# Your stink-pretty is making me sick. **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [September 27, 2005, 10:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-stink-pretty-is-making-me-sick/323750 "2005-09-27T22:51:31Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Giant\_Spongess](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/94ad74/32.png) [@Giant\_Spongess](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Giant_Spongess)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2005, 10:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-stink-pretty-is-making-me-sick/323750/1 "2005-09-27T22:51:31Z")
Yeah, I’m talking to you. I’m glad that you pay attention to your personal hygiene; so many don’t. But that doesn’t mean you have to douse yourself with cologne! I don’t give a fuck if other people give you rave reviews for your overpowering stench, they’re not trapped inside a 10x20 with no ventilation. Yeah, I know it’s only an hour, but I’d rather snort superglue than smell your masculinity. Fuck you! Next time you waltz in with a nigh-visible aura of stench, I’m not going to say anything. I’m just going to puke in your lap. ---
**Author:** ![Wolfian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/7ea924/32.png) [@Wolfian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wolfian)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2005, 12:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-stink-pretty-is-making-me-sick/323750/2 "2005-09-28T00:02:22Z")
Stink-pretty? ---
**Author:** ![woodstockbirdybird](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/woodstockbirdybird/32/7905_2.png) [@woodstockbirdybird](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/woodstockbirdybird)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2005, 12:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-stink-pretty-is-making-me-sick/323750/3 "2005-09-28T00:09:55Z")
I don’t understand why people wear cologne/perfume in the first place. It’s not like anybody is going to think you smell like that naturally - it’s pretty fucking obvious you’ve doused yourself with chemicals. And I’ve never met anybody who wore either subtly, probably because perfume and cologne are not _made_ to be subtle - they’re pretty overpowering, generally. I know there are people who just dab a bit behind the ears or whatever, but it still reeks, in my experience. If you’re not gonna bathe, you’re going to smell like shit no matter what you do - either from b.o. or perfume. So you might as well save your money and stink naturally. ---
**Author:** ![Amazon\_Floozy\_Goddess](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/779978/32.png) [@Amazon\_Floozy\_Goddess](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Amazon_Floozy_Goddess)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2005, 12:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-stink-pretty-is-making-me-sick/323750/4 "2005-09-28T00:10:22Z")
I hear ya. No smell is worse than someone who reeks like they bathed in cheap cologne. This is coming from someone who has removed the wings for preservation from a seagull that had already started to decompose. It’s even better when you go to use a payphone, and the receiver is all warm and moist and cologne-y. Ewwwww. ---
**Author:** ![SteveG1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bb73d2/32.png) [@SteveG1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SteveG1)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2005, 12:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-stink-pretty-is-making-me-sick/323750/5 "2005-09-28T00:19:06Z")
Best is when you have an office with people who have asthma, chronic bronchitis etc., they complain about the level of the stench, and how it affects their ability to breathe, and then the stinker has the gall to tell everyone she doesn’t care. ---
**Author:** ![Lord\_Ashtar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ea924/32.png) [@Lord\_Ashtar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lord_Ashtar)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2005, 12:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-stink-pretty-is-making-me-sick/323750/6 "2005-09-28T00:19:28Z")
> [@woodstockbirdybird](#): > > I don’t understand why people wear cologne/perfume in the first place. Because when you have on just a little and a girl hugs you and smiles and says you smell really good… …it’s cool. ---
**Author:** ![brownie55](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/f14d63/32.png) [@brownie55](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/brownie55)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2005, 12:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-stink-pretty-is-making-me-sick/323750/7 "2005-09-28T00:23:03Z")
> [@Lord Ashtar](#): > > Because when you have on just a little and a girl hugs you and smiles and says you smell really good… > > …it’s cool. Not only that, but I like the smell of what I wear. But her saying it is even better. ---
**Author:** ![woodstockbirdybird](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/woodstockbirdybird/32/7905_2.png) [@woodstockbirdybird](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/woodstockbirdybird)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2005, 12:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-stink-pretty-is-making-me-sick/323750/8 "2005-09-28T00:24:15Z")
> [@Lord Ashtar](#): > > Because when you have on just a little and a girl hugs you and smiles and says you smell really good… > > …it’s cool. Sure, if you’re some kind of heathen perv. Don’t you know what hugging leads to? ---
**Author:** ![Lord\_Ashtar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ea924/32.png) [@Lord\_Ashtar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lord_Ashtar)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2005, 12:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-stink-pretty-is-making-me-sick/323750/9 "2005-09-28T00:30:09Z")
> [@woodstockbirdybird](#): > > Sure, if you’re some kind of heathen perv. Don’t you know what hugging leads to? Yes, I do. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![SnakesCatLady](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/4af34b/32.png) [@SnakesCatLady](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SnakesCatLady)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2005, 1:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-stink-pretty-is-making-me-sick/323750/10 "2005-09-28T01:10:50Z")
