do you not smell body odor or do you just get used to it?

Genuinely curious. I have met a few people of different walks of life that I could tell did not and I have always used it, so I’m just curious. I know there was a couple that stopped using it for around a year, and they said their body actually end up not perspiring as much as when they used antiperspirant, but I’d like to know other people’s experiences.

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    1 year ago

    Some people don’t sweat that much. For example, I have to use antiperspirant to avoid body odor but my wife don’t need to use one and I can’t smell odor.

    This is probably related to this genetic trait. I have wet earwax and body odor, while my wife has dry earwax and no body odor.

    Quote from the article:

    In general people with the non-functioning ABCC11 variant don’t need to wear deodorant.