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RE: A nice scent or pollution? - 4/15/2008 8:46:47 PM

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Often, the reason people wear too much scent, is that they've become desensitized to it, and can't tell how much they're wearing.
And as someone pointed out, the scent you wear will be changed by its chemistry with you, so it won't smell like it did just out of the bottle.

(To air a gripe of my own, there's also no use in "testing" a scent by spraying it on a piece of paper. Then, it smells like the paper, not like it will on your skin after the first 20 minutes.)

The more chemical/cosmetic a scent is, the more distasteful I find it. I don't know why anyone would pay for the privilege of wearing the very cosmetic-y smelling fragrances, Estee Lauder's fragrances and most of the drugstore-level scents being some examples.

I enjoy some scents - applied lightly! - that others might find too heavy or distinct, but that are natural source-based (I'm sure there's some real term for this, in the world of perfumers) and don't sting the back of your nose and throat.

(Tempted to reopen the "What's your favorite scent?" thread.)

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RE: A nice scent or pollution? - 4/15/2008 8:49:48 PM

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I'm often bothered by other scented products.

All scented air fresheners and most scented cleaning and laundry products are just toxic - I don't think I'm allergic, fortunately, but you can feel how it's not good for you to breathe them, and they smell noxious, so I minimize my exposure.

Most scented candles would be better off without, too, in my opinion.

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RE: A nice scent or pollution? - 4/15/2008 9:08:16 PM

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A subtle scent can be pleasant but I prefer the intoxicating, all natural scent of a woman (assuming she bathes regularly).

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RE: A nice scent or pollution? - 4/15/2008 9:41:07 PM

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Ewwwwwwwww.. I am having bad flashbacks of the days when too many women wore emeraude.
<<shudder>>
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So I was sitting in a cute little cafe eating my salad with my mango iced tea when a woman sits down at the table next to me. From where I sat, I could taste her perfume. I wondered why some women don't know the difference between a subtle, pleasant scent and behaving like a walking room deodorizor? It's one thing to smell nice, but good grief, there is such a thing as overkill.

I guess this is my first official rant on CM, but sheesh, a little dab'll do ya!

HAHAHA! I forgot about Emeraude! *Shudders with you*

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RE: A nice scent or pollution? - 4/15/2008 9:45:36 PM

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ORIGINAL: MadameMarque

Often, the reason people wear too much scent, is that they've become desensitized to it, and can't tell how much they're wearing.
And as someone pointed out, the scent you wear will be changed by its chemistry with you, so it won't smell like it did just out of the bottle.

(To air a gripe of my own, there's also no use in "testing" a scent by spraying it on a piece of paper. Then, it smells like the paper, not like it will on your skin after the first 20 minutes.)

The more chemical/cosmetic a scent is, the more distasteful I find it. I don't know why anyone would pay for the privilege of wearing the very cosmetic-y smelling fragrances, Estee Lauder's fragrances and most of the drugstore-level scents being some examples.

I enjoy some scents - applied lightly! - that others might find too heavy or distinct, but that are natural source-based (I'm sure there's some real term for this, in the world of perfumers) and don't sting the back of your nose and throat.

(Tempted to reopen the "What's your favorite scent?" thread.)

Hi MadameMarque,

I agree with all you said here. I don't like Estee Lauder, either, or scents that make my throat feel prickly. Ugh.

Years ago I went to a wholistic doctor in the SF Bay Area, who treated all sorts of allergies. Fantastic doctor. There was a sign outside his front door, which instructed patience to not wear perfumes or other fragrances upon entering, out of respect for his other patients. I thought that was a great idea.

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RE: A nice scent or pollution? - 4/15/2008 10:09:39 PM

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I am a parfum lover, especially Chanel No 5 and 17. My all time favorite was one by Shiseido- Feminite Du Bois, unfotunately they no longer make it and the closest is Dior- Dolce Vita. I cannot be near cheap and nasty perfumes Red Door and the like as they and air freshners, cleaning product aisles all make my asthma begin.

The trick is, as has been mentioned, small amounts only, also the best way to enjoy your scents is to vary them as the nose becomes desensitised to the same parfum every day. Another thing is I prefer 'parfum' to sprays as the concentrated parfum means much much less is required.

I am not a wealthy person and have only 4 to choose from, but they are my personal aromatherapy and help me get through the day working as a nurse, sooo many yucky smells

I need something pleasant to sniff and just drop my nose towards my cleavage and reorient my smelling receptors...

