Introduction to Body Odour

What is/are Body Odour?

Body Odour - , VOCs) emanating from the human skin are used to detect disease biomarkers and causes of body odour. ^[1] The focus on mystic references to perfumes in the nineteenth century demonstrates how our obsession for body odours originates in a combination of fascination and repulsion, a need for sublimation. ^[2] In humans, the quality of body odour is similarly affected by ingested foods, such as by variation in meat and garlic intake. ^[3] The aim of the present study therefore was to test whether trained dogs, as demonstrated for cancer or diabetes, may discriminate a general epileptic seizure odor (different from body odours of the same person in other contexts and common to different persons). ^[4] Mosquitoes with a specialised host preference are guided by body odours to find their hosts in addition to carbon dioxide. ^[5] Their main strategy was to reduce the requirements for their own appearance rather than to cleanliness and body odours. ^[6] Several symptoms may be present in the case of a nasal foreign body which includes nasal discharge, epistaxis, infection, halitosis, foul breath or body odour and chronic sinusitis. ^[7]

Human Body Odour

This work highlights recent developments in understanding human body odour with particular attention to natural fibres used in next-to-skin textiles: fibre type and fabric structure affecting patterns of adsorption and release of volatile organic compounds known as contributing to body odour; methods for detection and judging intensity of odour; and effects of environmental pressures which impinge on cleaning textiles and its efficacy. ^[1] However, much of the research conducted to-date has investigated natural, fragrance free human body odours. ^[2]