Female, 43, Wisconsin, work at home. I bathe/shower daily on average, and always before I go out in public. Have never used deodorant. Don’t see the point (for myself, no judgment on others).
Female. After every shower. At least once a day; more if I’ve gotten sweaty. 30. Midwest.
Female, Daily, daily, 33, upstate NY.
I may not take a shower on the weekend but I always put on deodorant.
I said this in the other thread, but my SO does not wear deodorant. Even on the hottiest sweatiest days he doesn’t stink. if you stick your nose right in his armpit you can smell it but only on those really hot days, and he usually just ends up taking a shower then.
I’ve actually known a fair number of Chinese people (that’s what he is) who don’t wear. Fellow Indians, you should be wearing deodorant, definitely.
Male. Every day. Every day. 46. Northeast Ohio.
Male, 47, Israel
Deodorant - at least once a day, in the morning. Rarely again if it’s been a long/hot/sweaty day and I have to go out again in the evening.
Shower - Once a day, in the evening or after gym; again, on rare occasions I’ll shower twice on the same day (gym at noon and I go out again later on a hot day.)
Female, daily or every other day occasionally (I sniff-test and apply as needed), daily or every other day currently, 25, Philadelphia suburbs. I do both office/sales work and more informal things (tending bar, coffee shop counter).
I’m super-sensitive to BO, I despise being trapped near someone who smells of it. It’s worth noting that several people I have known with truly awful BO were regular with showers and deod - some people just stink more than others. I also know people who don’t ever smell like BO who don’t use deod. I have very little armpit odor naturally (believe it or not, but several brutally honest people have confirmed this for me), but prefer my pits to smell strongly artificially ‘fresh’ rather than how they do with no deod.
Male, 28, PA. Daily + shower, sometimes on weekends I’ll add a second if I’m going out at night and have been running around. Will hop in the shower and rinse after working out (3-4 times a week).
I use deoderant after every shower, and basically will reapply every time I’m home and go out for the day. I also keep a stick in my office, and used to keep a stick in my car during the winter months (during the summer it melts).
There are times when driving to work I become paranoid that I forgot to apply, and if a sniff test can’t smell the deodorant I’ll stop at the pharmacy to buy one (hence why I keep one in my office now).
I’m also the same way with oral hygeine. Brush my teeth before I go out (and night/morning) I also keep a bottle of mouthwash in my car and office.
Male 73, living in Montreal. I shower every night before going to bed (also, during the summer, if I am hot and sweaty, before dinner). I have never, ever used a deodorant. Although I dust with baby powder after my shower in hot sticky weather.
Male, 43, San Antonio TX, shower and use deoderant daily.
Female, 42, never use deodorant. Shower and shampoo/condition daily. I don’t use soap (other than runoff shampoo) on most of my body or my face - just the groin area daily and occasionally anywhere else that seems dirty. (I don’t wear makeup, so I don’t need to remove it - my face stays clean and clear with just water most of the time and I often get compliments on my skin.) I’ve checked with a few people that they can’t smell me under this regime, and my skin certainly seems happy with it.
I’m suddenly reminded of a remark Jerry Seinfeld once made, grousing about all the fancy scents for men’s deodorant:
“Hey, if she’s got her nose in your pit, she LIKES you.”
Male/42/Charlotte, NC, USA
Deodorant: after I shower
Shower: usually once per day
26 female, Chicago, white collar job, daily shower on work days (I skip weekend days on occasion), application of deodorant immediately follows any shower.
23, female, Washington DC. I shower at night before I go to bed, deodorant on every morning.
22, male, shower and deodorant daily, Pacific Northwest.
I’m 28, shower every day, never use deodorant. Most Korean women don’t really need it. I live in Seoul.
29/M
Shower every morning.
Deodorant before getting dressed every morning.
Seriously, sometimes if I’m having a lazy weekend I’ll skip a day of bathing/deodorant. But at the end of that lazy day I can definitely smell myself. And it’s not horrible, but it’s there. Not a scent I’d want in any business or social interaction.
QFT. I dated a Korean woman for a while and it was shockingly bizarre to me - she never wore deodorant, but I never knew until she told me. She never smelled, ever. Not even after a heavy workout.
I think I read something about East Asians having different Apocrine glands which made them not stink like us other ethnicities. I’m too lazy to google right now. But the particular woman I knew never once had even the hint of BO. And she never wore deodorant and rarely used scented anything.
I always put on deodorant after I bathe. But the frequency of bathing varies greatly.
In the winter: After working out, before and after swimming. This could be 3X a week, or 0 times. Otherwise, probably every other day. For example, bath one night, no shower the next day, morning shower the next day.
In the summer: Daily and as needed, max 5X (that was upon arising, after work, after dance class, after swim, and right before bed–not usual), but if I go for a bike ride, or dance, or play tennis, I’ll shower, even if it’s the 2nd or 3rd shower of the day. (Exception: when I biked to work, I did not shower when I got to work; it’s cold in the morning here even in the summer and I could adjust my speed so I didn’t get overly sweaty. Anyway no shower where I worked. The ride home in the afternoon was a different story.)
The deodorant is an automatic thing. I know it’s absorbed and can last more than one day, but my theory is, if I shower, I’ve just washed it off.
I have deodorant failure after wearing a certain brand for awhile, and have to switch. When pregnant, I had deodorant failure with EVERY brand I tried.
Female, 60, Denver.
Just as anecdote, my husband has never worn deodorant, nor needed it except once when he was nervous about giving a speech. He doesn’t seem to need to shower all that often, either, although he does. When we go camping/hiking I can smell myself, but I can’t smell him, that is, he just smells more like himself, which is not a bad smell.
Male, 35, live in northern Nevada. I shower and apply deodorant at least daily, and sometimes twice a day depending on what I’ve been doing.