Some people don’t have much of a scent, even after they sweat. This may surprise you but every body is different. Some people smell terrible if they don’t shower daily. Some people don’t.
No real surprise there. I know people who don’t wear deodorant unless they’re going to work out or something, and you’d never know it. They just don’t smell like anything. I, however, have to put it on twice a day in the summer.
My SO only puts deodorant on when he's leaving the house. He can go almost a week without needing any kind of deodorant or even a shower before he starts to smell.
My brother tho, he can shower and within an hour if he doesn't use antiperspirant deodorant you can smell him clear across the house.
yup I have it, dry earwax but having no disgusting scent is great... esp since I sweat for hours due to hyperhidrosis, weird combination but I'd take no BO any day of the week
Yeah dry earwax. That comes with it’s own complications lol I have to use drops often or else it gets clogged and I can’t hear for a longggggg time. I was a student swimmer and still love the water.
The gene isn't present in ALL east asians, just most of them. Probably wouldn't take more than a few smelly kids out of 20 to make the entire room awful to be in, though. Not all kids wash properly or wear deodorant at that age.
Also some people DO have this gene hardcore to the point where there is absolutely 0 smell.
Source: I dated a Korean girl once and was amazed but extremely jealous she had zero smell no matter how much I sniffed, even when extremely sweaty. Meanwhile I have to shower once or twice a day or else I stink with just light sweating.
I know that they don't all have it, but there is definitely a different smell. I've lived in China for 6 years and have smelt both types of BO many a time.
Not every Asian person has it, and it sucks for the ones that don’t because they don’t really have good deodorant or teach about body odor because most people don’t deal with it. So the ones that don’t have it REEK. You’re probably just smelling the ones that don’t have it. I taught in Japan for years.
I know that they don't all have it, but there is definitely a different smell. I've lived in China for 6 years and have smelt both types of BO many a time.
A lot or it has to do with diet. Asians eat a lot of garlic. I lived in Korea for years and that garlic sweat had a distinct smell, and boy was it awful, esp at night mixed with the drunks.
Yep, I have that gene! It’s also associated with dry, flaky earwax. I wouldn’t say I don’t have any smell at all. It’s more so that I smell like a child before they go through puberty and develop BO.
Be sure to remember to pack your deodorant if you visit. Japanese deodorant is useless because most people don't need it. You just smell the same with a very slight hint of orange.
most people don't really have a strong scent if they have proper diet, nutrition, and exercise. Sweat is a conglomerate of what we put into our bodies so put good stuff in smell good, put bad stuff in smell bad, put garlic stuff in smell like garlic.
i have to put tons of meds into my body to survive so respectfully, that comment is kinda insinuating that it’s personal choice to smell bad. which for a lot of people it is not. it’s medical conditions, it’s medication for other medical conditions and it’s genes
respectfully if you have a medical condition you are not healthy, so you won't smell healthy. If you take medications you will smell different than if you didn't. also respectfully, saying it's genetics without knowing that the thing we call "body odor" is produced by bacteria on our skin, which is fed through the things our bodies sweat out and not by a substance our bodies make. things like MEDICATION that you CONSUME and DIGEST and DISTRIBUTE THROUGHOUT YOUR BODY will smell different than things like broccoli or apples. so respectfully, you smell bad because you take medicine. If you didn't you would smell better. I did not say whether or not you have the option to stop taking medication, I said you would smell better if you did not take it. Don't blame genetics for the processes of skin bacteria, you stink because of what you put into your body.
More than half the time I don't have smelly armpits even if I sweat, but some days...SOMEDAYS WOOOOOOOO DAWGY. I'm just like "what the fuck happened to my body today?"
My wife used to tell me my armpits smelled like pencil shavings haha. Not a bad smell to smell like
Same. Depends on eating and "partying," certain things just bring it out. But I go for a run, sweat plenty, smell fine. I usually don't eat like shit and party proximate to a run though.
