I'm a massage therapist. Smell happens.
Any extra weight/drooping skin, and women and men can get yeast overgrowth.
Nervous sweat is different than cooling sweat.
As a person relaxes, they emit their own scent through any coverup products.
Diet, smoking, drinking, stress, activity/inactivity all affect smell
Traditional Chinese Medicine uses scent as an indicator of health or imbalance. I have some very basic training in this form of DX/assessment. As in a keep a cheat chart. (Hey, what's metallic breath a sign of?)
I use a lot of stretches in my work. That means I'm moving legs and arms, a lot.
Pits and groins have unique to the region scents.
So I incidentally note a lot of variances.
Therapist brain doesn't judge, but rather assesses.
But personally? If his scent either pre or post arousal (that's different, too) doesn't make me want him, we typically don't workout long term.
My current guy has a scent that hold me captive. But he's so concerned that he will "smell" that he often neutralizes his scent before we hang out. Luckily that neutral zone only works for an hour or so before his notes start coming out.
I will nuzzle his groin, pits, scalp for the different scents that are all him.
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Too much vinegar can strip away skin's protective mantle. I would not recommend your routine daily. I'd skip days here and there. If unfiltered vinegar (usually apple cider vinegar) is available, allowing the microbes to colonize your skin can help.
Small companies are experimenting with altering skin biomes to alter smell. I'm excited about the concept.
Vinegar is a great neutralizer for yeasty issues. Especially scalps.