I found wreak the most.

    Update your nose.

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  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    What people eat has a lot to do with it.

    Stress can affect someones personal odor.

    Interesting- I've NEVER smelled a black person in a bad way where as MANY white people fail to pass the personal hygiene test.

    I think you are fishing for some bigoted comments and it's not nice.

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    whites smell like wet dogs. They even made a book about it

    http://www.amazon.com/White-People-Smell-Like-Dogs...

  • 1 decade ago

    the darker the skin, the more pores & sweat-glands per sq. inch:

    also diet affects scent, such as garlic or curry !

  • Splash
    Lv 5
    1 decade ago

    You are obsessed with race. That's the only reason you asked this question.

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    Whites didn't wash their a**es for years until people of color showed them...whites in Europe still don't do it...whites smell like animals when wet...bytch please

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    @ Angel

    You smell like a dog's dick. Why do you white women be doing that?

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