in middle school i used to volunteer at the library with a girl i thought was cute and/but sometimes she smelled bad and i never knew how to talk about it. it was a very specific smell i have since smelled like ~10 other times, always on women
was it... period smell???
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the google search results largely insist that other people can’t smell your period except for like one poster on reddit. if that’s what i’ve been smelling then that poster is right and the other sources are wrong
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when i kissed a woman who smelled really really good to me for the first time i was able to smell a slight metallic smell and apparently that was also a period thing. it didn’t smell bad that time though. more like it added a jazz note to her smell. mysteries
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can you smell when someone is on their period?
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Hmm. It's not something I've consciously noticed, but I don't think I've knowingly been close to someone on their period who I wasn't already scent bonded with, so I'm not sure.
(Chances are I have been and just didn't know, but I tend to maintain a lot of personal space)
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"scent bonded"? tell me moar
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Uh, like when you have a partner or someone you're very physically and sexually intimate with, you can hit a point where they just smell very good to you, even if they are in some "objective" sense currently a bit stinky. There are limits to it, but it covers a lot of sins.
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gosh that sounds wonderful. i've sort of heard people describe things along these lines but i've never heard anyone give it its own term
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I'm not sure if it's an official term. I described it to a partner and this is what they referred to it as and I liked it and thought it captured the concept well, so I kept using it.
And yeah, it's pretty great.
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I've used the term "imprinting"
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