I was sitting on the bus, obviously sweating since it's so hot out. I kept sitting beside these guys and thinking "my GOD they stink, I get that it's hot and I probably smell like sweat but these guys actually smell like a rank butt hole. Deodorant time???"
This happened the whole way home, these bad smelling guys kept sitting by me. Well, I just got back in my room, and I still smell it...it's Me. And I put on deodorant multiple times a day, always shower twice daily. I definitely will be less judgmental of guys that smell bad in the future. I knew I'd pick up the offensive "man smell" but it has never been as noticeable as it has been today.
Quote from: birkin on July 03, 2014, 08:20:04 PM
I was sitting on the bus, obviously sweating since it's so hot out. I kept sitting beside these guys and thinking "my GOD they stink, I get that it's hot and I probably smell like sweat but these guys actually smell like a rank butt hole. Deodorant time???"
This happened the whole way home, these bad smelling guys kept sitting by me. Well, I just got back in my room, and I still smell it...it's Me. And I put on deodorant multiple times a day, always shower twice daily. I definitely will be less judgmental of guys that smell bad in the future. I knew I'd pick up the offensive "man smell" but it has never been as noticeable as it has been today.
You post made me lough so hard... true tough...Welcome to the stinky world of man, dude !
There is a difference between rank butt and man smell. Man smell is almost spicy, like an assault on your nasal passages. Rank butt is a lofty, poopy rotten smell.
I think anyone can suffer from rank butt regardless of gender, it could just be some unknown habit that is causing it. Could even be what you eat?
I would try to find the culprit area. Could be socks, underwear, shoes, breath, soap residue, or even the inside lining of your nose?
Either way perhaps it is from showering too often? Or maybe try a different soap
It's no fun to know that you smell bad, I hope you find the solution!
Quote from: Jennygirl on July 03, 2014, 08:26:11 PM
There is a difference between rank butt and man smell. Man smell is almost spicy, like an assault on your nasal passages. Rank butt is a lofty, poopy rotten smell.
I think anyone can suffer from rank butt regardless of gender, it could just be some unknown habit that is causing it. Could even be what you eat?
I would try to find the culprit area. Could be socks, underwear, shoes, breath, soap residue, or even the inside lining of your nose?
Either way perhaps it is from showering too often? Or maybe try a different soap
It's no fun to know that you smell bad, I hope you find the solution!
It's hard to say what the cause was. But it was definitely Rank Butt. I have never met a girl that smelled that bad, but plenty of guys. I have never noticed any offensive body odor before on myself because I know I'm a sweaty guy, and I put on deodorant more than once a day. I just showered and washed all my crevices very thoroughly lol. I have a feeling it might have been a combo of my socks and my butt. =/
Hopefully this is a one time deal!
Welcome to manhood! ;D
PS-I love you anyway! :-*
Haha thanks Jessica. ;D Get a little closer for that kiss and see how you feel then. :P
Quote from: birkin on July 03, 2014, 08:35:45 PM
Haha thanks Jessica. ;D Get a little closer for that kiss and see how you feel then. :P
Mmmmm! Man smell! ^-^ Scared yet? *giggles* ;D
It could be your diet! I know some foods can really make you smell terrible xD
If it's only happening on the way home from work. It could also just be a combination of smells. Man smell +deodorant +working +other people + their deodorant + where you are. Slowly roasted in a summers day = Oh dear Cthlulu get me to a shower now.
Don't worry we all still love you, no matter how you smell
That was my whole first year living in a humid, hot place. I totally feel you. I took to using sea breeze body wash and liquid talcum but I don't think I've ever seen either for sale outside of Japan. I also have these awesome gatsby body wipes that make me smell like cherry blossom. I noticed I had to totally change my soaps and I started always carrying an extra shirt or three depending on the day.
XD Same here, however, for whatever reason I smell like cheese, it's not bad just..... weird XP
Uhg I feel ya man. I'm dealing with the more sweating issues as of late my self and fear I'm going to have to carry around a small thing of body deodorant or something cause I don't want to smell like.. rank ass on a 105F day D:
Yeah the only time I smelled like that was when I was up in Queensland during the extremely hot summer when I was soaked in the rain and humidity.
I sure hope to avoid that smell, words can't describe how awful it is in a crowded train.
I remember that when I was running on T I would take a bath use deodorant etc and then after 5-6 hours my armpits would start smelling really bad
now I can go without a bath for days and I never smell that bad I just dont smell fresh
and thats why I never blame guys who smell...though there are ways...bath 2 times a day, or use deodorant a lot of times a day etc etc
whatevs
I notice picking up the scent of women more. ??? That clean skin smell. (similar to freshly ironed clothes)
Personal body odor is no longer a problem for me also. Huge plus.
