Re: Why the special smell of your skin after tanning in a sun-parlor?

There is no difference in the smells.  The smell comes from some microrganisms
on your skin that metabolize the fatty acids coming from the sebaceous 
glands.  When you're under the heat of any sourse you produce sweat and 
sebum (which contains the fatty acids).  So the microrganisms have much to 
eat and produce more metabolic derivates such that they give you the smell.
The tanning in the sun parlor is more intense and fast, such that you 
take more heat.  So as you can imagine the "smell" process is more 
intense.  The second thing is that in the sun you are in an open space and 
open air; that takes the smell away, so you always have it but you cannot sense it!
And the scent of the smell is individual, that means that that problem that 
you have noticed, other people may not have!