How do you tell someone they smell bad?

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It depends upon how close or intimate and comfortable you are with the person. If you are close or intimate and comfortable with them, find loving and caring words expressing concern placing it as important to them rather than a "selfish" request. If you do not have an endearing relationship, do not mention it at all, unless you are an adult using your efforts to teach a child.

Or give them a spray as a present. Or when out and they smell bad spray yourself and then give them a spritz.

If its a women find out if they have a period (it's a women's thing). If they don't, maybe they don't have any clean towels or clothes so they can have a shower and they are waiting for them to dry. Maybe they breathe in through their mouth instead of in through their nose, it makes a difference to the sense of smell. Do not tell them they smell bad straight up.

I agree, you can't really go out and say it without being rude. If it's their breathe you could always take some gum and offer it for them also.

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