While he does shower regularly, Matthew McConaughey admitted in a 2005 interview with People that he doesn’t wear deodorant or cologne, preferring to let his own smell roam free:
I don’t like to smell like someone or something else. If my smell starts to bother someone else, I’ll take a shower.
While filming Fool’s Gold his natural smell upset Kate Hudson to the point that she tried to pressure him into at least using salt rocks:
She always brings a salt rock, which is some natural deodorant, and says, ‘Would you please put this on?’ I just never wore it. No cologne, no deodorant.
But even though his smell may be a bit too much for some people, there’s someone that is alright, alright, alright, with taking a whiff of McConaughey. His Tropic Thunder costar Yvette Nicole Brown:
First of all, I’m a huge Matthew McConaughey fan. I remember that Matthew McConaughey said that he did not use deodorant and that he did not have an odor. My first thought was: ‘I’m going to get as close as I can to him to see if he’s right.’
He smells like granola and good living, that’s all I can say. He has a sweet, sweet scent that is just him and it’s not musty or crazy. And he was very kind to me.
Whether he smells good or not is up for debate, but hopefully, his smell won’t affect his students now that he is a professor at the Austin’s Moody College of Communication.
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