How good is your sense of smell?

[Yellow Fang]

Like, can you tell when you have BO?
Can you tell when a jumper or fleece is getting a little bit musty?

 

[TheDoctor]

Yes, by and large, unless I've got a cold.
[whisper]Your lycra needs a good scrub, by the way. [/whisper]

 

[neil_merseyside]

I can smell when I smell IYSWIM, but I have a friend who stinks on occasion and he can't tell that himself, neither can his wife (or he wouldn't have one?) but it must skip a generation as both of his kids tell him to shower, and buy him deoderant (well he doesn't think he needs it!)

 

[MrJamie]

I have no idea how it ranks competitively, but after I quit smoking it was amazing having a new sense I'd had no idea I was missing for half my life.

I can't very often smell myself, but then my sportswear is washed after every use and I shower at least daily. I think some people just don't bother.

 

[yorkshiregoth]

terrible, but the Mrs is like a bloodhound. Have very good hearing though.

 

[biggs682]

i can smell my own sbd's even when i have a cold

 

[threebikesmcginty]

Sorry but I've got a colt in my dose.

"Secod class returd to Dottingham"

 

[MarkF]

Lost my hearing in my left ear after an accident 10 years ago, my sense of smell has improved so much since then I am now like a scent hound.

 

[vernon]

Sorry but I've got a colt in my dose.

I thought you sounded a little horse.

 

[vernon]

i can smell my own sbd's even when i have a cold

Chester-le-Street can smell my SBDs even when there's a strong Northerly blowing.

 

[Marshmallow_Fluff]

Message for the ones who claim they cannot smell their BO:
"It's only because you are consistently smelly mate! Your nose is designed to detect only new scents/smells/odours.
Shower daily (at least) and buy yourself a deodorant Pigpen!!! Oh, and wash your kit after use, don't leave it for the group rides only!! FFS!"

 

[vernon]

Body odour is only offensive because the chemical industry has persuaded the population that any hint of body odour, despite exemplary personal hygiene, is a problem that must be cured by an investment in its deodorising products.

In the good old days, Pear's Coal Tar Soap and/or Cussins' Imperial Leather's 'perfume' would would suffice.

The pendulum has swung the other way. Lots of kids that I teach spray themselves to stop 'smelling' when they do not smell at all - they are pre-pubescent - they are victims of the advertising campaigns that misdirect their hapless audiences into believing that the cloying 5hite that they coat themselves with is attractive to the opposite sex.

 

[Marshmallow_Fluff]

Well, as a representative of the opposite sex I can assure you that body odour never worked as a "magnet" in my case (and very often was a deal breaker)..

 

[BigonaBianchi]

As long as we can smell a rat as well as we can smell the flowers all will be well.

 

[vernon]

Well, as a representative of the opposite sex I can assure you that body odour never worked as a "magnet" in my case (and very often was a deal breaker)..

Never for one moment suggested that it was a magnet. I suggested that decent soap and hygiene would suffice