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Relief has come, you sweaty Homo Sapiens. A research team in Belfast, Ireland, developed a perfume that makes your sweat smell sweet.
Nimal Gunaratne and a team from the Queen's University Belfast Ionic Liquid Laboratories Research Center devised a perfume that releases more aroma when it comes in contact with moisture, specifically sweat.
How it works is that the fragrance locks onto a scentless ionic liquid (that is, salt in liquid form) so that when it comes in contact with water, it activates, releasing the scent onto the user's skin.
It can also remove bad smells from sweat. All sweat comes with a chemical which smells sulphuric or onion-like and which is what you're actually smelling when someone stinks.
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What this perfume does is attach to the chemical and curb the other. I know that feels like too much science already.
"This is an exciting breakthrough that uses newly discovered ionic liquid systems to release material in a controlled manner," Gunaratne said in a press release. "Not only does it have great commercial potential, and could be used in perfumes and cosmetic creams, but it could also be used in others area of science, such as the slow release of certain substances of interest."