Manuel L. Quezon III writes on the olfactory sense.


The Long View : Sweat of a woman


Updated 09:38pm (Mla time) Oct 27, 2004
By Manuel L. Quezon III
Inquirer News Service


Editor’s Note: Published on page A13 of the October 28, 2004 issue of the Philippine Daily Inquirer


An excerpt:


But here’s a juicy tidbit to end things: “For those of exquisite sensuality, there is nothing headier than the musky smell of a loved one moist with sweat. But natural body odors don’t strike most of us as particularly enticing. In the Elizabethan Age, lovers exchanged ‘love apples’ — a woman would keep a peeled apple in her armpit until it was saturated with her sweat, and then give it to her sweetheart to inhale.”


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