<p>Looking for serious answers please.</p>
<p>My roommate really smells- it's not just a little and it can't be alleviated by leaving the windows wide open. It is bad. I think it is a body odor problem, not lack of showering although more showers could do too. I don't think I can tolerate this living situation for the rest of the year. </p>
<p>Any suggestions on how to address this in a sensitive but firm manner?</p>
<p>tell him straight out.</p>
<p>straight out dude</p>
<p>Pretty much.
Or you could buy him some Axe. Maybe he'll get the drift.</p>
<p>Air freshener. Lots.</p>
<p>Telling them probably won't work. Sad as it may seem, they are oblivious to the smell. Get in touch with your schools counseling center. They will intervene and meet with the smelly offender to talk about hygiene.</p>
<p>There are some physical conditions that create this problem, and sometimes there's nothing the person can do about it. Sometimes even more showers don't help much. I have no idea what you should do, but I'm really, really sorry.</p>
<p>febreeze lol</p>
<p>Buy him some nice cologne (tell him it's a welcoming gift from your parents).</p>
<p>febreeze the place!</p>
<p>^ no, febreeze HIM</p>
<p>thanks for the replies so far. How effective is febreeze, any health risks? </p>
<p>If anyone has had a similar situation and came up with something that worked, please share!</p>
<p>I don't think there are any health risks just don't spray in in your eyes or in your mouth...</p>
<p>tie your roommate down and bathe him in febreeze...the smell will be gone.</p>
<p>or you can just leave this forum topic on your computer when you leave for class and it might catch his eye ;)</p>
<p>No spraying will cure this problem.</p>
<p>^I have a friend with trimethylaminuria and it's painful. No amount of showering does anything. </p>
<p>Maybe go to your RA? Don't be rude about it, you don't want to create a bad living environment, but maybe the RA could speak to him. If he IS showering, then it could be a deeper problem than just hygene.</p>
<p>could it be his clothes, does he wash them? my D was working at a summer camp and this one little girl smeleed terrible, so they got her some fresh clothes and washed everything she had, it was her clothes, not her, so is that a possiblty</p>
<p>i'm not sure what it is...maybe it's that...but I don't really feel like spraying anything anyway. I think it's better to address the cause than trying to treat the effects. So, talk directly or go to the RA/counseling first?</p>
<p>Buy a box of Bounce fabric softener sheets (I know this sounds wierd, but trust me) and put a couple under his mattress, under his dresser drawers (in the dresser itself, etc; they'll radiate more than you'd ever imagine. </p>
<p>--if you think its dirty, smelly clothes--</p>
<p>when roommate is not in room, does it still smell,,,if his clothes are laying around, can you smell them?</p>
<p>does he smoke?</p>