never add up how much money you spend on this hobby...

[synecdochic]

This post is a free-for-all for people to:

a) post links to perfume-related content they posted elsewhere (on or off DW)
b) talk about anything they want to talk about that isn't big enough for a full post
c) socialize and hang out without worrying about "off topic".

Have at!

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Re: What's your motivation?

[synecdochic]

I wear perfume entirely for myself, really. I have a very sensitive nose (odd, because I am a fairly heavy smoker, but I'm the one who can always, always smell mildew/mold and the one who can smell it in an instant when the cats peed on something while my wife can't smell it at all, for instance, and I'm always the one wandering around the house going "...what's that smell?" when somebody opened up a bottle of something on the other side of the house) and having something pleasant to smell nearby -- namely, me -- means that if there's something funky and odoriffic nearby, I can just stick my wrist up against my nose and smell something pleasant.

Like you, smelling good also does make me happy, and it's part of a whole wheelhouse of techniques for my mental well-being -- scent is one of the great emotional triggers, really, maybe even the strongest, and I can tweak my mood really well by putting on various perfumes that invoke various moods -- but honestly, I wear perfume to drown out the other smells around me. I find a lot of personal care products to be very over-perfumed in a way that smells really grating to me -- I usually don't wash my hands in public restrooms, for instance, because the soap clings to my skin for the next eight hours and always, always smells awful on me -- and having something nice to cleanse my 'palate' helps me to put up with being in close proximity to somebody wearing a really cloying lotion. Or Axe body spray ;)

Re: What's your motivation?

[lunabee34]

That's really interesting and a great idea to have a personal scent oasis you can retreat to when a scent you don't like intrudes.

I do not have a supernose; my husband does, which makes perfume testing frustrating at times. I'll love something, and it smells over the top awful to him. LOL

Re: What's your motivation?

[sine_nomine]

OMG... Axe!!

Which a certain Former Supervisor at UPS wears like... all... the... time... and washes with their gel and so on....

Why does anyone think that stuff smells good??!?

Re: Axe

[devon]

One of the Axe scents is basically like Old Spice, and I happen to like both. However, too much of either can be deadly. I think that teen boys are overwhelmed by advice to stop the wretched stench that comes from their armpits that they overdo it. A small amt of Axe on an older guy (still very young to me, but maybe late 20's) usually smells like traditional but inexpensive/not-fancy aftershave to me.

Re: Axe

[sine_nomine]

I can deal with regular Old Spice aftershave but, I'm afraid, that's where I draw the line.

I just don't understand this whole "body spray" thing, especially as so many of them smell (to me) like "where's the dead skunk?"

As for Axe, I have no idea what scent this (40+ year old) guy wears... Phoenix something maybe? ... but oh the horror.

Re: Axe

[devon]

Maybe find someone in the office (ideally male) who will team up with you. Then you can each say something like, "Whoo! A bit extra aftershave today?" on different days. That seems like a fairly gentle way to bring his attention to it. Or get one of the guys to whisper that Old Spice might be more flattering on him because Axe is really only cool on teenagers.

Sorry you suffer, and good luck!

Re: Axe

[sine_nomine]

Thanks for the ideas but no, this isn't a colleague at work. It's an acquaintance of mine who, thankfully, now lives about 900 miles from me so I don't have to see him frequently!

Wish I could tell him Axe is only cool on teenagers but, unfortunately, there are people in his life who encourage his addiction.

Ah well... appreciate the sympathy!