I’ve got an incredibly sensitive nose. If you’ve used more than one spritz of perfume or cologne I literally can’t be in an enclosed space with you. My nose begins to feel like it’s burning, my throat tightens, I can only think of how to escape your wretched stink.
IDK why anybody wants to smell like a mix of stale piss, dead flowers and sandalwood.
Using cologne can actually increase the smell. Part of how cologne works is it uses a compound which easily evaporates and carries a smell sensitive molecule with it. If it also picks up your BO shit gets 100 times worse. It doesn’t cover up anything it just amplifies it.
For further evidence of this fact, it needs to be reiterated that components of perfume and cologne are some of the vilest shit you can imagine. Whale vomit, ass-juice of mammals, and so on.
This is because our whole idea of “smell” is a really odd social construct, and the things we think we smell aren’t necessarily objective. A strong smell can mix with another smell and suddenly your brain forgets all social context around it. I could go on for hours how weird it is that we cover up so much of our natural smells when we spent the vast majority of our evolution using scent and body odor as a perfectly natural, normal tool for communicating with each other.
But social influence is stronger than evolution. Some people take this knowledge selectively and ignore in other places, but it’s the heart of many of our broader social issues. This is why even though we spent the last million years or so piled in communal dens and caves, sweaty bodies in contact with each other night and day, we now gag when we pass someone who identifies as a Magic The Gathering player.
Bad smells can indicate unclean conditions. BO is an indicator of that. It’s an evolved feature. Natural odors are one thing but being unclean is another
Absolutely, but there was a time in our species when we could make that differentiation. To have body odor is natural, we certainly didn’t have soap and didn’t always live near water sources, but what we consider body odor now would have been normal and not unpleasant at the time, meanwhile odors that are actually caused by illness would stand out.
Some smells are indicators of future illness. If you aren’t cleaning your self in some way you will get sick. Even animals clean themselves. You don’t need a lot of water. Sponge baths, natural soaps, smoke baths. All sorts of stuff.
Don’t confuse “natural” for good. If you are dirty you smell bad. Being sweaty and mildewy is literally just bad for you. Even cats know to wash themselves lol
Being sweaty daily is normal and fine but like constantly not cleaning is just bad for you lol
I am not advocating for anything here but an awareness of how much of our society is an unnatural product of culture and social communication.
Mental framing can make you hate the presence of something totally natural and normal. Where else can we see that effect at work? That’s the question I’m asking here, I don’t want this falling down some kind of weird slope where I’m arguing against fucking bathing.
It’s like using air freshener in a dirty bathroom. It doesn’t smell any better, now it just smells like poop and flowers.
My god yes. Came here to day that. Mom would take a dump and spray flowers around. “Thanks, but I’d prefer my shit neat, no mixer.”
You’re supposed to spray it in the bowl before you go tho
The people at my gym! Half the dudes don’t “believe” in deodorant, half the women smell like a perfume store.
Just yesterday, soon as I got on the treadmill, a young b.o. smelling dude got on my left, and an old lady smelling like perfume got on my right - I lasted 8 minutes before I couldn’t take it and got off.
LOL, you’d hate my wife. Smells like she bathes in perfume, but only fairly close, no idea how she does that. Also, she’s Asian, doesn’t have any smell of her own. Floats my boat!
Also shout out to bathroom spray. Sometimes I want to smell shit and potpourri together!
Try POOPH Pet Odor Eliminator in one of those atomizer spray bottles (super thin mist).
It’s like when someone’s used the shitter and sprayed a load of flowery shite all over and you walk in and you’re like “oh wow holy fuck that smells like shit and also flowers” That’s how you smell putting lynx on your BO. You smells like BO, and also some lynx - which is, honestly, not a great smell in and of itself.
Just have a bloody wash. Even just a pits and bits wash if you’re in a rush.
The excessive quantity of the cologne is absolutely a problem.
Young Uber riders-“You mean the half can of axe a day isn’t fooling anyone?”
Me-“THE ONLY BENEFIT IT IS GRANTING YOU RIGHT NOW IS IT FORCING ME ON EVERY BREATH TO REMEMBER I WON’T BE HAVING TO TRIM MY NOSE HAIRS WHEN I’M DONE WITH YOU”^(what I wish I could say and not get banned from the app)
I loved Princess peach in the Mario movie.
Finally someone who sees things the way I do. I always hated it when after sports/p.e. my classmates would add the smell of cheap deodorant to the smell of their sweat. The sweat smell on its own would have been less offensive. (Provided it was relatively fresh sweat. But even in the case of days old rancid sweat, nothing can really take the place of plain old washing yourself.)
Some people in HS absolutely reeked of weed, and one day before class someone spayed some apple scented air freshener to cover themselves. I joked “Ahh yes. I love the apple and dumpster fire weed smell, it really mixes well”
Like that shit is not saving you, stop trying to pretend like you don’t smell like weed
This is why I specifically look for antipersperants and not deodorants. I want to not sweat; not just add more smell to to the stink.
Degree used to be perfect. Actually stopped sweat, had no added scents. Now that shit does fuck all, and has all the typical dumbass scents like “cool sport” and “gunmetal.” 😬
If your skin is not sensitive and white cast is not a deal breker simple unscented aluminum based anti perspirant works just fine.
If your skin is sensitive an issue or you want to avoid a white cast look for a magnesium based or probiotic option.
I would focus on the active ingredient rather than brands or marketing.
I have extremely sensitive skin, but aluminum antiperspirant has been fine on it. I really get into trouble with aluminum-free brands, especially if they have baking soda in them. I have to say contact dermatitis in the armpit is a unique method of accidental self-torture.
I use Arm and Hammer Antiperspirant/deodorant. I have to skip showering for a full day to smell any funk and the deodorant part really doesn’t smell like anything.
While I’m shilling, all their products are like that, well, the toothpaste, kitty litter and laundry soap anyway, don’t know what else they sell. Smells good, kinda neutral, works a charm, no gagging perfume, no overwhelming mint, no premium price tag. Did I mention their products get shit clean? If they enshittify, I’m throwing in the towel. Kinda like if Zippo enshittifies, punch me the fuck out.
I use degree’s “prescription strength” stuff and it actually is the best antiperspirant I’ve ever used. I used to sweat through basically every deodorant I ever wore from middle school to my early 20s till I found that stuff
Deodorant is supposed to inhibit bacterial growth, which is what makes the sweat smell
Yup which is why I use deodorant, not antiperspirant. I’m going to be a sweaty bastard regardless, and I’m from a place where everyone is just kinda sweaty most of the time anyway so it doesn’t really bother me, I just don’t want to stink.
I’m a huge fan of Drysol. You apply it once every few months and it prevents you from sweating. It’s a little itchy while drying but after that you’re sweat free for weeks! Then you can go without a daily product, or just a light wipe of deodorant if you like the smell.
BO? Back Orifice?
Body Odor
BOth
Psst (they know that)
All sides my brother.
Clean yo self my friends.Stay spring fresh out there
body odour
Ah that makes sense. It is true.
The art style invokes some Kingdom of Orungu vibes from the ancient equatorial African period.
Also: fucking patchouli
