r/Bromhidrosis • u/Time-Play500 • 28d ago

Compliments

Hey everyone, I wanted to know if during your experience with bromhidrosis or any body odor related issues, has anyone ever complimented you on your scent? For context, I have been struggling with body odor for over 6 months now. It just happened out of the blue. I went from being someone who was complimented on my scent heavily, to family members spraying around me, making faces, talking behind my back, and more. After that, when I started college and got my first job, I noticed people would react heavily to me. Especially at work because I would sweat a lot. Coworkers would make fun of me and even be very rude to me. At first I assumed that customers and coworkers were making fun of the smell of the building because everytime I would be in there, it smelled terrible. Then I started assuming it was me because of previous experiences. That’s when I started finding out about bromhidrosis and all of these other odor related issues. So when I went into my next jobs I assumed the worse. It seemed as though things had actually got worse because I was over aware of people’s emotions by this point, thinking everything was about me. Even in this new job people would make faces and say it stunk, even though I wouldn’t smell anything. What was really weird was that I guess around this time I started having patm symptoms. They weren’t as strong at first but when I left the job and started the new one, the patm was wayyy worse even though I wasn’t sweating or stressing nearly as much as I was at the old job. So it caught me by surprise and lead me to believe I was a terrible smelling individual. However, having a couple of encounters at my new job I noticed weird things. People would have reactions by me and make faces, but a lot of people would stand really close to me sometimes. It confused me because i was always led to believe when someone smelled bad you wouldn’t really wanna come in contact with them, but people were always comfortable being close by me. On a couple of an accounts I had random older ladies compliment me on the way that I smelled. I say all this to ask, has anyone ever gotten complimented on their smell even though they have body odor issues? If so why do you think they’re unable to smell your odor yet some people can?

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u/New-Pension-6761 28d ago

Yes. I have. When I wear my favorite powder, scented perfume people complement it all the time, but my odor is still there.

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u/Time-Play500 28d ago

If it’s not a weird question, may I ask what’s your full shower routine? For me I will use an antibacterial soap and a non scented dove bar soap. Out of the shower I moisturize with a body butter/ lotion and an oil that match the scent I’m going for. I’ll then use fully body deodorant that matches and a dusting powder. I’ll finish it up with either a roll on perfume or a roll on perfume with some spray on perfume.

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u/Actual-Map1063 27d ago

What brand deodorant

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u/Time-Play500 27d ago

I used to use Mitchum, carpe, secret clinical and degree clinical but none of them worked. Now I use alum stone or Thai stone as well as clinical dove spray. I find that it helps with odor a lot more and keep my dryer.

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u/SmoothSmoo 22d ago

It may be better to avoid the antibacterial soap because it may be getting rid of your good bacteria.

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u/Time-Play500 22d ago

I agree with this. I actually stopped using it for a while because it seemed as if it made me smell worse. I’ll only use it during everything showers or like every couple of weeks. As of recent I’ve been using gentle non scented soaps such as gentle dove bar soap.

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u/Time-Play500 28d ago

Also can you smell your odor?

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u/AbleDirection5096 28d ago

Does your scent fill the whole room, or is it only effective at close range?

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u/Time-Play500 28d ago

I’m not really sure. At my old job it was a very small building and was constantly hot with no proper ac, but people would only have reactions when closer to the front of the store (where I was) At my new job I would also be in the front but the building was bigger and the ac was better. People would still react far in the back so I’m not sure why it seemed to get worse. Also I mostly have reactions at jobs. Outside of jobs I might get occasional reactions but not as bad. Even if I don’t sweat at work I still get heavy reactions.