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A collection of some classic Lemmy memes for your enjoyment
NO. Perfume is the worst. ppl need to stop wearing it in hospitals and community centers. other people should feel comfortable with being in public too. Comfort matters more than your need to feel entitled to validation for stenching out places. It's like assholes with music and no headphones. this is public. as in other people can be here too. its not here for you to work out your narcissistic fucking fantasies. We arent your fucking background characters you self absorbed weenus.
If I'm down wind of you and I smell you, you are an evil person and I hate you.
If I walk through a place and I smell where you have been, you are an evil person and I hate you.
If I order food and I can smell you on my food, you are an evil person and I hate you.
If I'm walking through a place where you were once standing and I can taste you, you are an evil person and I hate you.
I don't care if it's BO or perfume or lotion. You are an evil person and I hate you.
I recently got into fragrances and they are great but I think you need to chill if people can smell you randomly like that in public. I'm no expert, like I said I just got into it, but my understanding is people shouldn't be able to tell unless they are inside your personal space.
Do you by chance live in a relatively sparsely populated area? People are in each others' personal space constantly in densely populated areas
Since you are getting a lot of hate in here, let me say you smell great. I do enjoy when I'm coming through the entry door at work and whoever went through it before me smelled good. I think the smell intolerant have to win in the office - it's an enclosed environment and some people have actual allergies. But personally I do love it when I, say, walk into the bathroom and smell perfume not shit, it's a surprise and a welcome one. And perfumery is olfactory art.
Basenotes is a nice site if you are into perfume. It's the only social media forum I use besides Lemmy.
Please don't put that much perfume... My nose is pretty sensitive to perfume and it makes me sneeze. Most of them smell like dust. I never understood why people try to smell that strongly of dust.
Yeah right? I hate perfume, most just mell like chemicals.
Agreed. The "good" aromas are always dusty, kind of mummified versions somehow, and then the chemicals mixed in just sting your nose, and make you gag. I do not understand, who finds smelling that pleasant.
I roll around in my attic every morning so I'll smell like a holiday
Guys are wearing too much perfume at work but get upset when I ask them to cut back on the perfume. Of course it’s still perfume no matter what they call it.
they get upset with you when they are the ones encroaching other people's spaces with their stench? that is some predatory bully thinking there.
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If someone can smell you outside and not know that the smell came from you, then you are wearing 100x too much perfume. It should not be possible to smell you just by passing you on the sidewalk.
I’m so glad I don’t waste my money on that shit
It's so hard for me rn to find a good frag. I have been endlessly doing research on fragrantica and trying samples but I'm realizing now I have to get something they still actually produce. Otherwise I'm just buying from some stash some random persons have 'cause they wound up with the last inventory or something.
I have a list now for some that I want to try for wearing at the office during colder months here but feck man this is mind boggling me.
I think I’ve only worn cologne once in my life and it intentionally smelled like nature. All of that shit drives my senses crazy. I don’t even wear deodorant (I don’t get BO).
Everyone has BO. You are just used to your own brew.
Never heard such a phrase even in movies, but I heard(and thought too) "Who the fuck poured a bucket of concentrate on their stupid head? Impossible to breath!" many times.
I remember this woman got on the bus once, and that's when I understood what good perfume was. Every head turned. She was a brown-skinned woman in her forties, not overly attractive or anything, but she carried herself with such worth, likely heightened by the perfume that I was instantly lovestruck by her
I've not experienced that perfume since, so I think what we sniffed that day was exceedingly special
Rage: baited
I actively avoid people who wear feagrences.
I've never smelled a cologne or perfume that wasn't utterly offensive.
I think more people should be aware how offensive a strong smell can be. There have been more than a few people who I genuinely have negative opinions of, and it basically stems from them wearing perfume or cologne.
Olfactory nails on a chalkboard.
That is because many people don't know wtf they are doing. I usually wear two splashes of cologne and that is already plenty. I also wear rather inoffensive smells, since I prefer sweet or fresh ones. Others seem to just shower in musk
I remember there was a classroom i couldn't enter without getting nauseous because one of the guys there doused himself in some kind of incredibly potent perfume
The stank lingered too, after a weekend the smell would be just as strong
Seriously, what the fuck is up with highschool boys in the last decade or so going bat shit crazy with the perfume??? I feel like we have reached new heights of olfactory toxic masculinity torture.
The first time I even thought about cologne was for a formal business meeting in my late twenties. The closest I got to wearing fragrances (not gonna lie, I kind of hate that term, now that I've heard it so often) in highschool was aftershave; I literally didn't know a single guy who wore perfume (and very nearly no girls either), despite going to a fancy private school with a bunch of rich assholes. Times change, huh.
Why does this trigger me so much? I actively avoid teenagers and cross the street because of the smell now. And that one colleague who smells like a horrid concoction of axe body smell (kill me now) and Hugo Boss The Scent Eau de Toilette (I know what it's called because he constantly, invariably, incessantly talks about it). I guess some especially immature adults are affected by the trend as well. Wtf.
Okay. Rant over. I'm done. Gonna go hug my cats now to recover (thank you, home office).
highschool boys in the last decade or so
Not even close, in the 00's it was Lynx/Axe, before that Teen Spirit. Boys covering themselves in scents instead of showering isn't a new thing.
Yeah, I remember the Axe era. I guess at my highschool it was deodorant more than cologne. Still, I feel like stuff has gotten especially bad more recently. Or maybe I've just gotten older and more annoyed by it *sobs*
Perfume and cologne should be discovered and not announced. I should only be able to smell it if I'm within your personal bubble, not just passing by on the street.
Honestly, I need people to stop bathing in cologne it's fucking disgusting and you shouldn't be allowed into places where people eat or you sit near others for more than one whole second. Also this new popular perfume smells like straight up rubbing alcohol.
I can't stand strong cologne; I've told multiple men and women publicly it's supposed to be suggested, not announced.
I know when my upstairs neighbor has passed through the building because I can follow her scent all the way, it even lingers outside sometimes.
In my old job there was this one lady in the suite next door who wore so much perfume you could nearly see the cloud. And holy shit could you taste it. It was vile! And it would linger for about 20 minutes or more in the area where the shared restrooms were. As someone who has a very sensitive sense of smell, it was too much. But even after receiving multiple complaints, she didn't care.
I remember this girl at uni. Could identify her at 100m downwind.
Like others have mentioned suggested, announced and then there was this amount. Sort of like smelling salts.
I hope she is doing okay in life now.
Scents are very confusing. I hate the smell of cologne because im not gay. But I love the smell of strawberry perfume. So when I go to pick out a cologne people say to me "pick one you like" so i pick a strawberry perfume then i get called gay for picking perfume. You cannot win. How is a guy supposed to pick out a smell thats designed to appeal to women? It makes no sense.
May I suggest Neil Morris Woodland Strawberries? It's a more unisex, whole strawberry plant scent. Not so fruity but still strawberry.
I know this is not always easy, but if you're trying to find something women like, really the only good option is to ask women. Anyone saying anything else is guessing or that's not their goal.
The women I tend to like tend towards sandalwood fragrances which I can handle but wouldn't expect to be popular at all. So, I buy things with sandalwood.
Just wear the strawberry perfume you wuss, it's not going to make you start sucking dick.