Crazy!
What determines the smell of feet is where they've be walking if barefoot,
how much the feet have been sweating,
whether they are clean,
or how long they've been in shoes and socks.
A trained dog could pick up 500 times the amount of info about an individual's smell,
but I would imagine very few humans in the world, if any, could match that level of sensitivity.
I have a good nose but I've never been able to tell people's race or nationality by smell. Some nationalities can have a specific scent if they normally eat lots of their national cuisine.
Like many others, I can smell when people consume a lot of particular substances like sugar, alcohol, meat, coffee, spices, asparagus, cabbage, beans and dried fruit.
I can pick when a bipolar person is manic or depressed by their smell. I can smell diabetes and the ketones that signal an immanent coma. I can smell various drugs like largactyl, good health, male, female, and (very broadly) age.
I can also pick the particular scent of an individual from their clothes if I know them well.
But I somewhat doubt whether one could ever detect race via a genetic scent marker. I don't think attributes like hair, skin and eye colour have any kind of specific scent to match.
If others know differently, I'd be very interested to hear their experiences.
What determines the smell of feet is where they've be walking if barefoot,
how much the feet have been sweating,
whether they are clean,
or how long they've been in shoes and socks.
A trained dog could pick up 500 times the amount of info about an individual's smell,
but I would imagine very few humans in the world, if any, could match that level of sensitivity.
I have a good nose but I've never been able to tell people's race or nationality by smell. Some nationalities can have a specific scent if they normally eat lots of their national cuisine.
Like many others, I can smell when people consume a lot of particular substances like sugar, alcohol, meat, coffee, spices, asparagus, cabbage, beans and dried fruit.
I can pick when a bipolar person is manic or depressed by their smell. I can smell diabetes and the ketones that signal an immanent coma. I can smell various drugs like largactyl, good health, male, female, and (very broadly) age.
I can also pick the particular scent of an individual from their clothes if I know them well.
But I somewhat doubt whether one could ever detect race via a genetic scent marker. I don't think attributes like hair, skin and eye colour have any kind of specific scent to match.
If others know differently, I'd be very interested to hear their experiences.
ExperienceDLT · M
Go sniff some feet and find out
LordShadowfire · 46-50, M
Shit.