Dutch entomologists have discovered that feet don't smell like cheese, but rather, cheese smells like feet.
While doing research into the smell bouqet range of mosquitos, researchers found that for the malaria mosquito, which usually stings near the ankles and wrists, the strongest attractive odour influencing them is that of one secreted by a bacteria that resides on our feet.
(Rather simple but ingeneous research. They stuck one electrode in the mosquito's brain, on on it's antenna, creating a closed loop, and then proceeded to just spray the mosquitos with different odours and measured the electric current to see if there was a response, and how strong it was)
Likely in a giddy mood, while pondering how to best reproduce this odour without having to harvest people's toe cheese, they stumbled upon some stinky cheese from the Dutch province of Limburg. Limburg stinky cheese is reknowned for making people's eyes water and throats gag unless they've acquired some fondness of stinky cheese.
Turns out, the bacterium used in the fermenting process of stinky cheese is so closesly related to the bacteria in our feet genetically, that it seems probable that that's where the original strains for fermenting cheese came from. People treading curds with bare feet.
So yeah, feet don't smell like cheese, cheese smells like feet.
As of now, stinky cheese is saving lives, as it's bacteria are now being put to use in Africa to make very effective mosquito traps.