My flatmate stinks
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I had a similar experience once, when a friend of a friend came to stay for a month.
We put it down to:
• Unhealthy diet - he ate lots of meat, pies and fried food and not much fresh fruit or vegetables so his sweat smelt like rancid meat
• He showered when he got home from work but then put dirty smelly clothes back on instead of fresh ones.
• He didn't wash his sheets regularly - I had to throw out a perfectly good mattress as his odor had impregnated into it and even after deodorising and leaving it in the sun for a week the Stench still wouldn't budge.It was like that Seinfield episode when the BO man gets in his car and he ends up getting rid of his car.
The worst part was after a while it was like we couldn't get away from the smell then we realised if you sat on the leather couch after he had sat there the Stench transferred into your clothes so the smell would follow you until you washed them, I even dry heaved one day after smelling my boyfriend's back after he sat in the couch after the The Stench had been there.
My suggestions would be:
- Put his sheets in the laundry at least once a week and watch to see if he is re-wearing smelly clothes.
- Buy a large tin of anti-bacterial spray - (eucalyptus) for treatment of the furniture and bedding
- Get an oil burner and some Eucalyptus oil to freshen the house in the mornings.
- Hide the garlic and onionsGood luck! If he eats really bad no amount of deodorant or washing will cover the smell.