Heck, even before you take into account differing xenobiologies, this has precedent on earth; different cultures are often unused to how other cultures smell.
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I remember a Chinese friend, in jest mind you, said that white people smell of slightly sour milk.
oh that's just the daily sour milk skincare routine
I’ve also heard wet dog hair smell.
I'm sensitive to smells and perfumes so any culture that uses them often is difficult for me. Hey are there scent suppressants I can buy or is that future tech?
There would so be a market for it, although I'd rather have the artificial odor market be killed off instead. Saves a lot of waste as well. (as the air pollution, those smells... yuck)
I knew a guy who couldn’t smell anything for weeks after smoking weed. As a maintenance worker for an apartment complex, he kept that up for years.
Hey I'm a condo maintenance guy! I swear Snelling garbage and bad smells all day has destroyed my sense of smell. If someone's wearing strong perfume it bothers me, but I can't smell bad smells or notice them
Covid renders many people unable to smell or taste things.
It's possible since I got COVID last year, but I feel like it's been going a while for me
T'Pol says so in ENT
the EMH says so in voyager
Everyone has a smell. Everything has a smell.
You're more likely to find smells you're unfamiliar with potent and obvious.
So, yeah, humans stink, most humans usually smell somewhat like the foods they typically eat, big surprise!
So Vulcans probably stink, too, just differently.
Wonder if it has to do with how many of us eat meat, Vulcan are vegetarian aren't they?
Yeah, I imagine the body odor of meat eaters to strict vegetarians is particularly... noticeable as it's something totally alien to their diet.
I'm mostly vegetarian. But the dishes that I tend to eat are heavily spiced. Curry is so good. Also garlic. Hah
Still, the farts of someone who mostly survives on processed meats are something else and can clean out a room.
It wasn't me, I swear!
Just like how everyone has an accent. (Especially the people who think they don’t.)
Yes! Have you met humans?
I think Worf mentioned this in TNG
I think you have it reversed.
Is that... lilac?
Dude you literally grew up with a human mother get over yourself
I remember reading that some astronauts have reported needing to get used to the smell of Earth again after being in space for a while. Apparently the planet just always smells faintly like shit and we've been ignoring it.
We mostly smell like hair styling products.