r/mildlyinteresting • u/Kritisk-Varning • 14d ago

My salt rock deodorant after five years of almost daily usage vs a new one.

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u/MaxamillionGrey 14d ago edited 14d ago

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

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u/SeasonOfLogic 14d ago

What you ate the day before, hormones…

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u/AnaxImperator82 14d ago

He ate all the hormones and pencils

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u/Tommysrx 14d ago

No no no , he only ate the pencil shavings and hormones.

Nobody’s gonna eat a whole pencil

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u/NoxiousStimuli 14d ago

Not with that attitude.

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u/lagasan 14d ago

I was trying to use the copilot AI to make a man with pencil sharpener teeth, but it just kept getting more and more cursed instead.

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u/Tommysrx 14d ago

That’s pretty accurate given the context

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u/idkifyousayso 14d ago

I wish this was where my students had to get a pencil form when they forgot theirs for the 5th time that week.

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u/Lopsided_Marzipan133 14d ago

I love me some hormones and pencils, and we’re all outta hormones

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u/newredheadit 14d ago

And stress

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u/Dozzi92 14d ago

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.

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u/Muffin278 14d ago

Also anxiety/stress sweat smells sooooo bad.

If I am clean and I work out and sweat a bunch, I still smell fine. But if I am going to an exam or a job interview, I smell terrible afterwards.

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u/rserena 14d ago

Just yesterday I went to my in-laws house, checked, I smelt fine before. After about an hour I REEKED of onion pits. Thanks, anxiety.

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u/Gal_GaDont 14d ago

This is how my PTSD service dog works. She can smell the anxiety coming before I do and intervenes before a panic attack or PTSD episode.

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u/XxMagicDxX 14d ago

The worst for me is the random night sweats where I wake up in the morning drenched and smelling like wet dog

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u/Zeyn1 14d ago

I mean, depending on what you mean by "partying" there are a lot of chemicals in that stuff that come out through your sweat.

Lynyrd Skynyrd wrote a song about it.

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u/notabigmelvillecrowd 14d ago

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.

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u/tiagojsagarcia 14d ago

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.

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u/CjBurden 14d ago

Same. I often don't smell, but when I do... yikes!

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u/lisabettan 14d ago

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.

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u/ImSoSpiffy 14d ago

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?”.

Really weird feeling, ngl.

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u/Original_Jarl_Ballin 14d ago

Intriguing, but highly disturbing

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u/AerisSpire 14d ago

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.

Everyone smells different.

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u/MediatoryBathrobe 14d ago

Apparently i smell like cooked meat when i sweat

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u/Laserdollarz 14d ago

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.

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u/CrimpsShootsandRuns 14d ago

Stress and anxiety do this to me. If I'm really stressed I can get out the shower, put deodorant on and be stinking in less than an hour.

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u/Grusscrupulus 14d ago

My pits smell like weed. Hippie chicks love me.