I’ve been around some of the “if a little is good more is better” types. Why do they _always_ want to stand close to me? ---
**Author:** ![Scott\_Plaid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/258eb7/32.png) [@Scott\_Plaid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scott_Plaid)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2005, 1:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-stink-pretty-is-making-me-sick/323750/11 "2005-09-28T01:18:12Z")
> [@Wolfian](#): > > Stink-pretty? Me no like your stink-pretty. Me get big stick, smash you if you not stop wearing stink-pretty. ---
**Author:** ![SteveG1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bb73d2/32.png) [@SteveG1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SteveG1)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2005, 2:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-stink-pretty-is-making-me-sick/323750/12 "2005-09-28T02:27:33Z")
> [@Lord Ashtar](#): > > Because when you have on just a little and a girl hugs you and smiles and says you smell really good… > > …it’s cool. There is a difference between just a little and the whole stinking bottle. Yes? ---
**Author:** ![Wolfian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/7ea924/32.png) [@Wolfian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wolfian)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2005, 2:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-stink-pretty-is-making-me-sick/323750/13 "2005-09-28T02:35:20Z")
> [@Scott Plaid](#): > > Me no like your stink-pretty. Me get big stick, smash you if you not stop wearing stink-pretty. Me stink pretty someday. ---
**Author:** ![Joey\_P](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/919ad9/32.png) [@Joey\_P](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Joey_P)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2005, 2:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-stink-pretty-is-making-me-sick/323750/14 "2005-09-28T02:41:18Z")
We’ve got someone at work who keeps a bottle of Axe in the bathroom (BTW this isn’t a big publc restroom style bathroom. This is about the size of a small bathroom you’d find in a house. If you go in there after he’s been in there it stinks like that stuff. In fact based on the way HE smells I think he must bathe in the stuff. Just a few days ago someone told him he smelled like an air freshner. PS He’s got some personal issues right now and I’m sure it has to do with that, and with any luck, by the first of next month it should be resolved, if it’s not I know the boss is already planning to talk to him about it. ---
**Author:** ![Antigen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/848f3c/32.png) [@Antigen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Antigen)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2005, 2:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-stink-pretty-is-making-me-sick/323750/15 "2005-09-28T02:48:37Z")
I like when a man wears a little bit of scent. Not a lot, just enough to notice when you stand right near him or hug him. Emptying a whole bottle of it on yourself it is wrong. Showers, people, you want to take _showers_. ---
**Author:** ![Susie\_Derkins](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e47774/32.png) [@Susie\_Derkins](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Susie_Derkins)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2005, 3:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-stink-pretty-is-making-me-sick/323750/16 "2005-09-28T03:14:38Z")
Just a spritz between the tits, that’s my motto. ---
**Author:** ![Susie\_Derkins](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e47774/32.png) [@Susie\_Derkins](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Susie_Derkins)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2005, 3:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-stink-pretty-is-making-me-sick/323750/17 "2005-09-28T03:15:44Z")
Oh my goodness, did anyone else notice the ads at the bottom of the page? > [@](#): > > Fishy Vaginal Odor? > “How To Smell Fresh At All Times” > 68,000 Women Already Know :eek: ---
**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:** [September 28, 2005, 3:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-stink-pretty-is-making-me-sick/323750/18 "2005-09-28T03:44:50Z")
Whoa, what a time for the relevant ad content to kick in! 😛 ---
**Author:** ![Khan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/3ab097/32.png) [@Khan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Khan)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2005, 3:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-stink-pretty-is-making-me-sick/323750/19 "2005-09-28T03:49:18Z")
I feel your pain. Someday, my mucous membranes WILL grow back. _I swear on it._ :mad: ---
**Author:** ![Wolfian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/7ea924/32.png) [@Wolfian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wolfian)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2005, 4:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-stink-pretty-is-making-me-sick/323750/20 "2005-09-28T04:33:19Z")
> [@Khan](#): > > I feel your pain. Someday, my mucous membranes WILL grow back. > > _I swear on it._ :mad: Are you refering to your nose or your vagina? I’m confused. > [@Joey P](#): > > We’ve got someone at work who keeps a bottle of Axe in the bathroom (BTW this isn’t a big publc restroom style bathroom. This is about the size of a small bathroom you’d find in a house. If you go in there after he’s been in there it stinks like that stuff. In fact based on the way HE smells I think he must bathe in the stuff. On the old commericals they used to show 3 full sprays across the body. As I learned by experience, not necessary. In fact that’s overkill. Two spitzes maxium. I usually use one. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-stink-pretty-is-making-me-sick/323750.md?page=2)