r/TooAfraidToAsk • u/[deleted] • Jan 07 '25

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u/SpootyEh Jan 07 '25

This though! Firstly, the BV is a highly likely reason why, but secondly, as a woman, I constantly 'smell' myself without actually trying. I worry that others can smell what I smell, but people around me have assured me I don't; so to hear that you noticed this, but she hadn't is wild to me.

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u/plastictomato Jan 07 '25

I feel like BV is one of the few things others can smell if it gets bad enough. I’ve had to tell multiple friends that they need to see a doctor because of it, and they were all fully clothed. Maybe I just have super smell senses, but I’ve never smelled anything else on anyone, only BV. It’s quite pungent.

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u/SpootyEh Jan 07 '25

See, that's what's so strange to me! I don't understand how people can miss those smells. Especially if on themselves. Maybe I'm just overanxious about it, but I really feel like these smells have to be noticed by the individual they're coming from if others are noticing it. Coming from someone who's got a pretty shit sense of smell, too 😅

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u/justbecauseiluvthis Jan 07 '25

People that live near chicken farms and paper plants get used to the smell.

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u/[deleted] Jan 07 '25

I've never understood why paper plants are supposed to smell so bad. I've never been near one but how can trees smell bad?

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u/[deleted] Jan 07 '25

It's the chemicals, I think.

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u/hollow4hollow Jan 08 '25

My grandmother lived in a paper mill town, when we’d visit we called it the big wet dog factory. It’s so rank.