• Contramuffin@lemmy.world
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    35 minutes ago

    Please don’t put that much perfume… My nose is pretty sensitive to perfume and it makes me sneeze. Most of them smell like dust. I never understood why people try to smell that strongly of dust.

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    30 minutes ago

    I think I’ve only worn cologne once in my life and it intentionally smelled like nature. All of that shit drives my senses crazy. I don’t even wear deodorant (I don’t get BO).

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    22 minutes ago

    Guys are wearing too much perfume at work but get upset when I ask them to cut back on the perfume. Of course it’s still perfume no matter what they call it.

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    2 hours ago

    If someone can smell you outside and not know that the smell came from you, then you are wearing 100x too much perfume. It should not be possible to smell you just by passing you on the sidewalk.

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    1 hour ago

    I remember this woman got on the bus once, and that’s when I understood what good perfume was. Every head turned. She was a brown-skinned woman in her forties, not overly attractive or anything, but she carried herself with such worth, likely heightened by the perfume that I was instantly lovestruck by her

    I’ve not experienced that perfume since, so I think what we sniffed that day was exceedingly special

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    5 hours ago

    Never heard such a phrase even in movies, but I heard(and thought too) “Who the fuck poured a bucket of concentrate on their stupid head? Impossible to breath!” many times.

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      5 hours ago

      I’ve personally heard “Who smells so good?” while out in public many times, particularly when wearing Amouage Guidance or Guidance 46, but also with other fragrances like Maison Crivelli Hibiscus Mahajad, Baccarat Rouge 540 Extrait, and Frederic Malle Portrait of a Lady.

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        You generally don’t hear people who are offended by perfumes, while you do hear the ones who like it.

        For me there is nothing worse than walking in nature behind someone whose perfume I can smell, I’m outside to get fresh air not to smell Hibiscus Mahajad Baccarat 540 or whatever.

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        4 hours ago

        I enjoy making “perfumes” out of essential oils. I never want to overpower my natural scent but rather blend very lightly to the point I think no one else will notice but me. It’s a treat for myself and maybe to whoever gets a hug. Sounds like you’re enjoying yourself, but be careful of acclimating too much.

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          1 hour ago

          I had this basil plant that somehow was always in bloom. I’d brush my arms against it in the morning; free perfume. Smelled amazing too. You can also crush a leaf and use that.

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    5 hours ago

    Perfume and cologne should be discovered and not announced. I should only be able to smell it if I’m within your personal bubble, not just passing by on the street.

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    5 hours ago

    I actively avoid people who wear feagrences.

    I’ve never smelled a cologne or perfume that wasn’t utterly offensive.

    I think more people should be aware how offensive a strong smell can be. There have been more than a few people who I genuinely have negative opinions of, and it basically stems from them wearing perfume or cologne.

    Olfactory nails on a chalkboard.

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      That is because many people don’t know wtf they are doing. I usually wear two splashes of cologne and that is already plenty. I also wear rather inoffensive smells, since I prefer sweet or fresh ones. Others seem to just shower in musk

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      5 hours ago

      I remember there was a classroom i couldn’t enter without getting nauseous because one of the guys there doused himself in some kind of incredibly potent perfume

      The stank lingered too, after a weekend the smell would be just as strong

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        Seriously, what the fuck is up with highschool boys in the last decade or so going bat shit crazy with the perfume??? I feel like we have reached new heights of olfactory toxic masculinity torture.

        The first time I even thought about cologne was for a formal business meeting in my late twenties. The closest I got to wearing fragrances (not gonna lie, I kind of hate that term, now that I’ve heard it so often) in highschool was aftershave; I literally didn’t know a single guy who wore perfume (and very nearly no girls either), despite going to a fancy private school with a bunch of rich assholes. Times change, huh.

        Why does this trigger me so much? I actively avoid teenagers and cross the street because of the smell now. And that one colleague who smells like a horrid concoction of axe body smell (kill me now) and Hugo Boss The Scent Eau de Toilette (I know what it’s called because he constantly, invariably, incessantly talks about it). I guess some especially immature adults are affected by the trend as well. Wtf.

        Okay. Rant over. I’m done. Gonna go hug my cats now to recover (thank you, home office).

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    5 hours ago

    Honestly, I need people to stop bathing in cologne it’s fucking disgusting and you shouldn’t be allowed into places where people eat or you sit near others for more than one whole second. Also this new popular perfume smells like straight up rubbing alcohol.

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    I remember this girl at uni. Could identify her at 100m downwind.

    Like others have mentioned suggested, announced and then there was this amount. Sort of like smelling salts.

    I hope she is doing okay in life now.

  • Godric@lemmy.world
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    4 hours ago

    I can’t stand strong cologne; I’ve told multiple men and women publicly it’s supposed to be suggested, not announced.

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      I know when my upstairs neighbor has passed through the building because I can follow her scent all the way, it even lingers outside sometimes.

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    Scents are very confusing. I hate the smell of cologne because im not gay. But I love the smell of strawberry perfume. So when I go to pick out a cologne people say to me “pick one you like” so i pick a strawberry perfume then i get called gay for picking perfume. You cannot win. How is a guy supposed to pick out a smell thats designed to appeal to women? It makes no sense.