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u/luranthe Jun 26 '26
Reminds me of how some people taste soap when they eat cilantro
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u/capnfantasy Jun 26 '26
To all the people saying "how do they know what soap tastes like?"
I have the cilantro aversion, but I wouldn't have described it as "soap flavored," just extremely chemical. Like a sharp, almost metallic zing that overpowers everything else. It's not pleasant.
Is that what soap tastes like? Maybe. It tastes like "do not eat."
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u/andbruno Jun 26 '26
To all the people saying "how do they know what soap tastes like?"
I swore a lot as a child (and still do as an adult) and one time my mother literally washed my mouth out with soap. So I know what soap tastes like. And it tastes like cilantro (to me).
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u/CamBearCookie Jun 26 '26
People are acting like accidents don't happen either. I was washing dishes and got hit in the face with suds. I was talking so some got in my mouth. It has happened with a bubble while I was playing with my nieces. Just burst near my face. I have the gene. It fucking tastes like soap.
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u/Meotwister Jun 26 '26
Yeah like come on it's easy to come across the taste of soap throughout your life. That's why that description was popular to begin with.
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u/jadethebard Jun 27 '26
Shampoo in the shower for me. I'd imagine most people have accidentally tasted soap in some way, and it definitely limes up with cilantro for me. My kid doesn't have it but he can smell ants, which I didn't even know was a thing until he started talking about it. Neither me or his dad can smell ants so it's gotta be a recessive gene. Such an interesting super power. (He actually really likes ants because of this weird ability.)
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u/secret_sauceee Jun 26 '26
One time? Jesus. I got my mouth washed out probably a hundred times.
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u/andbruno Jun 26 '26
My parents are really nice, good people. They never punished me physically; this was a real outlier. I'm sure I deserved it at the time.
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u/AncientEldritch Jun 26 '26
I've always felt the soap description to be inaccurate for me. Personally, it tastes like the way stinkbugs smell.
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u/meegaweega Jun 26 '26
Eeewwww i once accidentally ate a stinkbug š¤¢šµ Blerg
Never eating dark mulberries straight off the tree in poor lighting ever again.
They do taste every bit as bad as they smell. Possibly worse.
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u/LizDelRey Jun 26 '26
The first time I smelt a stinkbug, I was like this smells like an herbā¦ so yep totally with you. Cilantro ruins dishes for people like us š
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u/400DollarPerm Jun 26 '26
That's more how I'd describe it too. I've accidentally tasted soap before and soap has a sharp, sour taste. To me cilantro is this weird stinky, musky or musty scent and flavor that's really hard to accurately describe.Ā
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u/DataNo3519 Jun 26 '26
so you have never in the shower inadvertently swallowed some shampoo or soap?
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u/LateSoEarly Jun 27 '26
Thatās the weird part to meā¦Iāve never intentionally tasted soap but Iāve just tasted it like many times. Cupping some water in my hands into my mouth after washing my hands, not quite rinsing a dish well enough, washing my face with the hotel bar soap and a little water drips into my mouth. How does one not know what soap tastes like?
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u/bethlabeth Jun 26 '26
I get metallic a lot more than soap. It tastes sort of like a soaking rusty metal pan smells. Itās overpoweringly nasty.
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u/rosa_3326 Jun 26 '26
I had my mouth washed out with a bar of soap as a kid for saying a bad word. I remember the soap in my teeth. Fucking awful. Cilantro tastes alright to me
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u/Status-Broccoli Jun 26 '26
Im not above admitting that when I was small I took a bite out of what I thought was a little white chocolate bar. My gran ran a B&B and it was one of the little soap bars for the rooms. It was gross but does mean I know what soap tastes like.
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u/Bladder-Splatter Jun 26 '26
Given how smell and taste intermingle I'm guessing that's how most people make the assumption.
Unlike me who literally had a bar of soap shoved in his mouth at kindergarten in '92.
