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I've already posted this study, which found a correlation between facial attractiveness and body odour attractiveness, suggesting that good-looking people naturally smell better, a few times here. However, that study is from 1999 and there were a good number of conflicting ones on the issue, so I decided to look deeper at the whole body odour and attractiveness stuff.
Spoiler: It's pretty brutal.
Do Masculine Men Smell Better? An Association Between Skin Color Masculinity and Female Preferences for Body Odor
The more testosterone you have, the more attractive and manlier your skin and body odour are.
How does this tie into "personality"? Well...
Body Odor Quality Predicts Behavioral Attractiveness in Humans
The attractiveness of your "personality", that is, what normies would also call the "vibes" you give off, is strongly influenced by your body odour. The better you smell, the better your "vibes" are, while the worse you stink, the more of a creep you are to normies.
Also, jfl at the link to the 2D:4D ratio. For those of you who don't know, the 2D:4D ratio is commonly believed to be a sign of how much testosterone you were exposed to in the womb. Here, it basically means that the more testosterone you were bathed in in the womb, the better you smell, and the better you smell, the more attractive your behaviour is seen as.
Manipulation of body odour alters men’s self-confidence and judgements of their visual attractiveness by women
Thankfully, you can compensate by using a deodorant. As in, smelling good is so important that even a simple deodorant can make you seem more attractive in video messages where nobody can actually smell you, just because you'll be acting like you are more attractive than you actually are.
TL;DR: The more testosterone you have, the more masculine your skin and body odour are. The more masculine your body odour is, the more attractive your behaviour/personality is perceived to be, this all being strengthened even further by the found link between pleasant body odour and a masculine 2D:4D ratio, which is widely used as a proxy for the amount of testosterone one has been exposed to in the womb as an embryo. You can compensate with a good deodorant, or a cologne or whatever, but in the end, and as @lifefuel already pointed out in this thread where I also brought the first study up, there's only so far that goes and it doesn't change how masculine your skin is anyway.
Spoiler: It's pretty brutal.
Do Masculine Men Smell Better? An Association Between Skin Color Masculinity and Female Preferences for Body Odor
A recent study claimed face skin color as a sexually dimorphic variable that influences attractiveness preferences in mate choice. Thereby, skin color may assume the role of a mate quality signal influencing attractiveness preferences.
As body odor is linked to attractiveness, this study aimed to explore whether the odors of men with more masculine facial skin color would be evaluated more positively than odors from less masculine men. Female raters were presented with body odors of 18 men and were asked to rate them in various characteristics.
Multilevel modeling revealed that the odors of the donors with more masculine color were rated not only as more attractive, more pleasant, and sexier, but also healthier. This indicates that odor associated with men with more masculine skin color is attractive, just as other sexually dimorphic traits.
Furthermore, we found a negative relation between skin color masculinity and perceived odor maleness. Regarding this last finding, a new discussion is introduced with respect to the influence of cognitive stereotypes in odor judgments. Altogether, the study supports the possibility that chemosensory signals may be communicating signs of mate quality associated with masculinity.
The more testosterone you have, the more attractive and manlier your skin and body odour are.
How does this tie into "personality"? Well...
Body Odor Quality Predicts Behavioral Attractiveness in Humans
However, we show here that the attractiveness of nonverbal behavior, in 20 male participants, is predicted by perceived quality of their axillary body odor.
Depending on two different rating contexts (either a simple attractiveness rating or a rating for long-term partners by 10 female raters not using hormonal contraception), we also found significant relationships between perceived attractiveness of nonverbal behavior and BMI, and between axillary odor ratings and 2D:4D ratio. Axillary odor pleasantness was the single attribute that consistently predicted attractiveness of nonverbal behavior. Our results demonstrate that nonverbal kinesic cues could reliably reveal mate quality, at least in males, and could corroborate and contribute to mate assessment based on other physical traits.
The attractiveness of your "personality", that is, what normies would also call the "vibes" you give off, is strongly influenced by your body odour. The better you smell, the better your "vibes" are, while the worse you stink, the more of a creep you are to normies.
Also, jfl at the link to the 2D:4D ratio. For those of you who don't know, the 2D:4D ratio is commonly believed to be a sign of how much testosterone you were exposed to in the womb. Here, it basically means that the more testosterone you were bathed in in the womb, the better you smell, and the better you smell, the more attractive your behaviour is seen as.
Manipulation of body odour alters men’s self-confidence and judgements of their visual attractiveness by women
Furthermore, although there was no difference between groups in mean attractiveness ratings of men’s photographs by a female panel, the same women judged men using the active spray as more attractive in video-clips, suggesting a behavioural difference between the groups. Attractiveness of an individual male’s non-verbal behaviour, independent of structural facial features, was predicted by the men’s self-reported proclivity towards the provided deodorant. Our results demonstrate the pervasive influence of personal odour on self-perception, and how this can extend to impressions on others even when these impressions are formed in the absence of odour cues
Thankfully, you can compensate by using a deodorant. As in, smelling good is so important that even a simple deodorant can make you seem more attractive in video messages where nobody can actually smell you, just because you'll be acting like you are more attractive than you actually are.
TL;DR: The more testosterone you have, the more masculine your skin and body odour are. The more masculine your body odour is, the more attractive your behaviour/personality is perceived to be, this all being strengthened even further by the found link between pleasant body odour and a masculine 2D:4D ratio, which is widely used as a proxy for the amount of testosterone one has been exposed to in the womb as an embryo. You can compensate with a good deodorant, or a cologne or whatever, but in the end, and as @lifefuel already pointed out in this thread where I also brought the first study up, there's only so far that goes and it doesn't change how masculine your skin is anyway.