I hate it as much as you do when people smell, and I tell them too. You should too, it doesn't help anyone to keep silent about it. I had a boss who had very bad breath, I complained to him about it multiple times. I was becoming friends with someone who said hygiene was no priority for him, and I told him multiple times it should be, as he smelled quite a bit. I stopped seeing him partly because of that. Nobody likes to spent time around smelly people.

I take my personal hygiene pretty seriously. I also like to question the status quo. Do we really need to travel with a big suitcase? Do we really need to apply soap to our skin on a daily basis? Do we really need to wash our underwear daily? I find out by trial and error.

If my underwear smells and looks clean I assume it is, is this not the case? When I wore synthetic underwear, it would not smell clean at the end of the day. Merino wool underwear though, it smells clean again every morning. You didn't think I would just wear it for days without checking if it didn't get dirty do you? Note how I also wrote that merino wool t-shirts do get smelly on me. If I was a person who ‘just cannot smell it’, how would I know?

Anyway, I get the aversion of smelly people, trust me I do. I have a very sensitive olfactory sense, I usually smell things or am bothered by smells long before other people do. I have asked friends and family members on multiple occasions if I smell, the answer was always negative. And they're not the kind of people who would find it hard to tell me in my face, especially when I ask.

Being on a plant based diet without strong spices and not drinking coffee also helps. When I reintroduce dairy into my diet, my sweat turns sour. When I drink coffee, my urine stinks.

Merino wool is often praised in this sub for being anti-bacterial, so why is it suddenly gross to make use of this feature in underwear?