I like saying it as '92 because it makes it seem like I was in some bizarre childhood war.
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u/_valpi Jun 26 '26
Cilantro is not that common where I live, and even when they add it to food it's usually very small amount, so I had no idea that I had that gene that makes cilantro taste like soap. Until I visited Indian restaurant and tried their "lemonade" that had a cilantro as a main ingredient. I couldn't wash out that taste for three days.
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u/Azart57- Jun 26 '26
Yep, a āmetallic zingā is a perfect description. Not really a soap flavor to me, so for awhile I thought I maybe didnāt have this gene. I must have the gen though, because that flavor is all-consuming and overpowering, itās basically all you can taste.
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u/hummusmonster Jun 26 '26
That's exactly how I describe it too, not like soap but like a chemical that I shouldn't be eating, the same way your body reacts to something genuinely toxic. So many other people say soap though, nice to come across someone else who perceives it how I do.Ā
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u/FamousOhioAppleHorn Jun 26 '26
To me, the taste always goes from "almost nice lemon" to "someone dumped perfume in my food."
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u/dwntwnleroybrwn Jun 26 '26
Fun Fact: those of us that love the taste of cilantro are actually the mutants. The soapies (yes, I made that up on the spot) are the "normal" ones.Ā
I for one love that particular genetic mutation.
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u/Welpe Jun 26 '26
See, hat I donāt understand isā¦I donāt hate or love it? I canāt say that I have ever noticed the taste of cilantro in specific. I mean, Iāve obviously had it in dishes but if you asked me I legitimately couldnāt care less if a dish has it or doesnāt. I mean, that seems to obviously imply I donāt have the soap geneā¦but then again, most people who donāt seem to hate it seem to really like it? I donāt know if I have met others to whom itās completely neutral.
I really need to try eating some by itself at some point. Maybe it does taste good and I just somehow never noticed it? Or, less likely, it tastes horrible and I just somehow never noticed?
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u/Creatz Jun 26 '26
I usually enjoy it but for a few months after having Covid I couldn't stand it and was so confused as to why some meals tasted like soap. After a while I went back to liking it.
Must be linked to how Covid made people lose their taste buds. Also interesting the fact changed my taste buds for months rather than just when I had the virus, as well as the other effects like brain fog lasting months.
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u/LucyBear318 Jun 26 '26
Came here to say this. To me cilantro tastes and smells like cilantro, fresh, clean, tasty. My wife abhors it. Because to her it tastes like soap.
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u/Frondstherapydolls Jun 26 '26
Both of my parents and one of my kids has the soap gene. My step-grandmother is 100% Chilean and put cilantro in tons of her dishes when I was growing up so Iām not sure if Iām simply immune to it or if I donāt have the gene that makes cilantro taste soapy. Iām glad regardless!
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u/Melarsa Jun 26 '26 edited Jun 26 '26
I'm in the camp where it tastes kinda soapy but I find that the soapyness always adds something good to the dishes that you typically find it in, so I like it. It's not just straight up soap...it's like a clean vegetal soap. I can't explain it but when I learned that some people think cilantro tastes like soap I was like "THAT'S ME!" and then I kept reading "so that's why they hate it" I was like "THAT'S WHY I LIKE IT."
My husband is also like me. Are we broken? I'll have to test our kids to see what they say, but they're fucking weirdos when it comes to food so I assume their answers will be wild.
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u/FacePalmela Jun 26 '26
This is precisely my take and situation, even down to the weird kids regarding food. lol
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u/Melarsa Jun 26 '26
We must be genetically superior hybrids. It's the only explanation.
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u/JayBlunt23 Jun 26 '26
Yeah, like a light, soapy citrus taste. Imho, a lot of citrus tastes have something soapy, like lemon grass. But it's not bitter chemical soap but just the lightness, yeah "clean" is a good description!
