[Sunflower49]

Originally Posted by flashy

i think a lot of how people smell may have something to do with what they eat aswell, in a past life i worked in quite a few nursing and residential homes, one of the ladies we looked after was bathed everyday, sometimes twice a day, but still had a strange odour about her, her daughter insisted she was to take garlic capsules everyday, that was the smell that came out of her, it didn't smell like garlic, it was really rather unpleasant.

I always carry a bottle of impulse in my bag, before now i have been known to spray it in the direction of offending smells if i came across any whilst traveling, soap and deodorant cost pennies, for goodness sake people, please go out and buy some

Is impulse a perfume?

Originally Posted by MargaretR

I agree with Flashy - smelly sweat is mainly due to what is eaten.

Sweating is a way of ridding the body of toxic waste. Reduce the toxic food intake and you reduce the smell.

I don't agree that using chemicals to mask a smell is a good idea.
By absorption, those chemicals end up inside you and increase your body load of toxins.

PS Natural soap and deodorants are available if you take the trouble to find out what is in the ingredients

I don't even want to begin to think about the things some of the folk I knew of, were putting into their bodies... I know I have an enchanced sense of smell too. My nose often detects things that leaves others looking at me with puzzlement, saying "Wha?!? I can't smell anything!" My partner is one of them unfortunately-which drives me nuts.

I kind of have to (or find it easiest) to use the more natural soaps anyway, to avoid animal ingredients among other reasons.
Weleda deodorants are the best I ever found though I've used crystal sticks in the past, and if I need a new one when away from home the co-op have one (if they still do it)!

Originally Posted by Margaret Pilkington

We go by bus to Bury every nearly every Saturday......there is a chap who gets on the bus near Gaskells underlay factory. He is a man in his late forties/early fifties......he really stinks.
He looks unkempt with greasy looking hair and jacket.
No-one tells him, but people do move away from him.

Last week he came and sat in the seat right in front of us...himself got up and loudly said I'm not sitting here with that smelly fellow(or words to that effect with some expletives in).......and we both moved to the front of the bus.
I do not know how this man cannot be aware that he reeks, because this happens every week(though most people do not make loud comments about the reason they are moving).
I have even seen ladies using body sprays to freshen the air around themselves.
Me......well, I have a compact of solid perfume in my bag for such eventualities.....a little of this smeared under my nose, and I can't smell him at all.

What gets me is maybe these sorts of folk are aware that they reek, but don't care. Or think they might do but aren't that bothered if they do.

Originally Posted by DtheP47

Some people are inured to it smouse..... guy used to come in the Forts is well known for his BO and believe me many people have dropped hints. What always amazed me was his wife didn't seem to notice his pong" Thankfully he has fallen out with the pub ** and moved up the hill. He does funnily enough live on Whinny Hill Tip estate.

** All over Cissy Green's pies, not even about the last Rollo

People must get used to it over time.. I've been in the houses of folk and the whole house reeks, but they're accustomed and don't notice it-I guess they get used to the scent of their partner as well!

Originally Posted by Less

What exactly is a nasty smell? Yes, a dirty body, yes an over zealous application of perfume, (especially if the body wasn't clean in the first place).
Like everything else in life we all define smells differently.
Maybe your friend moved away because she couldn't stand your smell?
Life is strange!

Putting perfume or deodorant on over dirt does cause a hideous stench I agree!
Lol yes we all have our own scent. With that particular lass though I knew it wasn't just me-as I detailed in the blog her partner (who I didn't know well, at all!) confided in me over this issue. I did feel a bit sorry for him.
She smelt sour, foisty-like some sort of festering infection.

Originally Posted by Margaret Pilkington

Well, there are some stinks that you can never forget...the smell of burnt flesh(I was once sent to do the final offices for a chap who had perished in a house fire)...the smell of melaena stools...unforgettable.
The smell of fungating breast cancer....horrible.
The smell of a tramps unwashed smelly feet...they had not seen soap and water for so long, that his toe nails had grown right into the soles of these smelly boots.

Crusty gussets are not very pleasant either.

That said, most of these people could not help the way they smelt...but it is something different to neglect personal hygiene to such an extent that you become offensive to your fellow workers/colleagues/general public.

Yes if there's such a reason for it, it's excusable. I am glad this page doesn't have a scratch and sniff section!

When I was young my Dad's involvement in developing new angling techniques exposed me to some horrific scents.
I was actually physically sick once after he shoved a bottle of 'crab essence' under my nose!