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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Hmm. That's good too but I think I'll stick to "scent bonding" - imprinting feels like it has some connotations I don't quite want/mean (mostly it feels less voluntary. Not that scent bonding is exactly voluntary, but it's part of a voluntary process).
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one of the many things i like about this is it strikes me as potentially a really robust way to gauge how into someone i am, in a way that is like minimally subject to various forms of self-deception?
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someone else i was talking to about this mentioned that they'd had experiences where they weren't into a relationship anymore and suddenly their partner smelled very bad to them
so fascinating
Yeah, that makes sense.
I think there's something going on here where like the smell of a person is attached to your conception of the person as a whole? The smell of them is the smell of their presence, so is good partly if that presence is good.
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Yup this is how it seems to work for me!
My partner smells like love and care and affection and the feeling of being swarmed by cute puppies.
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