Fake tan smell wakes boyfriend from coma: disgusting reek has some upside at last

Fake tan stinks - we all know that. And men are particularly turned off by the smell - well your girlfriend or wife smelling like a digestive all the time can't be the nicest scent.

But apparently it stinks so badly it has the power to wake people from comas. With her boyfriend in a coma, medical student and fake tan junkie Jo Hall went to visit him every day, purposely reeking of fake tan and strong perfume, knowing that smells can trigger responses even in unconscious patients.

And it worked. When he began to come round he said "Deep down I knew my family were by my bedside. I recognised Jo was there because although I couldn’t see her I think I could smell her fake tan"

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"He can never complain about the smell of my fake tan again!" she says. (Read the full story here)

Fake tans smells rank because they all contain DHA as their active ingredient. When it reacts with the skin it begins to change colour - and give off the distictive (and gross) odour.

So it there any tan that doesn't smell too bad? What do you think? And what does the man in your life think of the smell of your tan!

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