I’m in a quasai-relationship with a woman who gave me the strangest compliment. One evening after some bedroom fun she commented that I smelled good. This was surprising, because I had gone to her apartment straight from work and while I took a shower that morning, had assumed I was a little musty from a day’s work (sitting in a bus, having my clothes get the unpleasant aroma of cigarettes, pot, and homeless funk).
She told me I smelled like ‘boy’ in 28 years this is probably the first I’ve ever heard of this. I’m definitely flattered, but obviously I don’t know what ‘boy’ smells like exactly, and when I comment that she smells good, its generally something she put on her body (shampoo, body lotion, perfume, etc)
Ever hear of this? Pheremones? I just have the right kind of funk for this woman? I’m not knocking it or anything, its just kind of…unique I guess.
I’ve gotten the same compliment. It basically means you don’t smell all girly (I put on deodorant and occasionally a touch of cologne, and people say I smell good (cause japanese people… well… don’t)) but the smell of boy is more the musty smell of a bit of sweat and worked-in clothes and such. I believe, yes, it is a pheromone thing
It means you stopped smelling like all the scented crap we use and actually smell like a person instead of a perfume factory. I like the smell of clean, unfragranced skin, especially guy skin. It’s a little earthy, and a little musky, and just plain nice. Also, for the record, the scented stuff they sell for men tends to not smell so great. So when a woman uses scented soaps and lotions and such, we smell like flowers or fruit or some sort of food, things that are great smells all on their own. When a guy uses scented products he smells like…well, like he’s been using guy-oriented scented products. Which isn’t unpleasant, by any means, but it doesn’t exactly make you want to sit around sniffing him or eat him up.
As a female I would assume she enjoyed the “natural” scent of a guy who smelled like he’d just had sex. Which is a pleasing earthy scent…the only thing I can compare it to is the smell of dirt when rain just begins falling. Difficult to explain but obvious once you’ve smelled it. To describe it would make it sound unpleasant, but it’s a lovely warm human smell. I don’t know how else to put it. It isn’t remotely related to unpleasant body odor, and it isn’t similar to cologne or deodorant.
It just reminds you, as a girl, that you are in bed with a man. Which is–or at least can/should be–a lovely cozy feminine feeling.
I’ve often given my husband this compliment. As others have said, you probably don’t smell like you have a bunch of perfumed stuff on you, cologne included. Everyone has their own particular smell. My husband smells “right” to me and has since the first time I got close enough to smell him. I’ve dated guys who’ve smelled wrong and it really turned me off.
We tell our ten year old son that he smells like “boy” all the time. It’s definitely not the same smell as “guy” or “man” smell. If you don’t have boys that run around and get sweaty, particular in their thick, hot hair upon their head, then you might not know this smell. It’s not as strong nor offensive as a stinky grown up man, but definitely pungent.
As he edges toward eleven this smell is beginning to morph into funky teenager smell, which is not a pleasant thing.
Of course this is why we invented bathing and other accompanying rituals.
It’s kind of a combo of subtle scents from antiperspirant, shampoo, soap, sweat and natural pheremones that’s unique to each boy. You don’t even smell it until you get really, really close (like, nuzzling his neck kind of close).
Honestly, I could nuzzle The Boy’s neck all day sometimes. I love that smell.
(it’s very different from Man Funk, which is the stink you get from old hockey equipment that’s been sweated in a million times… that’s not so sexy)
Hmmm. Interesting. The first thing that came to my mind is that acrid yet not unappealing smell that little boys have when they first come in from playing hard.
in 28 years this is probably the first I’ve ever heard of this. I’m definitely flattered, but obviously I don’t know what ‘boy’ smells like exactly, and when I comment that she smells good, its generally something she put on her body (shampoo, body lotion, perfume, etc)