Can smells be bad for you? Most of us recall situations where a pungent odor—say, from a sewer, trash sitting outside, or a dirty public bathroom with a strong odor of urine—made us want to run away. ...

As a result, we might think we don't smell bad when, in fact, others around us can still detect an odor.” So, if your friend tells you that you smell, it might be true, but you simply can’t ...