STUDY: EVERYBODY IN THE WORLD LIKES THE SAME SMELLS

A team of academics at the University of Oxford and the Karolinska Institute in Sweden did a study of how people all over the world reacted to certain smells. Study author Dr. Artin Arshamian said: “We wanted to examine if people around the world have the same smell perception and like the same types of odor, or whether this is something that is culturally learned.” Some of the groups were hunter gatherers while the others made their livings from farming or fishing. Some did not eat Western food or use Western goods very often. Here’s what they found:
– Everybody liked vanilla, followed by ethyl butyrate, which smells like peaches.
– Nobody liked the smell of cheese, soy milk, apple juice or foot sweat.
(Study published in the journal Current Biology.)
* Everybody around the world agreed, though, that “The Book of Boba Fett” stunk.
* Oddly, the subjects were evenly split on whether they liked how Dr. Artin Arshamian smelled.
* Vanilla, peaches, cheese, soy milk, apple juice and foot sweat. Yep, that’s all the smells there are.
* You’re walking down the street, or you’re out in the field with your cattle, or you’re busy casting your fishing nets into the sea, and this guy comes up to you with his finger extended and says, “Hey, smell this.” How weird is that?
* More than anything, this research smells fishy.