“As we age, metabolism varies and body odor changes”
“I have always been a very olfactory person,” admits Laura López-Mascaraque. So much so that, as a child, her parents scolded her because before trying any food she needed to smell it. And she even used her sense of smell like a radar: “If I didn’t like someone, I didn’t want to give them a kiss,” she confesses. To that sensitivity was added a fascination surely uncommon decades ago. “While my friends wanted to be hairdressers or artists, I said I wanted to study and become a neurosurgeon.” For that reason, she decided to study the great forgotten sense: one that “was always left behind” and whose interest seemed reserved for a few fascinated by “that chemical world that surrounds us,” and who “knew how to appreciate its beauty and understand the emotions, memories, and experiences it can awaken,” she says.
