Hello.  I have a wonderful, very friendly, smart curly coated retriever.  I was recently horrified to find out that my dog smells because of his oil based coat I guess.  I was bothered/apprised by not so nice (the one who told me) condo neighbor (She actually lives about 6 doors down the hallway from me.) that my wonderful dog (who usually gets a weekly bath after swimming) stinks and is stinking up the hallway.  Of course, she lives next to the trash, (which I found upon my smelling investigation and that smelled horribly until recently-it's been perfumed or something to fix it).  My dog does pet therapy (without complaint) and gets hugged and pet numerous times a day without a complaint.  After hearing of his alleged smell, I had numerous people smell him and embarrassingly told them why and they all said he doesn't smell bad and that she was beyond rude.  However, I asked my neighbor today if my dog smelled to her and she said no initially, but that after we were there for a while that he had a bit of a negative smell (meaning it takes a while to smell him.)  And she said when it was hot in particular the hallway smelled bad and she thinks it's because of my dog.  And because I have a horrible business manager who targets me for no reason (and blames for everything that I had no involvement in and certainly didn't cause) because I didn't like her taking over our common space (that we paid for in our condo fees and was used 24/7 by the people in the building) for her office although she already had one and she, a smoker, put smelly cigarette ashtrays  (because she likes to smoke and not because the majority of us want these ashtrays right next to our front entrance) very close to our building. She also brings her unfriendly little pug (I run a dog group and like small socialized dogs , pugs, etc.  To join my dog group, a dog, however, has to be friendly unlike hers.) to our building every day and she thinks its funny when her dog goes after mine and has him go off leash as well, which violates pur condo rules but i wouldn't care if her dog was friendly and lived here and if she paid extra for her dog as all the rest of the dog owners do-and she minded that i told her that its not okay for her dog to attack mine.  She used these bad smelling complaints against my dog to her advantage and held a disparate embarrassing hearing I didn't attend as I was running an event that night (as I told her) and she threatened removal of my dog and fined me $100.  I'm probably going to appeal as I took some actions to eradicate and until today thought it was the issue only of the unfriendly neighbor way down the hall who bitchily told me your dog stinks and is stinking the hallways we hardly ever go down and she had the smelly trash right next to her (Should the business manager be fined for thay?-LOL). Now that I know it's a real issue, do you all know any ways to improve a curly coated retriever's smell caused I guess from his oily coat?  Please help.  My dog is so friendly and wonderful (unlike unfortunately many dogs in my building whose owners haven't socialized their dog and they think it's okay for their dog (particularly small dogs) to go after my dog, routinely growl and bark at him ad nauseum) and loves everyone and volunteers.  Please help so he no longer smells (something I can't smell and obviously many others ).. but it's a big problem and causing me harm and according to these neighbors harming them.  Ideas?  Thx!!  And sorry this is so long-I'm understandably upset and find it strange that it only became a problem recently (maybe due to the heat this summer.)  We lived here for quite a while and it's the first complaint.  But I've also been sick and maybe we're  (my dog and I) spending more time in the condo.  Thx again.  Please share your expertise on eliminating the smell from the oil based coat of my wonderful curly coated retriever  (who normally gets soo much attention and love and returns it-but unfortunately he's the only dog on my floor in an otherwise building occupied by many dogs and thus also likely surrounded by unfortunately not the biggest doglovers-an understatement.)  So please help.  I'd love your valuable assistance on how to eradicate the bad smell (which I can't smell) from my curly due to his oil based coat and again sorry for the length of this post seeking your valuable assistance.

Why do you believe her if many other people say he doesn't smell.?

Isn't it a case of in the eye of the beholder ? In this case a neighbout has complained to the landlord and it's got out of hand by the sound of things . I am very surprised she can really smell the dog in the hallways . I've met a number of curlys and can't say any smell has got me running .in fact we had one that lived in a popular pub who frequently mixed happily with the customers

Many breeds do have a  natural scent some more than others and I guess if someone doesn't like that smell it's tricky especially if u live in close quarters.
I can't imagine what u do apart from frequent baths which isn't the best idea and this dog is being bathed regularly in any case

Doesn’t sound like a dog problem to me. Sounds like a people problem. Is she after a better condo, ie yours, and is coming up with excuses to make you unhappy and so move out? I’d start keeping a log of incidents(with the pug)/photos of trash/dates your dog was bathed etc. Hopefully you won’t need them, but it’s too late too start if things get worse later.

I's also wonder about it being a problem with proper ventilation in the hallways.  Cooking and other smells etc would be just as much if not more of an issue.

>who usually gets a weekly bath after swimming

I would suggest cutting out the weekly bath.  If you bathe a dog (with shampoo etc), you strip the coat of natural oils and then the coat overproduces those oils to compensate and so on in a vicious circle. 

Instead, just hose a dog off if they get muddy - save bathes for times the dog has rolled in something disgusting or when you really need the shampoo...