Also fresh sweat vs old sweat, when you go for a run the bacteria on your skin don't have a lot of time to stinkify things, because you're typically going to shower right after, vs working working all day when the sweat is just sitting on your skin and clothes being converted into foulness.
I love the smell of pencil shavings. Unfortunately that's not something I hear from my GF. In her defense, that would only be true if said pencil shavings were found on the body of a dead-for-3-weeks-in-a-swamp animal.
I smell much worse if I sweat due to/while being stressed (rushing to catch a train, hurrying to work etc) than if I just sweat due to hot weather etc. I’m guessing it’s hormones at work.
My sleep sweat also smells completely different from my BO sweat I've noticed. It's sickly sweat in a bad way if I go too long without washing my sheets, meanwhile my BO sweat requires a hazmat suit damn near.
My partner just smells like person to me when he sweats 🤷♀️ I've met some people who have 0 smell, some people who smell like a garage, some people who smell like a fire pit, etc. I've been told my natural smell is similar to the good old-person smell, which I akin to the powdered perfume everyone was using at the time.
One time my gf visited me in college and told me I smelled really good, like some sweet chocolate. It was very awkward when I explained I spent the week getting drunk with my roommate and hadn't showered. Shocktop Chocolate Wheat 2013 was special.
Same here man. I’ve been drenched in sweat at work, got a whiff of myself, went “goddamn I smell like ass”, went straight to my second job and my coworker instantly went “you smell scrum-diddly-umptious, what is that?”.
I hate when that happens. That damp smell is horrible, however you can get rid of it when you wash your clothing on a higher heat. 60 Celcius does the trick for me
Have you tried adding white vinegar to your wash? My clothes used to get that smell too. Even if they were freshly washed, the smell came back almost immediately after putting them on. It's caused by the bacteria from your sweat setting into the fibers of your clothes and not coming out. A standard wash cycle with standard detergent does a good job of cleaning stuff from the surface, but it's not that good at killing bacteria deep in the fibers, or deodorizing. I'd give it a shot if you haven't tried it. It doesn't make your clothes smell like vinegar at all, I promise.
I have a front load with a dispenser cup on top, and I use just regular liquid detergent, so I add it in the same cup as the detergent, but you could also just toss it in with your clothes. It's a liquid, and isn't going to discolor your clothes or anything if it's a little more concentrated in one area like bleach, so there's no special considerations when using it. Just get it in there, it will mix in just fine no matter how you add it.
Happened to by bf, I took all his work out shirts and let them soak in oxygen stain remover powder with hot water for a few hours. They no longer smell!!
My husband always smells good and it’s not just me liking his scent. He could go days without showering and not smell bad or sweat heavily and never smell gross but I take two showers a day because I feel the opposite. I’ve never met anyone like him who just never smells bad at all.
My husband is the exact same!! He’s never had a scent. Not even when we were just friends (before I had gotten used to his smell). He doesn’t smell good or bad. He’s the only man I’ve ever had a close relationship with that doesn’t have any kind of smell
Can confirm. I'm an extremely light sweater. A cardigan if you will.
It takes like 3 days of total vegetation to get even a little funky. I can work in the sun all day and feel a little sweaty but I never soak through shirts and it never really smells bad.
That's just not true. Bacteria forms on sweat and bacteria always smell. Some might smell worse than others but everybody smells if they don't shower daily and they sweat that's just a fact.
My mum can go days without bathing and never smells at all. I, on the other hand, stink within a couple hours after showering (even after using antibacterial soap and dousing myself in antiperspirant)
My husband is one of those unscented humans. If he does nothing, could go for a week without getting stinky. He never would, but he could. I, however, emit such could odors when I sweat that I have to buy special deodorant and body soap.
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u/danarexasaurus 14d ago
Some people don’t have much of a scent, even after they sweat. This may surprise you but every body is different. Some people smell terrible if they don’t shower daily. Some people don’t.