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>The team found that the women's armpit sweat contained relatively high levels of an odourless sulphur-containing compound -- 5 milligrams per millilitre of sweat versus 0.5 milligrams in men. When the researchers mixed this compound in the lab with bacteria commonly found in the armpit, the bugs turned it into a thiol - a previously discovered odour from armpits that is akin to onion.
>The men, meanwhile, had relatively high levels of an odourless fatty acid which turned into a cheesy odour when exposed to the same types of bacteria.
>The balance of oniony to cheesy precursors in women's sweat made it smell worse than men's as rated by independent smell assessors.
https://abcnews.go.com/Health/story?id=6761875&page=1