I assume most here use deodorant but not aftershave or mens perfume, If you have a bath or shower and change clothes often enough deodorant should be all you need.
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I assume most here use deodorant but not aftershave or mens perfume, If you have a bath or shower and change clothes often enough deodorant should be all you need.
It depends. I have always been partial to smells, but not overpowering ones, like perfumed soap. I find the products of Rituals the nicest fragrances there are. I love the smell of (green) tea. However, I hate the perfumes used in some clothing stores. We also like incense and fragrant candles. We also use an evaporator in the toilet, but no other fragrances in the rest of the house. After cooking Italian, Mexican or Asian the house smells nice, but after baking fish or meat we get out the incense or a perfumed candle.
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It still packs the shelves in the US. We definitely don't use bug spray in our house but when I was a kid I'd watch one of the older siblings or a parent track down a single fly with a five or ten second spray of RAID. I thought, even as a kid, "That stuff kills flies. Why would that chemical be okay for a person to breath in."
We use diatomaceous earth. Probably does the same thing.
Or the Bugzooka. It gives the occasional intruder a chance instead of just snuffing it out with a tissue. I release them outside. Sometimes though, they don't fare too well from the 0-60mph ride into the container.
You make a good point. We somehow think the poisons that kill insects are harmless to us. Reminded me I have some DE but forgot to use it.
VW911
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One of the best smells in the world is a dogs paws, when it's sleeping.
If you could bottle that, you'd make a fortune.
Or, am I just weird?
If you could bottle that, you'd make a fortune.
Or, am I just weird?
VW911
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Must still be awake....
I have no objection to perfume from a bottle or sprayer. I just hate the way so many products are perfumed. Even lipstick! We should choose what smells we apply. I feel sick if I have to enter Body Shop or anywhere similar. I buy unperfumed soap and shampoo. The worst smell ever was being stuck on a bus with a woman wearing Apple Blossom. It was as if teacher has banged his blackboard duster on the ceiling. It was choking and nauseating. I remember as a lad my mates would wear some awful after-shave. We used to call it !ponce'. It was marketed as after-shave then but modern yoof is happy to wear perfume. I will nominate Aramis, Brut 33 and Linx as the all-time most 'orrible male perfumes. My father would put a wee drop of Eaux-de-Cologne on his handkerchief just in case a lady needed one.
My wife is now like me and avoids most scented products. Bliss.
My wife is now like me and avoids most scented products. Bliss.
Walking through duty-free at airports is grim. They have recently refurbished Edinburgh airport and they now route you through duty-free after security. The last thing I want to smell at stupid o'clock in the morning is eleventy million perfumes blended together.
On the plus side there is a BrewDog bar in the airport now.
On the plus side there is a BrewDog bar in the airport now.
Worst shop...Lush.
Oh aye. Gives you a headache waking by. Surely it can't be healthy for the folk working there.
MmmBeer
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That place used to smell rancid! The soap looked vile too, why would anyone shop there?
VW911
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Was trying to remember the name of that shop. There was one in Taunton. Could smell it from miles away.
Bloody 'orrible...
Bloody 'orrible...
I've just sniffed Pippin the jack Russell's feet...a strange,earthy, sulphurous aroma. She isn't too impressed...
VW911
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I've got the best air freshener in the world going right now.
The dehydrator is on with about a kg of fresh chillies in it. Smells Gurt Lush! (Not like the shop!)
The dehydrator is on with about a kg of fresh chillies in it. Smells Gurt Lush! (Not like the shop!)
There's sort of a Frito's smell to them.
It's hard to escape the perfume here unless you go to a health food store. I can go jogging and get choked out by the scent coming from the dryer vents as I go by a house or two.
When we loan Tupperware, it comes back with a nasty smell. It may be clean, but it has to go into the dishwasher first.
It's an uphill battle keeping fake odors out of the home.
You probably got a look for doing that.
Nothing wrong with unscented deoderant. Plenty wrong with a stinky human spraying themselves with overpowering scent in a vain attempt to cover up their underlying foul odour.
I think a lot of it is to do with natural scents against over processed "man made" scents.
concentrating anything is likely to result in a more intense reaction to it whether positively or negatively.
concentrating anything is likely to result in a more intense reaction to it whether positively or negatively.
