Why aren’t women as smelly as men?

Surprisingly, science has shown that women have the potential to smell much worse than men. Compared with men, women’s sweat contains three times the amount of a chemical that causes the most foul body odor. The chemicals in sweat that cause body odor don’t smell bad on their own, but bacteria on our skin break them down into other chemical compounds that reek.

Scientists have identified two main chemicals in sweat that bacteria transform into BO. The names of these compounds are so long and complicated that even scientists refer to them as chemical No. 1 and chemical No. 2. Men’s sweat has the highest concentration of chemical No. 1, which bacteria turn into compounds that have a rank, cheesy aroma.

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