I had a bit of an unusual diet (for me) yesterday. I exclusively ate bread, nuts, hummus, and various fruits including a few dates at the end of the night. When I woke up this morning I was a bit sweaty and my partner asked me if I was making coffee or like making caramel candies or something. I had no idea what she was talking about and joked, “it’s just my natural musk”. Anyway turns out it was. I legitimately smell like fresh caramels.
Eat more dates?
Specifically I had banana, peanut butter, sourdough, cinnamon, pear, cashew, pistachio, bell pepper, hummus, and cucumber.
Have you been either taking fenugreek supplements or using it as a seasoning, maybe in your hummus? That will cause you to sweat out glucose. Most people just end up smelling like maple syrup.
I have smelled like maple syrup in the past too! I don’t take a fenugreek supplement and while I do enjoy cooking with it I haven’t had it recently so I don’t think it was that.
there’s a couple diseases that can cause that too, but they also make you feel like absolute fucking dogshit when it happens (and the big one, diabetic ketoacidosis, specifically smells like fruit instead of syrup) so you’d know if it was one of those
Thankfully not diabetes but it is something I need to keep an eye out for so thanks for the tip