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Yes, daily or often

Yes, sometimes or rarely

No

No, it gives me migraines/allergies

No, soap & deodorant are good enough.

[littlefallsmets]

She had a nice body in her youth, sure... but her face was always WEIRD and as her form has become more and more frail-thin and boyish over the years, she lost even her nice body.

Now, I realize, Matthew Broderick probably wants to forget that she is a lady as much as possible but... still. C'mon, still.

She looks like ET with two fried eggs stapled to his chest at this point.

[jay-ell]

She looks like ET with two fried eggs stapled to his chest at this point.

This is why you people are my friends. 

[Nabubrush]

Not to play devil's advocate, but I'm really happy basically no one wears perfume where I work.

Also, perfume is forbidden at my wife's new job.

[side_show]

Today, the folks in another part of the office were freaking out due to a "strong smell" that would likely bother the women with the scent sensitivity.  It turned out to be oatmeal, some agreed the scent of maple flavoured oat meal, being a food stuff, would probably not bother her, but her assistant was pretty sure it would. I went and got a cup of tea and never found out how that one panned out.  I did want to walk in and say "look, it's been more than half a year.  We are all aware of the issue and are being as sensitive as we can possibly be about this.  Riding each other's asses now makes you the insensitive one now." 

I am basically in the anti-smell camp.  I never want to be alone in an elevator with someone I don't know and and smell her/his perfume/cologne.  I am happy to smell something on someone's skin when my mouth is kissing it, or when I'm hugging them, but that's it.  I'm talking intimate space here, or just slightly beyond in the "brushing-past-you-when-I-walk: space.  Most of the stuff I smell on strangers or people I barely know just annoys me, and I'm willing to venture it's because it's too much of a good (or not so good) thing.  If I don't want to see someone, I can look away, if I don't want to taste or touch someone- that's pretty easy to do, if I don't want to hear someone I can put on my iPod, but I have no choice in whether I have to smell someone or not, so I really long for common courtesy on that one,  which is seriously lacking in many, many people.  There are lots of etiquette skills we seem to learn when we're kids, but the" how much smell you should give off" lesson should be taught right up there with the whole "inside voice" lesson.  I'm sure Linnea smells really nice because she's actually aware of the products she's using and how to use them properly.  On the other hand I am pretty sure a guy yesterday who I had to smell from over 8 ft away was so unschooled.  I'm sure he was wearing an expensive cologne because he was dressed in a well tailored suit and had the look of someone who really cared about status, but the amount of cologne he had on was the scent equivalent to standing 8 ft from me and shouting "HEY SUCK MY COCK!" at the top of his lungs. 

[Nabubrush]

shouting "HEY SUCK MY COCK!" at the top of his lungs. 

That almost never works.

[jaydub]

That almost never works.

Dance clubs in the Castro being the obvious exception.

[Nabubrush]

Dance clubs in the Castro being the obvious exception.

That's the exception I was thinking of. Well, that and the Rose Festival, when the Navy is in town.

[linnea]

Dammit, people! Talk about perfume!

I would never last at a scent-free workplace. That is just too much infringement on my personal life for my liking. Maybe if they bought me all scent-free products, but I think that's just asking too much.  But I do agree that nobody should be able to smell your perfume unless they're having passionate makeouts with you. Most people just wear too goddamned much perfume/cologne/disgusting Victoria's Secret body lotion. It is pretty sickening.

[lprkn]

So, when I wear cologne (which is rarely), I either squirt one shot into the air and walk through it or one squirt on my wrist which I then rub on my other wrist and my carotid arteries, the "pulse points." I am pretty sure that this is tasteful, but everytime I smell myself throughout the day, I keep wondering if it's too much. And it's not like I'm wearing Sex Panther or something.

[side_show]

That's the exception I was thinking of. Well, that and the Rose Festival, when the Navy is in town.

Also at the mens locker/shower/steam room in YMCA's across the continent.

I'm sorry L.  It is hard to talk about perfume.  I'm wearing a new herbal deodorant with coriander in it... does that.... does that help?

[Nabubrush]

Also at the mens locker/shower/steam room in YMCA's across the continent.

I'm sorry L.  It is hard to talk about perfume.  I'm wearing a new herbal deodorant with coriander in it... does that.... does that help?

It's hella easier to talk about random blowjobs from Navy men. Well, at least for me it is.

[CortJstr]

Over Christmas my SIL kept using this horrible coconut lotion from Bath & Bodyworks that made everybody in the room give her dirty looks. After 3 or 4 applications she started apologizing that it bothered us but it never occurred to her to just not use it. Who needs that much lotion, anyway?

Of course she also belches constantly. She refused to muffle it because she says then it goes up into her eyes and feels gross.

[theinevitable]

this one girl I know uses something really strong in her hair that I love the smell of. She is partially of african descent, so it is maybe some kind of crazy thing like they have in that section of drug stores?
It is like the best smell ever, anyway. The other day in a crowded party I got a whiff of it and was like "oh man, she must be here."

I am not sure if it is that it is that strong of a smell, or I just like it enough that I am attuned to smell it?

On the other hand, basically her whole apartment smells like it sometimes, and maybe that gets old for her roommates.

[AlohaDawg]

Of course she also belches constantly. She refused to muffle it because she says then it goes up into her eyes and feels gross.

What the hell is that? Her eyes?

[CortJstr]

What the hell is that? Her eyes?

I know. She claims that if she belches with her mouth closed then breathes it out her nose she feels it in her eyes and it grosses her out. So the rest of us get to listen to her belch 4 to 10 times an hour.