Smell.dating

For context, studies show that mate compatibility can be determined by the reaction to pheromones. This site is attempting to bring this kind of research to the public in a usable way. This is not some kind of fetish thing for people who like the smell of armpits.

While it certainly sounds odd, my wife has said that when I'm away on business trips she'll take one of my worn shirts and put it on her pillow at night since it smells like me.

Thanks to lapitopi for the contextual link [1]; tldr: attraction can be predicted by perceived smell of sweat, which correlates with genetic compatibility in terms of resistance to disease.

Could use some better marketing to mitigate the ick factor.

Also, a .dating TLD? We need serious reform of the system.

[1] http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/evolution/library/01/6/l_016_08.html

"It's like Tinder, but for panty sniffers"

Interesting concept. I think a lot of people will have issues getting past how strange it seems at first.

What I am wondering though is, shouldn't they include at least a bit of personality stuff in there? If I were going to pay them to send sample to me, I would want to know all 10 of those samples are from someone I have a decent chance of getting along with. Because attraction is not everything.

I also think most people know what gender(s) they are looking for, and would rather not get get a set of samples that includes others. Like what is the point in sending two heterosexual individuals of the same gender eachother's samples? Or sending a homosexual individual a sample from the opposite gender?

A completely random sample of 10 seems inefficient. There should at least be some sort of simple optimizations involved. Unless I am missing something?

For those who think this isn't a parody, among the links in the footer is "the useless press". This project is a sibling of

"the Decapitated Animals Dataset" - An open call for projects utilizing New York City decapitated animals data.

"Call to Wait" - A phone line that puts callers on hold for seven years.

And others. http://uselesspress.org/

It might still be an actual thing.. but it's a parody for sure :)

Love the idea, but can't this be gamed by using synthetic pheromones? Pheromone colognes for the purpose of attracting women have been available for awhile now.

Can't tell if this is legit or a parody of niche dating sites.

Three days sounds a bit extreme to me. I think a more realistic scenario would be a normal unwashed tshirt as usually most people don't go so long with washing, etc. Maybe though it's so we can more easily determine things. But smell is definitely important. I couldn't date some guys who were very smart and had other things going for them because they smelled bad according to my nose.

Have to admit this is pretty weird, but also genius. This certainly falls under some people's personal preferences.

I can't tell if this is getting upvotes because people think it's a witty parody of dating apps/sites, or because they think it's cool. If it's the latter, I'm somewhat disturbed by that.

Based on the super-creepy background video, I sure hope that the creators of this thing meant for it to be a parody.

Seems like something that people might actually pay for. The smelly shirts alone, that is. There would definitely be people who couldn't care less about actually matching and just want the smells.

Gross, funny, experimental and scientifically plausible. LOVE IT.

How are the 10 samples they send out selected?

So each 1 person who sends in 1 sample receives 10 samples in return. Its a ponzi scheme folks!

Is it already April 1st?

This sounds disgusting

I can't imagine anyone using this for real. The concepts funny though.

what the actual fuck

Didn't these guys just raise $5 mil (@ $100 mil valuation now)?

What a time to be alive.

2 grody 4 me

Do they allow underware sniff test?