Why, it’s even strong enough to make me screw up my coding. :smack:
The worst is when you go to use a phone and the reciever reeks of perfume. Ugh.
I’m an advocate for natural solid perfumes. You can get them at a lot of health food stores. They’re composed of beeswax and natural essential oils and come in a tiny cake that you just rub your finger in and then apply to your pulse points. They are very subtle scents, and much nicer and cleaner smelling than any bottled perfume on the market. They don’t contain the artificial chemical scents that cause allergic reactions.
Oh, I forgot to add that I’ve had severe allergies for 25 years and I’ve never had a problem with the natural perfumes.
Bottled perfumes almost always give me an instant headache.
I use to work at a Fragrance Manufacturing plant. The smell was ever present but still not as bad as the average Dept Store Perfume area and at least 3 different ladies I have had the displeasure of being stuck next to on Flights.
One lady was actually young. Probably in her young 20’s and I was probably 19. I actually let her know part way through the flight that she was probably wearing too much perfume and guys aren’t really into strong smells but maybe subtle ones that we’re not really aware of. Surprisingly she thanked me and was not really aware she wearing that much. As I got older, I’ve never repeated this potentially insulting advice.
I will give you $25 if you do this again with a webcam on your head.
Think of it as edutainment.
I wear Chanel No. 5 body lotion, and it is subtle. You usually can’t smell it unless you’re very close to me. Like making out with me.
Someone in our building dosed the elevator so bad it smelled for the entire day. I was naused for hours after I got home. Not cool.
This was nearly 20 years ago; I worry about crazies more these days. I was braver, dumber and more naive back then.
Would be an interesting Letterman Skit though.
I wish! While I’ve never encountered this in a work or professional environment, some of my fellow college students only see the need to bathe once a week, even in the summer. The worst ones wouldn’t have even benefitted from several bottles of cologne though. gag
I do have allergies; overly heavy perfumes and colognes immediately clog my nose. Really flowery ones can make my nose runny too. But body odor…instant gag reflex trigger, which leads to watery eyes when I hold it back.
Nope, it’s Hanae Mori. I have the eau de toilette, which is less concentrated than the eau de parfum, and less expensive, too. 
[hijack] I decided a couple of months ago that it was time for me to get one “grown-up” perfume (instead of only drug-store and Bath & Body Works stuff), so I went to Nordstrom. The saleslady was extremely helpful, and got a pretty good idea of my tastes. She wouldn’t let me buy anything that day, but sent me home with a bunch of samples, so I could smell them over the course of a day, and without all the other perfumes in my nose. She was great, and I fell in love with the Hanae Mori. [/hijack]
When I was in elementary school, there was one substitute teacher that nobody wanted because she must have bathed in her perfume. She was otherwise nice enough, but you could smell her in the halls five minutes before she arrived and even longer after she left. Yech!
Sounds like Gucci Envy - when I used to demo, the minute a fella wearing flanel came into the department I’d show him the envy and 9 times out of ten he’d buy it. The top note of Envy is cedar - hence the “Deep Woods Off” sort of smell. It’s not one of my faves.
FWIW, I wear fragrance everyday, but I honestly don’t think people can smell it unless they get really close. I think this because I will randomly go up to people that I know and ask.
See, that’s what I’m talking about with Perfume Awareness Day. We can all let the overdosers know that what they’re doing is not appreciated.
Have you ever tried going up to someone you didn’t know and asking?
(I don’t mean that in a snarky way, by the way.)
One of the things I found very attractive about my wife when I asked her out was the fact she used no cosmetics or perfumes. Of course the fact she was pretty with long dark hair and very intelligent were probably bigger factors.
I love to wear various scented oils, colognes, lotions, and such. I rarely leave the house, so nobody minds, except possibly the dogs, who would prefer everyone to smell like old sweat. Hubby likes my taste in fragrances. He doesn’t have a clue how to identify one scent from another, but I’ve learned what he enjoys.
I swear you could take something like…oh let’s say…crotch sweat. And bottle it, and get someone to design a fantastic label, and then call it something like, “Whispering Lilacs” in a big swoopy font. Someone would test it out and say, “Hey, this smells just like whispering lilacs!” And then the next thing you know, it’s in Cosmo and every guy is getting it for his girlfriend.
This sounds familiar - whenever I’m fooling around in the perfume departments, I ask Jim what he thinks about a perfume I’m testing. I get two responses; it smells like soap or it smells like flowers. He really doesn’t care what perfume I do or don’t wear.
In most cases perfume is for the female. Most of us males are oblivious. We might notice that you smell extra good, but this is more likely to be a vanilla smelling conditioner than Channel #5. 
In almost every case less is more. The fragrance should be a hint beyond our conscious minds. If we smell it enough to notice, reaction will quite often not be the one desired by the female.
I also believe the average male is typically less discerning of various odors than females. I don’t know if this is true, but it appears to be true.
DeHusband doesn’t like me to switch my scent too far from the original. Why? Because he thinks I smell like angel food cake. (The base note of the perfumes I use, Givenchy Organza and Organza First Light is vanilla.) I didn’t realize that I smell like baked goods until he came home from a trip and the first thing he did was sniff me. :eek:
Really? Which one? Oh please please please, let it be me!
Seriously, though, I can almost guarantee you that fresh-washed Anaamika smells far better than any oil you can buy.
But ladies, if you really must wear a scent to turn guys on, try Eau du Pot Roast. Or Eau du Guinness.
Occasionally, when someone gives me a cologne as a gift, I try to wear it at least once in that person’s presence, just to show I recognize the gift. But I don’t feel any need to use one, otherwise–just shower a lot and change clothes often. And don’t really mind that much perfumes, because I have no allergies, etc. But a fragrant shampoo seems to accomplish the task better.
I would bet that most people who use deodorant don’t really need it that much. People just get paranoid because of advertising and culturalization.