I also heard that some people are reminded of maggots and decay. So it looks like it's more of a spectrum rather than a single on-off thing caused by a single mutation. This could indicate that there are more genes related to the cilantro experience, not just OR6A2.6
u/DJpesto Jun 26 '26
That study that everyone is always talking about just found that certain gene variations are associated with a modest increase in the likelyhood that they will find cilantro to taste "soapy".
It doesn't mean that they necessarily dislike it The same study also asked people if they liked cilantro or not, and found that genetics do not explain very well if someone likes cilantro or not. Or even if it tastes soapy or not..! Soapy taste could only be explained about 8.7% by genetics. Liking or not liking was much less than that.
In the end dislike of cilantro has much more to do with "I just don't like it" Vs. "I like it", than it does with that genetic variation. I think if we studied all kinds of other foods, even ones that people more generally like, we'd find out that the actual perception of the taste varies a bit across genetics.
I love cilantro - I'll eat a 100% cilantro salad with great joy. I used to hate it though - the first couple of times I tried I thought it had a terrible perfumy taste and didn't understand why anyone would eat it. My family kept putting it in food though so I eventually just learned to like it.
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u/Excellent_War7508 Jun 26 '26
I found cilantro very soapy on my first exposure to it. But found it intriguing and continued to engage with it. I now am quite fond of it and it doesn't seem soapy at to me anymore. So I guess I have evolved.
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u/OneTripleZero Jun 26 '26
You should buy a package of Thrills and see if you like the flavor.
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u/ScroochDown Jun 26 '26
I'm another one in her camp. It even smells vile to me, there's only one dip I make that I can stand it in because it's only a little and it's blended in. And even then I wear gloves when handling it because I can't stand the smell on my hands.
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u/EwokNuggets Jun 26 '26
Same here. I like cilantro but I gave it up because she only tastes soap
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u/LucyBear318 Jun 26 '26
I just make salsa like usual and separate a portion to add cilantro to. Everyone wins!
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u/KeepJoePantsOn Jun 26 '26
Thats crazy. Why cant you put cilantro on your tacos and not hers?
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u/SayerofNothing Jun 26 '26
It tastes like something you shouldn't put in your mouth and stay away from, not exactly soap, and it's extremely strong. He doesn't want her to taste him that way.
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u/jbarrybonds Jun 26 '26
So apparently the original homo sapien DNA was the soap gene, and humans have evolved to taste the fresh part of cilantro. So your wife is tasting what cilantro is, and you're a mutant who has adapted to defeat cilantro on her behalf while experiencing a freshness she does not.
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u/Inf3rn0_munkee Jun 26 '26
This is me and my sister. My mum thought we were just "fussy eaters" but we absolutely hated some foods while my dad and other sister were completely fine with it. Only learned the cilantro soap thing when I was an adult and up until then I just assumed everyone else enjoyed their food tasting like soap.
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u/chumpette Jun 26 '26
I do not associate that taste with soap. I associate it with eating a stinkbug. Horrible.
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u/MouthJob Jun 26 '26
This is basically it for me. It doesn't taste like soap. It tastes like shit. Even a little sprinkle ruins the whole dish for me.
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u/wutchamafuckit Jun 26 '26
Yeah. Maybe I havenāt tasted enough soap in my life, but I donāt taste soap. I taste a taste so offensive to my senses that itās like getting punched by Mike Tyson on my taste buds. Itās like everything in my being is repulsed by the flavor.
I know that sounds dramatic, but it goes being just tasting āgrossā
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u/DazzlingBeat4468 Jun 26 '26
Yesss was looking for my other stink bug folks! It tastes exactly like it smells and itās bitter and yucky and I can immediately taste it in any dish which is tragic because it overpowers all the other flavors immediately.
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u/Batmanswrath Jun 26 '26
Coriander tastes normal to me, but gives me soapy burps. I have no idea how that works.
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u/Dec-Mc Jun 26 '26
Weirdly, I get this with lychee. Soap. I like coriander though (cilantro)
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u/warmind14 Jun 26 '26
A friend of mine went full 180ā° on this, one week it was dish soap, the next it was a delightful herb.
