You can’t fake it, “Says study co-author Johan Lundstrom, an assistant professor at the Monell Chemical Senses Center and at Sweden’s Karolinska Institute. “If you pass around a corner, you don’t need to look at someone to know they are older; you can always sniff them.

We often spray and apprehensively try to scrub away and cover up our natural odor; older people have less intense and more pleasant scents than younger infants.

Researchers say that our bodies give off scents that have a variety of chemicals with useful information, but it’s yet not sure whether that smell changes with passage of time in an easily noticeable way.

Many cultures around the world have identified an “old person smell” infact, in Japanese it is called Kareishu.

Study was determined after the tentative research on animals that it might be true for people as well. Scientists also elaborate that those who marry third cousins, have the highest chances of reproductive success.

Similarly, who seek out for older men because they have proven to have endurance genes.