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    Ok firstly I feel really guilty writing this. I dont want to be mean but this is a serious problem for me.

    I dont live with my boyfriend but he stays over most nights and my room absolutely stinks from his sweat/body odour (or whatever is causing the smell).

    He is not fat, in fact just the opposite, but he eats a lot of crap and I think the smell is his sweating the food out - it smells like garlic mostly.

    I just changed the doona cover and the sheets today and left the window open ALL day to air out the room. I just got home from work now and the smell hit me when I opened the bedroom door.

    I cannot live like this. I llike my room to smell girlie and nice not like garlic.

    It's getting to the point where I don't want him to stay over at all anymore coz I cannot handle the stench.

    What should I do?

    I have complained to him about it but he just dismisses it and thinks I am picking on him.

    Do I tell him he cannot stay over anymore unless he tries to do something about it? I dont know what he could do, perhaps change his diet?

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    I never date people whose smell I don't like. I have even heard that if you don't like someone's smell, your kids together are likely to have problems (developmental, physical).

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    Well he doesn't smell, only at night
    I dont get it. I have been with him for 3 years and only recently he has been staying over pretty much every night and that's when I started to notice the smell.

    I seriously dont want to go in my room.

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    toxic dude stink is gross! ha. most dudes eat crap and then put even more toxic colonge, etc to cover up the bodies need to release what they done to themselves.

    well a quick fix maybe for him is liquid chlorophyll. it helps clean blood and digestive tract which helps eliminate body odor. i think that would help 50-75%. and garlic well thats how it goes with garlic. get him chlorophyll cause its simple and doesn't he really have to change much.

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    Ok I might give that a try, thanks. As I said he doesnt smell at all during the day, its just when he is asleep. I think I will ban him from eating anything with garlic in it, either that or he can sleep alone.

    So what exactly is liquid chlorophyll?

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    Hmm, this is interesting. I advise that he eat more foods that "clean out" his system, like bran-fiber containing cereal and breads, fruits, vegetables and plain water.

    Or tell him to quit eating garlic and onions...

    He might have an underlying health problem that is developing & you're picking it up in his scent, since you've known him for years and he smells "different" now... (This is not junk science, there are studies that prove some illnesses can be detected by scent) and speaking from personal experience, my body scent changed when I became chronically ill. I KNOW this is a reach, but it's good you noticed.
    If it's not some mundane dietary thing he might want to have a check up with the doctor.

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    In addition to having him clean up his diet...whenever you are home ..burn incense or scented candles in the room and keep the windows open as much as possible.

    Many people, esp men, tend to sweat heavily when they sleep,even if they dont sweat any other time..so it is likely thats why this is when you notice the problem.Extra deoderant applied right before he goes to bed may help also.

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    Quote Originally Posted by madmaxine View Post
    He might have an underlying health problem that is developing & you're picking it up in his scent, since you've known him for years and he smells "different" now... (This is not junk science, there are studies that prove some illnesses can be detected by scent) and speaking from personal experience, my body scent changed when I became chronically ill. I KNOW this is a reach, but it's good you noticed.
    If it's not some mundane dietary thing he might want to have a check up with the doctor.
    My first thought on reading the initial post is that there IS a medical condition that causes a very garlicky smell to body odour, but for the life of me, I can't remember what it is...I have a bit of a medical fascination, and have all kinds of little factoids stored away in my brain, but there's no real sense or order to them...
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    Actually, I think you can have a garlicky smell if you don't get enough carbs, too.

    I swear by Oust odor neutralizer. $3 a can and worth every penny. Gets rid of any biological smell (as opposed to a chemical smell, like burnt food) within seconds. I used it constantly when my late cat would stink-bomb the litterbox. Great for bathrooms, too.

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    My ex had a strong musky smell. Chlorophyll didn't work, but I think he took supplements. It was fine with me though, I love garlic and he would get so annoyed when I ate a bunch and talked close to him, lol!

    But yeah, if a person doesn't smell right, my interest will wane.

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    Is he showering before bed? Some men are just funky, but regular showers help. My ex needed a shower every night before bed and another one in the morning. It kept the stink out.

