My friend sez that white people smell of bologna (I wonder if he meant baloney, as in BS)
(white American here, fyi)
When I was a little kid, my mom was a teacher, and I remember reading one of her professional development handbooks. This would have been in the early 1970s. The concept that black people had a particular body odor was actually included in this handbook – teachers were cautioned that this odor was a result of differences in diet (MrMyth, the book cited greasy, fried foods as the particular cause!) and that they (the teachers) should be sensitive to this in the classroom, should black students be teased by their white peers about this.
I think it’s extremely interesting (in an eye-rolling sort of way) that 1. this notion was widespread enough to appear in a classroom guide, and 2. the assumption that the problem (or potential problem) was with the white people’s perception of the odor of black people, and neglected to consider that if two groups of people have different body odors, that the black students no doubt think the white students smell as well (and probably not like roses). For some reason, this always stuck with me, and I was almost gratified to learn (on these boards, no less!) that I might smell like a wet dog (although I asked Biggirl and she told me I do not).
On a somewhat related note, the memoirs of many Native Americans include stories of the particularly nasty “spoiled milk” odor of white people. They were dismayed when their children were sent to government-run boarding schools to be educated and came back smelling like white people (well, they were dismayed for a lot of reasons, but not germane to this topic), because they were fed cheese and other dairy products at school – not typically found in their diet.
I think it’s a combination of both diet and DNA—and, just maybe, how sensitive your nose is. There are several people I’ve known all my life that I can identify by scent, even though they’re all white people and eat largely the same diet. People from other dietary backgrounds I think smell differently than “my” group does, and the difference in the various smells seems to be diet-related.
Paul Mitchell sculpting foam has a coconut smell. A lot of white people use it.
Not many black people around here, but I can tell you that East Indian and Asian people have very distinct scents (which is downright pugnent when they obviously haven’t bathed). It’s probably due to diet, but there’s no mistaking the difference, and even with heavy perfumes and colognes, I can detect it with 99% of all the East Indians and Asians I’m in close quarters with. Based on that, I can only assume white people have a general smell too.
I think if we all bathe and wash our hair regularly, we’re going to smell somewhat of the products we use. To the extent there are cultural differences in marketing and buying, these smells will vary.
Regarding kissing, my grandfather used to tell me that black girls tasted like chocolate and redheads like strawberries. Alas, I was taken out of circulation before I could test his theory.
Black girls taste amazing. Redheads taste amazing. Girls in general taste amazing.
Not brown sugar?
Still smellin’ after all these years. (Zombie thread from 13 years ago)
I was dating a black girl who had a problem with a strong body scent when she got worked up. She would stop right in the middle of sex and go take a shower and put on deodorant. I explained to her that weather a smell was offensive or not had a lot to do with what we were doing when we became exposed to the smell. If we were having great sex and the smell appeared my mind would simply add it to the experience and it would no longer be offensive but become part of the turn on.
I just made this up to save her embarrassment but it turned out to be true. I could tell exactly when she started becoming turned on and it turned me on as well.Most of the ones I kissed in college tasted like cheap beer and cigarettes.
I thought it smelled a bit ripe.
Why, it’s Multiple Miggs! Heard a nasty rumor that you’d passed on.
Yeah my wife is from China. She said she and her friends used to notice the bad smell from white tourists, made worse by them using deodorants heavily.
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I haven’t used a deodorant since. 
I’ve heard zombies smell bad too.
Redheads smell the best actually.
White people smell like Worchestershire sauce and Earl Grey.
I seem to remember a song from the musical “Hair” that inculcated this very topic. 
All types of girls are amazing.
My mother stated one time that black people smell. I never noticed, but perhaps her nose was more discriminating than mine.
I also have seldom noticed that white people smell although I have watched some of them when they were doing it.
Bob