Really random thought. But yeah, can you wash a troglodyte to get rid of their stench?
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Uh, yeah... But the smell would come back the next time the now clean Troglodyte gets mad or is scared.
When a troglodyte is angry or frightened, it secretes an oily, musk-like chemical that nearly every form of animal life finds offensive.
When angered or engaged in melee, troglodytes secrete an oil that smells extremely disgusting to all humans and demihumans
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I think it's more a matter of masking than getting rid of it.
Think about it: this creature natural exudes a smelly chemical from it's skin. That smell is going to be caked in, wether or not the oil currently there gets washed off.
To mask it entirely you will probably have to wash the trogolodyte and bathe him in rose scented oils in order to cover it up, and then (if this is even possible?) train him so that he can control the secretion reflex.
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I think the only way to get rid of a troglodyte's scent effectively would be to surgically remove their musk glands.
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I believe there's a ranger spell along the lines of "disguise scent" or similar. That may work.
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Are you talking about a live or dead troglodyte? Troglodytes smell bad even when they aren't upset, just not enough to force a Fort save. Also, according to an old Dragon magazine article (#235, 1996) about the ecology of trogs, suppressing or masking a troglodyte's musk is like cutting out its tongue. Large parts of the troglodyte language, including their names, are made up of scents they emit from their bodies. The article says they don't even make maps because they basically just fart everywhere they go like ants following scent markers. Over half the thing's vocabulary would vanish if you cast Negate Aroma on it (this could be really useful if you're fighting a group of trogs who need to communicate with each other to coordinate their attacks.)
Of course, you can forget all that if you don't use material published nearly 20 years ago. I'm just one of those people who often does.