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We All Smell Terrible

post #1 of 28
3/9/10 at 8:28pm
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A forum game of sorts - if there was a better place to post this, I'm sorry.

None of us enjoy being accused of bad taste, but what with the subjective nature of the art, we're all bound to run across some criticism of scents we enjoy - so let's hear it! Post a quotation from a memorably underwhelmed, backhanded, vicious, or outright tinfoil-hatted review (from anywhere) of something that you wear happily.

For me: "thanks to this scent I consumed half a bottle of pain reliever" (Yves Rocher Iris Noir)

"Thunderstorms don't smell like this; petroleum products do." (Demeter Thunderstorm)
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post #2 of 28
3/9/10 at 8:34pm
'You smell like rotten pickles!'

One of my girlfriends standart sayings,
when I wear my beloved Fahrenheit
around her ... which I only do when I run
into her randomly - obviously!
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post #3 of 28
3/9/10 at 8:40pm
Wow, I don't think Iris Noir is very strong at all. However, some days I notice I'm more sensitive to certain notes, so perhaps that's why the person said that.
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post #4 of 28
3/9/10 at 11:48pm
My cubicle mate for Givenchy Blue Label:
"Please don't spray this anymore I beg."
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post #5 of 28
3/9/10 at 11:57pm
Spousal disapproval: "You smell like urinal cakes" in reaction to Serge Lutens Miel de Bois.

Also: On smelling me in Serge Lutens Gris Clair, the same loving spouse: "You smell like Comet cleanser."

For this I paid $140? Twice?

My reaction to the second remark: "Sweetie, you need to have your nose examined!"
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post #6 of 28
3/10/10 at 1:41am
Dirt by Demeter.
I was in the car with my GF and she told me that the car smells horrible like if I left wet towels in the car for a week...she even said that she was having an allergic reaction. I told her it was me that I was wearing DIRT and she told me that I am insane.
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post #7 of 28
3/10/10 at 6:29am
Nazareno Gabrielli pour homme only has one review:

"Absolutely HORRIBLE, smells like some cheap supermarket buscuits + honey... way too sweet and not in a good way... makes you want to puke after a while."

Yet I enjoy it! I have to admit, though, that the main component of my enjoyment of this scent is nostalgia.
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post #8 of 28
3/10/10 at 6:30am
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Originally Posted by Basteri View Post

Dirt by Demeter.
I was in the car with my GF and she told me that the car smells horrible like if I left wet towels in the car for a week...she even said that she was having an allergic reaction. I told her it was me that I was wearing DIRT and she told me that I am insane.

Have you tried the booger, earwax and vomit flavored Jelly Belly candies? http://www.candywarehouse.com/harrypotterbox.html
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post #9 of 28
3/10/10 at 7:17am
My initial reaction to Guerlain Vetiver: "It smells like the elephant house at the Baltimore Zoo."
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post #10 of 28
3/10/10 at 7:18am
From a coworker in the elevator line, while I was wearing L'Eau Bleue D'Issey pour Homme: "I hope it is a woman that is wearing that perfume". The discussion continued inside the elevator, when he was asking each woman if she was "the one", and one replied: "It's not me, that's definetely a man's scent". I just wanted to die right there.

From friends of mine, two weeks ago, wearing the same L'Eau Bleue D'Issey pour Homme: "Wow, are you arriving from the sauna???","what is that???", "let me smell you to find out which one is that", etc.

If you do not want to be noticed, don't wear LEBDpH...
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post #11 of 28
3/10/10 at 8:15am
"You smell like an old prostitute" - my wife a few years ago one morning after I'd just sprayed myself with Canoe.
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post #12 of 28
3/10/10 at 9:52am
Just a "puaj, you smell like and old woman" from my 14 year old daughter. It was Habit Rouge (sigh).
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post #13 of 28
3/10/10 at 10:07am
Sorry to be crude, but I got told by a coworker that I "smell like a Cambodian prostitute" the first day I wore Creed BdP to work. Unfortunately, he knows very well what one smells like, so I was quite alarmed. The second time I wore it, I got told I "smelled like a dirty, old Russian millionaire with no taste" . Charming! Apologies to any dirty, old Russian millionaires reading this. Or Cambodian prostitutes.
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post #14 of 28
3/10/10 at 10:13am
First time I wore it my wife got a horrible look on her face and said, "You smell like F*ing gasoline!" It was Guerlain Vetiver.
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post #15 of 28
3/10/10 at 10:17am
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Originally Posted by morrison74 View Post

Sorry to be crude, but I got told by a coworker that I "smell like a Cambodian prostitute" the first day I wore Creed BdP to work. Unfortunately, he knows very well what one smells like, so I was quite alarmed.