Quote from: Ayden on July 03, 2014, 09:33:57 PM
That was my whole first year living in a humid, hot place. I totally feel you. I took to using sea breeze body wash and liquid talcum but I don't think I've ever seen either for sale outside of Japan. I also have these awesome gatsby body wipes that make me smell like cherry blossom. I noticed I had to totally change my soaps and I started always carrying an extra shirt or three depending on the day.
Oh God yes. All of this. I carry powder too but sometimes I'm too wet to use it. I carry extra shirts and even sometimes extra underwear. Today I even switched out and went commando in the university bathroom.
i don't have this problem but i know plenty of guys who do. my cousin alone showers every day and wears deodorant but he still smells so bad sometimes. my mom knows a guy who was in the military who uses womens deodorant because it works better for sweat and smell and i'm sure most of us can relate to that. i found womens deodorant does last longer and have a stronger smell then some of mens deodorant (especially those gel stick ones) but maybe that is because they're powdered, which i like and find mask smell better and make you smell good for longer without having to constantly reapply (which is why i get powdered mens deodorant).
I have one armpit that always stinks, my right one, strong scent of onion, burns the eyes sometimes. The left pit, no odor ever. Weird. I can't wear deodorant, allergies, plus rash, so if I just get a hint of the odor I wash my pit with a dampened paper towel with a little bit of soap, all good for a while again. Maybe its a gland problem, how could one armpit smell so much and the other nothing, makes no sense to me.
I live in a place that some would call a hippie commune, so I am well versed in the smell of butt rot and how it transgresses into different levels of flavor.
It's weird, there seems to be a threshold. I.e. if someone showers a lot, they tend to become smelly very quickly. However some of the guys with the least amount of butt-rot tend to take the least amount of showers.. and somehow never seem to get sick when the rest of us do. There is something at play there, I just have no idea what it is.
Quote from: Jennygirl on July 03, 2014, 10:52:41 PM
I live in a place that some would call a hippie commune, so I am well versed in the smell of butt rot and how it transgresses into different levels of flavor.
It's weird, there seems to be a threshold. I.e. if someone showers a lot, they tend to become smelly very quickly. However some of the guys with the least amount of butt-rot tend to take the least amount of showers.. and somehow never seem to get sick when the rest of us do. There is something at play there, I just have no idea what it is.
Hm, that makes sense. I don't know if it's that I have to adjust, but I find that if I don't take my morning shower I get...a slightly different smell in the crotch area and I find it unpleasant. It's not offensive or unhealthy, just noticeable to me. Maybe if I transitioned to only showering once a day that problem would stop, but that's the biggest reason I clean myself as often as I do. In addition to sweating so much I have to change shirts lol.
Quote from: Jennygirl on July 03, 2014, 10:52:41 PM
It's weird, there seems to be a threshold. I.e. if someone showers a lot, they tend to become smelly very quickly. However some of the guys with the least amount of butt-rot tend to take the least amount of showers.. and somehow never seem to get sick when the rest of us do. There is something at play there, I just have no idea what it is.
Ah that mysterious threshold. In college while still running on T, I worked my way to a 21+ day shower cycle. And no one thought I smelled, even the people who always complained about most people.
But while visiting home under "supervision" from family, I would have to switch back to daily showers and people would complain about my smell. When returning to college, for the first week or two people would also complain as my body readjusted.
Now that I graduated and live on my own I've found 8 showers a month is about perfect... although now that I am finally on E, I bet that'll all chamge.
Maybe it has something to do with the frequent wetness/dampness and being stripped of your natural oils?
I have a feeling those oils are some kind of barrier or balance to the bacteria that tend to smell
Other than hormones, one other thing that can make dudes pong more than dames is body hair - it catches the sweat and then the bacteria that feasts on the sweaty residue is what gives off the smell. Obviously where hair is longer and thicker (notably underarms) the pong is stronger!
Exactly, so wouldn't it be possible that the oils that naturally reside in the hair serve to protect it from an overgrowth of that bacteria?
Pretty sure they eat the oil too. Bacteria is like that!! What we cultured and refined humans don't like to admit is that we are actually meant to smell anyway.
Quote from: Ms Grace on July 04, 2014, 03:20:02 AM
Pretty sure they eat the oil too. Bacteria is like that!! What we cultured and refined humans don't like to admit is that we are actually meant to smell anyway.
True again. Although I still contend there is a big different between butt-rot and man-scent. Man scent can be extremely tantalizing, whilst butt-rot does nothing but trigger my gag reflex!
Also, I've pretty much been laughing out loud every time I come back to this thread to read/respond ;)
yeahh welcome to manhood lol no smells like that from me yet, haha is it bad that I can't wait to smell like a dude?? but I also shave the pits still, cause the gf doesnt like hair <.< (what we do for love lol) soo that might hinder it
It could be worse I smell kinda like my ex now, which is sort of weird to smell a smell and be reminded of someone else then realize that smell is you.