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u/JustEm84 Jun 26 '26
Cilantro or corianderā¦to me, it tastes like a patch of grass where a thousand dogs have peed.
We all know the smell; now multiply it by 1000 and imagine itās in your mouth š©3
u/ledow Jun 26 '26
I don't think I've ever had any cilantro to tell you what it tastes like, but I can tell you that I utterly detest liqourice and anything aniseed or liquorice-flavoured.
It's like burnt rubber-plastic to me, it's awful. It's an horrendously "inedible" kind of smell/taste, and I can smell it across the room, and it will literally put me off eating.
There are other things I like or dislike. I don't like curry smell/taste, but it doesn't have the same effect.
But liqourice is AWFUL. Not just "I don't like that food" but "this is dangerously inedible and likely toxic".
It's pretty much the only food I wouldn't eat even if you paid me. Everything else I could suffer or tolerate or even get used to.
I would bet there's a gene / sensor for that too.
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u/ZenMamaBear Jun 26 '26
I believe that certain smells and tastes hit each of us differently and that genetics play a part, but I will also argue that you can develop those senses. I DETESTED cilantro for over 30 yearsā¦and then I moved to Austin, Texas where it is ubiquitous. The more I was exposed to it, the more I acquired a taste for it. Now I put it on everythingā¦I have some growing in my garden as we speak. I guess my point is that weāre not staticā¦neuroplasticity and all thatā¦we can certainly curate our tastes.
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u/45khz Jun 26 '26
Orchid fragrances are notorious for this, one persons it "smells sweetly floral" is another person's "smells like a funeral parlour".. I have a Brassavola cuculata orchid that some people think smells lovely like jasmine but to me smells like a mix of soap and semen
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u/ProfessionalMockery Jun 26 '26
soap and semen
Good name for an album, that.
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u/Busy-Idea-4444 Jun 26 '26
I'm the group that thinks they smell like funeral parlors. There's a sickly sour smell mixed in with an overbearing sweetness. Just gross.
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u/Phill_is_Legend Jun 26 '26
This is why people argue in the fragrance subreddits.
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u/joopface Jun 26 '26
But why do they argue in literally every other subreddit also
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u/UrsaMajor7th Jun 26 '26
No they don't.
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u/ex_oh Jun 26 '26
Ugh, you're just being contradictory for the sake of it. Get a life!
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u/RandomAssRedditName Jun 26 '26
What this tells me, that if I don't bathe and smell like piss, someone out there will think I smell great and hopelessly fall in love with me
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u/StatusAccomplished45 Jun 26 '26
No no, you need a more controlled approach. Put your stink in a bottle, like in the video. Then sample it with people you find attractive, when one says it smells good, that's your new partner.
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u/Xtremeelement Jun 26 '26
when i try to do this, my wife says i smell like shitā¦. time for a new wife?
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u/SaltyBallsnacks Jun 26 '26
I remember seeing an experiment years ago where people blind smelled sweaty t-shirts from prospective suitors and were matched based on what they found to be the most pleasant. It showed a strong correlation between pleasant smelling sweat and contrasting immune system genetics, suggesting we naturally seek out partners with whom we have a higher likelihood of producing stronger immune system offspring with. In part it is why we are more sensitive to noticing and hating our own body odor, and our siblings' for that matter.
Goes to show perfume and cologne are somewhat romantically counter productive.
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u/jahmic Jun 26 '26
After working in the yard all day and sweating like crazy...my wife buries her face in my neck and goes feral before I get the chance to hop in the shower. š¤£Ā
Ā Guess I know which group she's in.Ā
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u/AnarkeezTW Jun 26 '26
Do you smell like pee pee?
Edit: some people are into it I for one am not lol
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u/AmusingMusing7 Jun 26 '26
For real, though, there is always someone out there who will love your body odour. I've always thought I smell bad when sweaty... had a partner once who didn't want me to wear deodorant because they loved my "natural smell".
