People often choose friends by smell

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Researchers have found that people who have similar body odor are more likely to become close friends. Therefore, body odor may be important for choosing a close circle of friends.

Scientists from the Weizmann Institute of Science in Israel have come to an interesting conclusion that humans are guided by smell when choosing their friends.

It is already well known that many mammals, such as dogs, sniff each other before deciding whether they are dealing with friends or enemies. And people, apparently, do the same thing involuntarily, albeit on a subconscious level.

Scientists have developed a special device called an “electronic nose” that sniffs clothes. This helped to establish that people with approximately the same body odor are more likely to become friends.

The results of the study show that the sense of smell plays a very significant role in people’s social contacts with each other. Much more significant than previously assumed. The fact is that a person subconsciously chooses as friends those who are similar to themselves. And hypothetically, scientists have suggested that smell is one of the criteria.

Thus, people who are completely unfamiliar to us can be of significant interest in social terms if they have a smell similar to ours.

And vice versa, an outwardly attractive person, for example, of the opposite sex, who has a body odor that is repulsive to us, will not be able to become a close partner. Of course, we are not talking about an unpleasant odor associated with poor hygiene, but about natural aromas that every person has and are perceived purely subjectively.