Why won’t some people suppress their body odour?
I’ve noticed this among all races and all social classes here. I don’t understand why some people can afford to wear $100+ outfits but can’t afford $1 shower and $5 deodorant?
Are they even aware they have body odour? It’s puzzling.
Netizens’ comments
- When you’re used to a certain smell, you no longer smell it. So people who have BO typically arent able to realise and people dont tell them. The same way you cant smell the scent in your house because its so normal to you but when you step into someone else’s house, you tend to be able to smell a difference
- I can’t even count the number of time when I’m on the train and suddenly something smells, look around and saw someone raising their arms.
Or when the person beside suddenly yawn and their morning breath just slaps you in your face.
Something worse than body odour is the strong cigarette smell some people has.
- This is a tricky question. Not a simple black and white. Most people are able to remove BO by simply showering or using deodorant.
But there are also other possible causes of BO that a shower and deodorant wouldn’t solve.
– Some people can basically shower in the morning, sweat during commute, and emit BO with deodorant, all within 1 hour.
– Sometimes, it could be their clothes, which despite after wash, still emitting a certain odor immediately after getting sweated on. It usually happens if the clothes are not dried properly
– Some people simply emit BO because of their diet.
But I believe most the more typical cases could be solved with a simple shower or applying deodorant/perfume.
This case of BO is like telling someone with acne to keep their face clean by simply washing their face everyday (which does not solve most acne problems)
- Some people are prone to olfactory fatigue which is when the nose is constantly exposed to a smell and then the sensors just stop trying to identify that particular smell so maybe they just don’t smell their body odour anymore?
But that being said sometimes it’s also hard to suppress body odour and people aren’t very knowledgeable about how to do it. Like some would compensate by spraying lots of perfume/cologne and the mixture with sweat makes it worse.
I highly recommend Febreze to eliminate the stench in the air but too bad we can’t spray it in public places hahaha