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is an offense we tolerate in dogs but revile in our close friends and colleagues, which explains why certain individuals on dates may be seen hyperventilating furtively into their own cupped hands.

A noxious blast of freshly exhaled air, conveying the rich scent of multiplying bacteria or semidigested food to our helpless olfactory organs. An offense we tolerate in dogs but revile in our close friends and colleagues, which explains why certain individuals on dates may be seen hyperventilating furtively into their own cupped hands.

is a tricky subject to address head on. A good rule of thumb is: always accept a breath mint if someone offers you one.

Accept a breath mint if someone offers you one. — H. Jackson Brown

is sensual; it’s the sting of her breath that prepares us for the sweet smells of the rest of her, just as the tang of vinegar in a salad brings out all its secret aromas.

We taste vinegar just as much in our nose as in our mouth. We can smell it on our palate as much 2 as in our nose. Acid armpits are a meal in themselves. A good long whiff of vinegar cleanses the palate. After the biting shock of underarm odor, our entire smelling apparatus is ready to enjoy all the fleshly delights to come. Browsing animals are always on the lookout for the purgatives their digestion depend on, just as we need underarm acidity to prepare our own lazy sense of smell for the heady pleasures of our lover’s body. It’s the sting of her breath that prepares us for the sweet smells of the rest of her, just as the tang of vinegar in a salad brings out all its secret aromas.

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