Another thing I loved about eating pussy in college (and after for that matter) was that while many girls would often be understandably unwilling to have intercourse on the first date, practically every girl I was with was willing to let me eat her pussy on the first date (or first hook-up if we met at a bar or party that night!) If they were on their period, sometimes that served as a bar. But I was also fairly successful at convincing girls to let me 'eat around the string.' Not as fun as sticking my tongue as far into their vagina as possible but at least I'd get to see their lips up close and lick their clitoruses.
So I always got a kick out of how going down on a girl can be arguably more intimate than intercourse, but at least in my late teens and early to mid twenties, when I offered practically all women had the attitude, "if you want to go down there, have at it." And I loved that attitude - so sexy.
Unlike most guys, I've never had much of an issue with vaginal odor. If a woman smelled stronger than others, I always saw it as the special way her vagina communicated with me. But I always got a secret kick out of the ones that I could tell would rank up as 'stinky' by conventional standards. Because it was like either the girl didn't realize, and I felt like I knew something intimate about her that she might not otherwise want me to know or - even more of a turn-on - she knew damn well she had a strong (bad) smell down there but didn't care because it felt so good to have her pussy licked. In any event, I was never as judgmental (or gossipy) as most guys when it came to how it smelled down there so their 'secret' was safe with me.