Our natural smell (posted in other section) (Page 4 of 6)

Very cool! I use the same thing, only mine is called the "Diva Cup"-they're wonderful-so much cleaner, more natural, so much less wasteful, and they save a lot of money. Every lady who has her menses should have one....

Oh, yes! I know the Diva Cup, same concept. It is so confortable, clean and if you take good care of it you'll save lots of money and environmental damage!

I think that ALL adults are likely to smell someway and like or dislike rely a lot on the kind of relationship.
As a "regular" woman, if this term makes any sense, I never had the honour to closely smell female genitals, but I could smell quite a number of male ones and let me say some smell like rotten fish even if clean. I never smelled rotten fish coming up from my panties. I've cried for laughing for 2 months when an ex collegue burst out that men's balls stink like vegetable soup! Great lady


Disliking other female odour has more to do with marking territory that actual smell.

I remember in the morning from time to time with the crowd I turned out in the same elevator with my ex-boss whom I escaped from and his usual fun was a deliberate intrusion into my private space, I'm not kidding, it was deliberate provocation.  Once I didn't want to move his direction and didn't press my floor button (thinking to wait till he gets out earlier and then press my floor button) but neither did he, it ended that the elevator stopped when only two of us left.... Brrrrr.....

And actually I felt  his natural smell very well,  though my attitude towards it was quite neutral.

2 days ago I had red half raw beef meat and 3-4 glasses of red wine and sweets. It was all part of a lunch with friends in a typical restaurant.
Then later I got panic attack and anger in myself (not violent towards others!). Then I got my cycle.
Well, yesterday I felt stinky! I had a careful bath and scrub, washed my hair and put all clothes to the laundry.
One single t-shirt escaped the laundry, I had worn it for 1 day, it smelled bad to my nose, which it usually doesn't happen with clothes I wear for 1 day. I like my natural odour when I'm fine, it is so gentle! I hate when I smell like this. I'm not sure that others can smell it but I do.

I love the smell of a newborn baby and my dog's fur. I don't like to smell perfume in  place of soap and water. I hate the smell of greasy dirty hair. I don't care how "fashionable" it is.  Years ago when I had clothsline, I used to hang a lot of my clothes outside to dry because  nothing smelled cleaner than freshly washed clothes that had dried in the hot sun.

I am hyper-sensitive to the way people smell (this includes the way I smell).  I can typically tell who has arrived to the office prior to me, based purely on smell.  When using a public restroom, I can almost always smell the private parts of the person who used the toilet before me.

I often find myself frustrated with people who don't think or don't care that others can smell their poor hygiene and unhealthy habits.  This world is fairly crowded.  There is no mouthwash, perfume, deodorant, or scented antibacterial hand gel that can cover the stench of poor hygiene. 

Granted my standards are a bit high in this department, but I'm not saying I prefer that people cover up their natural skin smell with perfume or deodorant.  Scented products can be overwhelming all on their own!

And to weigh in on the original question:  I LOVE the way my partner's skin smells naturally.  This makes me want to be physically close to him rather than sit at the other end of the couch.  I firmly believe the more you like the way a person's skin smells, the more genetically compatible you are in terms of producing offspring.  But in my personal world, the rule of good hygiene always applies.

I'm the same way, I like my own smell! I shower every day and wear clean clothes too, of course...So I know what you mean about smelling gentle. Especially since I quit antiperspirant! It's when people don't like their own smell that they need to make some life changes! I imagine some people who don't like their smell try to drown it in cologne, perfume, extra-strength antiperspirant-deodorant, etc.
There should be a polite way to let others know they stink-Not everybody would care, but some people might start flossing more often, eating more green foods and foods with probiotics, wearing cotton....Just a thought! Italians have a gesture for everything, how about one to say"c'e' una puzza!"?

Last edited by kastehelmi (2010-01-14 19:36:02)

Ah well, there is no subtle way to say it
I guess we can just try telepathy!

This is a complex subject! Our sense of smell certainly changes when we're pregnant, to prevent us from eating or drinking 'gone off' or bad stuff. I usually love very musky and woody perfumes but when I was pregnant (both times) I had to have everything citrus-smelling, soap, perfume oil (mandarin, body shop) the lot! My tastes changed back to normal once babies were here! I love the smell of my husband who never seems to develop B.O. at all, though his farting in bed has caused me to leave the room a few times!! I sniff my kids and my cats and my mum and husband can't believe how much 'sniffing' I do. I think some of us are just very sensitive and others must have a very 'blunt' sense of smell. I can smell changes in weather/seasons coming too.  Also, when I was an intensive care nurse, I could 'smell' patients who had head injuries- illnesses definately change body chemistry and scent.

Last edited by eilismaireg (2010-03-11 09:56:41)

hello fragrant ones, here is hathor dropping in to say hello. i read somewhere way back on this thread that someone who'd worked on an intensive care unit could smell a peculiar smell from head injury patients (sorry no time to look back now and find who it was). I can smell a musty smell from people with badly functioning livers, and people with kidney stones have a peculiar smell on their breath. at the end of my night shifts when all the people start coming into the building for the morning shift i can actually smell a concentrated smell of "people". the other day something really funny happened that i can't tell anywhere else, my cat discovered a pile of my discarded knickers in the bathroom and started having a good old snuffle and purring like mad!!!! which leaves me hoping i don't smell of cat food and am sharing my house with a purr-vert!!!! i think it was just a very concentrated smell of Mum-Mum. he likes to get into my boyfriend's laundry basket too. that's mostly sweaty t-shirts. (p.s we are clean people, his sweaty t-shirts come from the gym) . oh another thing i can smell is a general smell of infection, diabetic foot wounds etc. think i've mentioned my colleague with the sweaty scalp smell before. i think our exaggerated sense of smell is something many people have lost but that we've retained from more primitive forefathers who needed their sense of smell to survive.