English → Arabic transcript

Women can smell how masculine you are before you even speak. Your body produces a chemical called androstardinone that is found in your sweat at levels far higher than in women, and it escapes through your skin, your pores, and even the warmth of your breath without you knowing.

This compound has no real visible scent that you would notice, but when it reaches a woman, something completely different happens inside her brain. Scientists at UC Berkeley found that when women were exposed to this chemical, their mood changed, their sexual arousal increased,

and their stress hormone cortisol spiked, all within minutes of just breathing it in. But the strangest part is what brain scans revealed, because when women smell a normal odor like food or perfume, it activates the regular smell regions of the brain.

When they smell androstardinone, it skips all of that entirely and goes straight to the hypothalamus, which is the part of the brain that controls attraction, survival instincts, and mate selection. Her brain is not processing you as a smell,

it is processing you as a signal. Studies also showed that women at peak fertility actively preferred the scent of men with higher testosterone levels, even when they could not see them or hear their voice.