• El_Scapacabra@lemmy.zip
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    8
    ·
    1 day ago

    Recently I had a guy deliver a new appliance. The hallway still reeked of his cologne two hours after he left, when he hadn’t been in my house for more than 5 minutes. I didn’t even think that was possible.

  • bleistift2@sopuli.xyz
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    53
    ·
    edit-2
    2 days ago

    [Me, entering the office building] *sniff* Oh, $coworker is here today.

    And they came through here 2 hours ago.

    • SeductiveTortoise@piefed.social
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      17
      ·
      2 days ago

      I can smell when my neighbors opened their door, and I can even give an educated guess when it happened. It’s cigarette smoke in their case though.

    • DickFiasco@sh.itjust.works
      link
      fedilink
      arrow-up
      7
      ·
      2 days ago

      Came here to say the same thing. I have a coworker who’s so consistent and heavy-handed with his cologne that I don’t ever have to visually check if he’s in the office or not.

  • Simulation6@sopuli.xyz
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    5
    ·
    1 day ago

    It used to be I would have to ask women from time to time to go easy on the perfume. Lately it has been all men. And I do say perfume when I ask them (always a great reaction).

  • Davel23@fedia.io
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    23
    ·
    2 days ago

    When I was around 8 years old, my mother and I took a Greyhound bus across the country to visit the grandparents. We were sat next to a woman who was drenched in perfume. There’s a picture of me sitting next to said woman with my eyes absolutely streaming tears from being so badly irritated.

      • Holytimes@sh.itjust.works
        link
        fedilink
        arrow-up
        4
        ·
        24 hours ago

        Have you never once been in or even near a locker room? Blasting an ENTIRE can of axe body spray is something iv yet to find a single country doenst have a equivalent of.

        9th grade is high school after all.

      • Gerudo@lemmy.zip
        link
        fedilink
        arrow-up
        4
        ·
        2 days ago

        9th grade in the states is high school level. I mean, it’s probably just body sprays, not actual cologne and perfume, and they might be self conscious about body odor being just past or still in puberty?

        • arin@lemmy.world
          link
          fedilink
          English
          arrow-up
          3
          arrow-down
          6
          ·
          2 days ago

          Kids should act like kids, perfume and cologne should be banned and confiscated in school, there’s no place in children’s schools for these distractions. It will hinder other kids from paying proper attention in class!

          • Gerudo@lemmy.zip
            link
            fedilink
            arrow-up
            2
            arrow-down
            1
            ·
            1 day ago

            Did you drop your /s? If perfume and d

            If you were to ban perfumes and colognes, would you ban scented deodorant? Out of everything students have to worry about…you think this distracts them?

  • gustofwind@lemmy.world
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    21
    arrow-down
    1
    ·
    2 days ago

    Tip: don’t hold your breath instead preserve the clean air in your lungs by taking rapid short breaths until loss of consciousness occurs

  • Nangijala@feddit.dk
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    3
    ·
    1 day ago

    Arabs: hold my aftershave.

    I was even shown a trick by my friend’s dad that after a shower, I should go over to the insence burner and hold my hair over the smoke.

    I don’t really have one of those, but I appreciated the experience.

  • U7826391786239@lemmy.zip
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    13
    arrow-down
    1
    ·
    2 days ago

    i mean when you’re in high school and are bombarded with commercials that say “saturate yourself to the core fibers of your very soul with axe body spray, and women will basically throw their vaginas at your face as an involuntary reflex action”…is there any other option but to do what they say?

  • hydrashok@sh.itjust.works
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    5
    ·
    1 day ago

    Thankfully my current office doesn’t have anyone I interact with like this, but at a previous job I’m pretty sure the dude bought cologne by the 55 gallon drum. It was painful.