The inguinoscrotal and inguinovulvar perspirations have an aromatic odor like that of the genitals of either sex.
During menstruation, hyperidrosis of the axillae diffuses an aromatic odor similar to that of acids or chloroform, and in suppression of menses, according to the Ephemerides, the odor is as of hops.
Odors of Disease .-- The various diseases have their own peculiar odors.
The "hospital odor," so well known, is essentially variable in character and chiefly due to an aggregation of cutaneous exhalations.
The wards containing women and children are perfumed with butyric acid, while those containing men are influenced by the presence of alkalies like ammonia.
Gout, icterus, and even cholera (Drasch and Porker) have their own odors.

Older observers, confirmed by Doppner, say that all the plague-patients at Vetlianka diffused an odor of honey.

In diabetes there is a marked odor of apples.

The sweat in dysentery unmistakably bears the odor of the dejecta.

Behier calls the odor of typhoid that of the blood, and Berard says that it attracts flies even before death.
Typhus has a mouse-like odor, and the following diseases have at different times been described as having peculiar odors,--measles, the smell of freshly plucked feathers; scarlatina, of bread hot from the oven; eczema and impetigo, the smell of mold; and rupia, a decidedly offensive odor.
The hair has peculiar odors, differing in individuals.