My smell: Light healthy musk smell with a sweet-smelling note to it at times. If I can describe it, the note is like that sweet smell that very pungent raw honey can have. I've been told it's a very heady/addictive and distinctive smell from partners. I also like it from myself. I think it is good for each woman to appreciate (and KNOW) her own smell regardless of how strong or different as long as it is healthy and natural.
This happens I guess because I eat so much fruit and drink lots of water. But that sweet note within the natural musk smell is there at times when I haven't eaten as much fruit and this has been the case for as long as I can remember, so it is also natural. Diet just enhances certain notes in my natural odor.
Heavy amounts of garlic, onion, seafood and other spices can certainly show up in the one's natural smell, so I try to avoid loads of that if I am going to be intimate.
During a period, of course the smell is slightly metallic due to menstrual flow. I should not be smelling rank if I wash and clean regularly as usual and replace my protective pads. Women who don't do any of that wind up stinking...badly...
The blood and uterine tissue builds up in the underwear and on over-saturated pads and begins to curdle, blacken, stink and give off a rotten meat or fishy smell. It's worse if the woman doesn't trim or shave and that stuff gets all matted up in her pubic hair for far too long.
Yuck.