Nonenal Blackcurrant
Everyone made a soap. Nobody made a pill.
Soap washes the skin. The smell isn’t on the skin — it forms underneath it, when the oils your skin starts making after 40 oxidise into a compound called 2-nonenal. Nonenal Blackcurrant is absorbed through the gut, carried to the skin, and slows that reaction at the source. One capsule a day, with or without food.
- Neutralises 2-nonenal in 30 days
- 3x more anthocyanins
- Clinically dosed
- Works from the inside out
- 9 out of 10 see results
- Clean, vegan and third-party tested
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The pillowcase
Usually the first thing anyone notices, because it collects a whole night of it in one place.
Shirt collars
Washed clean in the morning, back in the same spot by the afternoon.
Hat linings
Anything that sits against the scalp and the nape of the neck holds it longest.
Headrests
The car seat, the sofa, the office chair. Always the place the back of the head rests.
A coat on its hook
It hasn’t been worn all week and it still smells of the person who wore it.
The car, after a drive
You open the door the next morning and it is there before you are.
After about 40, the skin starts producing more of a fatty acid called palmitoleic acid. Sitting on warm skin, in air, it oxidises — the same reaction that turns cooking oil rancid in an open bottle. The product of that reaction is 2-nonenal, and 2-nonenal is what people are actually smelling.
That is why it behaves the way it does. It isn’t bacteria, so antibacterial soap has nothing to act on. It isn’t sweat, so a stronger deodorant just sits on top of it. And it keeps forming after you wash, which is why it is back the same day.
Anthocyanins are the deep purple antioxidants in blackcurrant. Taken daily, they are absorbed through the gut and reach the skin, where they slow that oxidation instead of washing away its result. That is the whole idea: get to the reaction before it happens, rather than scrubbing what it leaves behind.
Most people describe a change somewhere between two and four weeks. Blackcurrant anthocyanins clear the body within a day, so this only works while you keep taking it — it builds up as a habit, not as a reserve.
One honest warning: you will almost certainly not be the one who notices. Nobody can smell their own 2-nonenal. The verdict has to come from someone else, which is what the tracker in the box is for — a pillowcase, the same day each week, and someone who will tell you the truth.
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The pillowcase
Usually the first thing anyone notices, because it collects a whole night of it in one place.
Shirt collars
Washed clean in the morning, back in the same spot by the afternoon.
Hat linings
Anything that sits against the scalp and the nape of the neck holds it longest.
Headrests
The car seat, the sofa, the office chair. Always the place the back of the head rests.
A coat on its hook
It hasn’t been worn all week and it still smells of the person who wore it.
The car, after a drive
You open the door the next morning and it is there before you are.
How long until I see results?
Thirty days. And we're not asking you to take our word for it.
Your body makes 2-nonenal every single day, which is why showering harder has never fixed it. Tonight, before you start, ask your wife to smell the back of your neck at the end of a normal day. Then ask her again on day 30. She'll tell you the truth, she always has, you just may not have asked.
If she can't tell the difference, we refund you.
What's the correct dosage and how should I take it?
One capsule. With a meal. Every day.
That's the whole protocol. No timing, no cycling, no stacking. The people this doesn't work for are those who took it for nine days and got bored.
How is this better than a regular blackcurrant supplement?
Pick one off Amazon and look at the label. It says "10:1 extract." That's a manufacturing ratio, it tells you how the powder was made, not what's in it. It is the supplement industry's favourite way of saying nothing while sounding technical.
Ours states the anthocyanin percentage. Printed on the bottle. And we hold the HPLC chromatogram showing delphinidin- and cyanidin-3-rutinoside — blackcurrant's actual fingerprint. Half the cheap "blackcurrant" on the market is black rice extract wearing a better name. Ask any other brand for their chromatogram and watch what happens.
Are there any side effects?
It's a berry.
Take it on an empty stomach and you might feel it, take it with food and you won't. That's the entire list. Compare that to spending another decade quietly worrying about it.
Is it safe to take with medications?
If you're on blood thinners or blood pressure medication, ask your doctor before you start. Blackcurrant has a mild effect on both.
What makes this different?
Every other product for this problem is sold to your skin. Soaps, sprays, wipes, sheets. They attack the smell that's already there, which means you're always one step behind it, every day, for the rest of your life.
This works on the oxidation that makes it in the first place.
Can't I just eat blackcurrants?
