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“Old-person smell” is for , according to a new study into body odour. And what’s , it’s not as bad as the smell of younger people. Researchers at the Monell Chemical Senses Centre in the USA people’s perceptions of the body odour emitted people aged 20 to 30, 45 to 55, and 77 to 95. Volunteers in each group wore a T-shirt underarm pads to bed for five nights. Samples from the pads were then tested on 41 “sniffers,” who had the of evaluating each armpit smell. The evaluators were to distinguish the different age groups and said the smell from the older age group was less and less unpleasant than the others.

The study is part of research into how our brain interprets different human smells and we react to them. Lead researcher Dr Johan Lundstrom said: “Similar to other animals, humans can extract from body odours that us to identify biological age, sick individuals, pick a suitable partner, and distinguish kin from non-kin.” He said of his test : “Elderly people have a discernible underarm odour that younger people to be neutral and not very unpleasant. This was surprising given the conception of old age odour as disagreeable.” He said other bodily smells other than B.O. might also with age, especially that of our breath.