VS perfume repelled mosquitos almost as well as DEET
posted by @JonManuel -
Smell good AND keep the bugs away? Gotta love a multi-purpose fragrance.
That is exactly what the Victoria's Secret scent "Bombshell" is credited with doing in a study published in the Journal of Insect Science. Here's how Quartz summarized the findings:
The fragrance turned out to be almost as effective as the widely used insect repellent DEET; it repelled mosquitos for 120 minutes.
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