This is super-duper lightweight. I’m buried in work this week between my desk job and lots of slaughtering-related chores (steers and hogs and chickens and bunnies, oh my!), but I miss you guys and I have so much goddamn fun with the polls. So:
Search term: “smelling fragrance.” I feel like this guy was drugged with ether once as a kidnap victim and has become addicted, maybe?
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Also, what fragrances do you like on people, including yourself? For a long time my signature was Tabu; I know some of you probably just unsubscribed. These days I’m wearing Good Fortune, mainly because Husbandmouth likes it, but I’ve broadly gotten two enthusiastic thumbs up by anyone who actually notices I’m wearing anything.
I personally love it when people (of both sexes) wear fragrance, but fragrance is something that's VERY easy to do wrong- lots of products smell absolutely gross (to me) and many people wear too much or wear it while being smelly underneath it, and then it's fucking horrible.
I am really, really sensitive to smell of any kind; there isn't much in that world that isn't a love/hate relationship for me.
A lady in my neighborhood wears her perfume so thick thst it makes me cough when she drives by me and my pup walking... its only exiting outbthe exhaust pipe, mind you!
I avoid all buildings if possible (as well as urban areas) and therefore elevators in general. However, have never run into a homeless person on an elevator so, not sure what elevators you frequent. Its all of 20 degrees Fahrenheit here today so the ratio of homeless to homed people is probably quite low.
Nah, more like when the club is about to close, and they pop on "Lights" by Sisters of Mercy, and you walk home in the grey hours between pitch black and dawn, the city all quiet and smelling of dewy asphalt and old 98 octane exhaust fumes, when only the living dead of the city - the night people - are moving.
And she leans her head on your shoulder and shudders a little, and you take your jet black Petroff goat leather jacket with all the zippers and the blood-red inner lining off, and wrap it around her...
...catching a whiff of whisky, cheap tobacco and sweat as your scents start to intermingle.
Been a fragrance-free household for many years now and just about any artificial fragrance, whether it be dryer sheets, air fresheners or perfume, are annoying. When out in public if I can travel through the crop dusting of this sort I'm fine. The problem comes with family hugs and getting marked by people and then having to smell their 'scent' for hours or maybe even days. Natural essential oils are just fine in moderation, however. Patchouli is always nice. A woman I once met on the bus said it was her 'hippy' scent.
I thought I was the only one like this! And the “marking” by others, I laughed out loud! It’s so true! I’ve sometimes had to wash my hair and scrub my face multiple times to remove some of the stickiest scents. We are also total frag-free at home. It’s become my sanctuary. I just prefer to live without the migraines, nausea/vomiting, dizziness, confusion, burning sinuses, etc.
All that said, many many years ago, I used to love colognes and candles as much as the next person.
That picture might as well be me :/ I'm so sensory oriented that smelling fresh cut grass of certain types has been known to put me into a near orgasmic state... My ex-love once entrapped me by calling me over one night- when I arrived he'd just cut his lawn, put on a magical lilting Irish folk tune,was wearing my fave cologne that I could smell on the soft summer breeze ( so that I'd no idea where it was coming from...) . He had to call to me from his porch,shirtless( the bastard!)..because I'd stopped in the middle of his lawn...swaying...trying to triangulation the different inputs and I was enraptured.
I'm currently wearing Calvin Kliens Euphoria, tho it's not my fave.
Those are : Dolce&Gabanna the One for women, Givenchi's Organza,and my new fave,Jessica McClintocs original...which with its top note of freesia is like femininity in a bottle. * swoon*
Gosh yes. A fragrance that complements someone's natural scent can overcome a variety of other faults. That said, allow to me reveal my age, sexual preference, and generally dubious taste with two words: Drakkar Noir. 90s night at the retirement home is going to smell amazing.
It seems like most of the more-than-urbane correspondents here have not lived in Europe, especially France. Getting on the metro at 10:00 PM on a Saturday night, the smell of hundreds/thousands of people who shower once a month whether they need to or not, coupled with the mountains of various scents they put on to cover up that fact, is regularly overwhelming.
When I was young I used scents, but after living in Europe for long enough, I decided that frequent showering/modest deodorant and whatever pheromones' were left were fine with me. Still love a lady with just a touch of the "right" scent -- who also has showered before she put it on.
Yeah, I've heard/read about that being a real actual problem with US gaming cons. To the point that some organisers have had to resort to having formal rules for hygiene.
That a certain percentage apparently very much embody the basement dweller/Simpsons comic book store guy in real life in attitude surely can't help matters.
That's not a problem per se here, never was either - it's just that Dreamhack got so big so fast that, well 15 000 computer gamers in a conference center meant to be used by people living in hotels in town simply can't handle the funk.
I have come across the logic "I don't need to shower, I haven't done anything that's dirtied me" but that's been from people with certain diagnoses and/or substance abuse, so I know which smell you mean. Close to, but not exactly like butyric acid.
I bollixed the results. I intended to select "Yes" but selected the one underneath it by accident. Can you fix that?
Even though I enjoy Carlin's anti-cologne tirade, I wear Hugo Boss and, occasionally, what I think is an old bottle of Polo cologne. I remember liking English Leather. Any recommendations?
J. Peterman (a fancy clothing catalogue for men and women) puts out a signature cologne called "1903" that- at least for me- is a fucking PERFECT male fragrance. I've bought it for every guy I smell on a regular basis.
It's a similar style to English leather- the base notes are earthy stuff (leather, tobacco). Give it a whirl.
