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A few months ago, we were at a supermarket with my mom, buying some stuff.
My mom needed an antiperspirant. When she was about to grab a black one, I heard a guy "helpfully" telling her that she was grabbing one "For Men™", that the ones "For Women™" were the pink ones.
I immediately looked at the guy like "lol what, who asked".
(My mom uses "men's" antiperspirants because she doesn't care about that, and they are usually cheaper than "women's")
Heavily scented shampoo, shower gel etc. is annoying anyway. I'd rather use some kind of perfume/cologne/etc. separately. Perfume is its own can of worms, though ...
What kind of fucked up perfumes are you using? 🤔
Perfumes are very often made from incredibly stinky stuff that is proccesed and heavily diluted.
Ambergris used to be one of the most valuable ingredients in parfums, its formed in the intestines of sperm whales which they vomit. Fresh it smells like literal shit and sea. But after a long time drying in the sun it develops a more complex earthy smell.
Castoreum is literally the anal glands of beavers. Civet Is from glands near the genitals of Civet cats. Both are incredibly foul initially but heavily diluted into sm that smells nice and complex for humans.
Ambergis is still really valuable, but not for it's own scent. They use it in all perfumes, or colognes, to affix the smell onto your skin so it doesn't just evaporate away as those volatile oils will do. Some people have found 250k dollars in ambergis I've heard, just floating in the ocean, it's the beaks of giant squid that sperm whales battle in the deep, they don't digest and their intestinal systems form this ambergis around it to protect themselves from getting cut on their tract or whatever. Then they expel it eventually and it floats.
Necrophagia for Men
Red Wiggler by Nightcrawler
Rich, dark, earthy undertones, hint of musk mid note, and top with green, peppery cabbage
Perfume is great, take the time to craft your own, it's never been easier. May I also suggest you do it for yourself rather than some perceived effect on others. I've had complements, and it starts an interesting conversation, but IDGAF mostly, it's for me, I have to live with it, so I might as well enjoy it.
I also enjoy the process of crafting it, like the cat says, "it's a little different every time". Beats the hell out of some off the shelf deodorant or whatever, costs a little more (surprisingly little more, start with the cheap stuff), but amortized over time, building a scent library (essential oils) pays off big time in personal enjoyment, at least for me.
I would love to hear about what ingredients / components? / stuff you use to make the perfume.
I just got a bunch of oils and chose what I liked, no need to over complicate it. I had a friend who was a 'nose' and made scents for companies like hotels with croissant smell in the aircon so people would get room service, mildly evil, but it got me thinking, can't be that hard. I don't have hyperosmosia, but I know what I like, and I've found what makes me happy, and it does. It's an entire sensory playground, just dive in with whatever you already like and keep trying new things (said friend had a shitload of scents, got me started). To say use this or that would be to do you a disservice, find what you like. Will say coffee beans are a good way to cleanse the nose so you can smell things anew in a reasonably short time (sensitization is real). Think that'll do for now, circle back if you explore, but I'm no expert, just a happy amateur. If you're a reader, check out Perfume by Patrick Suskind. ETA: bit dark, but does an interesting job of writing with smell as the primary sense, unsurprisingly the movie fails to achieve that,