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." -_-;

[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.

[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.

[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

[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.