A girl I knew in HS wore so much Tabu that you could smell her before you ever saw her...gave me a migraine headache if I got too close. I’m happy you don’t wear that stuff anymore haha.
I wore Shalimar in HS :) we probably wouldn’t have been friends 🤣
A few years ago my high school boyfriend (romance of 6mos, max) told me that his wife wears Shalimar because it’s still his favorite...that’s creepy, right? Or maybe he’s lying lol I mean, seriously, that was over 40 years ago!
I just found four bottles of Hai Karate in a box in my closet. I suspect it was a gag gift for my Dad. Incidentally, last night i watched Perfume: The Story of a Murderer, so I hesitate to experiment with any new scents!
You don’t have “it’s according to the scent.” Twenty or so years ago my husband wore Old Spice after shave balm. I don’t think it is available now. He smelled so good, that my mom even noticed and got some for my brother. I wish I could find that stuff again so I could have a nice scent reminder of him.
Make my own based on Pinaud Vanilla aftershave (add bergamot, vetiver, grapefruit essential oils, maybe little sandalwood etc--have fun with i!) in warm seasons, pinaud bay rum plus sandalwood/oud, patchouli, etc in cooler seasons. Usually also add gin to the base to boost alcohol contentt a bit a d for the juniper element. F'real, have fun with it!
I'm also very sensitive to smell, and unless the relationship is well established I far prefer to let my nose lead the way by virtue of natural pheromone selection. That not withstanding, the proper scent applied sparingly can be quite enticing and a welcome addition to a close embrace.
I prefer the scent of actual humans, unless there is excess BO (sweat) ,hygiene problems or bad breath. Natural healthy human scent is the best! I hate when my husband takes a shower and then all I can smell on him is soap. If he's been working outside and also smells like the woods, sawdust, or exhaust, all the better. Could someone make a cologne that smells like those things?
I chose au naturel, but I have to admit that ever since my husband grew his beard out, a good quality scented beard oil is extremely sexy. You get just a hint of scent walking by, and it smells better and better the closer you get!
YES!! My hub has a rather long, full beard, and experiments with a bunch of beard oils. My absolute fave is Berserker by Mad Viking. OMG I can't stay away from him. LOL Subtler than any cologne plus beard oils don't conflict with normal body scent.
This whole discussion makes me miss my Dad. He wore Old Spice daily for work. On the dress up times he wore various things. English Leather, Hai Karate, Drakkar Noir, there were others I can't remember off hand, and this one stuff that I never knew the name of from Guerlaine (sp?) that smelled (to Mom and I) like 7-Up. He always smelled so good. 😌
I can tolerate natural extract fragrances, but all the chemical ones taste terrible. Just from smelling them, I don't have to put my mouth on them or anything
Those chemical concoctions are really dangerous for me to be around, as in, they cause a weird reaction in my bronchs and I end up with bonchitis or pneumonia.
Not many of the natural oils make me ill in moderation, but we're in the 'rust belt' here. Nasty chemical scents abound.
I find that excessive perfume is a turnoff for me. In a previous life (I.e. decades ago I dated a woman that wore a perfume from Clinique, when I recognize it on another woman they are always surprised.
I have to confess a real weakness for Chanel #5 but in this age I don’t even know if it is made anymore.
I have never worn cologne as I detested the boys around me that slathered it on. I haven’t worn deodorant in over a decade.
Since I’m in central Florida, I do outside areas as much as possible. 20 or 30 minutes in a place with water damage makes me react. & hence the chemical sensitivity.
We're in Michigan. I don't get out as much in winter. 😆 Most of my perfume/uberstencher over-exposure is in church, where it's very awkward to get up and move when someone sits down near you drenched in scent.
I hear you on the mold and mildew issue too.
One of my biggies, though, is pine trees, pine sap, pine pollen. One of my brothers had the pine allergy when young but grew out of it. Sadly, I did not. My lungs have been nearly dying from pine exposure since it caused me a nasty case of double pneumonia when I was 3.
At least it's only really bad if I'm stuck in a building with it!
I love my fragrances (no, not *those* ones) and have a decent collection. Here's some of my faves :
Malefic Tattoo (from Laurent Mazzone) - a woody, 'masculine' scent with incense notes. Probably my go-to fragrance
Dualite Magnifique (from Plume Impression) - a light leather with a floral background (less aggressive and classier than Tom Ford's Tuscan Leather)
La Liturgie des Heures (from Jovoy) - a heavy incense that smells like being at an old-style Catholic mass. Didn't think I'd like this one at all, but it's my favourite incense based fragrance
Private Label (from Jovoy) - vetiver and woods, a very masculine fragrance that makes you feel like you can take on the world
Patchouli Noir (from Christian Provenzano) - a more feminine scent. Effortlessly sophisticated and classy with lower sillage (not a big 'chemtrail'). More floral than patchouli. A magical fragrance and one of my daughter's favourites. I wear it when I want a bit of a change from the woods and incense.
Fiore d'Ambra (from Profumum Roma) - a very high quality amber and opium scent. Warm and seductive - stunning.
Acqua di Sale (from Profumum Roma) - another very high quality one from this house. A 'salty' sea scent - reminds me of being at a seafront watching the fishing boats coming in. Stellar longevity on my skin.
