What's the hilarious worst a scent has ever gone on you?

[kaberett]

Anything with BPAL's snow/ice note in? Turns instantly and unmistakably into "motorway service station toilet cleaner". It's pretty distressing.

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[recessional]

I've actually never had something do one of those! Just have way too much of a note I don't like.

[inkstone]

So anything with BPAL's "smoky" note in it? Goes out of control when it hits my skin and I end up smelling like I walked out of a firepit and am covered in ash. We're talking, "Oh crap! Something is burning! Something is on fire! Oh wait, no, that's just me." -_-;

[kaberett]

Hah, I amp BPAL's cinnamon to the exclusion of everything else. However nice it sounds, if it contains cinnamon or massoia bark or anything in that general area, I just... have to resign myself to the fact that there is absolutely no point whatsoever, because what it will smell like on me is cinnamon.

Meanwhile, anything of theirs containing ylang-ylang is insta-cheap bubblebath. ;_;

[kore]

Man, I hear you with the cinnamon amping. That happens to me with cloves, too, I just wind up smelling like a spice rack.

[elfin]

BPAL's juniper notes almost always go straight to cat pee on me.

[lunabee34]

Something in BPAL's Antony smelled like metal and then gasoline and then Estee Lauder Youth Dew and then bam! powder. It was the weirdest morph I've ever had.

When I was younger, Exclamation kinda smelled like BO on me. LOL

[momijizukamori]

Czernobog has something in that went straight to literal shit on me, scent-wise. I haven't had a repeat yet (even with stuff that smelled like it might in the bottle) so I can't quite isolate what it was.

[byzantienne]

Bvlgari Black goes to asphalt and bubblegum on me, which I can't figure out if it is a hilarious disaster, a charming disaster, or just a disaster.

[kaberett]

OH GOODNESS BVLGARI BLACK.

On me it starts out smelling like someone either downed or spilt a very expensive bottle of vodka; and then after about five minutes they decided to add a cheap bottle of vanilla essence; and then it turns into vanilla cookies.

Pure vanilla cookies.

Forever.


Meanwhile, on my girlfriend (who normally swallows up scents that stay spiky on me for hours), it does exactly what it's supposed to in terms of leather and rubber. *facepalm*

[feldman]

Bvgari Black is a strange success on me, as I actually wanted to experience the rubber and leather notes and can tentatively identify them in my sample vial, but on my skin it turns to fermented black tea (akin to pu-erh) and savory vanilla.

I enjoy what my skin does to it, but I also like the rubber note that only exists in the vial for me.

[musyc]

I cannot even begin to identify the notes in a mystery bottle I've had for a long, long time. I gave it to my mother because it smells very nice on her. On me, it smells like burnt tires and latex balloons.

[archersangel]

this is not an experience with a scent, but when those clear gel deodorants first came out (in the '90s, i think) they just didn't work on me. less than an half-hour after washing & putting them on, i smelled like i didn't wash at all. major BO.

[lunabee34]

I had the same experience with those deoderants that are rocks. Like you were supposed to wet them and rub the rock in your armpit. Not successful for me. LOL

[kore]

BPAL's green note -- which includes "dried leaves," "thorns," "gentle grass," blahblah -- goes up to ELEVEN on me and drowns out absolutely everything else. Where everyone else gets beautiful big roses out of Two, Five and Seven, I get nothing but a horrible fake chemical green scent I can't even wash off, it just clings. Jasmine Cottage, from the Gaiman line, which I was REALLY looking forward to, smelled like someone had mown down an entire field of flowers, painstakingly thrown away all the flower heads, ground up the rest into a horrible salady green vegetable puree and then left it in a mound of grass clippings for half a year. I tried the beautiful Harvest Moon 2013 because so many people were raving about how it was roses in fall, blahblah. SALAD.

It's gotten so when I see "grass" or "leaves" or "stems" or "[anything remotely green]" in a BPAL scent I mentally mark it off and move on. Which saved me a lot of money! .....//cries

[kaberett]

Oh wow, that is a glorious description of a... very unpleasant outcome >>

[feldman]

When I use straight olive oil to moisturize, after a few hours I smell exactly like freshly sharpened pencils. Not wood, but specifically aromatic pencil shavings.