HUMAN BODY ODOR 421 Table VII (cont'd) Substance Sol. Sex p p Men's shirts 7 f - .26 .35 m - .35 .20 tot -.31 .10 8 f - .40 .14 m .22 .44 tot -. 17 .37 9 f - .47 .08 m - .01 .98 tot -.29 .12 10 f - .72 .003* m .23 .41 tot - .43 .02* 11 f -.10 .72 m -.13 .65 tot -.14 .46 12 f - .08 .78 m -.33 .23 tot -. 18 .34 13 f -.38 .17 m .03 .93 tot -. 10 .60 14 f - .44 .1.1 m - .32 .25 tot -.41 .03* 15 f - .34 .23 m .18 .52 tot -. 04 .84 6 f - .42 .12 m .06 .84 tot - .23 .22 7 f -.16 .58 m - .05 .87 tot -. 17 .37 8 f -.37 .17 m .20 .47 tot -. 17 .37 9 f -.43 .11 m .42 .12 tot -.13 .51 10 f -.44 .10 rn - .46 .08 tot - .46 .01' Substance III is judged to be female only at lower concentration levels (3, 4, and 5) both by men and by women. Substance II is judged to be male at high concentration levels (1 and 2--but the assign-

422 JOURNAL OF THE SOCIETY OF COSMETIC CHEMISTS Table Villa Concentration, Perceived Intensity, and Sex Attribution--"Solution" Shirts Substance Sol. 2 Women (n = 29) Men (n = 30) Mean • _+ SD n 4 Mean + SD n Mean ___ SD n Mean _+ SD Androstenol 1 3.20 1.33 16 4.98 1.29 13 3.49 1.57 19 3.96 1.46 2 2.95 0.89 20 4.14 1.97 9 3.15 1.42 17 3.65 1.80 3 2.49 1.06 19 3.33 1.55 10 2.83 1.18 18 2.98 1.41 4 2.10 0.94 17 2.35 0.61 12 2.57 0.85 18 2.44 0.85 5 2.34 1.01 20 2.69 1.21 9 2.61 1.02 18 2.85 1.05 III 1 2.73 1.24 13 3.70 1.48 16 3.04 1.44 12 3.65 1.45 2 2.52 1.54 12 3.03 0.62 17 2.78 0.99 15 3.22 1.31 3 2.86 1.04 21 2.75 1.38 8 2.97 1.15 22 3.00 1.49 4 2.32 0.95 21 2.63 1.32 8 2.25 0.70 17 2.56 1.08 5 2.36 0.82 21 2.53 1.10 8 2.52 1.23 21 3.14 1.05 II 1 4.39 1.72 7 5.09 1.87 22 4.30 1.76 11 5.46 1.90 2 2.88 1.45 6 4.69 1.36 23 3.52 1.10 13 4.66 1.74 3 2.87 1.13 11 4.19 1.67 18 2.99 1.50 17 4.00 1.73 4 3.10 1.34 17 3.52 1.20 12 2.78 1.06 19 3.86 1.29 5 2.81 1.42 18 3.14 1.25 11 3.00 1.15 21 3.58 1.21 CPD 1 3.06 1.07 24 3.45 1.56 5 3.44 1.09 23 2.89 1.67 2 2.78 0.90 24 2.10 0.98 5 2.99 1.16 20 3.08 1.26 3 2.28 0.94 24 2.30 0.99 5 2.57 0.96 22 2.84 1.08 4 2.58 0.78 20 2.78 1.09 9 2.83 1.21 19 3.07 1.14 5 2.25 1.13 20 2.73 0.92 9 2.42 1.03 19 2.82 1.07 11 12 12 12 18 15 8 13 9 19 17 13 11 9 7 10 8 11 11 •,2 Compare Table III. 3 •? = shirts attributed to female wearer. d' = shirts attributed to male wearer. 4 n = number of judges in the group giving the sex attribution indicated. ment is significant only with female respondents) and female at low concentrations (3, 4, and 5--but this assignment is significant only with male respondents). Cyc/opentadecano/ide is judged to be female at all concentrations, both by men and by women. Shirts worn by wome, are judged to be female, both by men and by women. Shirts worn by men are judged to be male both by men and by women (Table VillA) SEX ATTRIBUTION, INTENSITY, AND PLEASANTNESS The perceived intensity of any given shirt is higher and the pleasantness rating is lower in those cases where the shirt is attributed to a male wearer than in those where it is attributed to a female wearer. This is true both for female and for male respondents and it holds for the four substances tested at all concentrations. The absolute differences are not great, but with very few exceptions they consistently point in the same direction (Table X). For the T-shirts actually worn, the test design enables us only to test the correlation between sex attribution and intensity. Here the pattern (higher perceived