# Why does it smell like swiss cheese behind my ears?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-does-it-smell-like-swiss-cheese-behind-my-ears/589895>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [July 21, 2011, 7:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-does-it-smell-like-swiss-cheese-behind-my-ears/589895 "2011-07-21T19:18:23Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 1\
**Showing post:** 63

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![sich\_hinaufwinden](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c5a1d2/32.png) [@sich\_hinaufwinden](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sich_hinaufwinden)\
**Post date:** [June 9, 2015, 3:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-does-it-smell-like-swiss-cheese-behind-my-ears/589895/63 "2015-06-09T03:54:03Z")

</div>

from 1 of his 5 posts on this board:

> [@Why are people so gung ho about not posting on old threads?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-are-people-so-gung-ho-about-not-posting-on-old-threads/652139/34):
>
> …Perhaps a good set of rules to follow for all forums should be:
> 
> 1.) Don’t post on old threads unless you really have something useful to contribute, and a mod deletes those comments that aren’t useful…

And back on topic, the skin behind my ears has no detectable scent to me. So I got that going for me.

---

_[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-does-it-smell-like-swiss-cheese-behind-my-ears/589895)._