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Want to smell more attractive? Try these foods

Want to smell more attractive? Try these foods

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Beneath fancy perfumes and deodorants, our food choices may be quietly shaping our natural scent in unexpected ways

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Many people turn to expensive perfumes to elevate their natural
scent and smell more pleasant to others. But what if you could
achieve that just by switching up your diet? In this episode of
Science Quickly, host Kendra Pierre-Louis talks with freelance
journalist Sofia Quaglia about the science behind how what we eat
can subtly change how we smell—and how attractive others perceive
us to be. The conversation explores surprising findings about
garlic and armpit odor, counterintuitive effects of meat intake on
body scent and the strange, smelly experiments behind this
research. Recommended Reading: “The foods that make you smell more
attractive,” by Sofia Quaglia, in BBC Future. Published online
November 2, 2025 E-mail us at sciencequickly@sciam.com if you have
any questions, comments or ideas for stories we should cover!
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