Iron Duke (Beaufort London) - a brand created by the drummer from Prodigy who has a bit of a thing for English naval history. This fragrance smells of leather, gunpowder, metal, and smoke. Not as aggressive as Beaufort's Rake & Ruin, but similar (if you want to ensure no one sits near you on the metro then wear R&R - I love it, but it's a bit 'out there'). Iron Duke settles down to a majestic 'aged' leather scent with hints of smoke and battle.
Patchouly (from Profumum Roma) - this house concentrates on making high quality perfumes with 'pure' notes. This one is a deep and dark almost gourmand patch, very warming and chocolatey.
Beach Hut Man (from Amouage) - a fresh herby and minty fragrance. Great longevity.
Zizan (from Ormonde Jayne) - a great herby, woody fragrance with bitter hints. This one really zings and is my most 'complimented' perfume after Creed's Aventus (I got a bit bored with the Aventus after a while)
Oud Aquilaria (from Oman Luxury) - a great Arabic style scent with oud and rose.
I don't really know all the proper terms to describe fragrances - and how do you 'describe' a scent anyway? And my nose isn't all that good at picking up the individual elements. It's a bit like wine - I know what I like when I taste it, but couldn't tell you about which plum or tannin was giving rise to that aftertaste redolent of autumn harvests (in sommelier speak).
I started a few years ago on the way back to the UK for summer vacation. I think I must have had a bit of a brain spasm because at the end of the flight I'd bought a bottle of Creed's Aventus and Clive Christian's C (the perfumier behind C was Christian Provenzano who has brought out his own line including the wonderful Patchouli Noir I mentioned).
Aventus is OK and gets lots of compliments, but C was a symphony - complex and changing over time. I decided to check out more of these high end and niche perfumes - and ended up collecting quite a few.
I have no idea why I started - but I love the differences in the fragrances and how they can lift your mood. I sprayed a bit of Plume Impressions' Dualite Magnifique on this morning when I wrote my original comment - and I can still smell it on me now well over 12 hours later.
Having not had any income for the last couple of years, I can't afford to buy any more - but what I've got should last for the next couple of decades 😂
I started out long ago with Stetson, as most of us country kids did at the time. Kept it going in a rotation with a light amount of English Leather and Ralph Lauren Polo through high school and college. I wear mostly Ralph Lauren Polo Blue now, because I don't think they make English Leather or Stetson any more.
Incidentally, my favorite perfume for a woman is Lady Stetson.....takes me back to those junior high dances in the late 80's/early 90's, where I danced rigidly, at arm's length with my crush.....sigh.....
Now, I don't have a true preference for women's perfume. As long as I don't smell funk, BO, or an overpowering amount, it all smells okay to me.
Love the smells of real things. Cannot walk past rosemary or mints or French geranium without rubbing my hands on it. Woodsmoke, horses, dogs, wood shavings, orange rind, good spice smells from the kitchen...
TBH i'm kind of indiferent. I'd be a hypocrite if I requested Mrs Dubya to wear anything anyway as I never wear deodorant or aftershave (unless at a wedding). All you need is a natural based shower gel or soap that doesn't kill all the lovely natural bacteria under the pits and around the groin and you don't smell as the good bacteria takes care of it.
I didn't realise how effective it was until I ran out and went back to an old bottle of Lynx shower gel and after 6 hours I was a honking stink fest.
First perfume I ever wore was Shalimar. Wore Tabu in my early years, but woke up one morning and it made me nauseous! Then wore Estée Lauder and the same thing happened after a few years of wearing it. Then discovered a French perfume called Secret of Venus. The early stuff had ambergri & had to order it from France. . It is no longer available . Still have a bottle that has a minuscule amount in it and I sniff it once in a while. Had more than one man during my bar hopping years follow me, growl and ask me what I was wearing.
Was having dinner in Santa Fe one night and a man walked past our table and came to a dead stop. He backed up and leaned in toward my friend and then me and yelled “Secret of Venus”! He stated he hadn’t smelled that scent in maybe 20 years but it took him back to a woman he fell head over heels in love with, and who broke his heart. He said he’d go to his grave remembering that scent! Funny how scents can do that. Lilacs do that for me. If I wear anything these days, it’s Donna Karan Cashmere and just a hint of it.
I love a good after shave on men ( Brut, Polo, Aramis, Ford’s Tobacco Vanilla, yes, even Old Spice). It’s still a turn on. But I also like an honest sweat smell (not body odor which is different) like when hubby comes in from working out in the yard. Growwwwwl.
The proper spelling is ambergris, which is no longer used as a base for perfume. I call it whale barf and floating in the ocean doesn’t smell good, but once dried out it provided a good musk scent as a base for some expensive parfumes.
I tend to like nothing, or just a hint of something light and food based. Vanilla, maybe coconut, very subtle. Possibly neatsfoot oil would be nice, but that’s never been in the offing so maybe not. I love that smell though, having been raised in a barn tack room apparently.
I have a bottle of Obsession, but rarely wear it. On me, I feel like it’s overpowering even if I put just a tiny bit on. I love anything lavender. I grow it and sleep with it under my pillow at times.
I like the smell of Eau de cologne “Opium” - the old recipe, not the new one that they currently sell. I’ve got about 1/4 of my bottle left, time to start shopping for a deal…..
Poison used to be my drug of choice back in the day. Dunno if they even still make it.
My daughter's been assembling an olfactory arsenal from The Perfumer's Apprentice and mixing up signature potions. It's an interesting process of little strips of paper in different scents and waving them like fans to see how they combine. But speaking of hippy scents, something reminded me the other day of Herbal Essence. That was the teenage girl scent of my adolescence.
