Fresh All Day: Body Odor Stories

Inside this volume

Fifty first-person accounts describe body odour, from the first quiet warning to the routines that made it manageable. A fifteen-year-old in Manchester whose school shirts smelled by lunchtime, a long-haul trucker living in his cab, a shipyard welder in Gdansk, a night-shift nurse in Mexico City, a hijab wearer in Birmingham, a fly-in fly-out miner in Queensland and a salon owner in Kingston who learned her scalp needed care too are among them, with voices from Lagos to Lisbon. Writers try whole-body deodorants, pharmacy antiperspirants, natural deodorants, laser treatment, cotton and wool in place of synthetics, and a grandmother's remedies. Some found a medical reason: a sharp new smell at fifty-eight, sweat that changed on new tablets, during chemotherapy or on testosterone, an infection under skin folds, and a warehouse supervisor told for years to wash more before he got a proper answer. A mother finds words for her teenage son, a widower learns to change his own shirts, and a retired schoolteacher finds washing harder at seventy-two. Not everything worked. Two writers ended up with raw skin from a whole-body deodorant, a natural deodorant experiment ended in hiding, and laser helped one woman without removing the smell entirely.

Who it's for

For anyone who has pressed their arms to their sides in a crowded lift, and for parents, partners and carers wondering how to raise the subject kindly.

Format · Instant download · PDF & EPUB · Fifty first-person accounts · PDF: 275 pages

A collection of personal testimony, offered as companion reading — not medical advice.

• 50 single-author testimonies from real people
• A short, plain-language introduction to the topic
• Editor's note, contents page, and curated resource list
• Professional interior typesetting and an original cover

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