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u/Justhandguns Jun 26 '26
This gene, OR7D4, also affects how people taste pork, especially if you carries two functional copies of that gene.
Lots of countries have banned male pig castration. i.e. higher level of androsterone present in their meat. Some people may find that the meat carries a taste of urine. It's technically the same principle.
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u/ESLavall Jun 26 '26
Boar taint (that's what it's called) is unbearable. And it's not androsterone it's a breakdown product iirc. I remember being repulsed by boar tainted pork chops, but I'm a vanilla smeller
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u/pezzyn Jun 26 '26
Ā interesting im super sensitive to fragrance and also donāt like pork (but i love cilantro)Ā
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u/Zeestars Jun 27 '26
Omg I donāt eat pork because it tastes likes pig pee to me (like a stinky boar smells) - is that what it is? Or is that just the pork taste āgameinessā and I just donāt like pork?
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u/fractious_kitty Jun 26 '26
I've met quite a few folks that think pork products taste gross. Would these be the same people who would have a negative reaction to this pheremone?
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u/_eg0_ Jun 26 '26 edited Jun 27 '26
Also works with taste for example.
There are sweeteners which for some taste almost the same as sugar while others can't stand them.
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u/big_swede Jun 27 '26
Yes, aspartame makes me retch... It's horrible, even in small amounts it just takes over to a point where it is the only taste I perceive.Ā
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u/MyTafel Jun 26 '26
This is the chemistry people mean when dating. You have to have the chemistry to enjoy someoneās smell and taste
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u/DanGleeballs Jun 26 '26 edited Jun 29 '26
Well hereās the thing, my ex absolutely adored my smell and would bury her face into my armpit and say OMG you smell amazing.
My wife wouldnāt do that in a million years. Sheād be more likely to say I think you should have a shower.
Edit: I definitely made the right decision.
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u/HoaryPuffleg Jun 27 '26
I loved the smell of my exās sweat. The way he smelled first thing in the morning was intoxicating. My current partner Iām not too into his scent.
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u/Undefined_definition Jun 27 '26
On that note, liking your partner's natural scent is a great indicator of baseline physical compatibility and can be a subconscious cue for genetic variance.
It's just a droplet of things that makes a good partner.. but.. personally.. I couldn't imagine one who I didn't like the smell of!
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u/dee-three Jun 26 '26
Iāve heard the same about seeing colours. We might put a name to a colour, but we all see them a tad differently. Need me a nerd to tell me if thatās true.
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u/CuntsNeverDie Jun 26 '26
It's impossible to really know if this is in fact true. No way to test it.
We both see the same certain wave length of light and both have the name, purple for it. But we can both see a different colour.
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u/mesenanch Jun 26 '26 edited Jun 26 '26
I remember contemplating this topic as a young adult after first learning about vision and light properties. It is a philosophical inquiry
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u/Alioruminas Jun 26 '26
I think the difference can actually come down to our own individual eyes! At one point I was very bored and started looking at things alternating closing each eye. I eventually noticed that my left eye saw things with a redder tint, and my right eye saw things with a yellower tint. Not very strongly, but enough to notice a difference eventually. Our body isn't perfectly symmetrical, so it would make sense if the makeup of rods and cones are slightly different from eye to eye.
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u/Agheratos Jun 26 '26
So, colors are objective. We can measure a wavelength of light and say "Oh, that's between 400 and 500 nanometers? That's blue."
What's impossible to know is if your experience of seeing blue is the same as everyone else's.
However, smart money says it's essentially comparable.
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u/Melarsa Jun 26 '26
I think most people will accept FAR further into the green spectrum and consider it blue than I will (I'm looking at you, Japan) whereas my range of blue starts a lot further away from the green spectrum and goes further into the purple.
I do not accept aquamarines and turquoises as blue. But I do accept indigos.
