Victoria's Secret 'Bombshell' perfume repels mosquitoes for 2 hours: study

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It is an undeniable fact that dengue and Malaria are two of the most common life-threatening diseases these days. It affects both men and women, males and females. Malaria has made itself as one of the debilitating diseases.

According to World Malaria Day, almost half of the entire world population is at risk of getting Malaria. Quartz also says that in the year 2015 alone, the disease has already killed more or less 438,000 people.

As a way to prevent Malaria from infecting more people, the World Health Organization made its move. It started from a simple gesture of handing out mosquito nets to improving the development of an effective vaccine, and of course, to broadening the antibiotic access. While it is a relief that the WHO is trying its best to help the world in protecting themselves from the possible attack of Malaria, there seems to be another way to mosquito-proof oneself - the Bombshell perfume of Victoria's Secret.

According to Quartz, there is a new study published in the Journal of Insect Science that hails Victoria's Secret's Bombshell perfume as one of the most effective mosquito repellents. The study was conducted by a team of researchers who are from the New Mexico State University.

For the purpose of finding the most effective repellents, the researchers decided to try a total of ten different substances. Two out of these ten substances turned out to be perfumes, including Victoria's Secret's Bombshell Perfume.

To carry on the research, they put two different mosquito species in Y-shaped tubes. The tubes have two ends. On the first end is where a researcher's bare hand was placed while one of the ten substances was slathered on the hand on the other.

This experiment allowed the researchers to observe and personally witness which among these two ends the mosquitos were attracted to. Aside from identifying which end the mosquitos went, they also analyzed as to how long the mosquitos were repelled for each substance.

While it is true that you can even find articles in previous studies and many websites, including Osana, stating that mosquitos are attracted to floral scents, the result of the conducted research is different.

However, the researchers emphasized the fact that they used a highly concentrated perfume. They also indicate that there is a possibility that the result won't be the same if another floral scent with lower concentration was used.