Why do people wear perfume these days?

[Deja Q]

In the pre-plumbing days when it wasn't easy to bathe, it's obvious people reeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeally wanted to shroud the stink back in the supposed "good old days".

But why keep the trend, now that we've had indoor plumbing for a very long time now? :shrug:

[name not needed]

1. To cover up fart stink

:P

[yardwork]

2. Aromatherapy

[hollywood926]

3. It's still not easy to bathe

You have to get the water just right, remove your clothes, bend over, get your feet and back - it's so annoying.

[RC]

10. Here, let me help you.

:evilgrin:

[hollywood926]

11. I like you, RC...

you remind me of a cheap cola I used to drink as a child, but I like you nevertheless. :-)

[RC]

13. Thank you.

RC Cola? :loveya:

[Sannum]

4. Because I want to.

:7.

[Midlodemocrat]

5. I love colognes, perfume, perfumed candles

...I am very olafactory by design!!!

[Maple]

6. I don't know, never understood it

I hate being around people, male or female, who smell perfumy. Most of them seem to bathe in the stuff! Gag, retch!

[Digit]

9. They are obviously wearing too heavy of a scent.

I like the frangrance called "Romance". I use the cologne, and you would need to have your face close to my neck to notice as it is quite lite.
In my teen years, the smell of British Sterling on a man would drive me crazy!

[DianeG5385]

7. They want to smell good?

I used to dab the tiniest bit on my neck and when my kids were little, they would snuggle up and say you smell good mommy! That was good enough for me! Now that they're big horses, I don't dab it on anymore but if i did I'm sure they'd relive a good childhood memory, although they're sure big and smelly now!

[johnnie]

8. I don't mind a faint smell

I think some people take a bath in that crap though. One of my exes used to wear that vanilla smelling stuff. I never had it in me to tell her it was nausiating...lol.

[CO Liberal]

12. I Think It Makes Me Nicer to Be Around

I usually put on a little bit of Stetson, Grey Flannel, or Domain (a Mary Kay mens' cologne) before I go to work. I look on cologne as a deodorant booster.

:-)

[soothsayer]

14. why do dogs roll in poo?

same reason

[incapsulated]

15. Um, it smells good?

I like stuff that smells good?

I love perfume, incense, essential oils...

It's for the pure pleasure of it.

:)

[sendero]

16. Scents are cool...

... but only in serious moderation.

If your sense of smell is that of a 80 year old woman, please use one tenth of the cologne/perfume you are now using. :)

[tyedyeto]

17. I have a problem with people who...............

plaster on the scents so much that I have a hard time breathing around them...... I'm not 'allergic' but the sinus' go crazy when I get too much of a whiff.

[fluffernutter]

18. i'm with ya, i'm all for fresh, clean 'au natural'.

[mitchum]

19. I have noticed that far fewer men wear cologne than they did 20...

years ago. I don't know why.

[samplegirl]

20. Mostly because

we can leave our trail. LOL my guy says he likes to smell me when
im not around.

[Baja Margie]

21. People are heavily into scents down here

and really strong. Whew ! But, I still put on a little white Shoulders or Gardenia or Plumeria during the day, just a little. For special occasions, I love Carolina Herrera. Yummy.