thoughts on body odor (anyone agree?)

i guess my ancesters were uhh elite as u say haha, because they were washing a long time while/before the white cowboy/mountain men... the native americans thought the whites were savages because they were so dirty/unclean and way stinky, probably do to the fact that BO/sweat do smell pretty funky after some time, especially nasty sweaty clothing. and they're was no distancing from the unwashed since everyone was washing when they could, because well its common sense to not smell bad.

and they did use sorts of herbals to smell good... for one theres a nice purple flower around here and it smells pretty good.

 

Natural body odor is subtle. Sweaty body odor is nasty. Clean yoselves!

 

On myself, bleghhhh.

On a guy, unless he's extreeeeeemely sweaty (like Cate said), I actually like the smell of a guy. Manly. Smells better than Old Spice, in any case...

 

I've always thought that it depends on the person. If it's a guy I am attracted to, I find the smell typically not offensive at all. Body smells are different at different times, so I can't say I feel one way or the other, but typically I like it. I chalk it up to pheromones. I don't wear deodorant and I typically don't smell bad. I don't sweat much, and hardly at all under my arms, so it isn't really an issue for me personally.

 

Well, body odor... sweat actually triggers hormones in your brain that cause you to become attracted to someone. So that's what all this talk about falling in love and "chemistry" is. Think about it, making love = the most natural and blissful feeling in the world right? Well you sweat when you fuck. So if fucking is good and sexy and happy then so is sweat. So sweat on
But washing regularly is great too.

 

I think someone wearing too much perfume or cologne is more repulsive than someone with a bit of B.O (Although old people's B.O is worse) I hate going on the bus and almost choking because someone dosed themselves with perfume.

 

btw, sweat has no smell, so it's not nasty, it contains pheromones of course which can affect other people, this is mainly in animals, but even humans have it. The reason why "BO" smells is because the scentless sweat mixes with bacteria, and thus a bad smell. Sweat by itself isn't supposed to have much of a scent,

 

Hmm...that's interesting but the more I think about it, that seems right.

 

im all about some pheromones. ive dated a couple of people in the past that doused themselves in cologne, and when i finally smelled them naturally i realized they were repulsive to me (and they didnt treat me very well either). thats when i realized that i needed to make sure that i knew someones natural smell before i could decide if i was truly attracted to them. cologne completely changes a person. though im not adversed to EOs, i think the right one on a person brings out their pheromones. and you should most definitely shower regularly.

and people that eat a lot of meat do stink really bad in my opinion, but i know a guy like that, and he always has mad women after him.

 

thats true. but i still wear deodorant. when i dont, (its really hot right now in fl.) i feel really self conscious.

 

Natural body odors can be ok, but some people can really fucking stink, bad, if they don't use deodorant. I'm one of them.

 

I disagree with the OP.

Body odour is disgusting, and it's not because society tells me so. When I was little, I didn't let my dad hug me if he'd been hard at work because his BO would stink.

I really, truly, naturally don't like it.


Anyway, I don't like many perfumes, but deoderant is a god-send.

 

I like the smell of sweat.

 

I think both extremes of body smell (Really bad B.O or wearing a ton of perfume) is not a good thing in public.

 

ive just bought one of those salt of the earth ' totally natural deodorants' ill have to see how it works, but so far it seems promising.

says on the ingredients that it is pure ammonium alum, with no aluminium chlorohydrate or parabens. Cost about £4 from Holland and Barretts.

 

i don't know. i don't like the way i smell when i don't wear deodorant / skip showers, but i love the way my boyfriend smells.. he smells reeeally good after a couple days of not showering... mmmmm. i think it has to do with our diets.

 

Not a repulsive smell? My own bo I don't mind but I am repulsed when someone else's pits smell like onions. I don't and won't use conventional deo though so if my organic stuff doesn't work then you just gotta deal with it! Smelling someone elses unique body smell is one thing but not their body odor. Yuck!:ack2:

 

I agree that everyone has different smells, some which are more tolerable than others.
I can tolerate the smell of someone who hasn't bathed in a couple days, sometimes it even smells sexy, but if they go like a week or more, that's just nasty. Who says it's more natural to go unbathed? Washing your body and keeping your skin fresh is refreshing.
I like the smell of clean skin. I use a natural deodorant because I really dislike my B.O., and I'm sure others do too. It smells really bad when I'm nervous.

When I worked at a grocery store, I once served some customers that looked and smelled like they NEVER bathed. Which is just sickening. The smell was different than normal b.o. after a couple days of not bathing. It almost smelled like rotting flesh. And their skin looked petrified as shit.

 

maybe thats why people get divorced so much because they are wearing perfumes with phermones that are of animals or chemically derived fake scents..if people smelled natural then there estrogen and phermones would escape and attract the right mates...

 

As long as it doesn't smell like you haven't bathed in a week.