Oh lord! Teenage boys’ bedroom 🤢

[GeorgieTheGorgeousGoat]

Wow! Just wow! I had no idea. I mean, you read and hear stories but nothing can prepare you for that smell. What IS it?

Both shower daily, use deodorant (will be getting anti-perspirant ASAP) and are generally clean and tidy, change clothes daily and bedding is washed regularly.

Both very lovely boys no trouble at all so I feel terrible telling them they need to freshen up.

But my god, it’s bad!!

Any tips?

It's teenage pong, probably a mix of hormones, smelly trainers, sweat and possibly forgotten food wrappers somewhere.

Heads seem to smell bad in the teen years for some reason even soon after a hairwash.

Fling the windows open daily!

Wank socks. Old spunk is very whiffy.

Yep its wank (literally)

Noooo they don’t do that! 🙉

It’s definitely more a sweat smell anyway, possibly the heads/pheromone thing too.

No food eaten upstairs and windows have been open almost constantly with it being so warm. In fact it probably is the weather that has contributed to the sweat soup smell.

I think you are being a little nieve OP if you think teenage boys dont wank. Jesus, at their age I was doing it 2 or 3 times a day.

Get them to use proper soap bars rather than shower gel - big improvement!

You are also being naive if you think teenage boys don't eat food in their room... all teenagers do is eat

My 15 year old DS's bedroom honks. It's particularly bad at the moment as he's festering in it longer than usual ( as it's the holidays )

He showers daily, wears clean clothes every day. I've no idea why it smells so bad!!

Bars of soap is an interesting idea, definitely willing to give that a go, thanks.

They are genuinely minging'

Shower gel tends to leave a film on the skin, proper soap bars don’t - I made the switch in this house to reduce our plastic use and there was a notable improvement very quickly!

I blame those horrible spray can deodorants
I’ve tried to get gs to use the crystal one

Nope

It’s just horrible..gets into all the fibres of his expensive ( for him) clothes

They actually only smell bad to female relatives. It’s natures way of preventing incest. Seriously. They’ve done scientific studies on this.

Oh really? I love weird facts like that! Also hoping it’s true so visitors aren’t exposed to quite such a nasty smell as I’m getting.

Wank smell. Gross.

My 21 year old has just left home, and he’s left the smell behind! It’s definitely sweat, it’s actually impregnated the walls and carpet. He finally started to agree with me about the importance of decent anti-perspirant a couple of years ago, but the rot had set in by then 🤢 Now he’s living with a girl he’s as fresh as a daisy. Younger son is still in thrall to the Lynx Effect but I’m getting there.
Oh and the introduction of soap bars - and binnIng the fucking Lynx shower gel - resulted in a definite upturn in personal daintiness.

They don't only smell bad to female relatives at all! My DSS's bedroom is repulsive to me (stepmum). My mum, who lives 200 miles away and has only met my step children a dozen or so times, once gagged when standing outside his closed bedroom door at the smell seeping out of the cracks.

And yet his biological mother, my wife, shrugs and says its a bit whiffy but not too bad. His sisters are on my side though.

I wish it were true, then I'd be spared the worst of the stench which permeates the whole house when he opens his bedroom door. It's a rotten sweet smell with farts and sweat mixed in.

Oh and he's a scrupulous showerer, much to the dismay of our water bill.

Wolfhoundsoflove, "personal daintiness" - LOVE it! Thanks for the laugh

and "my mum,who lives 200 miles away, gagged....". Comedy Gold.

My 5 year old DS already stinks. He's very furry all over and despite daily baths his sheets always smell cheesy. I wash them weekly. Dreading the teenage years for the honk!

@PurplePuffinPicker Delightful description 😂😂

Sorry to have sense of humour failure- but this is all part of the “blokes can’t help it” mentality that appears over so many relationship threads. They may wash and change- but if they and their rooms smell bad they obviously aren’t doing something they should be. Do they change their beds regularly, take out the rubbish daily, use anti perspirant not just deodorant, air their rooms, Hoover, sort out their washing, wash themselves properly, not just stand under the hot water day dreaming for 10 minutes and forget to use soap and shampoo (looking at you, ds!) It’s not just how things are, honestly.

And if a 5 year old is smelling bad, I would suspect some sort of infection, or, once again, inefficient washing of hair and skin.

My son is really particular about his room being clean and has a shower daily, his room still has a weird musty smell. I assumed hormones. It's horrible.