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    Yeh he does shower before bed. I think it's the garlic he eats sweating out.

    Im going to discuss it with him tonight, i cant stand it anymore.

    I hope its not an underlying health issue.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Yekhefah View Post
    Is he showering before bed? Some men are just funky, but regular showers help. My ex needed a shower every night before bed and another one in the morning. It kept the stink out.
    You know what's weird, I slept with a guy who had the same issue, only worse....He was very discreet about it & showered before we went to bed together...Maybe he was Sasquatch in disguise?

    Gawd, I am totally embarrassed by how weird my sex life sounds. I need to start considering pretty boys with too much cologne!!!

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    There are some good points about the medical condition etc.. but I want to vouch for liquid chlorophyll. When I went to massage school all scented products (including deo.) were banned, so I became very sensitive to all smells, and stopped eating all smelly foods.... but missed garlic. On the occasions that I ate it I downed a lot of chlorophyll and would have my friends at school smell me just in case (because I didn't want to massage someone and get close to them smelling like, or breathing garlic) and I never smelled after the chlorophyll.

    I might sound like a bitch but I'd make a rule.. I can't stand when my husband comes to bed stinking like spices, and out of courtesy he doesn't do it very often...or he'll warn me and I'll join in by eating garlic too so I won't notice his smell as much. Imagine it was you drenching yourself in some awful perfume that lingered in HIS room? If he asked you not to do it you'd totally stop wearing it, or at least cut back.

    Btw. I can totally tell when my husband is ill, stressed, healthy, losing weight etc. by his smell. Good luck talking to him about it!

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    My ex, T, had this problem. I know part of it had to be medical, as he would not stop farting....yeah that didn't help the room smell. Also, there was awlays a sweaty sour funk to the room, which I chalk up to his chronic beer drinking and him sweating it out. I know how ya feel! All I can suggest it alot of Glade plug in's!

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    Try http://www.canesten.com.au/dir234/ca...n?OpenFrameset

    That stuff is the shit!! I think the checkout chick that almost always serves me must think I have something really dreadful...?
    But yeah it smells great as well as eliminating all funk!! Get him to wash anything that touches his body - towels blah blah blah. Do the same at your place. If he won't then tell him to get fucked!! Ick! Stinkin' is one thing but preferring to stink... can be done elsewhere.

    **Funk is caused by bacteria. Kill a bacteria and you kill it's funk...
    Last edited by Miaowren; 11-29-2007 at 04:05 PM. Reason: **Forgot to explain

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    This article is about diseases that cause odor. http://www.parade.com/askdrrosenfeld...body-odor.html
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    turn down the heat/turn up the AC - if he can't sweat, he can't smell

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    Quote Originally Posted by Meghan View Post
    Btw. I can totally tell when my husband is ill, stressed, healthy, losing weight etc. by his smell. Good luck talking to him about it!
    Me too! With my husband and my kids. And most people think I'm totally nuts when I say that I can tell if they're going to be ill, if they're tired or stressed, etc just by smell.

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    Quote Originally Posted by shasta View Post
    I never date people whose smell I don't like. I have even heard that if you don't like someone's smell, your kids together are likely to have problems (developmental, physical).
    WTF? Where'd you hear that?

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    Quote Originally Posted by nycplaymates View Post
    toxic dude stink is gross! ha. most dudes eat crap and then put even more toxic colonge, etc to cover up the bodies need to release what they done to themselves.
    Ew god, men are so disgusting.


    Jaizaine this SUCKS! It's not as easy as just switching deoderant! I hate when they get sensitive like you're picking on them. He needs to change his diet around, plain and simple, that's the only thing that will work.

    Does he belong to a gym that has a sauna? It might help greatly if he sat in the sauna as much as he could and sweated out all his nasty toxins there....


    On another note tho, if he was trying all he could (he's not yet tho!) I'd have to chalk it up to "one of those things in life" where love has just gotta surpass it all....they boy can't help if he's smelly, and we're all human and all smell, yadda yadaa.





    Oh wait lol I just realized this is an old thread.....has the problem improved? Hope so because you need your little fresh smelling sanctuary to recover from surgery in!

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