• Seppo@sopuli.xyz
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    8 days ago

    I think it might be because I mostly wear wool and linen clothing (including underwear). Body odour is mostly bacteria and wet cotton is excellent growing grounds for them. I often have people (mostly women) tell me I smell great and ask what schampo/bodywash i use. Thing is I use the most basic perfume-less one.

    • chuckleslord@lemmy.world
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      8 days ago

      Nope. Your body odor is associated with your secondary sex traits, not cotton. You start stinking when you hit puberty. You might not smell as bad because you never made an antibacterial nest in your armpit where just whatever can grow once it’s gone, instead it being filled with your natural flora, but that does not change that you have more body odor than those around you (for both good and ill)