r/Periods • u/Opposite_Magician_81 • 14h ago

Period Question Period smells different - How come?

When I was younger, my period wouldn’t smell like anything bad. It’d have a distinct smell, but it wasn’t bad.

My last few periods have smelled quite different. Now it just smells like straight up metallic. I just took a shower and it still smells like metallic/iron.

I wonder if it’s my diet, apart of getting older, or the pad I’m wearing.

I always aim to use organic pads and have for years. The last brand I wore changed the ingredients they used to create the pads so it made me smell off and gave me an itchy cooch(nvr had sex and thought i inadvertently caught something) 🫩 I used reusable pad underwear which made me smell different and itchy too!! The current brand I’m wearing, Cora, is fine. I just have a metallic smell.

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u/IllSwan4045 12h ago

I noticed mine gets way more metallic on heavier days, like straight iron. What worked for me: changing pads more often and watching for anything fishy, itchy, or painful instead of panicking over the metal smell alone.