My white husband absolutely needs deodorant. Could he get away with it on a day with no humidity or heat in an AC’d building all day? Probably but there’d be some small odor if you shoved your nose in his pits.

Our teenage son is half Korean and he doesn’t really need deodorant even if he’s been playing sports in the sun. I strongly encourage it though.

My husband could, but he's Chinese. Average white dude? Nope.

Anonymous wrote:
Genetically it does, lots of East Asians don't have body odor: https://medium.com/@devavratatripathy/why-koreans-chinese-and-japanese-dont-have-body-odor-9c5e8ad5c436

That article was so interesting. Thanks for the link!

Omg no. My white husband sweats all the time and stinks with and without deidorant. Love him anyway.

Anonymous wrote:My husband is completely odorless, even after he works out. He has never worn deodorant. He showers every day. Even if I take a big whiff under his pits at the end of the day, there is absolutely no smell. He is Chinese in case that makes any difference.

Genetically it does, lots of East Asians don't have body odor: https://medium.com/@devavratatripathy/why-koreans-chinese-and-japanese-dont-have-body-odor-9c5e8ad5c436

Anonymous wrote:My husband is completely odorless, even after he works out. He has never worn deodorant. He showers every day. Even if I take a big whiff under his pits at the end of the day, there is absolutely no smell. He is Chinese in case that makes any difference.

My son and father in law are like this. Caucasian. But for me and what I think is the majority of people, you develop a smell by the afternoon with no deodorant, even if you’re not sweeting

My husband is completely odorless, even after he works out. He has never worn deodorant. He showers every day. Even if I take a big whiff under his pits at the end of the day, there is absolutely no smell. He is Chinese in case that makes any difference.

Anonymous wrote:Or is it just an ingrained habit? My brother in his early 30s has stopped as an experiment. He trims/shaves his armpits, which I guess is a pretty common thing now, and should help. He is convinced that most guys do not actually smell if they shower. I, however, suspect that most guys working an office job would absolutely reek by the end of the day, armpit hair or no armpit hair.

It mostly depends on season, job/activity level and your own proclivity to sweating/odor.

If he's trimming and it's not summer and he has an office type job then he's probably fine.

In summer or a manual or more physical job or working out or is naturally funky, then he'll start to smell at some point.

I think if anyone washes VERY well with anti-microbial soap or wash to eliminate 99% of bacteria in the shower, wears very clean breathable clothes, most would go 12-24 hours without smelling strongly unless they had stress/emotional sweat or worked out very heavily and then let it marinate.

The problem is many people, especially men, don't know how to properly clean themselves. Many people don't use proper soap, a washcloth or something abrasive to scrub off old deodorant and dead skin that bacteria like, and don't wash for long enough to get rid of the bacteria. Most people are rubbing some soap under their pits or swishing a dirty old loofah under their for a few seconds and calling it a day.

Most men, no. I think DH probably could. He's weirdly odorless and doesn't really sweat.

Ew. No.

I'm a man who has accidentally done this experiment before when I was rushing out the door, and the answer for me is no. I stink.

Anonymous wrote:No, just no.

Even with daily showers and deodorant teen boys that do any physical activity smell. It would be 10 times worse without the deodorant!

Don't guys outgrow this?

No, just no.

Even with daily showers and deodorant teen boys that do any physical activity smell. It would be 10 times worse without the deodorant!

Or is it just an ingrained habit? My brother in his early 30s has stopped as an experiment. He trims/shaves his armpits, which I guess is a pretty common thing now, and should help. He is convinced that most guys do not actually smell if they shower. I, however, suspect that most guys working an office job would absolutely reek by the end of the day, armpit hair or no armpit hair.