Genuinely, yes, if you can eat a bowl of them raw, every single day, for the rest of your life, starting today.
Fresh blackcurrants are in season about eight weeks a year in most of Europe. They're sour enough that almost nobody eats them plain. And the blackcurrant drink in the supermarket is sugar with a berry on the label, the anthocyanins that matter are largely destroyed by heat and light long before it reaches the shelf.
You'd need roughly 200g of fresh blackcurrants a day to match one capsule. Do that in January and tell us how it went.
What changed, in their words
Anthocyanins degrade in heat and light, so we make this in small batches and ship it out rather than warehousing it. When a batch is gone, it is gone until the next one.
NONENAL
Blackcurrant Anthocyanin Complex
Age-Related Body Odour Support · 30 Capsules
Other Ingredients: Hypromellose (vegetable capsule), rice flour, magnesium stearate (vegetable source).
Contains no nuts, dairy, soy, gluten, egg or shellfish. Not for use during pregnancy or breastfeeding.
Directions: Take 1 capsule daily, with or without food. Take it at the same time each day; consistency matters more than timing.
Consult your doctor before use if you are taking blood thinners, blood-pressure medication or any other prescribed medicine. Keep out of reach of children.
- Vegan Capsule
- Standardised Extract
- No Proprietary Blends
- Non-GMO
- 3rd Party Tested
You are not washing wrong. It isn’t on your skin.
Before anything else: this has nothing to do with hygiene. People who shower twice a day have it. People who have never missed a day of deodorant in their lives have it. Scrubbing harder has never once fixed it, and that is not a failure of effort.
It isn’t on the skin. It forms underneath it.
From around 40, the skin starts producing more of a particular fatty acid. On warm skin, in air, that acid oxidises — the same reaction that turns a bottle of cooking oil rancid once it has been opened. What the reaction produces is a compound called 2-nonenal, and 2-nonenal is what everybody is actually smelling. The words people reach for on their own — rancid nuts, old cooking oil, stale, greasy — are, chemically, the correct words.
Which explains the part that makes people feel mad. You wash, it is gone, and by the afternoon it is back in the same place: the collar, the pillowcase, the back of the neck. Washing removes what the reaction has already made. It does nothing to the reaction, and the reaction restarts the moment you dry off.
So the question was never which soap. It was whether anything reaches the reaction at all.
Japan has a word for this. We don’t, and that’s half the problem.
In Japanese it is kareishu — one ordinary word for the smell of ageing skin. Not an insult, not a euphemism. In 2001 a laboratory in Tokyo worked out what it physically was: they sampled skin from people either side of 40, found a compound on the older group and not on the younger one, and named it. 2-nonenal.
English never got a word for it, so we got old people smell instead — and with it the assumption that somebody somewhere is not washing properly. A word for the chemistry would have told the truth: the smell is oxidation, and oxidation is not a hygiene failure. It is what oil does in air.
That reframe is the entire reason a pill is possible. You can’t wash a reaction off. You can slow one down, from the inside, with the compounds that exist to slow oxidation — which is what anthocyanins are.
- It isn’t bacteria, so antibacterial soap has nothing to act on
- It isn’t sweat, so a stronger deodorant just sits on top of it
- It is oxidation — and you slow oxidation from the inside
The short version
Four numbers worth knowing before you decide.
The year a Tokyo laboratory identified 2-nonenal and gave the smell a cause instead of a stigma
The age from which 2-nonenal is found on skin. It was not detected on the younger group at all
Standardised blackcurrant anthocyanins per capsule — at the top of the range used in published human research
Capsule a day. Nothing to apply, nothing to reapply, nothing to remember at the wrong moment
2-nonenal was identified and named by a Tokyo research group in 2001. The anthocyanin figure describes what is in this capsule, not a result it has been shown to produce: this product has not been evaluated in a clinical trial. It is not intended to diagnose, treat, cure or prevent any disease.
One ingredient. Standardised.
There is one active in here, and there is a reason for that. A long ingredient list is usually a way to look thorough while hiding how little of anything is actually in the capsule. Blackcurrant anthocyanins are the only compound with human research behind them on this specific reaction, so that is what we bought, at a dose you can read on the label.
