Heck, even before you take into account differing xenobiologies, this has precedent on earth; different cultures are often unused to how other cultures smell.
I remember a Chinese friend, in jest mind you, said that white people smell of slightly sour milk.
I'm sensitive to smells and perfumes so any culture that uses them often is difficult for me. Hey are there scent suppressants I can buy or is that future tech?
There would so be a market for it, although I'd rather have the artificial odor market be killed off instead. Saves a lot of waste as well. (as the air pollution, those smells... yuck)
I knew a guy who couldn’t smell anything for weeks after smoking weed. As a maintenance worker for an apartment complex, he kept that up for years.
Hey I'm a condo maintenance guy! I swear Snelling garbage and bad smells all day has destroyed my sense of smell. If someone's wearing strong perfume it bothers me, but I can't smell bad smells or notice them
It's possible since I got COVID last year, but I feel like it's been going a while for me
Everyone has a smell. Everything has a smell.
You're more likely to find smells you're unfamiliar with potent and obvious.
So, yeah, humans stink, most humans usually smell somewhat like the foods they typically eat, big surprise!
So Vulcans probably stink, too, just differently.
Wonder if it has to do with how many of us eat meat, Vulcan are vegetarian aren't they?
Yeah, I imagine the body odor of meat eaters to strict vegetarians is particularly... noticeable as it's something totally alien to their diet.
I'm mostly vegetarian. But the dishes that I tend to eat are heavily spiced. Curry is so good. Also garlic. Hah
Still, the farts of someone who mostly survives on processed meats are something else and can clean out a room.
It wasn't me, I swear!
My pet theory on this is that it's because most vulcans are vegan or vegetarian, and many humans still eat meat and other animal products. The diet thing is confirmed canon, but I can confirm being able to smell... meat smell(?) on people who eat it.
The meat Federation citizens eat isn't really an animal product. In the Orville, it's actually made explicit that killing an animal for food is regarded as tantamount to murder in the Union.
The reality is it wouldn't matter if it's synthetically produced meat, it's still going to have the same proteins and chemicals as it would if it came from an animal, which is what people (myself included) can smell on people who have consumed them. Eating garlic makes you smell like garlic, eating dairy makes you smell like dairy, eating meat makes you smell like meat.
I think the implication that we're smelling the concept of sin is very funny though.
Makes you wonder what Picard was drinking.
well presumably if there's some specific compound in meat that makes us smell, that could simply not be replicated
except we have vegan meats made from various vegetable proteins that are basically equivalent at this point, and they most certainly don't have the same proteins as meat.
Do you eat meat? The vegan meats like impossible and beyond are not "basically equivalent." They are fine, but easy to distinguish from meat.
been eating meat my whole life and vegan nuggets are impossible to tell apart, and vegan ground meat is sufficiently close that you wouldn't notice being served it in a sauce instead of real meat.
They kinda imply they eat real meat in enterprise. When do they phase out animals as food?
it's not a theory, it's fact: the smell is rotting flesh (and dairy for most) and animals on earth rely on it to know if something is nearby them.
You can smell bloodmouths? What’s the difference? I’ll have to keep a nose out for it
I remember reading that some astronauts have reported needing to get used to the smell of Earth again after being in space for a while. Apparently the planet just always smells faintly like shit and we've been ignoring it.
