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.
Thus the team envision a deodorant that would prevent armpit bacteria from producing thioalcohols rather than simple killing them off. Currently deodorants can temporarily prevent you from sweating, mask the smell with other fragrances or eliminate some of the odour by nonselectively killing bacteria.