#odour

Do you enjoy the scent of gasoline?

(also btw I love your polls you seem like a really cool guy)

Aw, thanks @ihappentobeadoorknob for the lovely message! That's given me a boost of motivation 🥰 And thank you for the poll request, too! Keep 'em coming, folks.

There are several scents that reflect good genetic quality that females prefer during the most fertile phase of their cycles. Women prefer the scent of symmetrical men more during the fertile phases of their menstrual cycle than during their infertile phases,[79] with estrogen positively predicting women's preferences for the scent of symmetry.[80] Women's preferences for masculine faces is greatest when their fertility is at its highest,[79] and so is the preference for attractive faces.[81] Other scents found to be preferred by women in the most fertile phase of their cycle are the scent for developmental stability.[82]

The rose looks fair, but fairer we it deem For that sweet odour which doth in it live.

~ William Shakespeare

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"The tribe Euglossini, in the subfamily Apinae, commonly known as orchid bees or euglossine bees, are the only group of corbiculate bees whose non-parasitic members do not all possess eusocial behavior."

Wikipedia

"The perfume that male orchid bees create by collecting scents from the flowers they visit is designed to make females choose them rather than another mate.

Male orchid bees collect raw materials from multiple sources, including the orchid flowers they pollinate. These are used to concoct perfume mixtures that are stored in specialised hind-leg pouches (...)."

"The composite odour created by combining different molecules allows communication of more integrated information, such as how suitable a male is to be a father (...)."