Hyper-sensitivity to man-made scents?

When I was an LEO we had a dispatcher who wore some really vile smelling perfume. Some of the officers thought it was delivered in a Barsol solvent truck.


6518 JOHN: I just retuned from Kansas City by way of Delhart, TX. The large commercial feed lots there produce an odor way beyond any normal barn yard !!!
 
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Yes, to just about everything others have mentioned. Scented candles are so bad that I don't even have to actually smell them. I know someone has lit a scented candle by the way I feel, long before I can smell them. Air fresheners are bad, the soap aisle at the store, high quality perfumes, etc. The funny thing is most cheaper perfumes are OK, go figure.
 
Wife buys oddball stuff to scent the house. Don't really mind the candles, vanilla or sandalwood and such I don't find overpowering. Essential oils over a small flame, again not bad though I prefer the ordinary smell of a kept and lived in home.


Drew the line at a solid air freshener. Told her it smelled like a urinal cake.
 
In my experience, that's the thing about cigars. I seem to prefer the ones that smell like a barnyard over the ones with a light floral or grassy scent.
The stinky ones just seem to have fuller flavors.
My wife laughs at me, "Hey that one smells like cow (expletive deleted), must be a good cigar."
 
snubbyfan said:
In my experience, that's the thing about cigars. I seem to prefer the ones that smell like a barnyard over the ones with a light floral or grassy scent.
The stinky ones just seem to have fuller flavors.
My wife laughs at me, "Hey that one smells like cow (expletive deleted), must be a good cigar."
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My wife called it Elephant ****. My bet friends wife called it zoo.

Nothing like a good cigar to bring out the Ladies best descriptive terms. :D:D:D
 
"I just retuned from Kansas City by way of Delhart, TX. The large commercial feed lots there produce an odor way beyond any normal barn yard !!!"

Ever drive close to a commercial pig farm? 10 times worse than a cattle feed lot.

The original idea of perfume was to cover up body odor back in the days when most people seldom or never bathed. Sort of the same idea behind spices - to mask the taste of rotten food before refrigeration existed. Sauciers (sauce chefs) were highly prized professionals for their ability create sauces to make the inedible more palatable.
 
Different things obviously smell different to different people.

I shower every day but still wear deodorant and cologne.

I've worn the same cologne for over 3 decades - it is my wife's favorite.

In 30 years I have probably been complimented on it by several dozen women and even a few men.

In that whole time I have had ONE guy at work tell me he disliked it. We don't work closely together, in fact we only even cross paths two or three times a week.

Like I told him, "sorry you don't like it, but the ladies do - and you're not my type, so...."
 
Do men wear scented after-shave lotion any more? I never have, and I don't know any who do. My father always used Aqua Velva after shaving (he used a blade razor) and I could always tell when was around from the smell.
 
I'm not "sensitive" to scents as in having a physical reaction, I just hate artificial people scents. Overly perfumed women are bad, men who douse themselves with "manly" aftershave or cologne are worse. Even cigarette smoke is not as offensive.

I bought a 1947 M&P in a nice gold box from the New York area a few years ago. The officer apparently stored his gun in the closet next to his personal hygiene products. The gun and box reeked of pomade and various other offensive substances popular in earlier decades. I got the gun liberated with thorough cleanings and generous Hoppe's No. 9 baths, but the box, despite a few years of airing out on a shelf in a far corner of the garage, will likely never be reunited with the gun until I sell it.
 
When I was in the 7th & 8th grade, we had a lady teacher that wore something that caused me to gag at the other end of the hall from her room. That was 1958 and 1959 and I remember it like it was yesterday. Awful. Just plain awful. I have not changed. Air fresheners will drive me out of the house. Outhouses smell better. I use Fragrance Free detergent. I once had a loaner vehicle while mine was being worked on. It smelled like someone peed on the floor. I was gagging, then I noticed that green evergreen tree hanging from the rear view mirror. I tossed it. The awful smell went with it. I’d rather smell a fart than a synthetic man made odor.

