A thought for guys who wear womens scents - Page 2

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I noticed you've never posted your pic on the member photos thread, I WANNNNNNA SEEEEEE now! OH YES! [/quote]


I would, but I don't have a clue about computers. Â*If I have a Verizon phone, and take a picture with it, how can I get it uploaded. Â*I suppose I could send it to my email, but then how does one take a picture and get it onto here?

Any help?

Back to the main topic. Â*Just got off work again. Â*I sprayed myself with Nu. Â*Man, i so want this to work on me, but it just behaves like a perfume. Â*I love the smell of it, but for one- it ATTACKS my nose like a perfume does. Â*Call me weird, but I think generally mens and womens perfumes actually FEEL different to your palate when you breathe them in. Â*And also , to whomever said its the aldehydes and not the florals that makes something feminine- that could be somewhat true. Â*Although I think Rive Gauche pour homme is crawling with aldehydes and isn't feminine in the least.

I can see why alot of guys would wear Nu. Â*It does have some very masculine, dark qualities. Â*But when people say things like "It should have been marketed to men instead of women", I guess thats where I take slight issue. Â*I think this fragrance AS IS, is very much a womens' perfume. A very unconventional womens' perfume, but to me...I just think its a bit of a stretch for a man to pull off. Â*And later before I go to bed, I'm going to take a bath and use the Nu shower gel and see if i don't change my mind. Â*But in further praise of Nu, I'd really like to see the women who give it away because its "too masculine". Â*Because damn, if I smelled this on a girl i would go wild.

Now if Nu were tweaked to remove the orchid, like I said, I'd like to try wearing it. Â*But as is, I just think it will always be too feminine. Â*But give me credit for being honest- Â*The following may disprove my point. Â*I once asked my brother what he thought of Nu after I bought it. (it was a trick, I didn't tell him it was for women, i just sprayed some on my hand). Â*He smelled it and said, "Its different, but its not too bad." Â*He didn't love it but he didn't say "hey you bought womens' perfume". Â*But then after I told him it was for women, he said "Yeah I kind of thought it smelled like ladies perfume, but I didn't want to say anything"

So if you are a man who likes to wear Nu, by all means continue- Its a great fragrance. Â*It just smells too feminine for me to wear. Â*If you are a woman who likes to wear Nu, then you've definitely figured out how to mystify a man. Good work!

I did get a compliment on CdG Dry Clean tonight at work-but I solicited it, so it doesn't really count. Â*I asked this cute girl I work with to smell my neck, and she liked it and kept sniffing me saying, "yeah, it smells really clean, I like fresh scents on a guy." I told her it was called Dry Clean and she said it really did smell like dry cleaning. Â*I'm on the fence over this scent. Â*Its not bad, but it doesn't really do much for me. Â*I'm kind of neutral on it. Â*There's nothing in it to either love or hate. Â*I love Skai though.

Any advice on getting pics posted from a camera phone?

nope on the bluetooth.

Odor,

It seems you got the point of my thread. Â*I was trying to make a certain point with my thread, and, as always, it got hammered at by the "I don't care what anyone thinks" posts. Â*Fine, I'm sure alot of people really don't care what other people think. Â*Actually I'm certain alot of people don't care what other people think, because two nights ago, this crowd of guys in my bar was wearing so much cologne that I almost got sick. Â*Someone was wearing Lolita Lempicka, and it was disgusting. Â*Now here's the nuance that people seem to miss. Â*I personally like the smell of Lempicka as a fragrance composition. Â*But this guy who was wearing it the other night was sucking the air out of the room. Â*And perhaps he had only applied two or three sprays. Â*All the staff working was gagging. Â*I was gagging. There was no way to avoid the wall of cologne, outside of not breathing. It was a faux pas of the highest order. Â*It was not a pleasant experience but there are two possible explanations.

Explanation 1) This guy liked his Lempicka perhaps a bit too much, and had carelessly applied so much that it really caused people within 15 feet of him to be inconvenienced. Â*He had definitely not intended to do so, and if he was aware how it was for those around him, being like most members of society, he would have realized his error, and next time not worn so much. Â*After all its likely that he just wanted to smell himself, because he really did like the smell of his cologne, and it was a treat to for him to smell. Â*And in all likelihood, if this guy was aware of his surroundings, and the "stink" he was causing, he would alter his behavior in the future. Â*Cowardice or just being respectful of others?

Explanation 2) Â*This guy was a crazed narcissist who purposely sprayed a ridiculous amount of Lempicka, without regard for "what others think" and as a consequence, may be aware that other people cannot breathe, and just doesn't care. Â*Actually he takes pride in ramming his cologne into everybody else's space. Â*Complete strangers who are out with friends, who are not even intending to be a part of this guy's social circle for the evening, are now forced to endure his SOTD. Â*And perhaps he wore the deo stick, body lotion, aftershave gel, and lip balm JUST IN CASE there was somebody who couldn't smell him. Â*This guy lives to please himself and if a bystander is not on board with the wind he is emanating, then his or her nose is not evolved enough. Â*Sure, he wears clean dress shirts, nice shoes, and has a nice haircut, because, hey, he cares what others think- Â*Except also the reverse is true because he DOESN'T care what others think, at least thats what he tells himself and others.

