You are what you eat! Just watch your diet, no garlic or anything with a strong smell. Google things not to eat if you don't want to stink;)
thanks for the comment but I know its not phantosmia becuase people comment on the way I smell :(
This may be phantosmia unless someone else can confirm that you do have an offensive or unusual body odor.
Phantosmia is an olfactory hallucination: perception of smell without an odor present. These imaginary smells can range from unpleasant to enjoyable. Causes include brain injury or seizures in the temporal lobe, various neurological disorders, overactive olfactory receptor neurons (ORNs), or the loss of inhibitory neurons brought on by a sinus infection or some other type of head cold.
I had a bout of phantosmia. In my case it was an electrical burning type smell that lasted for a few days. This was one of my various neurological symptoms due to Hashimoto's thyroiditis (autoimmune hypothyroidism) with bouts of hashitoxicosis (hyperthyroid flare ups).
I completely agree that having a body odor smell is very common, and believable.
What's unusual is this feeling that it comes and goes so quickly, and that one of the main smells is popcorn, which is one of the most common olfactory hallucinations.
Yes, there are certainly people who have an odd odor! Garlic, urine, feces, bleach, fruit, fish, etc., but it doesn't come and go quickly and only indoors. And usually, family and doctors are very quick to confirm that it's true and mention it to them.
This sounds like a phantom odor to me, and possibly an olfactory hallucination.
I'm not a sceptic at all - in a lot of cases this kind of thing is caused by undigested food in the intestine that is not moving through by the normal peristaltic action. It is gathered in a pocket and rotting, or the transit time is particularly slow and the rotting gasses are being siphoned off and excreted through the skin (that is why people smell like garlic after they have eaten a lot of it, and it's not their breath)
All I can suggest is to make observations of when this is the worst, and remember what you ate about 3 days ago - then you'll be able to figure out what it is that you can't digest very well - and it may or may not be a food that you really enjoy, but probably something with a larger fat content than what you normally eat
Has anyone ever mentioned that they think it's you?
I've got to say, I'm a bit of a skeptic about this, and if you look down the board you'll also find others who believe they put off odd smells although most people can't smell them.
Best wishes.