The worst is when you can smell people walking past you when you’re outside… before they pass you.
[Me, entering the office building] *sniff* Oh, $coworker is here today.
And they came through here 2 hours ago.
He left an hour ago too
I can smell when my neighbors opened their door, and I can even give an educated guess when it happened. It’s cigarette smoke in their case though.
Came here to say the same thing. I have a coworker who’s so consistent and heavy-handed with his cologne that I don’t ever have to visually check if he’s in the office or not.
Ever walked past someone and started choking?
Why yes, I have in fact been to the Tacoma Mall. 😁
When I was around 8 years old, my mother and I took a Greyhound bus across the country to visit the grandparents. We were sat next to a woman who was drenched in perfume. There’s a picture of me sitting next to said woman with my eyes absolutely streaming tears from being so badly irritated.
As I always tell my 9th graders:
„If I can taste your perfume by walking past your classroom, it’s a tad too much.“
Why the fuck are 9th graders wearing perfume?
Have you never once been in or even near a locker room? Blasting an ENTIRE can of axe body spray is something iv yet to find a single country doenst have a equivalent of.
9th grade is high school after all.
I’m asian so we don’t need deodorant
It’s not deodorant, it’s odorant.
9th grade in the states is high school level. I mean, it’s probably just body sprays, not actual cologne and perfume, and they might be self conscious about body odor being just past or still in puberty?
Kids should act like kids, perfume and cologne should be banned and confiscated in school, there’s no place in children’s schools for these distractions. It will hinder other kids from paying proper attention in class!
Did you drop your /s? If perfume and d
If you were to ban perfumes and colognes, would you ban scented deodorant? Out of everything students have to worry about…you think this distracts them?
you think this distracts them?
This distracted me back then. This distracts me now.
Who would’ve guessed that people who filled everything with scented stuff in school would grow up to be adults that use scents to fix all problems?- Minor body odour distracting the guy next to you? Fill your body with odorant that now makes anyone in the whole room nauseate.
- Body stinks of whatever you smoked during the break? Noone can tell if everyone’s nose is blocked.
- Chinese mousepad made out of non RoHS compliant rubber, has residual industrial volatile compounds causing nausea? Well, the room “freshner” can cause more nausea. Fill godowns with the perfume and nobody will notice the Chinese rubber.
Schools can provide free unscented deodorant
*edit why is this disliked? We provide soap for bathrooms, deodorant is soap for the armpits right? ¯_(ツ)_/¯
To cover up their vapes’ smell
To „smell nice and impress the ladiestm“ Or a bit more honest: because of influencer-marketing.
Tip: don’t hold your breath instead preserve the clean air in your lungs by taking rapid short breaths until loss of consciousness occurs
Cologne/perfume should be discovered, not announced.
She’s a maniac. Maniac on perfume.
And she’s smelling, like she never smelled before!
i mean when you’re in high school and are bombarded with commercials that say “saturate yourself to the core fibers of your very soul with axe body spray, and women will basically throw their vaginas at your face as an involuntary reflex action”…is there any other option but to do what they say?
Recently I had a guy deliver a new appliance. The hallway still reeked of his cologne two hours after he left, when he hadn’t been in my house for more than 5 minutes. I didn’t even think that was possible.
It used to be I would have to ask women from time to time to go easy on the perfume. Lately it has been all men. And I do say perfume when I ask them (always a great reaction).
I’ll take this over the people that leave elevators smelling like an ashtray after they’re gone.
Both are bad, combined is worse. One doesn’t make the other better.
Perfume will only make one unable to know that they are being poisoned.
It’s like adding Aspartame to rat poison.
Ya but cigarettes are amazing. Oh how I miss them!
Username checks out, I guess?
Thankfully my current office doesn’t have anyone I interact with like this, but at a previous job I’m pretty sure the dude bought cologne by the 55 gallon drum. It was painful.
An English friend calls this phenomenon “twinkle twat”, as he says it usually indicates the person hasn’t, um, washed in a while. Or at least long enough that they know they should have by now, and are trying to mask it.
Now I can’t unthink it whenever I encounter it… 😶
Some people are just smelly even when they have washed, for various reasons. Obnoxious levels of perfume may actually be better than the alternative in some cases.
Although even unpleasant body smells don’t usually make me sneeze or my eyes itch like most perfume does…
Even the worse BO doesn’t linger like over done perfume. Both are awful when your around them, but BO leaves when they do. At worse it lingers for like 15 mins top.
Perfume can linger so strongly you can fucking literally taste it HOURS after a person is gone.
Oh some of those natural body smells do linger, I’m afraid. I pray you never need to know that as viscerally as I know it.
But still yeah I agree, artificial scent bad. But so normalised. I often think about ‘brave new world’ when I walk into a reception area or house where they’re pumping out oderiser. I’m just glad public transport doesn’t yet pipe the shit in.
I’ve been this person once and I’m ashamed. I got a knock off parfum not realizing how strong it was and just went ahead and did my 3 sprays. Omg I realized when I was standing in line at the pharmacy and someone muttered something under their breath. I threw that scent away in shame
