true. can't be overlooked, instant repelling despite hotness
Very true- -smell is important. Got me into a situation I never thought I´d experience. I was dating this beautiful woman, her sex-drive was increasing steadily. In the end, she was horny all the time. I have always been the one with the highest sex drive in my relationships, but things started to go wrong with her.
There was always this faint smell with her that I did not like. Some body odour and breath smell. Not directly bad, but something ... hmm "organic" and unpleasent. Hard to define, but definitely something I never enjoyed. I loved the way my previous girlfriend smelled, but this...
Anyway, I started to notice this smell more and more, and I started to get repulsed by it, and as a consequence, by her. I started rejecting her in bed ;-/. Incredible but true- never happened before to me. And, mind you, this was a beautiful woman. As a result, the relationship spiraled towards the end. To be honest, she was a bit unstable as well ;-) and did not take rejection well.
But, smells are powerful emotional signals. The olfactory (smell) cortex in the brain is directly adjacent to structures in the "reptile" brain- the limbic system and thus may be the most emotionally important sensory function.
NN