[Jenni T.]

What is the strong smell/odor that some people from the Middle East (or where women cover themselves with clothes because of the religion) have? I´m not the only one to notice it, and someone suggested it was their diet. The smell in my opinion is strong and kind of sweet and maybe even more attached to the clothes.

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[V Knight]

Most likely these women smell they way they do because of their diet. What we eat and drink (all of us) we breath out through our skin. For example, have you ever been around a person who was drinking very heavily the night before? I have, and even after a bath, for most of the following day they smell like alcohol, especially is they start to sweat.

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[Michael20719]

The only thing I can think of is spices and herbs used for cooking. As a kid, I had many immigrants and foreign exchange students for friends. One of my best friends in high school was from Pakistan and I can't even begin to guess at how much time I spent at his house. Though I never noticed an odor from his mother (it feels weird to put it that way;) I did notice a sweet herbal odor on the entire first floor... very similar to raisons and oranges. Since the smell was strongest in the kitchen where she kept all sorts of unprocessed herbs and spices, I assume these were the source. Go to the grocery store and find the spice section. Take a big whiff of yellow curry and see if the smell is similar ;)

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[Annie]

Probably the lotions and perfumed oils many Middle Eastern women use.

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[Mick-J20588]

Everyone smells, it's just that when you live within your own ethnic or cultural group you don't notice it. Asians smell to me, mostly of garlic, but I understand we smell to them too, we as in Australians of European decent. Asians sometimes call us 'butter balls' because we smell of dairy foods. They also find the smell of lamb offensive and say they can smell it coming through our skin. The smell you smell on Middle Eastern women is probably spices used in food or body oil/perfume.

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