To wonder if body odour is trendy now?

[GatherlyGal]

So my own 14 year old isn't the most enthusiastic showerer but bloody hell some of her mates STINK. Is this a new thing? Is it a teenage fashion? It's not all of them but most.

I would have been mortified at that age at the very thought of anyone being able to smell my pits but my whole house smells after a visit from one particular friend.

Sometimes kids aren't brought up with appropriate hygiene and don't know any better. Some just don't care. Some have depression or other mental health issues and so don't care or don't notice or don't know better. Some have medical problems or are just particularly sweaty. Some may not have access to appropriate hygiene products

Are threads about teenagers with BO trendy, now?

Have I missed something? Is there another one?

My teen can go from just showered and dressed in clean clothes to being stinky in a very shirt time.
Short of him constantly changing his clothes and having showers every five minutes, I don't know what the answer is

I used to sweat terribly as a teen. It settled down as my hormones did but believe me it wasn’t trendy, it was mortifying. We had to wear these hideous blue school shirts and my fear was my sweat patches being spotted

If your ds isn’t an enthusiastic showerer no doubt he stinks as well, you’ve just got accustomed to him. He will be giving out the same unfamiliar stink in his friends houses as they are in yours.
I doubt it’s a fashion. Teenage boys have always had a whiff about them imo.

I have to remind my dd (or even physically spay her with), she’s has Aspergers and doesn’t really give a toss what other people think, doesn’t care if she smells and hates the smell of roll on, hates the noise of spray.

Had her friends over last week and none of them seemed to smell so it’s probably just my dd who doesn’t care about her own hygiene.

My DD has Asperger as well and same issue as previous poster

@Lovemusic33 best auto correct/ typo of the day award - no spaying allowed

Another 14yr old Aspie DD with armpits that stink here too OP! Not for lack of me trying - sprays, roll-ons, reminders ignored, lots of nagging, no nagging, etc etc.

In the last couple of months though she hasn't smelt as much so may be using the deodorant currently provided after all.

I am just SO glad it's not just mine! I swear, I've had times when I've told her there is no way in hell I'm getting in a car with her before she's had a shower and put on more deo. Yes, she has a strong body odour, but she could be a hell of a lot more pro-active about containing it.

She has absolutely no excuse - it's just that it's not something that she cares about, herself, so she doesn't see why she should have to make any effort to do anything about it. I beg to differ. Although I do sometimes worry that I could be giving her a complex. Then I find myself WISHING I could give her a complex. . .

I think some fabrics which may be trendy hold onto/share the stink more than others. I notice it even with myself since being perimenopausal that certain clothes seem to get that way more than others even when my hygiene routine is pretty set now.

My DS fastidiously showers and does his hair every day but for some reason just will not remember to use preponderant. he has access to sprays and roll-ons, unscented and scented but will just not put it on every day.

He has easy-iron shirts and a polyester blazer so ends up stinking by home time. He doesn't smell at the weekend when he's wearing t'shirts and hoodies so it's definitely the clothes. Then because he hates ironing, he'll wear a shirt for two days. I end up washing the blazer a couple of times a week and febreezing it in between. He says it's just me that smells it as if he smelled at school his friends would tell him....

Meh, my 14 year old DD doesn’t stink and none of her friends do either.

preponderant ! DEODORANT!

Apart from teenage boy's socks, no, not so as I have noticed.
However, be in a car with three teenagers on a hot summer day when they all take their cricket shoes off after a long match and you'll need more than smelling salts.

Just realised you said dd and not ds.

I don't think it's normal teenage behaviour tbh. Ds went through a slightly grubby phase 13/14 but once he started being interested in girls that changed to super clean!
Dd has always been the type to hog the bathroom so no smelliness there.
None of their friends really stank either.
Maybe these girls will change once they're older or maybe some have a sweat problem? Hormones are horrible things.

My (adult) dsd has issues around hygiene and smelling and not washing clothes enough but as other posters have also said that is caused mostly by the Aspergers. Some of it is laziness though!

Iv wondered if the one of main causes is that cheap fashion which is what most teens live in are made from non natural fibres these days and they can make people absolutely stink if they are not mega on top of hygiene! That coupled with the trend of teenagers using body sprays because they smell nice but have no deodorant/antiperspirant in them and almost exclusively using shower gel instead of soap which apparently doesn't work as well.

So many of us adults now complain about unnatural fabrics but I think many teens don't know any better and don't have the same money to buy better.

However ds is 30 now and his socks will knock me off my feet after a day s work. boys just have sweatier feet

I love the phases that teenagers go through. Although I can’t decide whether being engulfed in clouds of many incompatable aromatic perfumes overlaying hormonal etc base notes from my girls or the testos’aroma from the boys ( a heady mix of locker room and Lynx ( Axe ) body spray ) My bête noir was a full academic year of birds nest back combed hair ! Then picking up from school and seeing the whole year group sporting similar coiffure was interesting.

Ugh we are having HUGE issues with DSD. Infact just a few minutes ago we got a complete strop because she was told to get in the shower/bath. Its ridiculous that we have to say it to her, but we do. She stayed at her mums last week and didn't go in the bath for 10 days straight. She was also on her period at the same time. I don't get it, when I had just started my period and was at school, I was so fucking paranoid about it and I was in the shower sometimes twice a day. It seems kids today just don;'t seem to care at all about being clean or stinking. As a few of her mates seem the same.

So we have another stomping around whingey night. Because she 'got washed 4 days ago'

"Teenage boys have always had a whiff about them imo"

Teens boys and their bedrooms, usually a mix of BO, crusty spunk and lynx 😷

I do t think this is normal

My son is 15, coming 16 and has never spelled bad

He showers every day and again after sport, he's been taught to use proper deodorant since he was about 9

There is no excuse for stinking, why are their parents letting them go around dirty and smelly ?