Originally Posted by
Lite
Part of that spark is knowing that I'm chemically compatible with the person. That they smell right to me. It sounds weird, but I've been on dates w/ women who smell like old gym socks to me even after they've freshly showered.
If the person smells wrong, even though everything else is right (and no I don't mean bad hygiene here folks), I won't date them.
I've heard this refer to as 'pheromone attraction' and I have to admit... I tend to notice this too. With my ex, I more or less forced the relationship to work (young, naive... etc..), and not once did I ever like their scent. They bathed, were fairly clean... but I found their smell simply disagreeable.
Attraction to someone cannot be purely physical or purely mental... I believe it has to be both.
"The weakest soul, knowing its own weakness, and believing this truth that strength can only be developed by effort and practice, will, thus believing, at once begin to exert itself, and, adding effort to effort, patience to patience, and strength to strength, will never cease to develop, and will at last grow divinely strong."
- James Allen