Legal Definition of recant. : 1  to renounce or withdraw (prior statements or testimony) surprised the prosecution by recanting statements made earlier to the police. 2  intransitive verb.
Â· just now. Report Abuse. When you sniff your armpits, when you tuck your nose under like you do, your nostrils encounter the smell unevenly. Armpit sweat contains pheromones, especially those pheromones that attract the opposite sex, but repel one's own sex, including oneself.
Why sweat smells. Well actually sweat from the eccrine glands does not have a smell. Sweat from apocrine glands does have a smell, but it is usually only a very slight smell. However, our bodies have bacteria (germs) living on skin and clothes. These bacteria use sweat to grow. A lot of body smell (body odour or BO) comes from the bacteria feeding on the oils in sweat under the arms or groin.