Do people have “odorprints”?

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Woman Spraying Perfume --- Image by © Michael Haegele/Corbis

It’s no surprise that people have unique scents—from your seventh grade teacher’s combination of pungent perfume and chalk dust, to your mom’s familiar aroma of Gardenia and soap. But, are our particular smells unique enough for everyone to have a distinct “odorprint”? According to an article from Chemical & Engineering News, there is a growing group of scientists who think so.