Do you have any rebuttal other than that you, personally, can’t smell the difference? I’d be willing to bet that a properly-run study would find that, in fact, some men can detect such smells. Especially since I can.
Receptive, no. Aroused, yes. Due to have her period, yes.
My sensitivity seems to have been screwed up a few years ago when I broke my nose. It wasn’t set exactly straight, in fact it’s off by enough that the last time a doctor did that nose/ear scope check he poked the thing in, took a look and said, “Whoops, nasal obstruction there.” Before then, I did have a very sensitive nose. I can still smell when a woman is actually bleeding, but I can’t anticipate it anymore.
Because of the wife situation, I can’t exactly go around testing to see if I can still smell arousal in women. Maybe I can get her to agree to it for “the advancement of scientific knowledge”
I think you just must not have the capability. Before I read this thread, I had no idea that other people could do it. I independently came up with the iron or metallic smell on my own and I can easily smell it on my wife or other close females. I posted it without knowing that others would confirm the same thing. It is a little subtle but not completely. I can imagine smelling it just typing this and I am close to enough females to know that I have never been wrong. No man’s breath has ever had the same smell. I have a good sense of smell and have scored 100% on any smell test I have ever taken (like in museums).
Ever smell a used tampon in a trash can? Assuming the answer is yes, why wouldn’t one be able to smell said tampon before it’s removed? I wasn’t able to until I lived with a girl I was dating. Actually, it would probably be correct to say I could smell it before, but didn’t recognize what it was.
Doesnt surprise me a bit, being able to smell a woman when she’s having her cycle. Which might explain why some women, during that time, cannot seem to take enough showers/baths. Sometimes women will say that they cant wash the “icky” feeling away, when what she really wants to to say is that she cant wash the icky feeling AND icky smell.
Ok, so the smell really isnt “icky”, just different.
So… what about when she’s aroused? Oh yeah. I hate it when that happens because then I freak and start thinking that the guy must think I dont know how to take a shower or something… or sometimes the smell lingers until it’s taken care of, which can be a -prob if you’re single.
“Excuse me, sir, I have this slight problem I was hoping you might be able to help me with…” =D
Don’t sweat it. It’s only a small percentage of men who are sensitive and only a small percentage of woman who actually seem to produce the compounds we can detect.
Interesting though, I’ve never heard of a woman who can detect the smell.
I’m normally a skeptic, but I immediately believed the claims of the people on this thread. And yet, thinking about it, I can easily see how such a belief could come about and be entirely delusional.
Thank you, Leaffan.
I’m not saying the claims are false, just that I haven’t read enough to convince me.
Woman here…can totally detect it…my own, which makes me completely self conscious and I shower and change clothes at least twice on the few days before and days during…
I have also noticed it on other women…but I have to be totally bored and idle to detect it. If I’m having cereal at the table and my old roomie walked by, I’d be all like, “Dude…you better not give that to me!”
Oh, BTW, I’m sure most of you know that it can be contagious…among women living in close quarters…it’s the darnedest thing that only The Pill can conquer…
Incase those of you who are confused of my gender -
Female here. And yes, can detect. My daughters hate it when out of the blue I’ll ask if I need to get them any “supplies” before they’ve even started (if I am physically around them) and they arent anywhere close to being regular.
I have had two girlfriends (out of several ) over the last 20 years that I was 100% dead on knowing when they were menstrauting, from smell, and certainly not by getting right up in there - talking several feet away… I did specifically ask others that were also in rooms with me when I could smell that, if they could, and they said they did not smell anything out of the ordinary.
) over the last 20 years that I was 100% dead on knowing when they were menstrauting, from smell, and certainly not by getting right up in there - talking several feet away… I did specifically ask others that were also in rooms with me when I could smell that, if they could, and they said they did not smell anything out of the ordinary.