Yup, that would have been my mid-20's when I drove a lavender bug with a leopard skin sunroof and a banana tree where the passenger seat had been. My hair was Jean Harlow white and leopard gravitated to me from the universe. I'm glad I did it and glad I never have to do that era again.
I tend to like bolder scents on guys, but very strictly the classic-type masculine scents (i.e. anything that reminds me of Old Spice and stuff in that vein).
When I was a teen a cologne called Fahrenheit was super popular with the guys and I loathed the smell of it crowded onto the school bus. On paper, I should have liked what was in it. But I found it cloying and foul-smelling when layered over body scent.
Lavender can be tricky. I have to replace a few each year at our Neb. home. We winter in Az and here they seem to do quite well. SW Neb. winters can be really harsh on them. You might have to move them around in your yard until you find the right spot. Good luck.
I used to love wearing Musk perfume. But but now I'm super sensitive to the smell of fragrances in general, even on other people. It feels like it goes up my nose right into my brain.
I actually had people swoon over the way Estee by Estée Lauder smelled with my body chemistry. Then there was a preservative in the formula that came from whales. When that was outlawed many years ago the illusive scent went as well. I can find no substitute.
I got the same treatment when I'd go out with my friends after work in high school. The smell of dairy heifer feedlot didn't wash off of me so readily every time. Could explain my general lack of popularity as a kid somewhat......
Made me remember the beach in Malmö (deep south of Sweden), called Ribban. A word which means either the top bar on a construction like a soccer-goal or erection.
You could smell where on the beach you were. Swedish part - coconut scented lotion to the point of seagulls gagging. Arab part, garlic and grilled meat and tobacco. Mixed part, mostly jugoslavians, turks and greeks - oil, as in food cooked with olive oil and tobacco. Nudie beach - whatever male fragrance was the trendiest right now, since the nudie beach was alsoa major cruising area. Dog beach - wet fur.
The forested area separating the beach from the marina -hashish.
I miss Andron. It supposedly was pheromone based, so they had it for men and women. Both smelled really nice. I used to wear that all the time. Of course, it's no longer made. ☹
I personally love it when people (of both sexes) wear fragrance, but fragrance is something that's VERY easy to do wrong- lots of products smell absolutely gross (to me) and many people wear too much or wear it while being smelly underneath it, and then it's fucking horrible.
I am really, really sensitive to smell of any kind; there isn't much in that world that isn't a love/hate relationship for me.
A lady in my neighborhood wears her perfume so thick thst it makes me cough when she drives by me and my pup walking... its only exiting outbthe exhaust pipe, mind you!
* blarg!!*
Nothing worse than getting on an elevator with someone who's bathed in perfume or cologne!
clearly you havnt spent time in an elevator with a homeless person
I avoid all buildings if possible (as well as urban areas) and therefore elevators in general. However, have never run into a homeless person on an elevator so, not sure what elevators you frequent. Its all of 20 degrees Fahrenheit here today so the ratio of homeless to homed people is probably quite low.
multi-storey carparks are a great place to meet those less fortunate
speed dating
Ditto on all points!
Yes, as long as I can't smell it beyond the scientifically accepted social distancing boundary.
A beautiful woman is a beautiful woman, with artificial scent or not.
>> as long as I can't smell it beyond the scientifically accepted social distancing boundary.
This is about the perfect descriptor for "how to tell you're wearing too much perfume" as I've ever heard.
Or, as a preacher friend once declaimed, "I never tire of admiring the works of the Lord".
Whisky, cheap tobacco and sweat.
You mean just like the honkytonk on Saturday night? You left out the lingering background odor of fresh cow shit.
Nah, more like when the club is about to close, and they pop on "Lights" by Sisters of Mercy, and you walk home in the grey hours between pitch black and dawn, the city all quiet and smelling of dewy asphalt and old 98 octane exhaust fumes, when only the living dead of the city - the night people - are moving.
And she leans her head on your shoulder and shudders a little, and you take your jet black Petroff goat leather jacket with all the zippers and the blood-red inner lining off, and wrap it around her...
...catching a whiff of whisky, cheap tobacco and sweat as your scents start to intermingle.
Like that.
Rikard.
That's all.
He can't help it!
That is most certainly true!
Harlequin Publishing called - they lost your number.
Ugh. 😖
I blame Charles Bukowski and his writings.
Edit: I don't smell of whisky, cheap tobacco and sweat - not nowadays.
Just meant that I much prefer a woman, meaning my wife, smell of that than perfume.
According to her, I smell like a man, so she's never ever even after close to 30 years of marriage mentioned or suggested instead of-shave.
Ok. Better. 😊
Its an acquired taste, (or smell in this case).
It would have to be.
True!
Been a fragrance-free household for many years now and just about any artificial fragrance, whether it be dryer sheets, air fresheners or perfume, are annoying. When out in public if I can travel through the crop dusting of this sort I'm fine. The problem comes with family hugs and getting marked by people and then having to smell their 'scent' for hours or maybe even days. Natural essential oils are just fine in moderation, however. Patchouli is always nice. A woman I once met on the bus said it was her 'hippy' scent.
I thought I was the only one like this! And the “marking” by others, I laughed out loud! It’s so true! I’ve sometimes had to wash my hair and scrub my face multiple times to remove some of the stickiest scents. We are also total frag-free at home. It’s become my sanctuary. I just prefer to live without the migraines, nausea/vomiting, dizziness, confusion, burning sinuses, etc.
All that said, many many years ago, I used to love colognes and candles as much as the next person.
