Do you like how you smell?

[Arrowfoot]

I recall that perfumes were really big in those days including amongst the men. You could smell it a mile away. It now pretty much toned down over the last 2 decades party because of complaints within the workplace and partly because of the back to nature trends - organic, environment, etc

Pretty much limited to entertainment and formal nights.

 

[colly]

In what way is a very real scent from a very real cologne 'pretend'?

haha

No I meant that they tell you your clothes smell like a summers day (or some such guff) There is no definitive scent of a summers day.
Summer in say, Central London, will smell different to the same day on the beach, which in turn will smell different to the same day in
Leeds Market.

 

[Lullabelle]

[QUOTE 4129396, member: 259"]I really dislike perfumed laundry stuff. It's unnecessary, it's useless, and it stinks.[/QUOTE]

With you on that one, laundry smelling of sickly sweet whatever is horrible.

 

[ayceejay]

The way it works is that they love your smell until that day when they don't - wimmin?

 

[Accy cyclist]

Too much smelly stuff on someone is just as bad as someone stinking. There's a bloke who works in a local supermarket who must wear a cupful of this stuff.

You can smell him about 10 yards away!

 

[Stephenite]

I like how i smell. I smell warm and organic.
I have a sensitive nose. It runs in the family, so they say. I can detect a tart's window box a mile off.

The worst smell on a person is old sweat and perfume.

 

[slowmotion]

I don't wear it but I still have a terrible weakness for women smelling of patchouli. I'm transported back to 1968 in Portobello Road. I used to think that Aramis was quite pleasant but I don't use any of that stuff now.
I probably smell.

 

[bancrobba]

Do you even notice?

It appears others do as I've been told the team in Denmark were telling the team in Sweden that they think I am one of the best smelling people they have ever worked with. No idea how it came up during their fika paus but it did. No idea why the Swedes thought it was appropriate to share it with me but they did.

I put it down to bringing three different sorts of cologne* away with me and rotating the chosen pong on a daily basis. And clean clothes, of course.

I've had to do the 'do you think you have a personal hygiene problem?' conversation with colleagues a few times in my career but I've never heard it the other way around.

*Kenzo Totem Yellow, Joop! Go!, and Joop! Homme Extreme on this 8 night trip. It is entirely possible I spend too much time and money in airport duty free shops.

Yeah you smell lovely.
Please don't PM me anymore offering to sell your old boxers.

 

[bancrobba]

I don't wear it but I still have a terrible weakness for women smelling of patchouli. I'm transported back to 1968 in Portobello Road. I used to think that Aramis was quite pleasant but I don't use any of that stuff now.
I probably smell.

Had an old girlfriend who used to love Anais Anais perfume. Every blue moon I will catch a whiff now and want to cry at how old I am!
Patchouli? Bottle of dog? God, that makes me feel even older!

 

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Had an old girlfriend who used to love Anais Anais perfume. Every blue moon I will catch a whiff now and want to cry at how old I am!
Patchouli? Bottle of dog? God, that makes me feel even older!

I think I may have to get out the Garrard turntable, put on a scratched copy of an LP by The Incredible String Band, and dream of girls in floaty Biba frocks....

 

[bancrobba]

I think I may have to get out the Garrard turntable, put on a scratched copy of an LP by The Incredible String Band, and dream of girls in floaty Biba frocks....

Perv! (Sorry, OLD PERV!)

 

[Mad Doug Biker]

The worst smell on a person is old sweat and perfume.

For me it is shaving foam, I mean, at least WASH after you have shaved or at the very least, put a dab or two of aftershave or something on, PURLEEEEEZZEE!!

 

[RoubaixCube]

Old spice

 

[slowmotion]

Old spice

The Great Smell of Brut? Go on, splash it on!
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[RichardB]

No-one has ever told me I smell nice, but then no-one has told me I smell nasty either, so I'm happy with that.

Slightly off-topic, but why do the producers of this stuff keep changing the formula? I bought some Old Spice a while ago (classic fragrance, reminded me of my Dad) and it was nothing like how it used to smell. Same with Brut. Apparently there are a few sources of the original fragrances, and they change hands for thousands on the black market. (Well, maybe not Brut.)

And yes, liking someone's bodily smell is a good indicator that you are going to get on. I have been married twice, and I can confirm the truth of this in both directions.