[Michelle]

I’ve smelled white people’s hair when they HAVEN’T come in out of the rain, and it smells like that when it’s dry! I have also smelled the hair of Asians and Hispanics, and theirs has a similar odor.

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Name : Michelle, Gender : F, Sexual Orientation : Straight, Race : Black/African American, Religion : Christian, Age : 31, City : Winston-Salem, State : NC, Country : United States, Occupation : Writer/Literary Agent, Education level : 2 Years of College, Social class : Middle class, 

[Jennifer R.]

For the record, while I DO notice that sometimes some white people seem to have a different smell than other ethnicities, I don’t find it an unpleasant smell, and I wish there were a less offensive way people could find to describe the smell than that of a wet dog. I think the hair smell, wet or dry, comes from the extra sebum that hair type produces. It’s natural, normal and fine. I wish people would get over it.

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Name : Jennifer R., Gender : F, Sexual Orientation : Straight, Race : Black/African American, Religion : Humanist, Age : 29, City : Saint Paul, State : MN, Country : United States, Occupation : Writer/Student, Education level : 4 Years of College, Social class : Middle class, 

[Susie27506]

I find this difficult to believe. Maybe you just haven’t noticed hair odor in your own ‘race.’ Most white Americans (aside from a lot of seniors who grew up in a different era) wash their hair every day. (I can’t speak for other ethnic groups.) Unless they’ve just come out of the health club and haven’t had time to wash their hair again, it shouldn’t smell at all. On the other hand, I have known quite a few African-American women who washed their hair only once a week because they said it was such a hassle to straighten it after each washing. They don’t seem to realize that hair (ANY hair) starts to smell after two or three days, sooner in a hot climate. An African-American woman I worked with once – very attractive, elegant, beautifully dressed – who had shoulder-length hair and washed and straightened it once a week, would have been mortified to know that when people entered an elevator she was in, the first thing they smelled was her dirty hair. I never told her because I didn’t have the nerve.

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[T.J.]

I’m black and had a white roommate for quite a few years, and I never smelled any odor from her body or hair. She was one of the cleanest people, and her hair smelled terrific. Face it: some people are clean and some are not, so we shouldn’t stereotype one race or the other.

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Name : T.J., City : Staten Island, State : NY, Country : United States, 

[Stacy27931]

i really dont agree because the black friends I hang around, use oil in their hair so in 2 weeks black people hair should not smell. Not ever around me anyway.But Im full white and when i dont wash my hair it kinda smell like a wet dog ‘ I mean im just being real.

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