The hair of the Chinese is known to have the odor of musk, which cannot be washed away by the strongest of chemicals.

Often the distinctive odor of a female is really due to the odor of great masses of hair.

It is said that wig-makers simply by the sense of smell can tell whether hair has been cut from the living head or from combings, as hair loses its odor when it falls out.

In the paroxysms of hysteroepilepsy the hair sometimes has a specific odor of ozone.

Taenia favosa gives to the scalp an odor resembling that of cat's urine.
Sexual Influence of Odors .-- In this connection it may be mentioned that there is a peculiar form of sexual perversion, called by Binet "fetichism," in which the subject displays a perverted taste for the odors of handkerchiefs, shoes, underclothing, and other articles of raiment worn by the opposite sex.