http://www.soz.psy.unibe.ch/unibe/p...files723757/Lobmaieretal.ProRScoB2018_ger.pdf
We tested whether women’s individual levels of reproductive hormones (e.g. oestradiol and progesterone) are associated with how attractive they smell and to what extent men agree when judging the attractiveness of different women’s body odours"
"Specifically, women’s bodyodours were rated as being more attractive the higher their oestradiol levels and the lower their progesterone levels were. Cortisol and testosterone levels were not associated with how attractive women’s body odours were rated."
"because some studies have found that body odour prefer-ences are mediated by the HLA (see [35] for a review) we controlled for HLA-mediated effects of body odour preferences by including HLA similarity between donor and rater at five HLA loci and donor HLA-heterozygosity as covariates. Neither of these genetic measures predicted a woman’s body odour attractiveness. These results add to the growing body of literature that questions HLA-mediated
odour preferences in men (e.g. [41,49,50]; for a meta-analysis, see [51])."
it seems like men aren't able to smell differences in the immunesystems. they mainly smell hormones that are tied to ovulation and fertility.
We tested whether women’s individual levels of reproductive hormones (e.g. oestradiol and progesterone) are associated with how attractive they smell and to what extent men agree when judging the attractiveness of different women’s body odours"
"Specifically, women’s bodyodours were rated as being more attractive the higher their oestradiol levels and the lower their progesterone levels were. Cortisol and testosterone levels were not associated with how attractive women’s body odours were rated."
"because some studies have found that body odour prefer-ences are mediated by the HLA (see [35] for a review) we controlled for HLA-mediated effects of body odour preferences by including HLA similarity between donor and rater at five HLA loci and donor HLA-heterozygosity as covariates. Neither of these genetic measures predicted a woman’s body odour attractiveness. These results add to the growing body of literature that questions HLA-mediated
odour preferences in men (e.g. [41,49,50]; for a meta-analysis, see [51])."
it seems like men aren't able to smell differences in the immunesystems. they mainly smell hormones that are tied to ovulation and fertility.
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