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If Wong Kai Wai’s ‘In the Mood for Love’ had a smell, it’d be this

(Photograph: Allstar/Cinetext/Jet Tone Production)There’s a pivotal scene in Wong Kai Wai’s masterpiece, In the Mood for Love, when Chow Mo-wan (played by Tony Leung) takes a puff of his cigarette next to slight-shouldered Su Li-Zhen (played by Maggie Cheung). SEE ALSO: WTF is the difference...

The surprising reason why some people don’t produce body odor

I once watched a Korean variety show when a Korean pop star admitted to using deodorant. The entire audience proceeded to erupt in laughter. “You use deodorant? Poor thing,” a female announcer went on to say. “You must really smell.” It was a conversation that was completely jarring to me...