Exclusive | Stink city! Smelly-and-proud New Yorkers are ditching deodorant in droves this summer as if were not suffering enough in this heat

This stinks to high heaven.As put-upon New Yorkers suffer through yet another summer heatwave, a new, noxious smell is seeping out into already pungent streets and filling overstuffed subway cars — everyone else’s sweat.Did somebody shoplift all the deodorant from Duane Reade? No — the unwelcome underarm scent creeping into the already questionable fragrance bouquet of a Big Apple summer comes courtesy of grungy Gothamites who, in the name of environmental friendliness or their personal health, have opted to put the kibosh on pit protection.Kate Caretta is among the many proudly going au naturel in this year’s hotter-than-Hades weather — the 36-year-old hairstylist and carpenter from Bushwick makes no apologies for her personal choice to not cover up, calling antiperspirants “a stupid thing to waste money on.”“I just don’t see it as something that’s necessary — like, if I smell, I’ll just wash myself,” Caretta, who works as a hairstylist/carpenter and doesn’t consider herself a “very smelly” person, told The Post.

“I also don’t shave my armpits, so I feel like there’s a bit of a natural deodorant quality to that, because your armpit hair wicks moisture away from your skin.”“You already have soap and water in your house … your natural biome works better when you disrupt it less with more product,” said Carretta, insisting she’s not a “woo-woo” person, or anything like that.“I also just don’t think it makes sense to mask a natural smell with another smell.

I feel like it tends to just make it worse.”But while those ditching the deo may have their own reasons, there’s no escaping the reality that the shared air out there is becoming increasingly unctuous.As the scorching season rages on, cranky commuters are spouting their frustrations online — imploring their fellow citizens to reconsider their hygiene habits.“It is going to be one hundred effing degrees out in New York tomorrow — now is not the ...