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To: JakeStraw who wrote (10552)	7/1/1999 1:09:00 PM
From: SIer formerly known as Joe B.	Read Replies (2) of 62549

Smelly Grannies Convey That Happy Mood Thursday July 1 12:17 PM ET dailynews.yahoo.com LONDON (Reuters) - ''L'eau de grandmere'' could explain that reassuring, warm feeling that elderly women and grandmothers always seem to convey. It's not the latest French perfume or a new air freshener but the name coined by American researchers for the smells they collected from the armpits of elderly women to show that body odors can have an impact on mood. Researchers at the Monell Chemical Senses Center in Pennsylvania and Rutgers University in New Jersey believe hormonal changes in older people, particularly women, can trigger a happy, approachable mood that can be conveyed through body smells. ''The airborne chemicals that we collected from them -- l'eau de grandmere -- may indicate that state,'' Jeannette Haviland of Rutgers University told New Scientist magazine. Animals routinely use scent to convey information. Haviland and her colleagues reasoned that body odors could influence people's mood. To test their theory, they collected underarm odors on gauze pads from 30 volunteers ranging from toddlers to 70-somethings and asked more than 300 students to assess their mood before and after sniffing the samples. The students were not told what the scents were. ''Old women had an uplifting effect,'' said Denise Chen of the Monell Chemical Senses Center, adding that smells from young men had the opposite effect. Smells from older people and females in general produced a more positive mood. Baby odors did not improve moods and scents from young boys were associated with aggression. =============== Im almost accidentally posted this on the welcome thread instead of here!

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