Nobody likes strong smells coming from other human beings. It's just that social convention: you are nice, if you smell nice, and you are a monster - likeShakespeare's Caliban - if you smell bad. Caliban, often depicted as a Golumn-like creature, is one of the first cases of fish odor syndrome depicted in the literature. No amount of soap and water would help him to wash the smell away, as his body is constantly producing a pungent small molecule trimethylamine. Caliban [...]...
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