Scents and sensibility

IS your bathroom cabinet a shrine to abandoned deodorants that didn’t keep you smelling fragrant as promised, and antiperspirants which failed to prevent you from sweating in the first place? Have you ruined a favourite outfit because of indelible white marks left by product residue? Or are you among a growing number of users who wants to replace ones containing aluminium — that barrier to sweating — because of suspected links to Alzheimer’s disease, kidney disease and breast cancer?

No sweat. We’ve sniffed out eight readily available roll-on brands and applied them to fresh, sweetly clean armpits — one shaved, one furry — to find out which keep that rich palette of odours at bay and which ones are the pits.

Dove Go Fresh Antiperspirant/Antitranspirant Deodorant