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The sweet smell of the immune system

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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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Whitfield, J. The sweet smell of the immune system. Nature (2001). https://doi.org/10.1038/news010308-10

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