Oh if only people in my area would use natural oils/blends instead of that synthetic crap, I could probably avoid getting bronchitis ever.
That picture might as well be me :/ I'm so sensory oriented that smelling fresh cut grass of certain types has been known to put me into a near orgasmic state... My ex-love once entrapped me by calling me over one night- when I arrived he'd just cut his lawn, put on a magical lilting Irish folk tune,was wearing my fave cologne that I could smell on the soft summer breeze ( so that I'd no idea where it was coming from...) . He had to call to me from his porch,shirtless( the bastard!)..because I'd stopped in the middle of his lawn...swaying...trying to triangulation the different inputs and I was enraptured.
I'm currently wearing Calvin Kliens Euphoria, tho it's not my fave.
Those are : Dolce&Gabanna the One for women, Givenchi's Organza,and my new fave,Jessica McClintocs original...which with its top note of freesia is like femininity in a bottle. * swoon*
Gosh yes. A fragrance that complements someone's natural scent can overcome a variety of other faults. That said, allow to me reveal my age, sexual preference, and generally dubious taste with two words: Drakkar Noir. 90s night at the retirement home is going to smell amazing.
Drakkar Noir. 😍
It seems like most of the more-than-urbane correspondents here have not lived in Europe, especially France. Getting on the metro at 10:00 PM on a Saturday night, the smell of hundreds/thousands of people who shower once a month whether they need to or not, coupled with the mountains of various scents they put on to cover up that fact, is regularly overwhelming.
When I was young I used scents, but after living in Europe for long enough, I decided that frequent showering/modest deodorant and whatever pheromones' were left were fine with me. Still love a lady with just a touch of the "right" scent -- who also has showered before she put it on.
Dreamhack. Swedish console/computer gaming-convention. Over ten thousand gamers in a confined space for days, LAN-battling 24/7.
BO mixed with Red Bull-burps, JOLT Cola sweats, cheeze doodles dust, and the smell of over-clocked, over-heating motherboards.
Locker-room doesn't even begin to describe it.
I have had to leave cons (or at least the main hall) because Nerd Funk was making me nauseous.
There's a certain kind of BO particularly emitted by obese men that smells fecal to me, even if it isn't, and I absolutely cannot endure it.
Yeah, I've heard/read about that being a real actual problem with US gaming cons. To the point that some organisers have had to resort to having formal rules for hygiene.
That a certain percentage apparently very much embody the basement dweller/Simpsons comic book store guy in real life in attitude surely can't help matters.
That's not a problem per se here, never was either - it's just that Dreamhack got so big so fast that, well 15 000 computer gamers in a conference center meant to be used by people living in hotels in town simply can't handle the funk.
I have come across the logic "I don't need to shower, I haven't done anything that's dirtied me" but that's been from people with certain diagnoses and/or substance abuse, so I know which smell you mean. Close to, but not exactly like butyric acid.
On the other hand - surströmming.
Remind me of the subway & elevator in my short time in Bay Ridge Brooklyn
I bollixed the results. I intended to select "Yes" but selected the one underneath it by accident. Can you fix that?
Even though I enjoy Carlin's anti-cologne tirade, I wear Hugo Boss and, occasionally, what I think is an old bottle of Polo cologne. I remember liking English Leather. Any recommendations?
English Leather is an awesome choice.
J. Peterman (a fancy clothing catalogue for men and women) puts out a signature cologne called "1903" that- at least for me- is a fucking PERFECT male fragrance. I've bought it for every guy I smell on a regular basis.
It's a similar style to English leather- the base notes are earthy stuff (leather, tobacco). Give it a whirl.
So now I'm stuck with the image of you flitting about, doing a Biden as you pass through crowds of smelly men.
Nah, I wanna smell a dude, I look them in the eye first. Seems polite.
No...you might as well now carve a scarlet letter on your chest ,because we're gunna make you own that.
Bwaaahaha
A girl I knew in HS wore so much Tabu that you could smell her before you ever saw her...gave me a migraine headache if I got too close. I’m happy you don’t wear that stuff anymore haha.
LOL, yeah, it was strong stuff. I'm out of my patchouli phase.
I wore Shalimar in HS :) we probably wouldn’t have been friends 🤣
A few years ago my high school boyfriend (romance of 6mos, max) told me that his wife wears Shalimar because it’s still his favorite...that’s creepy, right? Or maybe he’s lying lol I mean, seriously, that was over 40 years ago!
All my friends in high school were criminals. Probably not. :)
I just found four bottles of Hai Karate in a box in my closet. I suspect it was a gag gift for my Dad. Incidentally, last night i watched Perfume: The Story of a Murderer, so I hesitate to experiment with any new scents!
Hai Karate was actually a pretty good men's scent back in the day.
I do remember the TV ads for it.
The picture looks like someone about to try “does this smell like formaldehyde to you?” as a pickup line.
OMG you guys this ether smells amazing you first
this poll is not very inclusive of asexual members of the LGBTQ community.
reported for hatespeech.
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If they are asexual, how do they know which sexuality they don't have?
If they are [any alphabet-sexuality], how can they be asexual?
Me confused.
asking questions is what domestic terrorists do.
Can't argue with that. Domestic terrorist is what my wife calls me when I wake her by pulling the blankets and bedsheets off of her in the morning.
You don’t have “it’s according to the scent.” Twenty or so years ago my husband wore Old Spice after shave balm. I don’t think it is available now. He smelled so good, that my mom even noticed and got some for my brother. I wish I could find that stuff again so I could have a nice scent reminder of him.
