Also: It was butter, the Japanese thought, which made Europeans so peculiarly rank: bata-kusai they called them (using the English word for the foul substance): “butter-stinkers." The terms Bata-kusai, “stinking of butter,” is still a derogatory term for things obnoxiously Western.

> http://www.webexhibits.org/butter/countries-japan.html

People smell like what they eat. People who eat the same stuff you do, don't notice that you smell.

Europeans also tend to have more apocrine sweat glands than Asians.

https://www.discovermagazine.com/planet-earth/body-odor-asia...

I used to work with a very obese man doing blue collar work. When he sweats, he smelled like a deep frier.

Well... now I feel extremely self conscious.