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[–] bleistift2@sopuli.xyz 56 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (3 children)

[Me, entering the office building] *sniff* Oh, $coworker is here today.

And they came through here 2 hours ago.

[–] MadMadBunny@lemmy.ca 22 points 1 month ago

He left an hour ago too

[–] SeductiveTortoise@piefed.social 18 points 1 month ago

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.

[–] DickFiasco@sh.itjust.works 7 points 1 month ago

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.

[–] aeronmelon@lemmy.world 33 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Ever walked past someone and started choking?

[–] TheRealShadeSlimmy@lemmy.world 19 points 1 month ago

Why yes, I have in fact been to the Tacoma Mall. 😁

[–] Davel23@fedia.io 23 points 1 month ago

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.

[–] 5ibelius9insterberg@feddit.org 21 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

As I always tell my 9th graders:

„If I can taste your perfume by walking past your classroom, it’s a tad too much.“

[–] arin@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago (4 children)

Why the fuck are 9th graders wearing perfume?

[–] Gerudo@lemmy.zip 4 points 1 month ago (4 children)

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?

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[–] Holytimes@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

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.

[–] arin@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I'm asian so we don't need deodorant

[–] ulterno@programming.dev 0 points 1 month ago

It's not deodorant, it's odorant.

[–] 5ibelius9insterberg@feddit.org 1 points 1 month ago

To „smell nice and impress the ladies^tm^“ Or a bit more honest: because of influencer-marketing.

[–] wolfrasin@lemmy.today 1 points 1 month ago

To cover up their vapes' smell

[–] belluck@lemmy.blahaj.zone 21 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (3 children)

„They“ is a neutral pronoun you can use to avoid the awkwardness of he/she

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[–] gustofwind@lemmy.world 20 points 1 month ago

Tip: don’t hold your breath instead preserve the clean air in your lungs by taking rapid short breaths until loss of consciousness occurs

[–] scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech 15 points 1 month ago

I put this much on because I can't smell it anymore! They weakened it!

Uhhhhh noooooo, no they did not

[–] JoMiran@lemmy.ml 13 points 1 month ago (1 children)

She's a maniac. Maniac on perfume.

[–] elvith@feddit.org 8 points 1 month ago

And she's smelling, like she never smelled before!

[–] U7826391786239@lemmy.zip 13 points 1 month ago

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?

[–] YiddishMcSquidish@lemmy.today 12 points 1 month ago

Cologne/perfume should be discovered, not announced.

[–] darkdemize@sh.itjust.works 9 points 1 month ago (2 children)

I'll take this over the people that leave elevators smelling like an ashtray after they're gone.

[–] arin@lemmy.world 10 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Both are bad, combined is worse. One doesn't make the other better.

[–] ulterno@programming.dev 0 points 1 month ago

Perfume will only make one unable to know that they are being poisoned.
It's like adding Aspartame to rat poison.

[–] MintyFresh@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Ya but cigarettes are amazing. Oh how I miss them!

[–] El_Scapacabra@lemmy.zip 2 points 1 month ago

Username checks out, I guess?

[–] El_Scapacabra@lemmy.zip 8 points 1 month ago

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.

[–] Brewchin@lemmy.world 6 points 1 month ago (1 children)

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... 😶

[–] Sadbutdru@sopuli.xyz 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

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...

[–] Holytimes@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

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.

[–] Sadbutdru@sopuli.xyz 1 points 1 month ago

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.

[–] Simulation6@sopuli.xyz 5 points 1 month ago

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).

[–] hydrashok@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 month ago

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.

[–] CodingCarpenter@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 month ago

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

If I can smell you when just I'm walking past your office, it's way too much.

[–] Harvey656@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago

Excuse me im in this image and I don't like it.

[–] Nangijala@feddit.dk 3 points 1 month ago

Arabs: hold my aftershave.

I was even shown a trick by my friend's dad that after a shower, I should go over to the insence burner and hold my hair over the smoke.

I don't really have one of those, but I appreciated the experience.

[–] hungryphrog@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 1 month ago

my anosmic ass reading these comments: 🧍❔

[–] merc@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 month ago

The worst is when you can smell people walking past you when you're outside... before they pass you.

[–] roserose56@lemmy.zip 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

Once a person told me that the total sprays for a perfume are 4. 2 on the chest, left and right over the shirt, and 2 on the neck left and right. People with very short hair or without hair, can also spray once in the back neck. I follow this rule, and its big difference on the way the perfume develops as the time goes on. Remember, perfume have ingredients, that you will smell as the times goes on.

[–] UltraMagnus0001@lemmy.world 6 points 1 month ago (2 children)

That still sounds too much

[–] Holytimes@sh.itjust.works 6 points 1 month ago (2 children)

As someone with a functional nose. Literally any amount is too much.

Wash your self and leave it at that. The dead shit you spray yourself with is just as gag inducing as your swamp ass on day 3 of a con.

[–] UltraMagnus0001@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

Some people just can't get rid of BO and have to use deodorant.

[–] fishy@lemmy.today 1 points 1 month ago

This exactly, it's all fucking nasty. As far as I'm concerned it's like they're all just walking around ripping farts and expect people to enjoy their smell.

[–] roserose56@lemmy.zip 1 points 1 month ago

Sounds too much, but its, not. It will be noticeable from the people around you and wont be strong.

[–] LePoisson@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago

I've always done left and right wrist, rub the wrists around my chest and neck. Maybe one spray for neck too depending on how strong it is.

Idk I also never spray anything over my clothes either that seems like too much. But hey at least you aren't completely bathing yourself in it. It might still be too strong for people who are sensitive to smells. Just a thought.

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