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.

Ha Bumsex I love the idea that my own house reeks and I just don't notice!

DD needs to be encouraged into the shower but she uses deodorant and hates the idea we can smell her.

I agree the man made fabrics do not help and the real stinky issue must be unwashed clothes as much as an unwashed body.

ds(14) and none of his friends who sleep over stink of BO so not aware of it being a general issue. He did have one friend that has a strange meaty smell once.

I'm am always mystified by any threads on the subject of people stinking, as with a few (1 in a thousand) exceptions I've never in my life encountered someone who smelt really bad. Not even when I was a boy at boarding school with compulsory sports every day of the week. A rugby jersey caked with dirt and soaked in sweat may be a smell some people don't like, but a passing whiff of it isn't that offensive.

Perhaps I'll gain first-hand experience when DD is a teenager, but if it wasn't for Mumsnet I wouldn't be aware that many teenagers and all adults who don't use deodorant stink.

She stayed at her mums last week and didn't go in the bath for 10 days straight.

Send her to boarding school. Compulsorty showers twice a day and peer pressure ensures everyone uses deodorant.

A lot of teenaged clothing us made of synthetic crap these days which permanently sticks after the first wear.

I reckon it's luck.

My nearly 20 year old has never had a smell about him, pits or feet. He showers and washes his hair most days but sometimes forgets. Aspie too (if that's relevant). His room smells a bit musty but that's because he never opens a window and lives in the dark.

Some kids just stink more than others. Personal hygiene may or may not play a part. But luck definitely does.

Oh, and he never wears deodorant either. Hasn't ever needed it. Just luck .

If BO is fashionable, farts could be the next craze.

My DS seemed to be smelly even though he showered constantly and was forever in the bath and had access to deodorant etc . We then realised that although he was in the shower/bath and using toiletries, he was sweeping over his armpits rather than reaching the skin with the soap/shower gel. ditto the deodorant.
Now we've sorted that out, it's all smelling of roses.

I'm premenopausal so can whiff a bit if I don't use my combination stink buster. Bar of dettol soap and mitchum roll on deodorant. Those two used together have eliminated odours as well as washing my clothes in biological washing powder on 40°.

Loads of teenagers stink. It’s a hormonal thing, plus them having to learn what it actually takes to stay clean once you aren’t a little child anymore. They’ll grow out of it.

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

DS is 6'2 and get's himself ready for school in the morning after I am at work. There are only so many times a day I can remind him to put it on, I can't physically force him. he's been okay up until school went back and he has a different blazer (senior pupil) so thinking it is definitely clothes related. Clothes are washed and he has enough clean ironed shirts for the week on a Monday, but again, I'm not here and also can't force him to put a clean one on every day. He has access to deoderising soap but chooses to use shower gel.

When I was a teen I was lucky in that I didn't have a single bit of acne or spots but by god I stank, puberty really hit me in the armpits and no amount of deodorant could cover it. Poor girls!

Sure antibacterial spray deodorant. No smells at all using this product

When I was a teen boys smelled of too much lynx and Jean Paul Gaultier aftershave even if they couldn't grow a bit of stubble. It was headache inducing

Just realised you said DD not DS, definitely not when I was younger, lots of So or body shop body sprays and perfume being liberally reapplied at any opportunity (I was a teen in the late nineties, early 2000s), aren't girls usually more self conscious of things like that?

Yes I thinks it's the unbreathable synthetic fabrics that everything is made from these days

ds' room has a bit of 'lion cage' in the mornings. not bo as such, but an unpleasant smell that dh can't seem to smell

@MrsStrowman I had to have a word with a 15yo work experience lad who I was partnered with for a week, he had so much Lynx on that my eyes were streaming and I had to catch my breath. I felt awful but I couldn't cope with that for a week

The teens near me don't smell bad. Except in the morning when they exist in an almost solid miasma of Lynx or whatever the female equivalent is. You certainly couldn't accuse them of not making an effort.

I think for some kids daily washing is not part of their routine. You always see threads on mumsnet about how children only need a wash twice a week, etc. So they grow up thinking it’s normal.

This doesn't surprise me. A couple of weeks ago I passed a group of teenage boys in a shop and the stench was awful. However I have noticed during the last year that a lot of adults stink too. Unwashed kind of smell, and they always seem to stand right next to me.