Edited to add: my shower gel, body lotion and room freshener are all lavender pure essential oils based, my all time favorite scent, And no, for those thinking it, I do not smell bad either before or after bathing.....

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RE: A nice scent or pollution? - 4/15/2008 10:22:15 PM

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Smells like pheromones work with some folks and not with others. I can like a guy but if I dont like the way he smells it cant happen. I love natural scents like from essential oils. I love oceany scents. People have their own smell and I like that.

I wear make-up when I go to work. I used to not bother because really whatever. I found I got better responses from people when I wore make-up, "It really shows off your eyes..." If I go on a first date or a special thing out, I wear make-up, jewelry, cute clothes, scents, blow out my hair, wear nice shoes, fancy panties, bra. Otherwise I am an Adidas track pants/shoes chick all the way. Levi's, Adida's and cotton (okay I love cashmere too.) I am about comfortable clothes when I am hanging out. Lately I have been making more of an effort to get out of the Adida's track pants and wear cute jeans instead when I go shopping and stuff.

I like perfumes better on some folks than others. Some perfumes give me a creepy feeling l like I have a headache coming on. There was a young girl at work who wasnt even 20 and she wore the same perfume as my mother wears. That made me feel queasy for sure.

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RE: A nice scent or pollution? - 4/15/2008 11:51:25 PM

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I like Shalomar, I can smell it from across the street!
Bonermatic!

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RE: A nice scent or pollution? - 4/16/2008 12:37:07 AM

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ShelleyD mentioned lavander, and that is one of my faves. A couple of my lady friends who buy my soaps buy the lavender to put in their lingeree drawers. I'll use a couple drops in my bath water sometimes.

Heartcream mentioned pheromones. My sense of smell is not what it used to be, but there are some natural aromas which drive me crazy. That happened with my last; all I ever wanted to do was smell her after she got out of her bath. Her hair, mostly. And it wasn't the shampoo aroma.

I could almost always tell when my SOs were having their periods. And I picked them as partners partly because of the way they smelled. The all had very similar smells, and this I remember way back when I was 14 or 15. It's not subliminal, either. It's a conscious awareness of that aroma. Just drives me nuts.

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RE: A nice scent or pollution? - 4/16/2008 1:20:59 AM

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The sad is that in our consumerist society we are bombarded with so many smells synthetic in origin as everything it seems has to smell nice, that being the natural smells we are losing and yes, being desensitised.

I used to be proficient in aromatherapy and in the past blended my own scents for experiment, mainly sandalwood,bergamot,vetivert,lavender and lime, combinations based upon bottom, middle and top notes, so subtle that I caused people to ask and try to guess the scent I used thinking it similar to a product, but not quite, the name they never could put their finger on.

Then, I got hold of some natural leather softening solution called Neats foot oil, it rare now over here, that smell it being unsweetened, it is it's natural scent, quite definately cow. Then it combined with leather, the smell, quite earthy, animalistic and raw, a whole different smell to that I am used to, but so evocative and primal, the leather quite differently enhanced not just in softening, but in other ways too. A raw essence of a time gone by came to mind and there thoughts to where we are now, swamped in synthetic odours to bare.

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RE: A nice scent or pollution? - 4/16/2008 1:53:53 AM

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my grandmother once told me your scent should not arrive before you do nor should it remain after you are gone. you should have to get pretty close to a person to smell their perfume or cologne. people who bathe in strong scents before they walk out the door make me physically ill, headaches are instantaneous and the nausea is awful. keep it light, both in scent and in usage.
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RE: A nice scent or pollution? - 4/16/2008 2:02:35 AM

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In reading all these replies, I'm really glad to learn I'm not alone in my irritation with this.

The last time I spent the night at my Mom's, she was worried that the guest sheets had "gone stale" in the linen closet, so in preparing my bed, she had sprinkled everything with.....hold onto your hats, but remember JeanAte'??? (or however it's spelled). I inhaled once and said, "Guess what? We need to change the sheets again." Egads.

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RE: A nice scent or pollution? - 4/16/2008 2:19:22 AM

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I am now careful with scented products and even cleaning substances, as if I need to clean I am of the old thought, if it smells clean, then chances are it is, and that means the raw smell of bleach, which fades more easily.

