That was indeed how existing tended to work yes. Unless one was a clone or an artificially created life form, but those were special cases.

The question actually got a chuckle out of her. It sounded so much like something Han would have asking in a similar position. "If you'd ever had the misfortune of meeting him, you wouldn't have to ask," she said. "He didn't physically smell bad, if that's what you were wondering. But telling him he smelled foul was far simpler than listing off all the ways I found him repugnant."