[Me, entering the office building] *sniff* Oh, $coworker is here today.
And they came through here 2 hours ago.
He left an hour ago too
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.
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.
I put this much on because I can’t smell it anymore! They weakened it!
Uhhhhh noooooo, no they did not
Ever walked past someone and started choking?
Why yes, I have in fact been to the Tacoma Mall. 😁
Cologne/perfume should be discovered, not announced.
If I can smell you when just I’m walking past your office, it’s way too much.
Excuse me im in this image and I don’t like it.
She’s a maniac. Maniac on perfume.
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.
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?
An English friend calls this phenomenon “twinkle twat”, as he says it usually indicates the person hasn’t, um, washed in a while. Or at least long enough that they know they should have by now, and are trying to mask it.
Now I can’t unthink it whenever I encounter it… 😶
Some people are just smelly even when they have washed, for various reasons. Obnoxious levels of perfume may actually be better than the alternative in some cases.
Although even unpleasant body smells don’t usually make me sneeze or my eyes itch like most perfume does…
Even the worse BO doesn’t linger like over done perfume. Both are awful when your around them, but BO leaves when they do. At worse it lingers for like 15 mins top.
Perfume can linger so strongly you can fucking literally taste it HOURS after a person is gone.
Oh some of those natural body smells do linger, I’m afraid. I pray you never need to know that as viscerally as I know it.
But still yeah I agree, artificial scent bad. But so normalised. I often think about ‘brave new world’ when I walk into a reception area or house where they’re pumping out oderiser. I’m just glad public transport doesn’t yet pipe the shit in.
my anosmic ass reading these comments: 🧍❔
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.
I’ll take this over the people that leave elevators smelling like an ashtray after they’re gone.
Ya but cigarettes are amazing. Oh how I miss them!
Username checks out, I guess?
Both are bad, combined is worse. One doesn’t make the other better.
Perfume will only make one unable to know that they are being poisoned.
It’s like adding Aspartame to rat poison.
The worst is when you can smell people walking past you when you’re outside… before they pass you.
I’ve been this person once and I’m ashamed. I got a knock off parfum not realizing how strong it was and just went ahead and did my 3 sprays. Omg I realized when I was standing in line at the pharmacy and someone muttered something under their breath. I threw that scent away in shame
