OK, ladies:
Change perfume. No, not every day, but sometimes. Try some Sung. Maybe L’Air de Temps, maybe Chanel.
Fact is, if you wear the same perfume every single day of your life, and you never change, you eventually have to douse yourself to be able to smell it at all. It chokes the rest of us. Smell nice, be subtle. Change perfume sometimes. Please?
When my younger son’s girlfriend (and eventual wife) came to live under my roof, because she was Italian, I had to instruct her on the proper way to apply perfume: Go into the bathroom so not to stink up the rest of the house; turn on the fan; spray for 1/2 a second into the air and quickly leave the bathroom, closing the door before any of the spray can fall on you; then wait 30 seconds; open the door, go inside and let the memory of the perfume envelope you for 10 seconds, turn off the fan; leave the bathroom. You’re all set.
In this manner I told her, she won’t smell like a Korean whorehouse.
[…] Neanderpundit had good advice for the ladies: change the perfume you wear so you don’t kill the rest of us. He was being polite. I wasn’t so polite, here is the comment I left: When my younger son’s girlfriend (and eventual wife) came to live under my roof, because she was Italian, I had to instruct her on the proper way to apply perfume: “Go into the bathroom so not to stink up the rest of the house; turn on the fan; spray for 1/2 a second into the air and quickly leave the bathroom, closing the door before any of the spray can fall on you; then wait 30 seconds; open the door, go inside and let the memory of the perfume envelope you for 10 seconds, turn off the fan; leave the bathroom. You’re all set.“ […]
Sally had to stop wearing colognes/perfumes after our third date because it turned out they were a migraine trigger for me.
I actually stopped dating a girl once because every time I saw her, I got a migraine. Nice enough girl but I didn’t know I was allergic to her cologne. Since then I’ve found out that just about any manufactured scent will trigger a migraine for me, so I have to avoid the candle and air freshener aisle in most stores :)
Oh dear.
Which/whose cloud of scent did you have to walk through?
*chuckles*
Your post gave me inspiration to vent on a topic dear to my nose. I linked to you from Au de Stink
My Mother in Law as she grew older could smell things less and less. As a result you could smell her perfume a day in advance of her appearance and for a month after she left. When she passed, she left tens of thousands of dollars worth of designer dresses and gowns which couldn’t even be donated to charity because three dry cleanings barely dented the miasma of expensive sten………scent they’d been dipped in. My wife kept one of her $1600 hats. I bought an air tight plexiglass display case so we can keep it in the house. We had to have all the carpets and drywall in her condo replaced before it would sell.
Heh. Not having a sense of smell has spared me from this hell.
OTOH, it has kept me quite honest with Mrs. G., because I could never dally for fear of coming home smelling like a French whorehouse and not knowing it…
Got me in trouble one time in college. The girl I was dating at the time came up to me with the question all men dread: “Notice anything different about me?”
Shit. Hell, my wife cut her hair from ~ 3 ft long to above shoulder length and I didn’t notice for three days.
So, I take a stab, going for the obvious. New outfit?
No.
New hairdo?
No.
Several other incorrect guesses later, she’s practically in tears because I don’t notice things and she’s only doing it to spice things up. Then she tells me that it’s a new perfume.
I look at her, much like the chimpanzees studying the monolith in “2001”, and then inform her that I have no sense of smell. None. Nada. She could have bathed in eau de Pepe Le Pew for all I’d know.
She took it in good stride, as months and months of her wondering why I never noticed her intoxicating aroma suddenly evaporated…
And then we had wild monkey sex. ‘Cuz there had to be a reason I’d date such a head case…
Not only change it, but lighten up. There’s no reason not to, with so many wonderful “just out of the shower clean” fragrances out there. “Philosophy” has a terrific “Grace” line, then there’s “Aquolina’s ‘Pink Sugar'”, “Tova Signature”, the list goes on. It’s almost impossible to overdo it with those. Better to have one that you might want to respritz during the day than make people’s eyes water for the first few hours.
Now, if I could only get people to wear some dang deodorant! That’s my biggest peeve. Nothing worse than being in the produce aisle at the grocery and getting a whiff of B.O. ;-p That’s when I go into “mouth breather” mode.
I have a friend who wears “old lady” perfume. Ok, she’s no spring chicken, but still.
One day when she came over I commented, “Nice Perfume! Must you marinate in it.”