i only found out they had a smell a couple years ago, and i'm in my 30s. not because i can't smell them though, but just because i hadn't noticed it before.
I was telling an ex about smelling my coworker’s fear all day. He had a crush on me (it was a call center, so not an especially professional environment), and we had to share my cubicle for training, and he was just pouring out anxiety sweat. My ex had no idea what the fuck I was talking about and I’ve never met someone else who can identify the emotions that a person has by their sweat.
Saying someone “can smell fear” is a normal thing that comes up a lot in media, so I assumed it was also normal to notice. Apparently not. I’ll take all of the help my autistic ass can get in iding others’ emotions though
I always thought when people talked about "smelling fear" it was just a poetic way of saying it was obvious that someone was afraid. I've certainly never been aware of picking up on a person's emotions via scent or heard someone say that they've done that.
Can you smell it on yourself? Like, do you find that your sweaty clothes smell the same after a run and, say, a presentation (or something else that gives you anxiety/scares you)? I think it’s most noticeable with my own sweat, but fear/anxiety sweat smells bad to me in a way that normal body odor or exercise sweat don’t.
Sex sweat also smells very different, but that’s normally more pleasant to me than the others. I haven’t noticed a specific smell of aggression or any other kind of sweat though.
Edit: I think you’re right that “smelling fear” is metaphoric, but I did not realize that until I started talking about it.
They do release formic acid which smells rank. But I've only ever smelled it from a large pile of dead ants. Not a few walking around outside or in a house.
Yeah... I can barely smell at all. Even normally strong smells like that of the urine of an unfixed male cat aren't particularly impactful to me. I wouldn't have even considered the potentiality that ants have a distinctive smell in spite of being aware that they use pheromone trails for navigation.
All this mother fucker does is sleep all day and get fat, too lazy to get up for just about anything.
Then in the middle night he goes: "Yes I am a hunter of the savanna, just like a cheetah I also can run at 90 miles per hour!" and runs his ass all around the house. But because he's fat and uncoordinated he bumps into everything and because he's also an asshole he throws everything he can on the ground.
Then when he's tired and wants a place to sleep, he decides your fucking face is probably the best to get comfy.
Bonus points: Kika meowing loudly because she "hunted" something and wants everyone to see it. Typically a pen, some leaf that fell off in the patio, or an empty cig pack (she thinks that the recyclables bin is a toy box).
Kika meowing loudly because she "hunted" something
Our 10yo Tabby has done this since the first day I adopted her. We found it so endearing we bought her a stuffed rat that's almost bigger than her own noggin.
In regards to sleep hygiene, that was arguably the worst decision we've ever made.
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