Make my own based on Pinaud Vanilla aftershave (add bergamot, vetiver, grapefruit essential oils, maybe little sandalwood etc--have fun with i!) in warm seasons, pinaud bay rum plus sandalwood/oud, patchouli, etc in cooler seasons. Usually also add gin to the base to boost alcohol contentt a bit a d for the juniper element. F'real, have fun with it!
That sounds amazing. I love when rum scent is in men's cologne.
I still have the nearly full bottles of English Leather cologne and after shave I inherited from my father over thirty years ago. Does that count?
Try one sometime. That's a good cologne.
I'm also very sensitive to smell, and unless the relationship is well established I far prefer to let my nose lead the way by virtue of natural pheromone selection. That not withstanding, the proper scent applied sparingly can be quite enticing and a welcome addition to a close embrace.
As for me... Old Spice is a longtime favorite... along with English Leather and Sandalwood.
Sandlewood and rose are two of my fave essential oils and incenses!
I prefer the scent of actual humans, unless there is excess BO (sweat) ,hygiene problems or bad breath. Natural healthy human scent is the best! I hate when my husband takes a shower and then all I can smell on him is soap. If he's been working outside and also smells like the woods, sawdust, or exhaust, all the better. Could someone make a cologne that smells like those things?
https://dukecannon.com/collections/solid-liquid-cologne?source=bing&medium=cpc&msclkid=5f678dc2834f151ff69aee032b195d34
"Lincoln" comes close.
Duke Cannon has some good stuff.
Yeah, their badass brick soap is good.
I chose au naturel, but I have to admit that ever since my husband grew his beard out, a good quality scented beard oil is extremely sexy. You get just a hint of scent walking by, and it smells better and better the closer you get!
YES!! My hub has a rather long, full beard, and experiments with a bunch of beard oils. My absolute fave is Berserker by Mad Viking. OMG I can't stay away from him. LOL Subtler than any cologne plus beard oils don't conflict with normal body scent.
This whole discussion makes me miss my Dad. He wore Old Spice daily for work. On the dress up times he wore various things. English Leather, Hai Karate, Drakkar Noir, there were others I can't remember off hand, and this one stuff that I never knew the name of from Guerlaine (sp?) that smelled (to Mom and I) like 7-Up. He always smelled so good. 😌
Edited to correct tge spelling of High.
>> English Leather, High Karate, Drakkar Noir,
Mmmm... those were the classics.
I have always wanted to meet a man that looks like Drakkar smells. 😌
That's some snazzy wordplay there, doll face.
Of course, he would be different for everyone that wished that.
I can tolerate natural extract fragrances, but all the chemical ones taste terrible. Just from smelling them, I don't have to put my mouth on them or anything
Those chemical concoctions are really dangerous for me to be around, as in, they cause a weird reaction in my bronchs and I end up with bonchitis or pneumonia.
Not many of the natural oils make me ill in moderation, but we're in the 'rust belt' here. Nasty chemical scents abound.
I find that excessive perfume is a turnoff for me. In a previous life (I.e. decades ago I dated a woman that wore a perfume from Clinique, when I recognize it on another woman they are always surprised.
I have to confess a real weakness for Chanel #5 but in this age I don’t even know if it is made anymore.
I have never worn cologne as I detested the boys around me that slathered it on. I haven’t worn deodorant in over a decade.
Todays fragrances leave me wanting…
There has been a definite change. Everything these days smells to me like a Starbucks dessert or fake botanicals.
I’m chemically sensitive so I can’t tolerate it. I liked Chanel #5 but they changed it & it wasn’t the same.
Same 🙋🏼♀️ I always pay a big price when I go out among the normies who can still tolerate and even enjoy the chemicals.
I hear you on the chemical sensitivity, Rosalind!
It's terrible to be trapped somewhere surrounded by people who make breathing an agony.
Since I’m in central Florida, I do outside areas as much as possible. 20 or 30 minutes in a place with water damage makes me react. & hence the chemical sensitivity.
We're in Michigan. I don't get out as much in winter. 😆 Most of my perfume/uberstencher over-exposure is in church, where it's very awkward to get up and move when someone sits down near you drenched in scent.
I hear you on the mold and mildew issue too.
One of my biggies, though, is pine trees, pine sap, pine pollen. One of my brothers had the pine allergy when young but grew out of it. Sadly, I did not. My lungs have been nearly dying from pine exposure since it caused me a nasty case of double pneumonia when I was 3.
At least it's only really bad if I'm stuck in a building with it!
I love my fragrances (no, not *those* ones) and have a decent collection. Here's some of my faves :
Malefic Tattoo (from Laurent Mazzone) - a woody, 'masculine' scent with incense notes. Probably my go-to fragrance
Dualite Magnifique (from Plume Impression) - a light leather with a floral background (less aggressive and classier than Tom Ford's Tuscan Leather)
La Liturgie des Heures (from Jovoy) - a heavy incense that smells like being at an old-style Catholic mass. Didn't think I'd like this one at all, but it's my favourite incense based fragrance
Private Label (from Jovoy) - vetiver and woods, a very masculine fragrance that makes you feel like you can take on the world
Patchouli Noir (from Christian Provenzano) - a more feminine scent. Effortlessly sophisticated and classy with lower sillage (not a big 'chemtrail'). More floral than patchouli. A magical fragrance and one of my daughter's favourites. I wear it when I want a bit of a change from the woods and incense.
