Pale white girl smells like milk.

What? Could you explain that again? Who smelled like milk? White people? Black people? Wizards?

Yeah, that makes perfect sense. I see, now. How could we have been so dense? Nice, snookered...... Good, snookered.....

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Whole, 2%, or skim?

What about chocolate milk?

I think snookered smells like homo-genized milk.

I think this all should be retired.......




perhaps a custard?

I'm white and have some scottish ancestry so I tend to smell like scotch.

which black people? those that we called negroes and wouldn't let them sit in the front of the bus, among many other things? gee, i wonder what on earth was it that bugged them about us.

Slowly flows the Don...

I think this might be an old wive's tale. Although the black people I asked about it said they'd never heard this specifically, they did say that in their childhood they'd heard it said, especially by older people of their own race, that there was a distinct difference between the scent of a person of one race and a person of another.

I'm very sensitive to smells. Some people seem to really soak up and exude odors from the things they ingest - almost like it is coming from their pores (the smelling like scotch thing resonated with me).

When I was growing up, I had a lot of Jewish friends. Their houses always smelled different than my house- their clothes, etc., smelled different than mine- etc., and if I had sniffed their skin, I'd have probably thought it smelled different too- but in a way I found kind of exotically pleasant, like their houses and clothes did to me.
I don't think it's a bad thing to admit that people are different in fundamental ways depending on what their living situations are.

I also think people who are black have a different tone to their voice, deeper and more resonant, that I happen to enjoy. When the whole OJ trial was on and the woman said she heard what she could identify as being "a black voice" and got pilloried for that- I couldn't understand why. I too think that I can tell if a person is black or white by the richness of tone to their voice.

Milk doesn't really have a smell though - unless it's gone sour.

I think you all have a near miraculous sense of smell, a lilt to read about.

Somewhere in the background, way in the distance, I can hear my grandmother admonishing, "You are what you eat!"

Which might explain why different people smell different, although I would be highly suspect of a racial thing and think it more likely that what food you consume may alter the chemistry of your skin odour. Just like gran said.

Accoridng to my mother, both my father and I smell like fresh bread, especially if we've been in the sun (baking, I presume). I guess there's worse things.

There's definitely an "after-tanning booth" smell.

moron!

I just remembered something else from long ago ... an East Indian telling me that whiteys are often referred to as "marshmallows" among their community. Y'know ... pale, soft and powdery.

Fijians often call pale Euro folk "pinkies". They arrive on the islands white, but quickly turn pink.

Hat-head!

umm, i don't know. There might be something to "you are what you eat" - smells then being a cultural function. I've dated an African for quite awhile, and known many of his friends on a daily basis. My sense of smell is also rather high (I'm a neurotic, thus extra sensitive to sensory inputs) - but I cannot report that there would be any universal distinct smell to any race or group of people. I've traveled through Asia a number of times, too. Ditto. Just, various smells. But people on their own do not smell because of their race - at least not that I could tell. People most often smell like their house - thus I'm throwing my money on the cultural explanation.

I smell like Pepsi or Coke, depending on what's on sale.

I smell like garlic and cheap perfume. I'm an Eastern European

You smell like a French?