# Market for Vulva-scented "perfume"? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [December 30, 2009, 10:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/market-for-vulva-scented-perfume/523101 "2009-12-30T22:55:32Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![sleeping](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/839c29/32.png) [@sleeping](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sleeping)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2009, 4:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/market-for-vulva-scented-perfume/523101/61 "2009-12-31T04:29:51Z")
[Obligatory \*Pain \*reference](http://www.thepaincomics.com/My%20Rejected%20New%20Yorker%20Cartoons.jpg). (See 4th panel.) ---
**Author:** ![palacheck](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/a88e57/32.png) [@palacheck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/palacheck)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2009, 4:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/market-for-vulva-scented-perfume/523101/62 "2009-12-31T04:31:52Z")
If you don’t wipe after you pee, it CAN be unpleasant. It’s the same unpleasant smell that men get when they don’t pull back their foreskin to urinate. That said, I don’t like or dislike the smell of healthy vulva. It’s just a really weird product to market. Complain about the sexism in this thread all you want, but how do you think the men feel–no one wants to make a dick-scented perfume! ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2009, 4:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/market-for-vulva-scented-perfume/523101/63 "2009-12-31T04:37:19Z")
[Offered with comment.](http://books.google.com/books?id=S93LdPw2KP0C&pg=PA722&lpg=PA722&dq=here%27s+to+the+crack+that+never+heals&source=bl&ots=aJfavizsOs&sig=v5lw6bnX09R0dqJY462BGYzSG0Y&hl=en&ei=nyk8S5PXCIOQsgO_5MTEBA&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1&ved=0CAgQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q=here%27s%20to%20the%20crack%20that%20never%20heals&f=false) [Comment:](http://www.clicknotes.com/dream/T.5.1.html) A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Act V, line 423-438. ---
**Author:** ![Alice\_The\_Goon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ed8c4c/32.png) [@Alice\_The\_Goon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alice_The_Goon)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2009, 5:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/market-for-vulva-scented-perfume/523101/64 "2009-12-31T05:17:24Z")
> [@silenus](#): > > [Offered with comment.](http://books.google.com/books?id=S93LdPw2KP0C&pg=PA722&lpg=PA722&dq=here%27s+to+the+crack+that+never+heals&source=bl&ots=aJfavizsOs&sig=v5lw6bnX09R0dqJY462BGYzSG0Y&hl=en&ei=nyk8S5PXCIOQsgO_5MTEBA&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1&ved=0CAgQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q=here%27s%20to%20the%20crack%20that%20never%20heals&f=false) > > [Comment:](http://www.clicknotes.com/dream/T.5.1.html) A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Act V, line 423-438. As your pal **QTM** has mentioned, both bacterial vaginosis and trichomoniasis can cause a distinctive, unpleasant odor, even fishy. Healthy vaginas do not smell fishy or otherwise offensive. Perhaps your cites precede antibiotics? ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2009, 6:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/market-for-vulva-scented-perfume/523101/65 "2009-12-31T06:23:44Z")
[Sometimes the antibiotics aren’t enough.](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f9y6phGKDso&feature=related)😃 My apologies if I have offended. T’was but a joke, in the heat of the moment. ---
**Author:** ![Alice\_The\_Goon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ed8c4c/32.png) [@Alice\_The\_Goon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alice_The_Goon)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2009, 6:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/market-for-vulva-scented-perfume/523101/66 "2009-12-31T06:26:07Z")
I forgive you, if only for showing me that. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![vivalostwages](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/d07c76/32.png) [@vivalostwages](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vivalostwages)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2009, 6:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/market-for-vulva-scented-perfume/523101/67 "2009-12-31T06:26:46Z")
Could they name the scent in the OP “Mulva”? ---
**Author:** ![Shawn1767](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ee7513/32.png) [@Shawn1767](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shawn1767)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2009, 8:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/market-for-vulva-scented-perfume/523101/68 "2009-12-31T08:30:22Z")
Apparently, the actual product is quite dangerous. If you read the FAQ, it gives you all sorts of dangers associated with the stuff. As in, you should not induce vomiting if you accidentally ingest any of it. It sounds almost as dangerous as the Happy Fun Ball. ---
**Author:** ![chowder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/977dab/32.png) [@chowder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chowder)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2009, 9:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/market-for-vulva-scented-perfume/523101/69 "2009-12-31T09:16:05Z")
All well and good but what does this stuff _taste_ like ? ---
**Author:** ![Guinastasia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guinastasia/32/5751_2.png) [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)\ **Post date:** [January 2, 2010, 3:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/market-for-vulva-scented-perfume/523101/70 "2010-01-02T03:47:57Z")
Am I the only one who doesn’t like the word “vulva”? And it’s not because I find it disgusting or anything. I have no problem using correct terms. No, the word “vulva” just sounds too similiar to “valve” or better yet, “Volvo” and then I start getting the giggles. Yes, I’m still eight years old. Why do you ask? BTW, wouldn’t this go GREAT with the “Vulva Puppets?” (Google it. They’re the first link that comes up. NSFW, duh.) ---