Fiore d'Ambra (from Profumum Roma) - a very high quality amber and opium scent. Warm and seductive - stunning.
Acqua di Sale (from Profumum Roma) - another very high quality one from this house. A 'salty' sea scent - reminds me of being at a seafront watching the fishing boats coming in. Stellar longevity on my skin.
Iron Duke (Beaufort London) - a brand created by the drummer from Prodigy who has a bit of a thing for English naval history. This fragrance smells of leather, gunpowder, metal, and smoke. Not as aggressive as Beaufort's Rake & Ruin, but similar (if you want to ensure no one sits near you on the metro then wear R&R - I love it, but it's a bit 'out there'). Iron Duke settles down to a majestic 'aged' leather scent with hints of smoke and battle.
Patchouly (from Profumum Roma) - this house concentrates on making high quality perfumes with 'pure' notes. This one is a deep and dark almost gourmand patch, very warming and chocolatey.
Beach Hut Man (from Amouage) - a fresh herby and minty fragrance. Great longevity.
Zizan (from Ormonde Jayne) - a great herby, woody fragrance with bitter hints. This one really zings and is my most 'complimented' perfume after Creed's Aventus (I got a bit bored with the Aventus after a while)
Oud Aquilaria (from Oman Luxury) - a great Arabic style scent with oud and rose.
I don't really know all the proper terms to describe fragrances - and how do you 'describe' a scent anyway? And my nose isn't all that good at picking up the individual elements. It's a bit like wine - I know what I like when I taste it, but couldn't tell you about which plum or tannin was giving rise to that aftertaste redolent of autumn harvests (in sommelier speak).
Wow. I never would have pegged you as such an enthusiast! This is quite a lineup.
I started a few years ago on the way back to the UK for summer vacation. I think I must have had a bit of a brain spasm because at the end of the flight I'd bought a bottle of Creed's Aventus and Clive Christian's C (the perfumier behind C was Christian Provenzano who has brought out his own line including the wonderful Patchouli Noir I mentioned).
Aventus is OK and gets lots of compliments, but C was a symphony - complex and changing over time. I decided to check out more of these high end and niche perfumes - and ended up collecting quite a few.
I have no idea why I started - but I love the differences in the fragrances and how they can lift your mood. I sprayed a bit of Plume Impressions' Dualite Magnifique on this morning when I wrote my original comment - and I can still smell it on me now well over 12 hours later.
Having not had any income for the last couple of years, I can't afford to buy any more - but what I've got should last for the next couple of decades 😂
You remain a very surprising dude.
He's a regular con-nose-sir!
Hot damn. Wish there was such a thing as a smell app. I’d give you a sniff!
I started out long ago with Stetson, as most of us country kids did at the time. Kept it going in a rotation with a light amount of English Leather and Ralph Lauren Polo through high school and college. I wear mostly Ralph Lauren Polo Blue now, because I don't think they make English Leather or Stetson any more.
Incidentally, my favorite perfume for a woman is Lady Stetson.....takes me back to those junior high dances in the late 80's/early 90's, where I danced rigidly, at arm's length with my crush.....sigh.....
Now, I don't have a true preference for women's perfume. As long as I don't smell funk, BO, or an overpowering amount, it all smells okay to me.
Love the smells of real things. Cannot walk past rosemary or mints or French geranium without rubbing my hands on it. Woodsmoke, horses, dogs, wood shavings, orange rind, good spice smells from the kitchen...
My brother likes to hold something up to your nose and say, "does this smell like chloroform." Your image reminded me of that.
Sometimes, I kinda like a little underarm scent.
Aqua Velva baby! I smell like yer grandad. I alternate btw Blue Ice and the musk aroma.
TBH i'm kind of indiferent. I'd be a hypocrite if I requested Mrs Dubya to wear anything anyway as I never wear deodorant or aftershave (unless at a wedding). All you need is a natural based shower gel or soap that doesn't kill all the lovely natural bacteria under the pits and around the groin and you don't smell as the good bacteria takes care of it.
I didn't realise how effective it was until I ran out and went back to an old bottle of Lynx shower gel and after 6 hours I was a honking stink fest.
After my Dad passed away I kept a bottle of old spice around to remind me of him. Can’t tolerate any scent anymore though.
I still have a bottle of Old Spice around here, too. Sometimes I take a whiff to remember how Dad smelled.
I’m not the only one! Sweet
First perfume I ever wore was Shalimar. Wore Tabu in my early years, but woke up one morning and it made me nauseous! Then wore Estée Lauder and the same thing happened after a few years of wearing it. Then discovered a French perfume called Secret of Venus. The early stuff had ambergri & had to order it from France. . It is no longer available . Still have a bottle that has a minuscule amount in it and I sniff it once in a while. Had more than one man during my bar hopping years follow me, growl and ask me what I was wearing.
Was having dinner in Santa Fe one night and a man walked past our table and came to a dead stop. He backed up and leaned in toward my friend and then me and yelled “Secret of Venus”! He stated he hadn’t smelled that scent in maybe 20 years but it took him back to a woman he fell head over heels in love with, and who broke his heart. He said he’d go to his grave remembering that scent! Funny how scents can do that. Lilacs do that for me. If I wear anything these days, it’s Donna Karan Cashmere and just a hint of it.
I love a good after shave on men ( Brut, Polo, Aramis, Ford’s Tobacco Vanilla, yes, even Old Spice). It’s still a turn on. But I also like an honest sweat smell (not body odor which is different) like when hubby comes in from working out in the yard. Growwwwwl.
