The NYTimes has an article on the "overuse" of deodorant (how someone in this celebrity-mad day and age managed to write deodorant and those stin ...., um, intrepid souls who refuse to bow to custom and use it without mentioning Matthew McConaughy is beyond me. ButIDigress.)
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/11/08/fashion/08Skin.html?ref=fashion
“Fewer than 5 percent of people really suffer from debilitating sweating..That’s called hyperhidrosis. ...
People who suffer from extreme malodor are even rarer, said George Preti, an analytical organic chemist who studies body odor at the Monell Chemical Senses Center, a nonprofit research institute financed in part by corporations."
Then how is it that I encounter so very many of them? Maybe it's the company I keep.
I have never been on a long bus trip without having a seat mate who exuded a certain fragrance.
And virtually every cast I have ever been in had one member of cast or crew who had to be dealt with, sometimes officially talked to by a costumer or stage manager.
Are actors/singers/dancers smellier than the average human being?
Universalis, your very own breviary in pixels...
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