Why does everything smell like wet dog?

Wet woolen hats, soaked knit gloves, damp boots, and wet snow pants have a distinct odor to them and these aren't ingredients Chanel works with!

A textile professor at Syracuse University says "yarns often retain the oils from the animal hair used in their creation and when the wet fabric warms up, what's released into the air is the odor of that animal".

"If you wear one of those Irish wool sweaters, you'll smell sheep."

"Man-made fabrics produce their own man-made odor- even if it's cold outside, you're warm and when the fabric gets wet, what you smell is you"

So the odor from all those wet clothes I've been throwing in the dryer after boys snowblowing, shoveling, and sledding this week? It's sheep and boys, no dog.