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Rajaah

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Goatface said:
there are plenty of foods that effect a person's smell. that could compound with other stuff like not drinking enough water and oily skin.
has anyone else said something about it? it could be something that you are really sensitive to.
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Don't have any mutual friends that I can ask. I doubt I'm the only one detecting it, though I despise "mildew smell" to the extreme so it might smell worse to me than to other people. Then again, the guy's lack of any progress with women despite having a good job and being decent-looking says otherwise.

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Sounds like hygiene/fungal stuff to me
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Yeah, probably. Was hoping there was some "oh it's definitely this" answer to all of it that I could relay to the guy. It's possible he just got a bad roll of the dice. ...or has been piling up wet clothes instead of running them through a dryer for the past 15 years. In which case... why?

I knew another guy with cripplingly bad breath who was also unaware of it and also had zero luck with women. It's difficult to broach such topics with another dude and tell them they stink, even if you're just trying to help them.
 
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Rajaah said:
Don't have any mutual friends that I can ask. I doubt I'm the only one detecting it, though I despise "mildew smell" to the extreme so it might smell worse to me than to other people. Then again, the guy's lack of any progress with women despite having a good job and being decent-looking says otherwise.



Yeah, probably. Was hoping there was some "oh it's definitely this" answer to all of it that I could relay to the guy. It's possible he just got a bad roll of the dice. ...or has been piling up wet clothes instead of running them through a dryer for the past 15 years. In which case... why?

I knew another guy with cripplingly bad breath who was also unaware of it and also had zero luck with women. It's difficult to broach such topics with another dude and tell them they stink, even if you're just trying to help them.
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There's also the fact that a number of things affect the types of bacteria growing on your skin. We all have a bacterial colony covering our bodies, the question is what kind. Some bacteria thrive on more alkaline environments, and some in more acidic ones. It's possible his skin is overly tilted one way or the other on that scale (often because of diet), and it's causing an explosion of a type that has a bad odor.

I know from my experience with keeping large scale aquariums about fighting "bad bacterial colonies", and often if you're in a fish store and smell a mustiness it's because of that. (OTOH, with aquariums you also have to deal with anaerobic bacteria which is a whole other level of rotten egg nastiness)
 
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Rajaah said:
Don't have any mutual friends that I can ask. I doubt I'm the only one detecting it, though I despise "mildew smell" to the extreme so it might smell worse to me than to other people. Then again, the guy's lack of any progress with women despite having a good job and being decent-looking says otherwise.



Yeah, probably. Was hoping there was some "oh it's definitely this" answer to all of it that I could relay to the guy. It's possible he just got a bad roll of the dice. ...or has been piling up wet clothes instead of running them through a dryer for the past 15 years. In which case... why?

I knew another guy with cripplingly bad breath who was also unaware of it and also had zero luck with women. It's difficult to broach such topics with another dude and tell them they stink, even if you're just trying to help them.
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You just need to tell the poor guy, just be direct and polite. I'd want to know.

This reminds me actually; a supervisor I had once told me about having to address the same thing. One of the people on their team was this lady who had a terrible funk on them, like just about smell it in the next cube over. Ended up being some medical thing that the lady was aware of and working with her doctor to fix.
 
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