Tags: Chemical Compound, Chemical Substance.
trans-3-Methyl-2-hexenoic acid (TMHA) is an unsaturated short-chain fatty acid that occurs in sweat secreted by the axillary apocrine glands of Caucasians and some Asians.Hexanoic acids such as TMHA have an hircine odor. Of the fatty acids contributing to Caucasian men’s axillary (underarm) odor TMHA has the most prominent odor.
