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You are vastly underestimating the social awkwardness that comes with telling someone they smell. Maybe you have a very different relationship than most do with their friends, but it would take quite a lot before I would bring that kind of thing up. In a professional setting, I would want to get HR involved before pointing that out to someone. I would let them figure out a polite way of asking the coworker to fix their B.O.
At the canteen table, I brought it up once during a tangentially-related conversation and they were all very surprised. Minutes later, while the others were getting the fill, one of them even privately went up to me and confirmed.