arious parts of the body in women, some of these odors tend to become
exaggerated in sympathy with sexual and other emotional states.

The odor of the infant is said to be of butyric acid; that of old
people to resemble dry leaves. Continent young men have been said
by many ancient writers to smell more strongly than the unchaste,
and some writers have described as "seminal odor"--an odor
resembling that of animals in heat, faintly recalling that of the
he-goat, according to Venturi--the exhalations of the skin at
such times.

During sexual excitement, as women can testify, a man very
frequently, if not normally, gives out an odor which, as usually
described, proceeds from the skin, the breath, or both. Grimaldi
states that it is as of rancid butter; others say it resembles
chloroform. It is said to be sometimes perceptible for a distance
of several feet and to last for several hours after coitus.
(Various quotations are given by Gould and Pyle, _Anomalies and
Curiosities of Medicine_, section on "Human Odors," pp. 397-403.)
St. Philip Neri is said to have been able to recognize a chaste
man by smell.

During menstruation girls and young women frequently give off an
odor which is quite distinct from that of the menstrual fluid,
and is specially marked in the breath, which may smell of
chloroform or violets. Pouchet (confirmed by Raciborski, _Traite
de la Menstruation_, 1868, p. 74) stated that about a day before
the onset of menstruation a characteristic smell is exuded.
Menstruating girls are also said sometimes to give off a smell of
leather. Aubert, of Lyons (as quoted by Galopin), describes the
odor of the skin of a woman during menstruation as an agreeable
aromatic or acidulous perfume of chloroform character. By some
this is described as emanating especially from the armpits.
Sandras (quoted by Raciborski) knew a lady who could always tell
by a sensation of faintness and _malaise_--apparently due to a
sensation of smell--when she was in contact with a menstruating
woman. I am acquainted with a man, having strong olfactory
sympathies and antipathies, who detects the presence of
menstruation by smell. It is said that Hortense Bare, who
accompanied her lover, the botanist Commerson, to the Pacific
disguised as a man, was recognized by the natives as a woman by
means o