The proper spelling is ambergris, which is no longer used as a base for perfume. I call it whale barf and floating in the ocean doesn’t smell good, but once dried out it provided a good musk scent as a base for some expensive parfumes.
I tend to like nothing, or just a hint of something light and food based. Vanilla, maybe coconut, very subtle. Possibly neatsfoot oil would be nice, but that’s never been in the offing so maybe not. I love that smell though, having been raised in a barn tack room apparently.
It’s OK for fancy occasions.
But all the best smells are free. And evolutionarily sexy.
I LOVE Shalimar by Guerlaine, but I can't afford it often. Patchouli, Musk Oil, Lavendar, Rose Water. Obsession.
I have a bottle of Obsession, but rarely wear it. On me, I feel like it’s overpowering even if I put just a tiny bit on. I love anything lavender. I grow it and sleep with it under my pillow at times.
I never have worn a lot of it. I usually wear darks, so I've always felt like it went along.
I have planted 3 lavender plants. So far, 2 have died. We'll see about the 3rd in the Spring. Keep your fingers crossed for me. 😊
I like the smell of Eau de cologne “Opium” - the old recipe, not the new one that they currently sell. I’ve got about 1/4 of my bottle left, time to start shopping for a deal…..
Poison used to be my drug of choice back in the day. Dunno if they even still make it.
My daughter's been assembling an olfactory arsenal from The Perfumer's Apprentice and mixing up signature potions. It's an interesting process of little strips of paper in different scents and waving them like fans to see how they combine. But speaking of hippy scents, something reminded me the other day of Herbal Essence. That was the teenage girl scent of my adolescence.
Poison. Ahhhh, my cousin wore it all the time, she loved it. That brings back sweet memories of 40 years ago…..
Yup, that would have been my mid-20's when I drove a lavender bug with a leopard skin sunroof and a banana tree where the passenger seat had been. My hair was Jean Harlow white and leopard gravitated to me from the universe. I'm glad I did it and glad I never have to do that era again.
That one gives me a headache and makes me sick to my stomach everytime I smell it.
I too love ether, but any more than special occasions makes it hard to hold down steady employment. Ether, like perfume, is better in moderation.
My favorite women’s scent is called “#45 Bulletproof” and is by Margot Elena. It’s smoky and earthy and tobacco-like.
For men it’s Bulgari Black. Also a very earthy, tobacco-like scent. If I’m out of Bulletproof I wear my husbands Black.
Oh, a nice, fresh scent is Dolce and Gabbana, Light Blue
https://www.kohls.com/product/prd-5141450/armani-beauty-acqua-di-gio-eau-de-toilette-spray.jsp
This is my go-to.
That Is a nice scent!
I find cologne and powder more useful as the days progress between self waterings.
How very French of you!
I also find olfactory benefits eating copiously of garlic
Abso-FUCKING-lutely....so long as it smells nice.
Do you wear cologne and if so, what kind?
Yep. It's called Whiskey by Commodity. (Let the drinking jokes fly)..my lady loves it!
Whiskey is SEX. Nice choice.
I tend to like bolder scents on guys, but very strictly the classic-type masculine scents (i.e. anything that reminds me of Old Spice and stuff in that vein).
When I was a teen a cologne called Fahrenheit was super popular with the guys and I loathed the smell of it crowded onto the school bus. On paper, I should have liked what was in it. But I found it cloying and foul-smelling when layered over body scent.
I'll also wear D&G The One, for something a little different.
I prefer colognes with a little spice to them.
Ermigersh...I used yo buy D&G the One for my body building hunk...
So very good!
The other I used to get him was Versace Eros Flame.
* drool*
Glad you approve! :)
Doesn't belong at the pool or gym....which is where I smell it the most! blech
As someone who frequents a gym several times per week, I agree.
And throwing perfume or scents onto the sauna-heater ought to be a capital offence.
Lavender can be tricky. I have to replace a few each year at our Neb. home. We winter in Az and here they seem to do quite well. SW Neb. winters can be really harsh on them. You might have to move them around in your yard until you find the right spot. Good luck.
I used to love wearing Musk perfume. But but now I'm super sensitive to the smell of fragrances in general, even on other people. It feels like it goes up my nose right into my brain.
None, because my allergies make that crap into a chemical attack on me.
I wish people would stop wearing that shit.
I actually had people swoon over the way Estee by Estée Lauder smelled with my body chemistry. Then there was a preservative in the formula that came from whales. When that was outlawed many years ago the illusive scent went as well. I can find no substitute.
I got the same treatment when I'd go out with my friends after work in high school. The smell of dairy heifer feedlot didn't wash off of me so readily every time. Could explain my general lack of popularity as a kid somewhat......
Made me remember the beach in Malmö (deep south of Sweden), called Ribban. A word which means either the top bar on a construction like a soccer-goal or erection.
You could smell where on the beach you were. Swedish part - coconut scented lotion to the point of seagulls gagging. Arab part, garlic and grilled meat and tobacco. Mixed part, mostly jugoslavians, turks and greeks - oil, as in food cooked with olive oil and tobacco. Nudie beach - whatever male fragrance was the trendiest right now, since the nudie beach was alsoa major cruising area. Dog beach - wet fur.
The forested area separating the beach from the marina -hashish.
I miss Andron. It supposedly was pheromone based, so they had it for men and women. Both smelled really nice. I used to wear that all the time. Of course, it's no longer made. ☹