Kareishu

A short while back I wrote a blog about the most unusual subject anyone has written a blog about.

The Japanese have invented a completely new sense category that no other peoples have noticed.

This is the second new sense category that the Japanese have introduced us too.

The first sense is in the taste spectrum. It is umami which is savoriness.  It is now our fifth taste sense.

We now must give the Japanese our gratitude for another sense caegory. In this case a smell category. The Japanese have noticed that old people have a unique smell. They call it kareishu.  This word is familiar widely among Japanese and can be found on many soap and body cleaner bottles.

The word is related to the recognition of a smell emitted by the body from a protein called nonenal.  Nonenal was discovered by the Shiseido Research Laboratories.

I tried the soaps that the Japanese label with kareishu but they were rather irrelevant because they did not cover up the smell of old person sweat.

I found the Shiseido product that is an underarm deodorant.  Here is a picture of the container.

When I asked American friends whether they recognize this smell category they explained why they don't. First they believe old people have a distinct smell because they live in musty quarters. Second they believe that old people have poor hygiene.

Why should someone's hygiene change as they age?

In any case if you are planning to get old you should know about kareishu and the Shiseido deodorant.