Foul scent of a woman

June 12th, 2008

The London Times has an interesting article on Pamela Dalton, the woman who created the worst smell on Earth, part of a program to create a weaponised perfume for the US Department of Defense:

NOT many people can claim to have smelt the world’s worst odour, but Pamela Dalton also helped to invent it.

Six years ago, Dalton and her colleagues at the Monell Chemical Senses Centre in Philadelphia were asked by the US Department of Defense to study whether responses to malo-dours were universal. They may well be: during trials, the mixture they came up with, nicknamed stench soup, managed to disgust just about everybody.

Thanks, Ellen!

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