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Smell Dating: Sniffing Out Potential Lovers (And Their Sweaty T-Shirts)
The Guardian ^ | 4/27

Posted on 04/27/2016 9:22:22 PM PDT by nickcarraway

The first ‘mail odor dating service’ matches people based on a three-day old T-shirt sample. If both your nostrils agree the other smells great, it’s a match

My date, Hannes, had just been swimming in the East River and I could smell him over the cafe table. This made sense, as it had been his scent that first attracted me several weeks earlier.

I’d chosen him as one of my Smell Dating matches, an online matchmaking project that combines the internet’s ability to judge multiple people at once with a physical object (a smelly T-shirt) packed full of pheromones.

Billed as “the first mail odor dating service”, Smell Dating hopes to connect people based on what body odor they find attractive. For $25, you’re sent a T-shirt to wear for three days – no perfume or deodorant allowed. You then send it off and receive samples to sniff in exchange. You choose which scent you like the best, and if both your nostrils agree the other smells great, you’ll be matched via email. No information about age, gender or sexual orientation is known beforehand.

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1 posted on 04/27/2016 9:22:22 PM PDT by nickcarraway
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If I wore the same shirt for three days it would be declared a biohazard.


2 posted on 04/27/2016 9:25:24 PM PDT by LukeL
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To: LukeL

Exactly. Who wears the same shirt for 3 days? Without deodorant no less. I can’t even stand my own body odor if I go much beyond 25 hrs without a shower. This is just plain nasty! Lol


3 posted on 04/27/2016 9:27:58 PM PDT by Kudsman
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Who wears the same shirt for 3 days? Without deodorant no less.

Bernie supporters?

4 posted on 04/27/2016 9:30:02 PM PDT by digger48
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To: Kudsman

If anyone does smell good after three days, she is a keeper.


5 posted on 04/27/2016 9:32:47 PM PDT by Larry Lucido
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To: digger48

Ok, you got me there. Just damn!


6 posted on 04/27/2016 9:32:59 PM PDT by Kudsman
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To: Larry Lucido

I don’t know man. Even shrimp don’t smell too good after 3 days. And I love me some shrimp!!


7 posted on 04/27/2016 9:35:00 PM PDT by Kudsman
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To: nickcarraway; Gamecock; SaveFerris; FredZarguna; PROCON; Lil Flower
This is why I drink Hennigans.


8 posted on 04/27/2016 9:35:48 PM PDT by Larry Lucido
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I got some socks that would knock their tee-shirts off!


9 posted on 04/27/2016 9:52:49 PM PDT by TexasTransplant (Idiocracy used to just be a Movie... Live every day as your last...one day you will be right)
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To: nickcarraway

It sounds silly, but I actually believe there is a little something to it. The problem is that many people do have odor problems that almost everyone will find offensive, especially people who drink a lot.


10 posted on 04/27/2016 10:09:00 PM PDT by fireman15 (The USA will be toast if the Democrats are able to take the Presidency in 2016)
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To: nickcarraway

I always change my under-thingies at least one a week, whether I need to or not.


11 posted on 04/27/2016 10:13:01 PM PDT by Ken H
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Lonesome? Why not just drop a hanky?

—a CLEAN one?

O Chivalry, how far thou has fallen...


12 posted on 04/27/2016 10:15:14 PM PDT by The Spirit Of Allegiance (Public Employees: Honor Your Oaths! Defend the Constitution from Enemies--Foreign and Domestic!)
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To: nickcarraway

Swimming in the East River? Isn’t that a sewer?


13 posted on 04/27/2016 10:29:28 PM PDT by Eagles6 ( Valley Forge Redux. If not now, when? If not here, where? If not us then who?)
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She wrote: “I like long walks on the beach at dawn, and feeling the cool spray of the waves. When I’m alone (which is most of the time) I also like smelling and analyzing the intriquing scent of my own hot breath. I sniff deeply
from my cupped, manicured, lotioned hands. But enough about me, what do you like to do??

Signed: H.T. for Halitosis Tolerant.


14 posted on 04/27/2016 10:35:17 PM PDT by lee martell
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To: nickcarraway

Years ago I had a friend who would walk behind a potential acquaintance to smell her hair. If it did not smell clean and fresh he would walk away.

I got the ‘tip’ from him and started doing that. I married a woman who had fresh, clean-smelling hair and now it has been almost 31 years that we have been together.


15 posted on 04/27/2016 10:58:57 PM PDT by spel_grammer_an_punct_polise (Why does every totalitarian, political hack think that he knows how to run my life better than I?)
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To: Larry Lucido
If anyone does smell good after three days, she is a keeper.

Or if the pheromone match is such that even when she's smelling her worst, it smells good to you, then you know you have a match made in Heaven. If she can cook, it's a plus but you might have to wait util you're both too old to "do it" 5 times a day to find out....

16 posted on 04/28/2016 3:47:13 AM PDT by trebb (Where in the the hell has my country gone?)
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To: nickcarraway

>Gak<


17 posted on 04/28/2016 4:55:47 AM PDT by SkyDancer ("Nobody Said I Was Perfect But Yet Here I Am")
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To: nickcarraway

When they start mating us to the ladies based on their three-day-old panties, give me a call.


18 posted on 04/28/2016 4:56:37 AM PDT by Jack Hammer
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> ... Exactly. Who wears the same shirt for 3 days? Without deodorant no less.

The term Hippie Liberals comes to mind.


19 posted on 04/28/2016 5:09:12 AM PDT by BuffaloJack (The reason for Gun Control has always been Government's Fear of Rebellion.)
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To: Jack Hammer

congrats ...
you selected a can of starkist


20 posted on 04/28/2016 5:24:11 AM PDT by zzwhale
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