It's exactly the other way around about love and body odors. Love is a state of consciousness, involving profound belief and that belief alters one's reaction to everything.

When you have decided you're in love with someone, it's THEN that you like the way they smell (no matter how they smell). Love transforms the way you react to outer stimulus. For example, you may have always thought you didn't like some nationality very much....let's say...Germans or Italians or English or whatever....then you fall in love with someone who IS German or Italian or English...BOOM! All of a sudden you realize for the first time in your life how totally wonderful the Germans or the Italians or the English really ARE. You become entranced with them. (smile) I have experienced this. So have many others.

You may have always hated Hawaiian shirts. Then you fall in love with someone who wears them as a fairly regular thing, and all of a sudden you realize how great Hawaiian shirts are (until you fall out of love with the person...then you start hating Hawaiian shirts again, only more so).

It's so ironical how subjective we are...how our thoughts control our reactions.

You can be around someone and notice they have some body odor, and it's not too pleasant. You move away a bit. Six months later, for whatever reason (emotional vulnerability? opening of the heart? the right time?) you fall in love with that person. It can happen quite quickly, you just have to be in the right frame of mind, and ready to. Well, the weird thing is, now their body odor smells great! You just want to get closer to it.

That's how love works. It alters one's perceptions of reality.

The really ironical part of all this is that a couple of years later the relationship may have fallen apart...and you notice that, hey, YUCK! They DON'T smell good at all anymore. Sad, isn't it?

The smell of a person is NOT what attracts you, the fact that you ARE attracted in the first place is what makes you think they smell so good.

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One possible exception to what I'm saying here: If you're one of those types who is basically attracted to virtually ALL women, though, let's say, which can happen....or all men, which is a bit rarer, then they will probably fairly much all smell good to you.....I've seen some people who think that way. They appear to be pretty much happy with just about anything of the opposite sex, within certain limits of age and appearance. I don't get how they can see it that way, but they do.) *****

It's all subjective. As is love. It's a thought pattern, and it changes everything, every sense perception, every observation, to suit its own present levels of belief and its own interpretation of reality. And that is why "love is blind". That is why love can so easily and quickly turn to hatred or hostility when the powerfully positive thought that brought it forth vanishes and is replaced by fear, disappointment, dismissal, avoidance, blame, rejection.

Thought is the king of our reality. Sense perceptions are merely the menial servants trudging around the castle, carrying plates and sweeping up for the royalty.