What I don't get though is that I don't has too strong of a smell on E or T, I have met plenty like me that don't have such a strong scent, but I have also met some people that just have a really strong smell, not that they aren't clean but women and men who just have a much strong natural scent.
It is just anecdotal but, of the people who tend to have a weak scent like me, we all tend to have excellent immune systems, we very rarely get sick...and those that have a strong smell seem to get sick lots more. Perhaps this is some sort of killing the bacteria thing? I don't get it and I doubt the government is going to give me a grant to study it lol.
I had a similar experience. It was like... wait, that smell is me?!?!?!? I have some stinky coworkers and had been assuming it was them. I didn't have much odor before but now I have to use deodorant and shower more regularly.
One of the great benefits of AA's and HRT that I discovered was no longer stinking like a guy.
One of the great reality checks I got during a WTF am I doing period was feeling totally disgusted with myself when I started to notice I stunk like a guy.
Chalk up another one in the "Yeah sure, you are just a CD- NOT" column
But you know, I've had a lot of women (tend to be younger ladies), that have walked past me smelling something powerful like a guy. I couple times this has happened I thought it was me, quick sniff of my armpit, nope, not me, damn she's strong. And they are cis-gendered (my mom can attest to that, she's known some personally that stunk like men). So its not just a guy thing. Seems to be individual. I've also smelled a lot of women that smelled like ass too and have made me gag, now that is really disgusting, especially if she's pretty, then I'm like WTF?
To me it seems there are 3 smells, male, female, and funk. Like anyone can smell funky, men smell almost metallic to me and women smell sorta musky. Anyone can smell funky though.
Smell is actually partially genetic. I'm Asian and I can drown in sweat and no one is going to think I smell funny. I actually had a discussion about this the other day because I've been on HRT for 4+ months so I should start to smell because everything else has changed but I keep smelling the shirt I workout in and it should smell because I use the same shirt for several workouts before I switch, but I don't really feel much at all. It doesn't smell fresh but I can't say it smells of that pungent smell you get when men don't shower or use deo enough either. I do use a deo because as an Asian I also sweat more than Caucasians, but I don't really smell much. I still shower about every other day and from what I can tell it seems to be fine. Sometimes I get paranoid and smell myself but nope, not me.
I would add a fourth smell to that list though - old man smell. Elderly men who don't shower or wear deo smell differently from younger men.
Oh god, rank poopy butt smell. I can smell it just from being mentioned here. Guh. x__x
I work with a landscaping company on occasion, and have noticed my boss and a coworker who, after about two or three hours of working, smell like towels that were left in a corner damp to sour for about three weeks. The sour could kill a horse if you get too close. Luckily I don't have bad armpit smell (or sour) but the crotch is something else. ???
There is something odd about showering frequency. It's not a simple equation where the more you shower the better you smell. My personal rhythm is I start to smell if I go more than 3 days without showering, but my skin gets awful if I shower more often than every other day. Bodies are unpredictable, of course, and my rhythm doesn't always work.
I spend a lot of time on public transit and around high schoolers, and I encounter smelliness in all genders but mostly between 12ish and 40ish. Some homeless people smell horrible, but some just smell like dust or leather.
I did have to really get on top of hygiene when I started hormones, though. If I use deodorant without aluminum I get stinky even if I've recently showered. I always have to change my clothes a lot more often than I used to. I'm kind of annoyed by the increase in laundry costs.
Now that I've hormonally switched sides I know exactly the smell you are talking about. I can now smell guys and many of them have a mildly smelling stink to them, and some of them - wow! They stink!! I never noticed that smell when I was pretending to be a dude.
Some guys can shower and they are funking again a few hours later while some never seem to stink - it's a mystery to me.
The only thing I can think of is to experiment with different soaps, shampoos, and deodorants until you find something that works the best for you. Also, diet may contribute too - if you eat a lot of spicy food try toning it down and see if that helps.
And.... Welcome to being a guy :)
Get rid of the ars hair. Problem mostly solved. ;D
Not on T yet and this thread is freakin' me. I'm very sensitive to scent and body funk.
I think my own scent is average female, but I have to switch deodorant brands ever 12 to 24 months or it starts to fail.
I currently find the shower every other day rhythm works for me.
I also avoid wearing the same shoes two days in a row.
And I don't let laundry sit wet in the washer more than 24 hours.
The butt stank... Is it from not wiping well? Wtf?
I'm pre-everything and sometimes I get the Man Smell. It's just a musky, sweaty odour. At least that's what my Gays tell me. My mum used to say I smelled like sour sweat and onions. My loving Gays trump my mother any day of the week. Then again, in this house, a pair of queens always beats a straight! *ba dum ching!*
Anyone ever use some sort of body spray along with regular underarm deodorant? Or do you get by with a quick spritz of Old Spice?
