For context, studies show that mate compatibility can be determined by the reaction to pheromones. This site is attempting to bring this kind of research to the public in a usable way. This is not some kind of fetish thing for people who like the smell of armpits.
While it certainly sounds odd, my wife has said that when I'm away on business trips she'll take one of my worn shirts and put it on her pillow at night since it smells like me.
It's a bit of of a movie/TV trope, especially after a character dies--the widow would try to preserve the scent of their spouse/lover via clothing, pillow, etc.
Thanks to lapitopi for the contextual link [1]; tldr: attraction can be predicted by perceived smell of sweat, which correlates with genetic compatibility in terms of resistance to disease.
Could use some better marketing to mitigate the ick factor.
Also, a .dating TLD? We need serious reform of the system.
Interesting concept. I think a lot of people will have issues getting past how strange it seems at first.
What I am wondering though is, shouldn't they include at least a bit of personality stuff in there? If I were going to pay them to send sample to me, I would want to know all 10 of those samples are from someone I have a decent chance of getting along with. Because attraction is not everything.
I also think most people know what gender(s) they are looking for, and would rather not get get a set of samples that includes others. Like what is the point in sending two heterosexual individuals of the same gender eachother's samples? Or sending a homosexual individual a sample from the opposite gender?
A completely random sample of 10 seems inefficient. There should at least be some sort of simple optimizations involved. Unless I am missing something?
Hey - I worked on Smell Dating (and co-founded Useless Press). Just to be clear, Smell Dating is a real thing - 100 people did in fact sign up, and we've sent them t-shirt samples etc.
Love the idea, but can't this be gamed by using synthetic pheromones? Pheromone colognes for the purpose of attracting women have been available for awhile now.
I'm sure a few products out there are scams, but speaking from my own experience/anecdotes I think the real ones do actually work. Specifically the products containing androstenone, androsterone, and the other related endogenous steroid hormones.
I used some (from Amazon, forget the brand) on my neck and my wife literally would not stop hugging me and telling me how great I smelled. She's actually initiated sex a few times after I've applied it.
I'm not to proud to admit that this could solve a significant pain point for me and my wife. If you would be kind enough to look through your amazon history and post a link, I would be tremendously grateful.
Yes but it would be like wearing a deer suit to attract a deer when you're a human. You want someone who matches you and is naturally attracted to you, not someone who doesn't like your smell.
Three days sounds a bit extreme to me. I think a more realistic scenario would be a normal unwashed tshirt as usually most people don't go so long with washing, etc. Maybe though it's so we can more easily determine things. But smell is definitely important. I couldn't date some guys who were very smart and had other things going for them because they smelled bad according to my nose.
I can't tell if this is getting upvotes because people think it's a witty parody of dating apps/sites, or because they think it's cool. If it's the latter, I'm somewhat disturbed by that.
Based on the super-creepy background video, I sure hope that the creators of this thing meant for it to be a parody.
Seems like something that people might actually pay for. The smelly shirts alone, that is. There would definitely be people who couldn't care less about actually matching and just want the smells.
I'm interested to see how this works out in practice. I would be concerned that some people have enough constraints it is likely that none of ten random other people would be an acceptable match.