What is in it:
- Blackcurrant fruit extract, 400 mg — standardised to 35% anthocyanins, so every capsule is the same as the last one
- Total anthocyanins, 140 mg — the number that actually does the work, printed rather than buried in a blend
Why standardised matters here:
- “10:1 extract” is a ratio, not a dose — it tells you nothing about how much anthocyanin you are swallowing
- Blackcurrant is expensive and black rice is not, so cheap powder gets cut with it. Real blackcurrant shows delphinidin- and cyanidin-3-rutinoside; black rice shows cyanidin-3-glucoside
- We hold a chromatogram for every batch and will send it to anyone who asks
No fillers doing the heavy lifting, no proprietary blend, no second ingredient added so the label looks busier.
What we will put in writing
What daily use tends to look like
Week 1
Nothing yet
Nothing to see. You are building the habit. Take a pillowcase reading now, before anything can have changed.
Week 2
The first read
Same pillowcase, same day, same nose. The earliest anyone reports a change — and just as often, still nothing.
Week 4
Most people
The window most people describe a change in. Collars and hat linings are the honest test.
Week 8
No longer a project
It is part of the morning now. People stop checking here, which is fine as long as they keep taking it.
Month 4
The stopping test
People consistently report it comes back when they stop. Two weeks off answers the question faster than any label.
Month 6
Routine, not effort
Oxidation never takes a month off, so neither does this. Two seconds a day, no thought at all.
Why soap was never going to be enough
“[REPLACE — one real customer line that doubles as the argument for buying. The strongest ones name the object: the pillowcase, the collar, the hat.]”
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Questions people actually ask
You wouldn’t, and that is not you being oblivious — nobody can smell their own 2-nonenal. Your nose stops registering a smell it is exposed to constantly, and this one is on you all day.
Fabric is the way round it. Sleep on a clean pillowcase, seal it in a bag in the morning, and open it that evening. Or hand a worn shirt collar to someone who will tell you the truth. That is the whole test, and it is why we put a tracker in the box.
A compound your skin starts making after about 40. From that age the skin produces more of a fatty acid called palmitoleic acid, and on warm skin in open air that acid oxidises — the same reaction that turns cooking oil rancid. 2-nonenal is what the reaction produces.
It was identified by a Tokyo research group in 2001. They found it on people over 40 and not on the younger group, which is why it maps so exactly onto an age rather than onto a habit.
No, and this is the part that costs people the most sleep. 2-nonenal forms inside the skin, not on it. People who shower twice a day have it. Washing removes what the reaction has already produced and does nothing to the reaction, which restarts as soon as you are dry — which is exactly why it is back by the afternoon.
If washing harder had been the answer, it would have worked by now.
One active: 400 mg of blackcurrant fruit extract, standardised to 35% anthocyanins, which is 140 mg of anthocyanins per capsule. Thirty capsules per bottle, one a day.
The rest is a vegetable capsule, rice flour and a vegetable-source flow agent. No proprietary blend, and no second active added to make the label look busier. “10:1 extract” is a ratio rather than a dose, which is why we print the anthocyanin number instead.
Most people describe something between two and four weeks. Anthocyanins clear the body within about a day, so it works while you take it and stops when you stop — there is no reservoir being filled.
Take a fabric reading before you start, because a before you never took is not a comparison.
Ask your doctor, and take the label with you. Blackcurrant is a food, and the dose here is within the range used in published human research — but it is an antioxidant at a concentrated dose, and anyone on blood thinners or blood-pressure medication should check first rather than assume.
Do not take it if you are pregnant or breastfeeding.
Possibly, and it is worth a GP appointment before it is worth a purchase.
Age-related 2-nonenal creeps up over years. A body odour that changes over weeks, or becomes distinctly different rather than gradually stronger, is a different pattern — and a change in body odour can accompany diabetes, thyroid, liver and kidney problems, infection and some neurological conditions, including Parkinson’s.
We would rather lose the sale than have you treat a symptom with a supplement. See a doctor first. This is a supplement, not a diagnostic, and it cannot tell the two apart.
It helps some people and does nothing for others, and there is no good clinical evidence behind it — which is exactly what you will find if you go and read about it, so we would rather say it than have you discover it.
It also washes, and washing is downstream of the reaction. We give the bar away because it is genuinely a nice thing to have in the shower and because charging $50 for one, as some do, is not a business we want. The capsule is the product.
Use the whole bottle — thirty days, one a day — and if the person who noticed in the first place says nothing has changed, email us for a full refund. Nothing to post back and no form to fill in.
We ask you to finish it because two weeks is not long enough to know, and because the only honest test of this is somebody else’s answer.
