This is between me and you but...

[Big-TDI-Guy]

By god child, drink some whiskey and get some hair on your chest! No, not really.

Don't worry about it. Everyone develops differently. Just start using deodorant though, because you might not be able to "smell yourself" as it were all the time.

Word - self checks / aka "sniff tests" are hard to perform, and are a complicated sequence of events. Takes a few good tries to perfect. Even then, once in a while, you miss the whiff, don't take the proper corrective actions, and people stay away from you for the rest of the day.

 

[displaced]

Any sort of spray like Axe or some that Old Spice have are terrible. I just use a regular stick of Old Spice as deodorant, and on rare occasion, I will lightly slap on a small amount of whatever nice cologne I have, which at the moment is a new bottle of Hugo Boss I got for Christmas.

*shudder*. Axe (or Lynx as it's known in the UK) always reminds me of school changing rooms. For people who were in their teens in the 1990s, Lynx seemed to be the first deodorant that everyone got. Yuck. No-one older than 19 uses Lynx (and if they do, they should stop buying the stuff they used when they were 12 and try something else!)

I go for pretty neutral-smelling deodorant -- something like Sure for Men. I let the aftershave do the 'smelling nice' job (even if it stings like $£^%!)

 

[CalBoy]

EDIT: And I don't have PE.

What kind of school are you in?

Anyways, stop making excuses and buy some deodorant! I don't care if you feel like you're being probed by aliens, not wearing it can be rude to others around you. :serious face:

don't take the proper corrective actions, and people stay away from you for the rest of the day.

Yup. That's why a pack of peppermint/spearmint gum is also a good idea (or generic mints).

 

[Mushrooshi]

I have an addiction with Altoids. No, its not some crazy name for a new drug like how they ruined the word Cheese, I am talking about the real actually candy mint made by callard and bowser I think.

Ill nuke my mouth with 5 sometimes. Its enough to get lots of people in the room wondering where the mint smell is from.

 

[iMacZealot]

I have an addiction with Altoids. No, its not some crazy name for a new drug like how they ruined the word Cheese, I am talking about the real actually candy mint made by callard and bowser I think.

Ill nuke my mouth with 5 sometimes. Its enough to get lots of people in the room wondering where the mint smell is from.

I'm known as the Mint Man. I cry at the end of the week when the cafeteria runs out of Tic Tacs.

Word - self checks / aka "sniff tests" are hard to perform, and are a complicated sequence of events. Takes a few good tries to perfect. Even then, once in a while, you miss the whiff, don't take the proper corrective actions, and people stay away from you for the rest of the day.

I've heard that you actually can't smell your own body odor---I'm not sure if that's true or not.

 

[Big-TDI-Guy]

A complicated sequence of events. It can be done, just requires mad skills.

 

[solvs]

I keep looking for a decent unscented antiperspirant.

Mitchum and Arrid have decent ones.

I had to try my Mom's once when I watched her house while she was away and ran out of my own. Worked pretty well, didn't leave that white residue stuff. Just like in the commercial. Smelled bad though.

 

[wongulous]

I used to use unscented Mitchum (antiperspirant, probably gives you Alzheimers according to research), but now I use Origins' No Offense non-antiperspirant deodorant and also the deodorant from Anthony Logistics which smells good to me. I picked up some other ones from Wal-Mart the other day, Free & Clear or something, that are bright yellow and are aluminum- and paraben-free, so I'm kind of excited to use those. Deodorants are weird to someone who has always used aluminum-based antiperspirants and is used to that texture and dryness, but they work pretty much as good and I don't ever get dry skin under my arms anymore--plus I have less chance of Alzheimer's disease! Yay!

 

[Macintosh001]

Girls deodorant are better because we want to stay odourless all the time

 

[119576]

Ill nuke my mouth with 5 sometimes. Its enough to get lots of people in the room wondering where the mint smell is from.

I'm known as the Mint Man. I cry at the end of the week when the cafeteria runs out of Tic Tacs.

You shouldn't eat so many mints.