See, the guy in Explanation 1 is a decent guy who actually deep down "cares" what other people think, perhaps because he is a social animal who believes in the golden rule. Â*He did f*ck up by wearing too much of his favorite scent- maybe he just received it that day, and thought it had faded and he couldn't detect it. Â*Perhaps all night he wondered if maybe he wasn't putting people off a little bit by wearing so much cologne. Â*Perhaps he made a mental note to go just a tad lighter next time. Â*Maybe he thought to himself, "Hey I LOVE this scent, but when I'm in the close presence of other people, I'll think more about the conversation and focus on other people and then Sunday morning when I'm home with nothing to do, I'll douse myself with Lempicka and enjoy the sillage and evolution, and it will be my own personal aromatherapy session." Â*Surely if a little angel tapped on his shoulder while he was stinking up the room and said, "Hey Bob, You went a little heavy tonight on the cologne, and its causing people to perceive you negatively. Â*If you want, I can wave my magic wand and make your cologne vanish, " he would blush, and say "I had no idea. Do your stuff Tinkerbell." Â*The guy in Explanation 1 does not, at the end of the day, like to have a precious little bottle of juice from some boutique somewhere undermine his sociability. Â*He is a good and decent human.

Now, the guy in Explanation 2 is just a self-centered assh@le...

Oh, I'm not calling any of you assh@les, BTW!

I'm just trying to make a point!

I just don't want to smell like a woman, and specifically it has to do with Nu. Â*This doesn't make me a pussy. Â*It just makes me a man. Â*I'm not above wearing a women's scent provided it doesn't smell like a woman. That's just me, and what I'm comfortable with. Â*I've gotten to a point where I am very comfortable with my heterosexuality. LOL! And I've taken alot of verbal bullets for my gay brothers. Â*But I'm not out to prove anything in what fragrance I wear. Â*I was only speaking for myself, and of my feelings toward Nu. Â*But also, I think its a kind of incorrect to throw thinking like "they'll think I'm queer" into discussions of wearing women's fragrance. Â*I'd rather someone think I was queer than think, "He's wearing womens' perfume." Â*You see now? Â*Its not an issue of gay=woman. Â*I'm sure alot of gays wholeheartedly agree. Â*Its a different thing, although in the real world, probably not all that mutually exclusive. Â*But for the sake of argument, I'm not equating gayness with emasculation. I'm equating masculinity with masculinity. And really I didn't even really want to get into the whole pan-sexual thing anyway, because...zzzzzzzzzzzzzzz


So why then did I even start this thread? Why did I buy Nu if I'm so "closed minded" and all that jazz? Â*Well, the fact that I bought Nu should prove that I was willing to give it a shot. Â*But for as much as I tried to rationalize Nu in my mind as being unisex, when I smelled it in passing, I just couldn't imagine it working for a man. Â*To me, Nu is just a very butch woman dressed as a man with a mustache playfully drawn on in marker. Â*Its not the sum of its parts, I can't look at it and say "well its 90% masculine and 10% feminine" and therefore its more masculine than feminine. Â*I think it was a very "knowingly conceived" fragrance. Â*Not at all some flop that flopped because it was marketed to the wrong gender, and all that.(And yes I'm aware Tom Ford supposedly wore it). Â*I think Nu flopped because women are just not into wearing this kind of heavy scent these days. Â*They're into all this fruity Body-works stuff and I think alot of them may be afraid of a "real perfume". Â*And also it was a bit of a concept fragrance in the same way that M7 and Rive Gauche pour homme were. Â*Too lofty for the overly-washed masses. Â*Yes, Â*I know alot of women said it was too masculine for them (OMG, what a bunch of pussies, for caring what people think), but then again Nu is not the kind of scent that alot of WOMEN can pull off, just as alot of guys would look stupid trying to pull off Yatagan. Â*

Can't help it, at the end of the day Nu smells like a sexy, complicated woman to me. Â*For me to wear it would be to send a message that would be ridiculous for me to send. Â*That's that.


Can't wait to try Eau des Merveilles though...

I think I'm done with this topic. Thanks for playing.

Just now I went back and reread my first post of the thread, just to see if there was something unreasonable about it and I concluded there wasn't. All I was saying was, if I walked into a room and the smell of Nu was in the air, I would be looking for the woman wearing it. It just wouldn't seem right on a man. That's my street level opinion. Feel free to disagree.

LOL! All very true.

Yeah, pretty much. But still don't worry about calling imaginary guys "pussies". It's direct, but then again, I called my imaginary dude a "self centered assh@le", so its all good.lol.


And to Narcus, well I did make some comments about hair color and fragrances. You know I'm not being completely serious with that. However part of pulling off any scent is "does it match you visually" and thats a good starting point. There are a bunch of factors, and haircolor and all that other stuff...it can enter into it.


And yes, I too would propose to a woman wearing any Comme des Garcons fragrance on the spot. After I bought CdG 2EDP I thought how I'd like the woman I marry to smell like this.



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