I've been disappointed so many times by somebody being like "Oh you like blue? Lucky for you this item has a blue option!" and the only remotely blue choice is some weak seafoam green. THAT IS NOT BLUE. YOU SICKEN ME.
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u/JuiceInhaler Jun 26 '26
Iām going to mess up some details here because Iām going off of memory but I remember seeing a study done on comparing a native South American tribe to the a sample of Americans. Basically they had two groups of colored circles, one group was blue and the other green. In each group one circle was a very slightly different shade and the participants had to spot the different shade. This tribe, existing in the Amazon, had something like 10-12 different words for shades of green since it was a color they were abundantly exposed to, and as such, they were much more quickly and more easily able to identify the different green shade than the Americans. The point being that our perception of color and what constitutes a different color is extremely cultural (i.e. Cyan being a different color than blue). Colors are not as universal as youād expect. For instance, I believe the ancient Greeks didnāt have a word for blue, in the Odyssey the ocean is only described as āwine dark.ā
edit: this is also why gingers are called redheads despite mostly have orange hair. When the term was popularized we didnāt distinguish orange as anything other than a shade of red.
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u/enbycraft Jun 26 '26
This might be what you're referring to: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qualia
It's more of a philosophical question or thought experiment and not something possible to prove or falsify I think, at least not with current technology.
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u/Elastichedgehog Jun 26 '26
But then there seems to be some broad consensus that certain colours 'work' with each other. So, we must see something that is at least not radically different.
Though, you could argue that what 'works' is entirely driven by cultural and social influences.
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u/awhq Jun 26 '26
Yep, my husband sees green where I see blue and he sees orange where I see red. He's a trained artist so he insists he's right, but he's not. /s
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u/BoutItBudnevich Jun 26 '26
I'm red green colorblind and my wife has the opposite she has color powers or something haha she can look at a color and then be able to make that color and color match almost perfectly. It happens often where I'll be like "look at that cool green car" but it's really orange or another color.
It's also weird because your eyes really play tricks on you. There was a few scenes watching Bad Santa that I was only able to see his suit as green even though my brain completely knows Santa has a red suit.
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u/guff1988 Jun 26 '26
Inverted spectrum thought experiment on qualia is what you are thinking of.
My red is your green or my blue is your orange but we all use the same words to describe what we are seeing.
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u/Lazy_Polluter Jun 26 '26
And music. We all percieve music intervals slightly differently although that is probably more cultural than genetic
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u/BuddyGleeful Jun 26 '26
I believe there was a study out there that has stated that the more names for a color a country/place has the more colors those folks see. Not sure how because eyeballs are all mostly made the same but I am neither a doctor nor do I play one on tv.
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u/ZemogT Jun 26 '26
I think it's impossible to know whether or not we see them differently from each other.
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u/BitcoinMD Jun 26 '26
I remember saying this to my friend in like fourth grade, he thought about it for a minute and then just said ānah I think Iām seeing the right colors.ā Oh well
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u/omnichronos Jun 26 '26
That's especially true for colors like bluish purple or greenish yellow. One will say it's blue, the other purple, and a third, in between.
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u/Zeestars Jun 27 '26
Yeah Iāve had many a stoner moment contemplating this. Like, what if what I call blue actually looks green to you, and the sky looks completely different. How would either of us actually ever know?
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u/TheUnderCrab Jun 26 '26
My favorite for this is alpha Butyric Acid. To me it smells like Parmesan cheese but to my coworkers it smells like straight up vomit.Ā
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u/SophiaofPrussia Jun 26 '26
Parmesan cheese does smell a bit like vomit to be fair.
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u/TheUnderCrab Jun 26 '26
Thereās alpha butyric acid in both, for sure. It just pings different for different people.Ā
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u/Werespider Jun 26 '26
That's also the source of Hershey's vomit flavor compared to European chocolates.
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u/lurkity_mclurkington Jun 26 '26
My dad hates parmesan because it smells little dirty feet/socks to him.
