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Published online 7 March 2001 | Nature | doi:10.1038/news010308-10
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The sweet smell of the immune system
Your taste in scent might say something about your genes.
If the perfume industry hopes to concoct a universal knock-'em-dead scent, it should think again. New research suggests that a person's taste in perfume is as individual as the genetics of her or his immune system.
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