Say what you want about Alabama left tackle Kadyn Proctor, but you probably won’t be able to say he smells.

He’s made sure of that. Proctor said he has 170 bottles of cologne.

“How I see it, if you’re a big guy, you can’t stink,” Proctor said Wednesday. “You’ve got to be fresh, man.”

Proctor is looking to do more than smell good, though. He wants to “flip the narrative,” he said while speaking at SEC Media Days in Atlanta.

“The narrative right now is, if you’re big, you stink, you smell, you’re sweaty,” Proctor said. “That’s not how it goes for me.”

It goes back to Proctor’s days in elementary school in Iowa. His dad put a little cologne on him one day.

“Go to school smelling good for the little ladies,” Proctor said.

His passion for cologne only grew from there. He doesn’t yet have his own cologne brand, though.

“That’s not really the motive right now,” Proctor said. “It’s really about smelling good.”

Proctor has tried to get the good scents to spread to other Alabama players.

“Everybody is getting into it now,” Proctor said. “Wilkin Formby is the next best at it.”

Formby, the predicted starter at right tackle, is also Proctor’s roommate. And Formby has about 70-80 bottles of cologne, Proctor estimated.

“We kind of feed off each other,” Proctor said. “It’s like, ‘Hey man you’ve got to go pick this up’ … The obsession continues.”

Nick Kelly is an Alabama beat writer for AL.com and the Alabama Media Group. Follow him on X and Instagram.