| ▲ | whacked_new 2 days ago | ||||||||||||||||
I guess there's going to be a perfume that breaks down 2-noneal on the market soon. Tangentially, in my 20s I was in an audience seating and sat next to an old person. And I smelled a new kind of odor. It was displeasing, but not like body odor. I quickly realized it's an old person smell. It really just makes you think "old person". I assume there's some biological wiring in there. | |||||||||||||||||
| ▲ | bookofjoe 2 days ago | parent | next [-] | ||||||||||||||||
2-Nonenal was discovered to be the source of "old person smell" 25 years ago and we're still waiting: >2-Nonenal Newly Found in Human Body Odor Tends to Increase with Aging [2001] From the paper's abstract: "2-Nonenal, an unsaturated aldehyde with an unpleasant greasy and grassy odor, was detected only in older subjects (40 y or older). https://www.jidonline.org/article/S0022-202X(15)41198-4/full... | |||||||||||||||||
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| ▲ | complex_fir_rea 2 days ago | parent | prev [-] | ||||||||||||||||
Already exists in soap form https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old_person_smell#In_Japan | |||||||||||||||||
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