If your sex sweat makes you at all uncomfortable, as much as you can, try to embrace it. “That can create different scents as well,” Dr. Perspiration adds a whole other ingredient to the aroma. People get wet in a lot of ways during sex, and sweat is another one of them. Science! This might be why smells vary from partner to partner.
And when your genital scent combines with someone else’s genital scent (of any gender), the two of you will together create a different scent, Dr.
That means, even if you’re female and your partner is female, you’ll each have your own scent. Generally speaking, everyone has their own scent down there, says Jessica Shepherd, MD, a gynecologist in Dallas affiliated with Baylor University Medical Center. Here are some common sex smells, according to experts who *know* the human body: Your scent, your partner’s scent, and the scent of both of you together. As it turns out, there are lots of scents-mostly pleasant but occasionally not-that you can sniff out if you pay attention in the bedroom, all combining for that “smells like sex in here!” effect.
