Hey Harimad? Can I borrow your pen for a sec? Thanks.
Warning! Flirting!
Anytime, dear, anytime.
Don’t paint with too broad a brush, love. I’m a smoker with an extraordinary sense of smell. Also, due to some bizarre body chemistry thing I have going on, most perfumes that smell wonderful on others smell awful on me, whereas whenever I wear my perfume, I always have the same conversation:
“What are you wearing, you smell wonderful!”
“Opium.”
“No. That can’t be Opium. I HATE Opium.”
(Note: despite what any of you may think - I don’t smell of smoke, my house doesn’t, my clothes don’t… occasionally my car does, but only in winter. People who do not already know I’m a smoker are astonished when they find out. “But you don’t SMELL like smoke!”)
Oh yeah - forgot to add: that perfume that smells exactly like Raid? It’s called Fendi.
Anais, Anais, umlauts over the ‘i’ in both IIRC
mrAru wearing drakkar noir gets me wet…
Who, the woman from the OP? Maybe, but I doubt it. Since she’s going to be working for the chief of cardiac surgery, and he’s pretty harsh on smokers, chances are she doesn’t. I’m currently the only smoker in the department.
Not to want to sound racist (yep, brace yourself for a racist comment), but it seems like most of the men that bathe in Old Spice are of Middle Eastern or Mediterranian heritage. I don’t know if that’s a cultural thing, or if my perception is skewed, or what.
Almost perpetually I have a slightly stuffed up nose (hayfever, about 90% of the year), so I normally don’t notice perfurme much. However, I work with one lady - she sits in the cube across from me, with no wall inbetween - and she is also a fan of the cheap, plentiful perfurme. Or perhaps it’s expensive, but it reeks so much that it makes her seem cheap. I’m not sure which.
The worst thing though, is that she reapplies her perfurme after lunch. Reapplies large amounts of perfurme, I’m guessing, because when she walks by me when she gets back from lunch it hits like a brick wall. Honestly, it’s like a wave of solid stick hitting me on the face. On particularly bad days, I can taste her perfurme in the back of my throat. ack
Your perception or sample might be skewed. My father wears Old Spice and he’s as English (Lancashire) as you get!
CJ
When I was a young teen, I used to love to play with the “testers” at drugstores. My mother hated that I’d come back from an outing with friends smelling like a French whore.
Fortunately, I grew out of that, and know what scents work for me-The Gap’s Heaven, or else this really subtle vanilla scented body lotion from J. C. Penney. It’s extremely, extremely faint.
So this seems like a good place to ask this: What about my idea of spraying cologne on my chest so that it has to work its way out of the shirt? I figure that gives me some leeway on how much I’m using.
The other idea is to put it on the back of my neck, so it is going away from anyone I’m facing.
Here’s my $.02 about Men and Cologne. If a woman can smell your stench before you arrive, why would she want to get any closer? I was out shopping yesterday and these two chumps at Wally World decided they were gonna try Axe out at the store. Gag me with a spoon. My BiL with whom I unfortunately share residence bathes in that shit. It doesn’t help that he’s an ugly, dumbass pissant either.
Personally, I find that there is nothing more delicious in the world than the smell of freshly washed man. Maybe with a little deodorant. I dunno what my husband has been using lately but it’s quite tasty on him. Subtle, too.
And I’m in agreement with the OP that perfume should be so subtle as to only be smelled by someone in rather intimate proximity. Sort of like, a provocatively dressed person not leaving much up to the imagination. It’s just not sexy if everyone within 50 feet can smell you.
SNORT!!! That’s so bad. But it made me laugh out loud for real.
There’s another one that smells like bug spray…Clinique Aromatics Elixir. I practically bathed in it when I was in my early 20’s. What was I thinking???
I can’t answer for Ethilrist but my dad lost his sense of smell due to a head injury in a car accident. I have heard of this happening to other people as well, somehow the brain is shaken in a way that damages the olfactory nerve.
I’ve noticed it, too, on middle Easterners.
Of course like everything else I’ve ever noticed about a particular ethnic group, it’s ONLY because I’ve been programmed by society and so I notice those things that conform with pre-determined notions and ignore those things that don’t.
It must be all those images in the media of middle eastern guys bathing in cologne.