Note Q — Chapter IX · LIBIDO SEXUALIS
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Women, says Hagen, in his “Sexuelle Osphresiologie,” are like the flowers who spread their intoxicating fragrance during dawn and dusk—at the first rays of the rising and the last rays of the setting sun. With some the sweetest odors emanate during night-time. Before a thunder storm, when the air is close, the “parfum de la femme” is particularly pronounced. The transpiration of lean women is less pronounced than in the stout, who possess usually large sudoriparous pores and sebaceous glands. Brunettes have a stronger odor feminae than blondes, and both are surpassed by the red-haired.
According to Jaeger, the balmy fragrance of the pure, innocent virgin is of an extraordinary purity. As soon as the girl falls in love, the fragrance at once changes.
Long sexual continence is claimed by Galopin to increase the transpiratory odor feminae.
According to Monin, the woman’s respiration at the time of menstruation has the odor of onions.
Before and after conjugation the natural odor corporis of the woman is more intense. Two of the author’s patients were reported to exhale an odor somewhat resembling that of onions, immediately after the orgasm.