Deodorant issue

[Aperitif]

In the good old days, a cloud of flies usually did the 'announcing' I suppose.

 

[swee'pea99]

My wife has a funny way of applying scent: She sprays a cloud in front of herself and then steps forward into it. It looks utterly barmy, but it keeps the scent subtle.

Subtlety is not practised by today's youth. I had to convince all my offspring to hold back on the pong. The youngest is still learning, but he will get the message.

There sems to be some sort of peer acceptance that it is cool to go out so doused in Lynx or similar that your presence is announced for a hundred yards in each direction. It is a horrid practice.

Need I add that it wouldn't have happened in my day?

I have occasionally found myself in the company of women so liberally doused that you can actually taste the stuff from anywhere inside a radius of a couple of metres. As a colleague once said of a client known to be a arguably over-fond of a tipple, 'Not a man to strike a match close to.'

 

[Saluki]

So only gay people need to use Lynx?

No. Not at all.
I was trying to buy some shampoo and she was on her 3rd attempt to get me to buy some lynx.
Maybe only pissed off women make snarky comments at lynx sales girls.

 

[cd365]

Maybe only ****ed off women make snarky comments at lynx sales girls.

If they looked like the girls off the advert I might have bought some lol

 

[Boris Bajic]

I got accosted by a couple of lasses trying to flog Linx the other month. Would I like to buy some for my husband?
I declined pointing out that my husband is straight and so has no need of their product.

This is an unusual and slightly icky response. Had I made it, I'm not sure I'd tell the Internet that I had.

If it is trying to be perjorative about men who use Lynx (which it appears to be), then it does so by being perjorative about gay men.

None of the gay men I know would be seen dead using Lynx. My sons and all their peers (most of whom are not gay) cover themselves in it.

Oddly, I always rather imagined that insofar as Lynx was used by post-pubescent men, it was used exclusively by the sort of man whose wife would think the word 'gay' a perjorative.

but it was just light-hearted banter in a shop, so that's just dandy!

 

[Booyaa]

My wife has a funny way of applying scent: She sprays a cloud in front of herself and then steps forward into it. It looks utterly barmy, but it keeps the scent subtle.

Subtlety is not practised by today's youth. I had to convince all my offspring to hold back on the pong. The youngest is still learning, but he will get the message.

There sems to be some sort of peer acceptance that it is cool to go out so doused in Lynx or similar that your presence is announced for a hundred yards in each direction. It is a horrid practice.

Need I add that it wouldn't have happened in my day?

This also seems to be the case with many of my work colleagues when going on a night out. The amount of lynx sprayed is outstanding and the office still smells of it the following Monday. I always thought you stopped wearing lynx by the age of about 16 or 17.

 

[Leaway2]

a little factoid, many deodorants like linx have pheromones in them, so the "diagonal swipe" is just simply more surface aria to spray the pheromone rich deodorant.

also for best effects put some on your arms, when you gesture or move around, its easier the spread the smell.

deodorants aren't to be confused with anti antiperspirants, one makes you smell good, the other is sweat control (which is better if ur sweat stinks(like mine))

But the pheromones are in sweat, so you are replacing your pheromones with those of someone else. Hopefully some ripped 21 year old hunk who attracts the girls, but more like, taken from a pig in Worcestershire.

 

[chriss2.0]

the pheromones are artificial, and they are surprisingly effective, for those in the know

 

[cd365]

the pheromones are artificial, and they are surprisingly effective, for those in the know

Really? Any links to studies to say it works?

 

[chriss2.0]

have a look on google,you will find plenty

its more involved than you think, it isnt all attraction, there are ones that make ppl chatty, or trustworthy or even evil. much of your first impression of ppl is unconsciously about pheromones, its whe some ppl have a certain "feel" about them

 

[cd365]

http://www.thesocialcoach.com/2010/07/do-pheromones-work/
I take that as a no

 

[chriss2.0]

thats 2010, outdated, and its a social site. the mistake people make is that they beleve pheromones are supposed to have a drastic affect on our mood especially in attracting a girl, because they want to believe this,
the effects of pheromones is often exaggerated, so when people try them, they have big hopes of women, or men running around after them. sadly this isn't true.

in humans, is is subtle and subliminal, and it isnt necessarily related to attracting someone, we cant detect it on a conscious leval. unlike animals ,
(why dogs can tell when you are ill, or pick up your mood faster than others)

http://www.smart-publications.com/a...ones-promise-improved-mood-and-attractiveness

there are proper uni papers on this but i cant find them

 

[cd365]

That page is an advertisement for Eroscent.
When you find a decent article let me know because I have looked and there is nothing to say that pheromones are the real deal.
http://www.leidenpsychologyblog.nl/articles/sexual-pheromones-myth-or-truth

Do you use one of these pheromone sprays then? Are you one of "those in the know"?

 

[chriss2.0]

personally i don't, don't really like the idea,
i like to think i know a little about pheromones
(had to do a project paper on it)

unfortunately there is alot of conflicting evidence, regarding human on human interaction. many practical tests fail and succeed, its not the sort of thing that can be tested in a lab, simply because we are such complex animals, and from a clinical standpoint, attraction cant be measured, and two strangers may be attracted to each other regardless of scent.

my standpoint is this, we give off pheromones this is a fact
other animals are defiantly affected by our pheromones, also a fact (goats go mad on human sweat)
we still have functioning pheromone receptors
on ct scans our brains show activity when exposed to pheromones
private field tests show behavior differences both on user and others

"Scientists have observed what they think are the effects of human primer pheromones, including studies showing that some compound in the extract from a woman's armpit can cause menstrual cycles of nearby women to sync up. And a recent study found that women can smell a guy's intentions.

Nursing infants have been found to turn toward a lactating mother's breast, suggesting some scent molecules drive the response."(live science .com)

effects are subtle, advertisers greatly exaggerate the results some don't even sell active pheromones (not many have been discovered yet) in their sprays although they claim to, hence peoples negative reactions.

its been a while and i have looked, but there is so much junk on the web these days! most of it is advertising rubbish. if i find something solid i will post

ps, sorry about website, didnt look at it properly

 

[Fnaar]

I tried spraying myself with pheromones. Went out to a nightclub. Got covered in f*ckin' moths.