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ing. First let me say I shower every day and hope I don't have BO
, I try not to burp and fart in public either.
However, I'd like to point out an observation.
Our noses adapt to what we are used to - we stop smelling a particular odour a few minutes after we first detect. Thus if you're cooking with garlic, say, after a while you have become immune to the smell and can't really tell it is there - but anyone walking into the kitchen will smell this.
Now there is BO (foul smelling odour caused by dirtiness) and then there is the natural scent we all give off. This is individual to each person, but also varies by what we eat, how much we perspire etc.
The interesting thing is that the natural body odour of some people, say Indians or Bangladeshis, will be very noticeable to other races and may not be masked by cologne they are wearing. This primarily comes from the diet and spices which make it through to the pores. Fellow Indians/Bangladeshis etc do not smell this.
Now, before I'm branded racist, it works the other way too. In my community of Mauritius, English people (i.e. white people) are characterised as being smelly and not washing - for example an English bath is what we call putting on deodorant.
The japanese are another race that tend to eat bland food and have a neutral body odour. The 'normal' smell of a meat eating caucasian is not pleasant for them (to put it mildly).
Therefore, issues of hygiene apart, we should note that we all have our own particular odour that we are immune to that may be offensive to others. Just think for a minute what the burping Indians (there's an image I didn't want in my mind!) are saying about you!
Cheers,
Shafique
one thing that i have a hard time coping up with would be the foul smell of some people here in dubai... i dunno if its just the weather, but most of the people who came from the same country as i did, dont share the same problem...
the smell especially in an air conditioned room makes me feel dizzy.
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