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The smell mainly comes from bacteria ("clean", fresh sweat doesn't have much of an odor). So one tactic is to kill, or at least inhibit the growth of, bacteria.

Deodorant/antiperspirants work by stopping the sweat glands from working in the first place: if there's no (or at least less) sweat for the bacteria to work on, then that's going to help control the odor as well.

Finally, there are those that just cover it up with perfume.

Many brands of deodorant use some combination of the three approaches.

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