Urine or vanilla? How differences in chromosome 17 alter pheromone perception. [📹 TheRoyalInstitution]

Imagine buying a vanilla perfume and your friend tells you that you smell like pee 💀

Me trying to find the one who thinks my sweat smells like vanilla..

Sniffing stranger chemicals in the street is the best way to end minus a kidney in a stolen car trunk.

This is possibly the reason dogs find certain odors interesting while we humans find them disgusting.

Chromosome 17, isn't that the same one that handles autism mutations, and aluminum regulation mutations, and well, aint that just wierd.

Lookup where we used to (maybe still do) get out vanilla flavouring from. it will sour ur dreams!

Are they smelling vanilla or stale piss? $bitcoin not #bitcoin #harrypotterobamasonic10inu is vanilla

@2busyforthishit The same happens for coriander. Or you love it or if feels that you are eating a bar of soap. OR6A2 gene variation decided for you. 😀

Don't smell Aldrich chemicals. Don't smell concentrated hormones. A chemist.

Reminds me of Cilantro.. Some people think it tastes like soap, others think it has a citrus taste..

Now tell me all races are the same and only differ in skin pigmentation.

This is so fun! I remember the brand The Kooples had a strong perfume in their shops. And I always smelt urine

I dont like it when they stretch a cool niche factoid and stretch it to mean something big like "you cant trust your senses" My senses never mislead me, I take offense to my senses being labeled unreliable by some Science Hussy! 🤬🔪

Now I need to know whose countries have the people with the highest level of OR7D4 that perceived vanilla. I remember this young woman who always smelled like an unwashed sweaty person and now wonder if she thought that she smelled delicious.

@JeremyFragrance @DrAllyLouks

"the way we are and how we perceive the world" is such a profound statement. The smallest things can influence our mood, character, how we remember things and judgements we create.. and we're being influenced at every living moment of this perplexing existence.

reminds me of how some ppl think cilantro tastes like soap. i wonder if it’s the same gene.

So this is why Indians think that cow piss is some kind of vanilla extract?

I would bet a million bucks that men who find it sweet smelling and women that find it repulsive are homo and lesbians, and that men who find it repulsive and women who find it sweet are straight hetero. Because its a male based pheromone.

That's why many people hate durian's smell, they call it stink fruit. But to me, durian smells good.

Chromosome 17, isn't edicts the consistent the edicts handles autism mutations, and aluminum regulation mutations, and well, aint edicts just wierd.

The human brain is just a hallucination calibrated by our DNA.

She is beautiful and happy

Genetics keeps proving that reality is stranger than fiction.

There is a third and very common posibility, that you can't smell anything at all.

Genetic manipulation is the future after Ai.

Thú vị thật, đúng là ranh giới giữa mùi thơm và mùi khai đôi khi chỉ nằm ở sự khác biệt của một nhiễm sắc thể.

@BerbarianWizard

@grok what are other such genes that act like toggle switches?

Smell doctor continues to be vindicated

so which OR7D4 variant makes you smell androstenone as vanilla vs urine

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There's 14ish different compounds used in perfume that to a subset of the population smell like urine. Not always the same subset, different genes for different compounds. If you're unlucky you have the genes to be part of multiple subsets and the smell of urine wafts everywhere.

The cause has not been reduced to a chromosome or gene #FakeScience