Bear with me, I know this sounds weird.
I pick him up each day just after 4 and within minutes of him getting in the car I can smell an odd fusty kind of smell. Not adult B.O., not school dining hall, .... I just can't describe it or understand it really.
He started using deodorant this summer and showers daily. He has a clean shirt and clean trousers (and clean underwear obvs,) each day. He goes off to school smelling normal (well no real smell of anything much)
He only has PE twice a week and so it's not that. His primary school uniform was predominantly cotton but the secondary school shirts and blazer are polyester and they can only remove the blazer when specifically given permission in warm weather. He has to wear a tie and keep his top button done up. The blazer itself doesn't seem to smell by itself when hanging up at home and I have already washed it each weekend just in case
His armpit region doesn't smell of B.O.
Could it be the synthetic fibres making him smell ? Or is he just giving off an "eau de secondary school" smell picked up from the class rooms ?
I'm getting paranoid that he'll be known as the smelly kid but he NEVER had this problem at primary school and wasn't wiffy in cotton t shirts etc in the summer holidays, when the weather was warmer than the current temperatures.