Healthy humans do not emit such a repellant aroma as to require scrubbing thrir skin with soap every morning, nor especially to spray or smear certain areas of it with chemicals.
The term "B.O." was invented in the 1920s or '30s by an ad agency working for Lever Btothers, makers of Lifebuoy, "The 24-hour deodorant soap." The ad campaign was wildly successful. Almost overnight, Americans were convinced they stank to high heaven if they didn't wash daily with Lifebuoy. (Even Bugs Bunny cartoons often parodied the "Beeee-ohhhh" from radio ads pfor the soap, and Jon Lord of Deep Purple elicited that sound from his Hammond B-3 organ during "Space Truckin'," captured live on the band's album "Made In Japan" some 35 years later.)
To be sure, some people are malodorous: those who work in moderate-to-heavy physical labor under unclean conditions (normal human sweat does not smell bad; indeed, it's part of the natural attraction during sexual arousal), those with glandular maladies and those who simply cannot or do not bathe for long periods of time, such as the unhoused. And, many others just like to "feel clean" and/or believe they'd "o-fend," to quote another old radio ad for a deodorant product, if they didn't wash away and prevent "the funk" every morning.
If it makes you feel better, shower as often as you want. But, under normal circumstances, daily use of deodorant products simply isn't biologically necessary.
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