If someone smelled bad, would you tell them?

I would find a roundabout way of hinting to them about their condition. I have heard of people placing a bottle of deodorant in a bag with a note stating that there's a survey about this product and would they try it and fill out the questionnaire.

if he was my friend i would tell him...

It would definitely make a difference to me if the person was a stranger or casual acquaintance or someone I really loved like family or friends. For one thing, I would try to not make judgement on just one occurrence. Anything might have happened to make even the cleanest person smell bad on that one day. If it was a recurring thing, and it was someone I saw a lot and cared about, I would try to find the strength to let them know that there was an issue. I am glad to have never really been in this situation. It would not be an easy conversation to have. I did have a thing happen several years back, when an older woman who worked in my office had a really bad B.O. problem. She didn't have a lot of money and it was speculated that she might not be properly cleaning her clothes because of the cost. She was not someone I had any kind of relationship with, and I did not have to make the choice of whether or not to bite the bullet and talk to her about it, because the office manager ultimately brought her in for a private talk about it. I don't know what the problem ended up being, but she did (at least marginally) improve the situation for work.

I am with a person right now that has this problem I have in a round about way told her that she has a oder to her she is diabetic and with that you really need to take care of your hygene a lot more but she does not listen and I do not want to hurt her feelings at all but there are times when I come flat out and tell her that she has an oder and that her bed room stinks I have to go through her bedroom to get to the bathroom and the smell is so strong that it makes me sick to my stomach I have even went as far as telling her that she has to take a shower so she showers but it does not do any good because she puts back on the same clothes so I try to ignore it granted my other friends don't want to come over and that is understandable So I guess to answer you question I would let them know but in a nice way

if they were close to me like a family member or a friend i'll say,"you smell really bad, did you forget to take a shower". but if it was a stranger i wouldn't say anything to them, ill just say,"what smells so bad"

It depends who it is. if it's somone i'm close to and i'm around often and they always smell ya i'd say something so i don't have to smell it anymore.

It would depend on the situation and my relationship to the person. My sister had to do this recently with one of her employees and it was very difficult because the lady who had the bad body odour was actually very nice. My sister hated to embarrass her or cause her pain, but as a manager she had received numerous complaints and had to do it. Even talking gently about it can be very difficult for both people involved.

if we're close friends i'll tell him..