If dater of the shirt you pick also picks yours, site sends phone numbers

Only available in New York City and for only 100 singles

No personal info needed but site asks you refrain from using deodorant

Most believe looks and personality play major roles when searching for a potential match, but a new dating app claims the key to finding your soul-mate is by their smell.

Smell Dating sends daters a t-shirt in the mail and instructs them to wear it for three days, send it back and they will receive 10 other shirts from other daters.

The next step of this matchmaking process requires users to take a whiff of each garment and pick the aroma that arouses them the most – all for just $25.

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Smell Dating sends users a t-shirt in the mail and instructs them to wear it for three days, send it back and they will receive 10 other shirts from other daters – all for just $25. The next step of this matchmaking process requires users to take a whiff of each garment and pick the aroma that arouses them the most

HOW DOES IT WORK? A new dating app claims the key to finding your soul-mate is by the way they smell You pay $25 and receive a t-shirt in the mail: Wear the shirt for three days in a row, but refrain from showering or applying deodorant. However, smoking and siting by a campfire are acceptable. After wearing the shirt for 72 hours, send it back to Smell Dating: After you’ve returned your shirt, Smell Dating will send you 10 shirts from other people who have also spent the last 72 hours wearing them without showering. If you like the smell of any of the shirts (and they like yours too), Smell Dating will give you each other's phone number: Unlike Tinder, eHarmony and all of the other dating sites, Smell Dating does not ask about your sexual preference, what gender you are, if you like long walks on the beach or if you're a vegetarian. Advertisement

The team at Smell Dating did investigate how smell arouses us by consulting with several scientists who have done smell studies in the past, reports BuzzFeed News.

Unlike Tinder, eHarmony and all of the other dating sites, Smell Dating does not ask about your sexual preference, your gender, if you like long walks on the beach or if you're a vegetarian.

A phone number and mailing address are the only two things required to sign up for the service.

The only thing they will as of their clients is that they skip deodorant, perfume and showering for the 72 hours, as it masks a person's natural odor.

'It's about trusting subconscious intuition and not falling back on inevitable preconceptions and prejudices,' Tega Brain, co-founder of Smell Dating, told BuzzFeed News.

'You can't control what you like the taste or smell of, you have to trust your sensory system.'

After you've sniffed your batch of potential suitors you will have the opportunity to choose the shirt you like.

If the owner of that shirt also picks yours, Smell Dating will send you both each other's phone numbers and communication can began.

The 'mail odor dating service' is only available to 100 lucky singles living in the New York City area and they are taking signups as of this writing.

According to BuzzFeed News, 35 of the spots have already been filled.

Although this sounds like a gimmick, there has been numerous studies conducted in the past that the way someone smells affects how attractive or unattractive we find them.

A study at Oxford University asked women to rate how attractive a group of men were based on headshots.

While they filled out the questionnaire, researchers released pleasant and unpleasant aromas into the air.

The results showed that women rated male faces as being significantly less attractive when unpleasant smells filled the room.

And they rated men as more attractive when they were exposed to the please fragrance.

In his book, The Compatibility Gene, Professor Daniel Davis explains that there are human genes that may influence how attractive a person is to a potential partner.

A phone number and mailing address are the only two things required to sign up for the service. The only thing they will as of their clients is that they skip deodorant, perfume and showering for the 72 hours, as it masks a person's natural odor

The University of Manchester professor believes that suitable mates can smell that they have found a partner with an optimal genetic code.

The idea is based on the so-called smelly T-shirt experiment in which Swiss scientists Claus Wedekind studied the DNA of a group of students to look at their histocompatibility genes, The Guardian reports.

If the owner of that shirt also picks yours, Smell Dating will send you both each other's phone numbers and communication can began. The 'mail odor dating service' is only available to 100 lucky singles living in the New York City area and they are taking signups as of this writing

The researchers asked the male students to wear a T-shirt for two nights while avoiding anything that might alter their natural smell.

At the end of the two days, the shirts were put in boxes and the female students were asked to smell them and then rank the smell by intensity, pleasantness and sexiness.