Intermediate dataset of clustered body odor descriptors

Abstract

The dataset shows the intermediate results from 1060 participants from nine countries and five languages: German (Germany, Austria, 414 participants), English (United States, Canada, Great Britain, Sweden, 133 participants), Czech (Czech Republic, 120 participants), Italian (Italy, 86 participants) and Chinese (Hong Kong, 307 participants). In total, 6551 body odor descriptions were collected from these participants and clustered to the 20 most frequent words in each language. The number of namings as well as an English translation are provided.