Scents

[legalmoose]

And on another note, I think I'm developing my mother's (over)sensitivity to scents. I haven't used anything but scent/dye-free detergent for my clothes for years now, same with dryer sheets (do use scented soaps for the body, but those scents tend not to linger). I want my clothes to smell like clothes, not like "spring rain" or whatever fake scent they're putting into detergents these days. I no longer wear cologne, and I switched to a deodorant stone earlier this year, so there's not even that little bit of extra scent. The stuff I put in my hair has some scent, but not an overpowering one.

So when the guy this morning was spraying his shirt down with that nasty, nasty body spray crap it shocked me, frankly. I don't know how someone can do through their day smelling like a french whore nothing but the artificial scent they over-saturated themselves with that morning. Nasty.

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[ironmanjt.livejournal.com]

LOL amen sistah! (as I mentioned at dinner last night!)

[expatriate.livejournal.com]

Now, I only use colognes for their intended purpose (didn't get a chance to shower in the morning).

But soaking the shirt? Didn't he ever learn "Spray, Delay, and Walk Away?" I thought that all men knew that. Or maybe just the gay ones.

[susandennis]

I used to work for a woman - an attorney - who bathed in perfume every day. I used to call her smellattorney. It was in a start up and the offices were small and she was large (and so am I) - being in her office was always painful.

And last week I had a meeting on a woman's office here at this gig and she had some kind of scented candle going that made it nearly impossible to breathe.

And I have the worse smeller on the planet. These people must just not have noses that work at all.

[qnetter]

Scented candle? In an office? At Microsoft?!!

[susandennis]

Oh yeah... some people (usually confined to those of the female persuasion) spend lots of time, energy and money decorating their sad little offices... Including smells. The funny part is that at MS, most people move offices 2 or 3 times a year (I've had this gig now for 16 months and am now at my 4th location) and they have to pack up all that crap and then unpack it. I have never understood it.

But, that woman's office I was in last week? They are going to have to tear down the building to get rid of that smell.

[deejayqueue.livejournal.com]

The worst is getting onto an elevator or other confined space after someone who's drenched in whatever their product du jour is, and the whole ride up/down it's all you can smell.

[chrishansenhome.livejournal.com]

I used to have a boss who was into the coke scene in the early 80's in Manhattan. He'd party all night, arrive at work, and take what we called an "after-party bath". He's take his Right Guard and spray it all over his torso and shirt.

[cthulugrrl.livejournal.com]

I work at Starbucks now, where we end up smelling strongly of coffee, and every so often I get someone at my register whose cologne chokes me. If I can smell it over all that coffee, how bad must it be in an odor free environment? The same thing happened a few times when I was in college and working in pizza, and there it was overpowering the smell of the garlic! How can you not realize that your cologne is overpowering the odors of everything around you, including coffee and garlic?

[grubbybastard.livejournal.com]

LOL @ French whore

[(Anonymous)]

hrmm.
i have to say that that nasty, nasty body spray crap makes me go ick.

at my home synagogue in Houston, we'd have a whole lot of middle-aged ladies who smoked, but didn't want anyone to know they smoked. So they'd douse themselves with over-flowery perfume every time they stepped outside. It would stick to their caked-on makeup, not cover up the smoke smell at all, and make my sensitive proboscis twitch, mutter, and moan.

A lot.

oops

[thespisgeoff.livejournal.com]

hrmm.
didn't realize I wasn't logged in until after I'd posted that.