Cologne I now rarely use as it's effect to drying the skin, is not good after a wet blade shave. A product I do use, which lingers pleasantly subtle but not obtrusive, is to shower with a 'Lush' product, called 'Tramp', it a deep green balanced mix of Oak Moss, Patchouli, Horehound and Melissa,all chosen for effect as well as smell. A scent that evokes thoughts and feelings of a forest glade.

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RE: A nice scent or pollution? - 4/16/2008 2:22:31 AM

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I went to see Evita many years ago and during the scene where her coffin is brought on stage, some sort of incense was used, as I have a phobia about coffins it was all a little creepy. Anyway, not long after that Giorgio Beverly Hills was brought out and it just smelt like the incense used in Evita, everytime I got a wiff of it I would start thinking of coffins and get in a panic. I ended up having to buy some of the dreadful stuff to become accustomed to the smell - I wouldn't wear the stuff now but I got to kind of like it.

As for house scents, im guilty of burning a lot of oils.... I have a dog with a pancreas that doesn't work properly so I have to put liquidised raw pigs pancreas on everything he eats, it really stinks and the dog has a trace of the smell on his fur, so the oil is the better of two evils.

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RE: A nice scent or pollution? - 4/16/2008 4:19:48 AM

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I used to work with a woman who I swear used to bathe in her cologne. We worked in an open room with radio console stations with short walls....they were only there to deaden sound....finally, I couldn't take it anymore, and brought in a HUGE economy-size bottle of Febreze, and everytime she'd walk by, or sat close, I'd start spraying that stuff around to get rid of her perfume. She had been spoken to by the supervisors about her excessive use of cologne, and it went in one ear and right out the other. She finally asked me after about a week what I was doing, and I told her I was killing her cologne, and would continue to do so until she lightened up. She came in the next day with NONE on at all. And the day after that, and the day after that......and so on. All 3 shifts of personnel thanked me.....her perfume would literally infuse into the materials on the chairs, the mousepads, the wrist rests......everyone went home with the worst headaches, and the poor folks with allergies were miserable!

BTW...I'm not known for being the most subtle of folks.....just in case you missed that!

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RE: A nice scent or pollution? - 4/16/2008 4:25:36 AM

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I remember when life was simpler, and we all wore Love's Baby Soft and Love's Fresh Lemon. They came out with a strawberry, but it was kind of yuk.

The one that makes me gag is Opium....seems like a lot of elderly women wear that one, and they wear a lot of it, probably because their nose doesn't smell the way it used to. To this day, when I smell it, I think of my grandmother. That, and the smell of fruity Certs that she always kept in her big pocketbook, lol.

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RE: A nice scent or pollution? - 4/16/2008 9:04:38 AM

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I prefer a person, whether man or woman, to have a scent that I can smell only when I'm practically pressed against thier body. There are quite a few people that resort ot strong scents in place of showers...ugh...I hate that

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RE: A nice scent or pollution? - 4/16/2008 9:11:29 AM

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You know what's really bad? Patchouli oil!
It smells like cat piss!
I smell that on a woman and I walk the other way!

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RE: A nice scent or pollution? - 4/16/2008 9:28:40 AM

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I used to work with a woman who I swear used to bathe in her cologne. We worked in an open room with radio console stations with short walls....they were only there to deaden sound....finally, I couldn't take it anymore, and brought in a HUGE economy-size bottle of Febreze, and everytime she'd walk by, or sat close, I'd start spraying that stuff around to get rid of her perfume. She had been spoken to by the supervisors about her excessive use of cologne, and it went in one ear and right out the other. She finally asked me after about a week what I was doing, and I told her I was killing her cologne, and would continue to do so until she lightened up. She came in the next day with NONE on at all. And the day after that, and the day after that......and so on. All 3 shifts of personnel thanked me.....her perfume would literally infuse into the materials on the chairs, the mousepads, the wrist rests......everyone went home with the worst headaches, and the poor folks with allergies were miserable!

BTW...I'm not known for being the most subtle of folks.....just in case you missed that!

This post reminded me of the smelly car episode on Seinfeld! Febreeze is classic!!! :)

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RE: A nice scent or pollution? - 4/16/2008 9:30:25 AM

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You know what's really bad? Patchouli oil!
It smells like cat piss!
I smell that on a woman and I walk the other way!

I have always hated that smell. And I mean hate!!

I used to hate lavendar, but for some reason I like it now.

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