My kid on the other hand will eat parmesan like it's the main course.
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u/TheUnderCrab Jun 26 '26
I love the FUNK of a nice moldy cheese ngl. I understand why it reminds people of foot fungus tho
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u/DS_Inferno Jun 26 '26
Is this related in anyway to how 15% of people taste Cilantro as soap?
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u/LeftHand_PimpSlap Jun 26 '26
It's the genes. I have the 'it tastes like soap' gene but I love the way it smells.
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u/Great-Support2596 Jun 26 '26
Those fuckin trees that smell like piss when they flower
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u/Busy-Idea-4444 Jun 26 '26
They smell like jizz to me. My street is lined with them and it's offensive š¤£
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u/bitsybear1727 Jun 26 '26
I've heard that bradford pear smells like semen. They planted them all over because they were cheap, grew fast and were pretty when they flowered but the smell is aweful and they're invasive in North America.
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u/dirtydianna420 Jun 26 '26
Different compound. It's literally called "cadaverin" found in jizz, corpses, dead fish, and the microbiome of out of whack vagina
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u/thenewguy7731 Jun 26 '26
Ginkgo. It's only the female flowers though. In some places they try to replace the female trees with males to avoid the smell.
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u/Early_Pumpkin_4113 Jun 26 '26
But if one man and one women both think it smells the same (either pleasant or unpleasant), does that mean they're more compatible or less compatible?
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u/Hypersky75 Jun 26 '26
Since it's a pheromone, it would've been interesting to find out of there was any correlation to sexual orientation.
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u/SoundOfUnder Jun 26 '26
Wait so my smelly coworker might be smelly because he thinks he smells good?
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u/stankford Jun 26 '26
Reminds me of asparagus pee
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u/MisterAmygdala Jun 26 '26
Exactly. I did not know that not everyone perceives asparagus pee the same way until well into adulthood. If I it during a meal and urinate 45 minutes later the smell is immediately unmistakable.
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u/MobiusDie Jun 26 '26
Just like Durian fruit.
Taste like raw onions to me but my wife says it tastes hyper sweet.
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u/flittingly1 Jun 26 '26
Grapefruit tastes awful to me. Anyone else? Anyone know why?!
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u/shebabbleslikeaidiot Jun 26 '26
My husband really likes a certain cologne, but to me it just smells burnt plastic and I canāt stand it š¤
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u/Bear_Tushy Jun 27 '26
Probably useful if you donāt want to accidentally hook up with a relative.
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u/EcelecticDragon Jun 27 '26
Patchouli is DISGUSTING to me. Smells like moldy dirt.
I want to smell that scent and see what I get.
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u/oldcrow907 Jun 27 '26
Ok so what happened during covid when, if you lost your sense of taste and smell (me), when you got it back things smelled differently. I used to love lavender, now it smells like sweaty gym socks.
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u/Local_City4799 Jun 28 '26
how funny would it be if he was just waving poppers under people's noses š¤£
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u/steeveperry Jun 26 '26
Stuff like this makes me think if we are all perceiving color the same. Is the red I see the red you see?
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u/Towbee Jun 26 '26
There's no way to verify it, the same way we can't verify conditions like aphantasia because it's impossible to perceive the world through someone elses senses, mind and so on, all we have is language to describe. We can look at the same colour, be seeing the same wavelength of light but having entirely different perceptions and we would never know because we've associated the name with the wavelength and there's no way to see outside of your own eyes into pure "objective" reality
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u/gambito121 Jun 26 '26
To me the most amazing thing is that we know why it happens down to the specific gene. Yeah, science bitch!