I've heard that you actually can't smell your own body odor---I'm not sure if that's true or not.

You can only smell it when it changes. If you're around any particular smell for an extended period of time, it becomes normal to you.



As far as women's deodorant goes; I love it. I always used to use my girlfriend's roll-on.

I've found that 'Vaseline for Men' is a very worthy competitor to women's deodorant though.

 

[sushi]

I'm a kid, don't need deoderant.

If you are in your teens, you probably need to use it because you smell -- even though you cannot tell yourself. Plus the opposite sex tends to avoid those who smell.

 

[dalvin200]

Plus the opposite sex tends to avoid those who smell.

you're talking from experience huh? hehe

 

[Mord]

Yes, it is, my father's always used it.

 

[sushi]

you're talking from experience huh? hehe

Yeah, when I get a little old I tend to smell really bad. Always best to have me fresh.

 

[BoyBach]

I ran out of deodorant in Vietnam on my travels recently and couldn't find any men's spray or roll-on for love nor money. Ssshh! Don't tell anybody but I ended up borrowing some from the women I was travelling with and it smelt lovely!

 

[.JahJahwarrior.]

Funnily enough, this one girl I know whom I am somewhat interested in says she loves the smell of Axe...

Personally, I use some Right Guard Extreme gel stuff. I was using the stick stuff, but then I began having problems with my underarms...like, the skin got really irritated and pus-sy. It was like one giant sore....read somewhere that there was some ingrediant in deoderant that could do that to you, and I switched to the gel, which apparently does not have that ingrediant. Haven't had a problem since!

 

[QuarterSwede]

Old Spice's Red Zone Antiperspirant/Deodorant is the only thing that works for me. Good thing because my wife loves the "Fresh" scent. She wouldn't let me change if I wanted to.

 

[Ish]

I just think it's funny how many views this thread has had. No-one can resist a secret!

 

[miniConvert]

I'm told by many people that they prefer women's deodorant (anti-perspirent). Frankly, a lot of products 'made for men' are total tosh.

 

[cleanup]

I have to say, that while I do get body odour, I'm pretty sure it's unnoticeable unless you stick your nose within a few inches of my armpit. So I don't regularly wear deodorant like most people do. I regularly wear cologne, but people even say I smell nice when I'm not wearing cologne, even if when I do a sniff test I can smell a funk under my right arm; apparently it's not noticeable. I think this is sometimes the case with East Asian people. Keep in mind, I'm not one of those freakishly hairless Asian people, I am actually quite hairy.

Personally, long ago, when I found out that people wear deodorant REGULARLY, I thought it was hilarious. Turns out I'm the weird one. Anyways, I only wear deodorant after I go to the gym or when I really need it. I use some Adidas crap that I've had for ages. I have 4 bottles of cologne but only one several-year-old stick of deodorant. Do these things have expiry dates? I never bothered to find out.

 

[Prof.]

while my axe deodorant would be gone after 2 hours and my pits would stink.

Well there's your problem... AXE is the worst deodorant you can buy. Sick with old spice or something similar. You also have to make sure that the deodorant says "antiperspirant" not just "deodorant"

I'm a kid, don't need deodorant.

That's a common misconception... My bro is 12 years old and when he gets home from school, he smells like @$$. Wear deodorant.

 

[Mushrooshi]

But I have the body of a 8 year old.

 

[maxrobertson]

Axe deodorant is horrible. I got some for Christmas (never would've worn it otherwise because I hate the smell and the fact that they market it to horny teens) and it has the worst dryness protection of any men's I've ever used- and I don't sweat that much at all!

 

[ravenvii]

I usually use Right Guard... does that make me a clueless waste of a deodorant user?

But wait, I do have a fancy cologne for when I go out. Got it for $50 or something, and it smells good and unique and lasts forever. The bottle will last me forever too, because I rarely use it. Worth the money!

I have an Axe bottle, I don't like it but I want it gone. How long does it take to empty an Axe bottle?

 

[3nm]

this is between you and me... but... ummm... i trim my armpits.

i feel more hygienic this way and deodorant works better, too.