Although there were many similarities between the chemicals wafting from teens and tots, the differences tended to favor the younger children, whose body odor samples had higher levels of a compound with a flowery fragrance. Adolescents, on the other hand, produced a compound that smelled like sweat and urine and had higher levels of substances described as smelling cheesy, musty and “goatlike.”
— Read more in Toddlers Smell Like Flowers, Teens Smell ‘Goatlike,’ Study Finds at The New York Times.