Quote from: Evelyn K on July 04, 2014, 10:28:16 PM
Get rid of the ars hair. Problem mostly solved. ;D
lmfao
I always feel like I smell bad at work, but no one ever complains. But would they say something to my face? Probably not. I changed my deodorant to dove for men, and now I feel more confident in the way I smell. My deodorant before would fail halfway through the day.
Body hair is one of the worst scent holders that I think I have ever experienced especially underarms, crotch and buttcrack.
Use a good strong solid deoderant in those places and really over apply it and you shouldn't have the funky smell problem. No gels, or colored deoderants but just solid white.. Powder with cornstarch also helps, talc not so much.
Quote from: Amadeus on July 04, 2014, 10:41:19 PM
I'm pre-everything and sometimes I get the Man Smell. It's just a musky, sweaty odour. At least that's what my Gays tell me. My mum used to say I smelled like sour sweat and onions. My loving Gays trump my mother any day of the week. Then again, in this house, a pair of queens always beats a straight! *ba dum ching!*
Anyone ever use some sort of body spray along with regular underarm deodorant? Or do you get by with a quick spritz of Old Spice?
Ah, this made me laugh.
I do the Sport Old Spice and the body spray. (I have to do the sport because I have a horrible reaction to literally everything else, including women's deodorants. It sucks.) I have a couple different body sprays, and I do a layer on my binder and then on my shirt. No one has complained about me smelling so far.
I'd recommend doing one of the spray deodorants on top of applying a powder based one (if you can) more than once a day, if you need to. If nothing else, a light layer of aerosol goodness can help mask other odors.
Quote from: devention on July 06, 2014, 11:47:25 PM
Ah, this made me laugh.
I do the Sport Old Spice and the body spray. (I have to do the sport because I have a horrible reaction to literally everything else, including women's deodorants. It sucks.) I have a couple different body sprays, and I do a layer on my binder and then on my shirt. No one has complained about me smelling so far.
I'd recommend doing one of the spray deodorants on top of applying a powder based one (if you can) more than once a day, if you need to. If nothing else, a light layer of aerosol goodness can help mask other odors.
That's what I have been doing. I carry powder deodorant with me as well as spray deodorant and just apply more when I feel I need to "freshen up" lol. I actually bought some small desk fans and planted them in my workplace today - I have several workplaces so I'll just keep dropping fans off until they all have one. That will help I imagine.
Ah yes man scent! This may be unpopular, but I do like humans to smell like humans, as opposed to a bunch of manmade chemicals...
BUT yeah downright stinkiness is not so great. Honestly once I quit eating meat, drinking, and kicking off my shoes more often (stinky feet happen when shoved into shoes) I began to smell heaps better ;)
**Edit to add: I live in the Florida Panhandle, where it's humid as F*** and bicycle everywhere. So yeah...sweaty...
Quote from: xsmittyx on July 17, 2014, 08:46:26 AMdownright stinkiness is not so great. Honestly once I quit eating meat, drinking, and kicking off my shoes more often (stinky feet happen when shoved into shoes) I began to smell heaps better ;)
I don't eat meat and I do drink and wear shoes, but I've lived in various configurations of the three and can confirm that eating animals or drinking alcohol can complicate a person's scent pretty fast, and that feet are pretty neutral if you keep them unshod. The shoe thing is a completely different kind of smell though, in my opinion. I don't want anyone to be exposed to the ill effects of my diet, but my feet stink to high heaven mostly when I remove my boots, and I can't imagine how that could ever matter.
Quote from: xsmittyx on July 17, 2014, 08:46:26 AM
Ah yes man scent! This may be unpopular, but I do like humans to smell like humans, as opposed to a bunch of manmade chemicals...
BUT yeah downright stinkiness is not so great. Honestly once I quit eating meat, drinking, and kicking off my shoes more often (stinky feet happen when shoved into shoes) I began to smell heaps better ;)
**Edit to add: I live in the Florida Panhandle, where it's humid as F*** and bicycle everywhere. So yeah...sweaty...
Hmm, that is interesting. I rarely drink but I eat tons of meat lol. I wonder if it contributes.
Diet definitely contributes to a person's smell. I notice if I eat too much of certain foods I actually start smelling those foods in my sweat. It's weird.
Another thing to try in regards to feet stank, this'll sound bonkers to some, but wool or wool blend socks. Yes, even if it's hot, if you can stand it. In order of odor from least to worst, in my experience, wool > cotton > synthetics. Bonus, wool can absorb more moisture without feeling wet, so you avoid that sweaty sock feeling.
Vegetarians taste better (wink)! :D