lol i was asked what i use to smell so nice when i come into work one time
"idk i just grab a new deoderant stick from dollar general when i run out."
If you wash yourself and wear antiperspirant (or simply don't get super sweaty) why should you have to wear scents
Depends, at least they wear something.
I rub a stick of deodorant once armpits/chest/back, and 1 spritz of cologne center of my neck; at my last job, old honkies do be complaining about someone 'smelling pretty' in the office:
a) I'm doing, judging by Mexican standards (my cousins bath in Axe), the bare minimum for odor.
b) You should be praising God that you still had a sense of smell, YOU DUMB BOOMER! YOU'VE BEEN SENDING OUT EMAILS ABOUT HAVING TO ATTEND FUNERALS FOR RELATIVES THAT ABSOLUTELY DIDN'T DIE OF THE RONA!
OH MY FUCKING GOD!
Whenever I've hung out with guys my own age for the past 10 or so years, I'm always struck by how strongly they smell of deodorant or cologne.
I always used one spray in each armpit, one slash down the chest, and then 2 spritzes of cologne around the neck area - granted I must be desensitised to my own smell but I don't notice it, nor do I leave a lingering smell in the car or in a room, whereas other people tend to.
I recently, as an experiment, started using what I considered to be a stupid amount of cologne or aftershave, and now people tell me I smell nice. I can't tell if it's a polite way to say "jeez that smells strong" or if you genuinely need to drench yourself in the stuff.smelling scents on myself drives me nuts ngl. I usually use something mild that I don't smell, but I used a sample size of some new deodorant brand recently and it gave me this nasty sour smell that really stuck around and I never went nose-blind to it. Just disgusting.
Also personally if I were to make a comment about you smelling nice it would be a compliment, if it was overpowering I probably just wouldn't comment at all
Does he also wear barefoot sandals? Wondering if we're in the same office.
Does it get distracting when hundreds of random women try to pile into his cubicle?
lmao. strong fragrance worries me. like i assume whatever they are covering up is evidence of disease.
but i get it. lots of humans in close proximity, all indoors, western diets, metabolic disorders rampant. masking one's scent is a kindness. kind of like how being sweaty is implied to be unprofessional.
gotta pretend like we're not all a bunch of goddamn pissing and shitting animals or else someone might sidestep the pageantry of court and take a hooting, screaming dump on the king's head.
yeah, totally. i am a less is more guy, all the way. like there's a good scent, but they have to get really close to notice it and really, really, really close to identify it... if they can even identify florals, because my moves are CUSTOM.
there is a shame to using it, but some of the scents do smell good. some are truly ass though and smell like my uncle would use it. and some of them smell weird after some time but smell great at first.
dousing oneself in cologne/perfume is really some old school shit.
Do you make the crowd of bikini babes that follow him everywhere wait outside or can they hang out in the break room?
older generations than yours have had "man coworker who wears too much cologne/woman coworker who wears too much patchouli" jokes so i don't think it's a generational thing
Axe is all right if used in moderation, and really only if it's one of the handful of scents that aren't just repackaged Deep Woods OFF (Edit: e.g., Phoenix or maybe the chocolate stuff if you're hosing it off within 12 hours; it gets nasty after that). I'm talking less than a half second spritz under the shirt, not used as a deodorant, and for the love of Marx, consider pairing it with a little bit of cologne. Jovan's ginseng stuff is highly underrated. If they still make Hero, that stuff was pretty subtle/inoffensive, too.
...I guess I should have realized I was an egg 20 years ago when my approach to scents wasn't "ALL THE BRUT FABERGE! NO DEODORANT! KEEP SPRAYING ON THAT POLO SPORT UNTIL YOU SELF-IMMOLATE!"
Hey, thanks for that feeling of having a very large nail driven right between my eyes!
