If you are 10 feet away, and I can smell your cologne...

[Loonman]

....you've got TOO DAMN MUCH ON!!!!


:puke:

[mr_hat]

1. SMELL MAY AUTHORATAH!

[Red State Rebel]

2. I feel your pain!

I have a bad time with fragrances. I get headaches if I'm around people like that. I'll never forget the time a stupid fragrance salesperson spritzed me in a department store. I ended up having to go home it made me so sick.

[trogdor]

4. I hope you raised hell.

...and mentioned America's Favorite Seven Letter Word (TM), "lawsuit", even if it was an empty threat. It would have made the store manager's day.

[THUNDER HANDS]

3. how much is too much?

Lets say you have a spray bottle of cologne. How many spritzes is too many?

Two, three, four?

[Loonman]

6. Two

Two is too many.

For guys, you don't spray it directly on your skin, or clothing, either.

[THUNDER HANDS]

7. what do you do then?

[Loonman]

8. You spray one spritz in the air,

then walk into it so the vapor falls on you.


Otherwise you smell like a French whorehouse.

[otohara]

5. Puke is Right

can't believe I ever wore the stuff

[LynneSin]

9. Oh god, I hate when those folks get in elevators with me

My sinuses will be ruined for the day.

But what's even worse - when they use their cologne/perfume to cover up their cigerette smoke. Like we can't figure it out that they were outside smoking

[Kathy in Cambridge]

10. Friday night we were at a restaurant and this woman sat near us

and her cologne nearly knocked us over. It STANK and we could practically taste it. :puke:

[amazona]

11. agreed but they can't smell it, you must tell them

People can't smell their own scent. Especially older people. You lose scent receptors in your nose after 40. If there is a courteous, private way to inform the person that they smell -- and make no mistake, a loud perfume is a bad smell -- then it would be thoughtful to let them know. Unfortunately, in most social situations we don't have that option.

To avoid making this mistake yourself, never put on cologne, perfume, or aftershave. If you want a light scent, spray it into the air in front of you and walk through it naked. Better, though, is to do without scent altogether. Gone are the days when it was socially acceptable to bathe once a season and to cover up the stench with perfume. Today perfume serves no function other than to relieve the hopelessly outdated of their money.

And for cryin' out loud...when giving gifts, NEVER give a perfume or cologne. That's just plain rude.

OK, rant over.

[southpaw]

12. "You usually wear "L'air Du Temps..."

"...but not today." :evilgrin: