Can you smell a sociopath?
Does a narcissist have a certain aroma?
As their abnormal brain affects their physiology…
how does it show up?
These are entirely different “humans”. The way they think, speak, and behave is not a “choice”. It’s instinctive. Their fundamental “self” is wired to use and take and get whatever they need and want. This “self” is pathological… meaning they’re driven by their brains which are not normal, yet are quite specific.
I wonder since the sociopath’s abnormal brain affects their physiology how does this show up in all parts of their being? We know a lot of the things that they each have in common as creatures of this sort.
They’re fundamentally and almost thoroughly identical pathological beast to pathological monster. For example, we know in their heads lies are real and real is made up.
Sociopaths are Without a Conscience
We know and have experienced that they have no remorse and no conscience. This is because they have no positive or genuine bonding. We can bond with a cow more than share a mutual trusting bond with them.
They feel no positive concern or care nor do they feel love, like, appreciation, gratitude, or any of our finer feelings or any positive emotions at all really that isn’t tied to their self-adulation and glee at taking things and using someone or getting away with something.
Instincts of a Parasite and Predator
They don’t feel even the instinctive obligation associated with the care and feeding of their offspring in the most basic of basics. – A house cat makes a better parent. And You might have noticed the black eyes. Or the drive within males to engage in anal sex and refuse condoms.
There’s their shared natural impulse to call us a negative-something-or-other that strikes soon into the entanglement, once the polish is off and they aren’t getting things they want or we expect “too much”. And we all see the way they can say one thing and then the complete opposite within the same 15-seconds in hopes of getting a response from us that yields to their benefit.
And then there’s the shocking way that they can be calm and distant amidst any situation and not be bothered unless it directly affects their security and safety. And their sort of nocturnal bent, and ability to not sleep and be out prowling through the night.
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Smell a Sociopath?
But… Have you noticed the absence of body scent…? This seems to be a “thing”. It’s come up with people in sessions and I experienced it as well. They smell of nothing. Apparently, though little talked about… this is not a new notion and has grounds in reality…to the point that this quality of the pathological is present in fiction. Have you heard of the novel, Perfume…? It’s about an abandoned baby who has no scent… and how they grow up and what they do when they get older. I read it in 1987.
Sweeter Than Honey…
When I met the nutter I married, he had the sweetest scent… that I thought was his natural skin. It turns out it was the delicious perfume of a body oil he brought with him from Europe. I’d never seen it in our bathroom. Ever. I’d never seen him use it. I had zero awareness this oil existed in my home.
Until the day the bottle was drained empty and I suppose he hadn’t been able to find it anywhere – or maybe hadn’t looked – or hadn’t been able to get the woman in Europe who bought it for him to send anymore. – Then he brought the bottle to me as if it were a national emergency. He described it almost drooling, saying, it’s the smell of the lotion they put on babies in France…
Does This Lead Us to Do Their Bidding?
He paced and pawed the floor in front of me. His cloven feet scraped the carpet as wrung his hands… This was the story: HIs “friend”, “Nicole” (who I was told was very beautiful and that I kind of looked like) had worked in (as he told it with passion and importance) an exclusive-elite-upscale, amazing-the-best beauty shop in Berlin and that’s how he got the oil through “Nicole”. But, Nicole doesn’t work there anymore…so. It’s now my job to find this oil. A-sap.
I was stunned and also activated to take action on his behalf, equally at the same time. – That’s how it hits us isn’t it…? I’d never heard of “Nicole” before. Or this oil. But, I Googled and researched and made phone calls and drove to get the oil that I found within hours that very day at a tiny shop in Beverly Hills. – And, naturally, I paid for it and carried it home to him.
Truth Stranger Than Surreal
I realized this perfumed body oil was what I’d thought had been the natural scent of him. This is bizarre and so strange, it’s not something you’re going to hear or talk about often, but as it turns out – this bizarre life-jacking monster I’d married had no natural scent, odor or aroma.
This company makes amazing stuff and many other products, even for babies…scented face cremes (which I use and had been using already!) and lotions and face and body wash that are out of this world, Weleda, a German company…and Germany is his home base, his major geographic area is Berlin. So.
Sociopaths Are Nothing Like Normal
The other opposing, but equally odd circumstance can be that they reek to high heaven, so to speak. Literally the stench of their rotten insides, no doubt. – Does this seem impossible? Kinda. But then again, is this any more impossible than the fact that while we stand “upright” on one side of the globe at the same time there are other people on the other side standing “upside-down” yet, on their feet. Whoa.
Could this bizarro-smell thing related to the pathological be tied to the fact that they don’t experience emotions in a way that produces pheromones – or the same pheromones that we do – or possibly other bodily normal attributes such as “scent”.
Is this a piece of what makes us experience them as “cold” and when we see more of their behavior and lies does this absence of human-scent attribute in part to the fear they strike within us…?
– Have you had this experience…?
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I thought I was so fortunate to marry a man who didn’t ever have BO. Like he was neutral! He did have a specific cologne he always wore though: Fierce and it was imperative to have it available. He wanted me to wear perfumes and be as “feminine as possible” and made me feel bad for not wearing high heels and dresses every day…but also had me slaving away doing every kind of manual labor for him whilst taking all the credit for completed projects.
So his body smelled neutral naturally, but, how do I put this delicately? I hated how he smelled down there. It was so revolting to me. I learned -once he left- about his sexual proclivities, which explained a lot, but all those years I felt bad that I hated his smell down there.
Yes! So revolting to see what they really are. I understand the reference to his proclivities… Every sociopath has this preference. Men and women with men or women or any gender. – It is interesting that these creatures have no body aroma, scent, or BO. That their eyes can go pure black, that their voices and bodies and faces can change. – There’s no explaining it, aside from simply: this is what they are.
Yes! Mine would wear a random cologne and I begged him to wear it so I could smell something. He also claimed to have just one cologne he really liked that his ex-wife found for him in Europe and was impossible to find. He would also ask me not to shower because he loved being able to smell me.