I thought this was quite funny, I learnt it from uni and it’s from newscientist.com
Love is in the air
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18 August 2001
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Jon Copley -
Magazine issue 2304
Smell your partner if you want to know whether the romance will lastFORGET love horoscopes. If you want to know what the future holds for you and a partner, sniff yourselves with an "e-nose".
Researchers in Germany have developed an electronic nose that can detect the smells that mice use to choose mates with compatible genes. The device should make it easier to test the controversial idea that people also rely on smells, and that having the wrong ones may sometimes sow the seeds of divorce.
Strange isnt it???