New Perfume Makes You Smell Better The More You Sweat

Trending News: The More You Sweat, The Better You'll Smell With This New Technology

Why Is This Important?

Because the gym is a stinky place.

Long Story Short

Scientists in Ireland have created a perfume that releases scent when it interacts with water. It’s the first of its kind, and reacts to the neutral water released when people sweat.

Long Story

For all the money we spend on antiperspirants and deodorants, they’re terribly ineffective. Deodorant only does so much, and ask anyone hiding pit stains how well their “antiperspirant” works. But what if, instead of trying to fight sweat, we made it work for us? That’s exactly what researchers from Queen's University Belfast have created: A perfume that smells better the more you sweat.

“This is an exciting breakthrough that uses newly discovered ionic liquid systems to release material in a controlled manner. 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,” said project leader Dr. Nimal Gunaratne.

The substance works by attaching the fragrance to an ionic liquid — basically, salt in liquid form. That keeps the fragrance from evaporating away, but water severs those bonds, releasing the smell onto the wearer’s skin. The sweatier you get, the more fragrance it produces.

The perfume also happens to dampen sweats own smell — sulfur is largely responsible for sweat’s stinky smell, and sulfur happens to be attracted to the ionic liquid. That means that beyond the obvious human applications, the new substance could have commercial uses as well. Imagine spraying down a landfill with a simple liquid and having it not smell!

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Drop This Fact: The FDA only requires that an antiperspirant brand cut back on sweat by 20% to boast "all day protection."