Although there were many similarities between the chemicals wafting from teens and tots, the differences tended to favor the younger children, whose body odor samples had higher levels of a compound with a flowery fragrance. Adolescents, on the other hand, produced a compound that smelled like sweat and urine and had higher levels of substances described as smelling cheesy, musty and “goatlike.”
— Read more in Toddlers Smell Like Flowers, Teens Smell ‘Goatlike,’ Study Finds at The New York Times.
I laughed hard at this when I saw it this morning. “Goatlike” is a great word for it, and that includes female teens. 🙂
Yes it does!
I have teens and I can vouch for this as truth! OMG, their socks and shoes!!!
Mine is more in the armpits. She SWEARS she wears deodorant (and she has the high-powered stuff), and yet…still…
Yep.