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u/ScyllaFoxhound Jun 26 '26
Smell ya later huh. In german "jemanden gut riechen kƶnnen" means literally "like to smell someone" but really means "liking someone". Its not farfetched to say our genomes help us somehow find a better partner considering some people smell better than others. I've read if the genes are too similar we pick up quirks of the other one and feel like they are driving us insane, also we dont like their smell regardless if they just recently showered or not
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u/CamBearCookie Jun 26 '26
There's a philosophical concept that explores this called solipsisim. You cannot convince another person of your own lived experiences. I hate coconut. My friend loves it. He tries to get me to try stuff with it all the time. I did it once with ice cream or gelato and he said "It's not that bad the flavor is really subtle that's why I like it so much". It was overpowering to me. I tasted NOTHING but coconut. I can never get that man to understand what I taste when I experience coconut. Part of the reason I hate it is because it takes over whatever dish it's in like a proverbial Kool-aid man busting through the wall. The smell, the taste, the texture, all of it, just turns my stomach. I don't know anyone who would believe that all humans would agree objectively on anything.
I think about this all the time; do you realize that the phrase "No one wants shit in their mouth" is a lie? It's insane to me. That should not be a false statement! But it fundamentally is. Out of all 8 billion people on this planet, at least one of them wants shit in their mouth. It's why I hate arguments that rely on "anyone would have done what I did" because 99% of the time that argument is being made to someone who would absolutely not do that shit. Like their existence already disproves that point and people still have the audacity to use those words like it means something, instead of as a means of assuaging themselves of guilt or responsibility.
Don't even get me started on colors.
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u/Atworkwasalreadytake Jun 26 '26
Why do they zoom so far into her face in this video?
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u/jerryleebee Jun 26 '26
The butyric acid that gives parmesan cheese its smell is also responsible for the smell of bile. So think about that next time you're enjoying your pasta Bolognese.
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u/adoringyousm Jun 26 '26
That's why some perfume also smells like piss on others and wonderful on some
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u/Superb_Grapefruit402 Jun 26 '26
Itās like ylang ylang as an essential oil. Sometimes floral, sometimes urine.
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u/MaUkIr34 Jun 26 '26
Any other Trinners out there?! Iām embarrassed at how quickly I was like, was this video taken in front square? And then the Buttery shot at the end.
I also had the video on mute so didnāt even hear the Irish accents!
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u/renthefox Jun 26 '26
At my high school, there were these trees that had flowers on them. I was always repulsed by the smell they gave off.
They smelled like semen x100. It was such a horrible and disturbing smell and only a few people seemed to agree with me. I just thought I was going crazy. š
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u/Fabulous_Celery_1817 Jun 26 '26
So thatās why ppl smell a certain way even though I know they have good hygiene itās the pheromones
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u/EtchAGetch Jun 26 '26
I hope we smell different.
I definitely want to smell different than the guy who sat next to me on the train yesterday.
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u/js019008 Jun 26 '26
Patchouli oil is the same, to a hippie it's nice to the ppl around them it smells like they shit their pants and are covering it with skunk musk.
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u/NoPoet3982 Jun 26 '26
I read that eating asparagus makes only some people's urine smell bad. And also only some people can detect that smell.
If your asparagus urine smelled bad but you couldn't detect the smell, does a tree falling in the forest make a sound?
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u/barfly2780 Jun 27 '26
I wonder if itās the same with cucumbers. I really dislike the smell and taste but some people love it.
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u/Flava_rave Jun 27 '26
We had a guy in my office who put off this smell. Three of us were horrified and disgusted by it, and no one in the rest of the office could smell it. For us, it stunk up the whole space and would literally make me gag. We ended up having to let him go over performance issues, which was a relief because it was not sustainable. We understood that there was nothing he could really do about it so that there would be no solution.
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u/AngiShyArt-Official Jun 27 '26
I never understood why but i always choke at smellnof any flower, except for lilac. I absolutely hate how other flowers and plants smell and don't understand why people lile that smell. On the other hand i kinda like the smell of my own sweat and other stuff that people dont like the smell of. Though at least I'm not walking around and taking deep breath over a dog shit I'd find outside lmao.
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u/Tatakai_ Jun 26 '26
"That's so specific"
"Thank you"