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Read about this singles dating event in Russia where they took cotton swabs swiped underneath each person's armpits and put them into little glass jars. Everyone then went around smelling each one and matched with each other based on which jar scent they liked the most. Wish I still had it. Definitely a novel if not more primal way to choose a partner.





https://thewalrus.ca/smell-you-later-the-weird-science-of-ho...

Which is excerpted from the book The Joy of Sweat: The Strange Science of Perspiration by Sarah Everts




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