One of the people responsible for dressing Queen Elizabeth for the past eleven years has spilled some of the secrets of keeping Her Royal Highness looking perfectly put-together at all times. Stewart Parvin told the Sunday Times that it's easy because she simply doesn't perspire:
Summer can be awesome: No more heavy coats and bulky boots. The sun shines, the plants are green and the sky is blue. But if you're like me, it's hard to enjoy it while you're mopping your dripping brow with your forearm and ruining yet another blouse with copious amounts of sweat. Then: Hello heat wave.
This summer, I have a public service announcement: sweating is hot.
Yet another reason to lay off the perfume: researchers have found that close couples can actually smell each other's emotions. Almost two-thirds of the time, heterosexual partners could differentiate between fear-sweat, happy-sweat, and sexy-sweat. [NYDailyNews]
Sometimes a dude has problems — usually about sex or money. But since therapy's for sissies, he turns to something a little more badass: a sweat lodge. Details has the story.
New studies suggest that women can tell when a man is sexually aroused from his sweat, but apparently no one wants to know, as "clinical strength" antiperspirants have proven a huge hit for deodorant makers.
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The smell of man sweat doesn't have so much to do with him as it does with us. According to a study in the journal Nature, a dude's B.O. is all about perception, due to a receptor gene. So for some people, a sweaty guy could smell like hoagies, for others he could smell like urine, and for others he could actually…
Our boyfriend laughs - in a vaguely uncomfortable sort of way - whenever we snuggle up to his chest and inhale deeply near his underarms. But what can we say? Male sweat: it's what's for dinner.