**Author:** ![enomaj](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/59ef9b/32.png) [@enomaj](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/enomaj)\ **Post date:** [January 2, 2010, 7:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/market-for-vulva-scented-perfume/523101/71 "2010-01-02T07:31:35Z")
> [@Mindfield](#): > > Probably not conceptually different than something I saw in the early 80s when I was sneaking peeks at my dad’s stash of Playboys: A perfume named “Sweaty Balls” designed to smell like its name. The atomizer was even shaped like a penis – and yes, it had two dangling bellows. [Sweat from My Balls](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3e9HZyJ759I&feature=related) ---
**Author:** ![Harmonious\_Discord](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/74df32/32.png) [@Harmonious\_Discord](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Harmonious_Discord)\ **Post date:** [January 2, 2010, 12:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/market-for-vulva-scented-perfume/523101/72 "2010-01-02T12:08:53Z")
Vuvla is to close to bubala and I always hear it in my head pronounced like bubala was in a movie. Vu-va-la! Dah! ---
**Author:** ![Malacandra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Malacandra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Malacandra)\ **Post date:** [January 2, 2010, 3:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/market-for-vulva-scented-perfume/523101/73 "2010-01-02T15:43:58Z")
> [@Harmonious\_Discord](#): > > Vuvla is to close to bubala and I always hear it in my head pronounced like bubala was in a movie. Vu-va-la! Dah! “Vuvla” no doubt would be, but what does that have to do with the price of tea in China? ---
**Author:** ![Harmonious\_Discord](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/74df32/32.png) [@Harmonious\_Discord](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Harmonious_Discord)\ **Post date:** [January 2, 2010, 4:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/market-for-vulva-scented-perfume/523101/74 "2010-01-02T16:41:10Z")
> [@Malacandra](#): > > “Vuvla” no doubt would be, but what does that have to do with the price of tea in China? It has nothing to do with the price of tea in China. What gave you that idea comrade? ---
**Author:** ![bup](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/6bbea6/32.png) [@bup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bup)\ **Post date:** [January 2, 2010, 5:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/market-for-vulva-scented-perfume/523101/75 "2010-01-02T17:24:41Z")
> [@Alice\_The\_Goon](#): > > Healthy vaginas do not smell fishy or otherwise offensive. Please tell us what a healthy, aroused vagina does smell like, since the one thing in the world we know it doesn’t smell like is any kind of fish. ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [January 2, 2010, 5:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/market-for-vulva-scented-perfume/523101/76 "2010-01-02T17:42:36Z")
“I love the smell of vulva in the morning. Smells like…victory.” ---
**Author:** ![Freudian\_Slit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/5daacb/32.png) [@Freudian\_Slit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Freudian_Slit)\ **Post date:** [January 2, 2010, 5:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/market-for-vulva-scented-perfume/523101/77 "2010-01-02T17:46:00Z")
> [@bup](#): > > Please tell us what a healthy, aroused vagina does smell like, since the one thing in the world we know it doesn’t smell like is any kind of fish. Well, I don’t know how to describe mine but it smells kind of…I don’t know, bodily. But not exactly in a gross way like urine or feces (thank god). It’s kind of subtle. As **Quad** pointed out, it’s different for every woman so apparently mine doesn’t necessarily represent the norm. I’m sure there are stronger or weaker smelling vaginas out there. ---
**Author:** ![vivalostwages](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/d07c76/32.png) [@vivalostwages](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vivalostwages)\ **Post date:** [January 2, 2010, 5:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/market-for-vulva-scented-perfume/523101/78 "2010-01-02T17:49:22Z")
> [@Guinastasia](#): > > Am I the only one who doesn’t like the word “vulva”? And it’s not because I find it disgusting or anything. I have no problem using correct terms. No, the word “vulva” just sounds too similiar to “valve” or better yet, “Volvo” and then I start getting the giggles. > > Yes, I’m still eight years old. Why do you ask? > BTW, wouldn’t this go GREAT with the “Vulva Puppets?” (Google it. They’re the first link that comes up. NSFW, duh.) FYI: “Vagina” and “vanilla” mean virtually the same thing. Sure makes you look at ice cream a bit differently. ---
**Author:** ![chowder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/977dab/32.png) [@chowder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chowder)\ **Post date:** [January 2, 2010, 6:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/market-for-vulva-scented-perfume/523101/79 "2010-01-02T18:16:48Z")
> [@vivalostwages](#): > > FYI: “Vagina” and “vanilla” mean virtually the same thing. > > Sure makes you look at ice cream a bit differently. It also makes you take longer over eating it, enjoying every single sluuuuuurrrrppp. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![billfish678](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/7bcc69/32.png) [@billfish678](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/billfish678)\ **Post date:** [January 2, 2010, 8:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/market-for-vulva-scented-perfume/523101/80 "2010-01-02T20:33:07Z")
> [@bup](#): > > Please tell us what a healthy, aroused vagina does smell like, since the one thing in the world we know it doesn’t smell like is any kind of fish. Like 18 years of mandatory child support? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/market-for-vulva-scented-perfume/523101.md?page=3) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/market-for-vulva-scented-perfume/523101.md?page=5)