I wonder if anyone has ever thought about inventing an air freshener that smells like gun powder? :D
 
wingspar said:
...... Air fresheners will drive me out of the house. Outhouses smell better. I use Fragrance Free detergent. I once had a loaner vehicle while mine was being worked on. It smelled like someone peed on the floor. I was gagging, then I noticed that green evergreen tree hanging from the rear view mirror....
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Guy I used to catch a ride to work with had one of those thingies on his mirror. Said "Morning Fresh" on it. I told him anyone who thought that this was what a fresh morning smelled like had spent too many mornings waking up in a whorehouse. He agreed but said he wasn't going to argue with his wife, or he'd end up having to do just that. ;)
 
Smill him coming....

DWalt said:
Do men wear scented after-shave lotion any more? I never have, and I don't know any who do. My father always used Aqua Velva after shaving (he used a blade razor) and I could always tell when was around from the smell.
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Every once in a while this guy would bop through our offices. I knew he was around somewhere because the Aqua Velva would knock you down. I couldn't say the guy wasn't clean, I believe he took a bath in is.
 
When I started dating my wife (8-22-76), on the first date, she didn't have any artificial smell! As we talked during the evening, I talked about women coming out of their apartments in the morning, and I could smell them 100 yards away against the wind!

After we were married a few years she mentioned, that her bedroom clock had be off by 10 minutes, so when I picked her up for the fateful first date, she hadn't had time to get "Smelled Up".

She now work in the Bath And Body Works distribution center (fancy words for Warehouse). Everything she touches has a smell, that is concentrated or intensified by the close proximity to many other smelly things. She has a sweater and full apron she leaves at work, except to launder them twice a month. They come hone in a trash bag and go in the washer immediately.

This position with the firm isn't so bad, she use to dispose of old perfume for Victoria's Secret!

I was talking with a WWII vet, several years ago. It seems they were battling the Germans in France. His unit had a 1 Ton weapons carrier, but the were almost out of gas. The good news was, it was a multi-fuel vehicle. The bad news was, they had raided a perfume factory and had a doze 5 liter cans of perfume. The mileage wasn't too bad, but the exhaust was horrid!

Ivan
 
Father had bad allergies all his life so I grew up in a perfume free home. I never acquired a like for scented anything, including women. My wife adapted accordingly.

That said, there are some rare exceptions... Hoppe's No. 9 :D
 
For about 10 consecutive years of my 35 with one company we used trichlorethylene to clean parts and mechanical assemblies. We got the stuff in 55 gal drums to use in a spray booth to clean larger assms, and spray cans to use in the field. I've used it to wash my hands when nothing else was available. To this day chemical smells really bother me.
 
I'm surprised at how many folks here are so sensitive to smells. I grew up on a farm (you know, cows, pigs, chickens, all of whom have rather questionable hygienic practices) and just learned to tolerate barnyard smells. Not to mention that back in those days, farmers did not bathe and change their undergarments all that frequently. They also shunned deodorants. Oh and did I say everybody smoked? As a little kid, you just accept the world as it is. :o

Generally, no odors bother me. However, I used to work in an office with a guy who really took the cake. He always wore the same suit to work. Every day. He did not believe a person needed to shower daily, but instead he relied on liberal doses of cologne. Wow! The mixture of overripe BO and too much cologne did require me to minimize my interactions with this gentleman. :eek:
 
Jack Flash said:
I'm surprised at how many folks here are so sensitive to smells. I grew up on a farm (you know, cows, pigs, chickens, all of whom have rather questionable hygienic practices) and just learned to tolerate barnyard smells. Not to mention that back in those days, farmers did not bathe and change their undergarments all that frequently. They also shunned deodorants. Oh and did I say everybody smoked? As a little kid, you just accept the world as it is. :o
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Well sure, people who live next to the city dump don't smell it. We're quite adaptive creatures. That said, there are few things I'm willing to endure the stench until I'm conditioned to it. That includes smoking.
 
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