Thank you, that made me laugh real hard.
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post #16 of 28
3/10/10 at 10:19am
"I don't know what's that fragrance, but I'm suffocating. You should please lower the windows".

My friend, while we were on a drive. I had just sprayed one man show twice on the neck 20 minutes prior to that. :sigh:
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post #17 of 28
3/10/10 at 10:25am
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Originally Posted by morrison74 View Post

Sorry to be crude, but I got told by a coworker that I "smell like a Cambodian prostitute" the first day I wore Creed BdP to work. Unfortunately, he knows very well what one smells like, so I was quite alarmed. The second time I wore it, I got told I "smelled like a dirty, old Russian millionaire with no taste" . Charming! Apologies to any dirty, old Russian millionaires reading this. Or Cambodian prostitutes.

Hilarious!!! I wanna smell like an old, dirty, Russian millionaire! I've been trying to find something to fit this description for years. lol

I was told by my girlfriend that I smelt "very sharp and rancid" while wearing Kouros. Interestingly enough, an older women purred, "oooh...you smell goood" when she smelt me wearing the same thing. Go figure....
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post #18 of 28
3/10/10 at 10:52am
Every Sonoma Scent Studio bar the roses: "Why do you keep putting on stuff that smells like cat butt?"
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post #19 of 28
3/10/10 at 11:43am
Oh, I forgot! I was wearing L'Occitane's Vetiver while strolling with a friend. I realized he moved from my right to my left, started to sneeze and said something like "oh, allergies". Suddenly he said, "wait, it is that smell... what the heck is it?". I couldn't play fool I showed him my wrist, he took a whiff and said something hard to translate in English without sounding like a brute. Literally, he descibed it as bug spray.
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post #20 of 28
3/10/10 at 11:47am
Every once and a while Shalimar, Mitsouko, or L'Heure Bleue will elicit "grandma" comments, but I don't listen. Someone told me I smelled like a French whore once, but I had overapplied YSL Opium (feminine) that day so that was kind of what I was going for.
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post #21 of 28
3/10/10 at 12:02pm
I've heard that I "smell like bug spray" twice, from two different people, on two different continents. The culprit fragrances were Azzaro Visit (really??) and Eau de Cartier Concentree (I sort of agree).

My girlfriend says Dior Eau Sauvage "smells like my creepy great uncle." Also, when I wore Aramis:
*with a sidelong look, leaning slightly away from me with a repulsed look on her face* a polite but direct, "I don't think I like your cologne today." I thought it was pretty funny.
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post #22 of 28
3/10/10 at 1:56pm
Some daffy woman passed by me in an aisle of a shop: "Whoa, something smells like mothballs over here!" she said. I was wearing L'Artisan's Tea for Two. But maybe there were some mothballs somewhere around too, I don't know. She gave me stink eye I think.
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post #23 of 28
3/10/10 at 2:24pm
My girlfriend literally gagged when I had on Polo Modern Reserve. But then again she has odd tastes and LOVES Demeter Chocolate Chip cookie when I wore it to actually attempt to get a laugh but instead she loved it.
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post #24 of 28
3/10/10 at 2:36pm
Happens to me also my friend,there's frags i love & my wife hates them... She hates Givenchy-Gentleman, and most Really woodsy Aramis type scents. But today she said she loved Bois Du Portugal :0) Good cuz i love it!!!!!
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Originally Posted by JaimeB View Post

Spousal disapproval: "You smell like urinal cakes" in reaction to Serge Lutens Miel de Bois.

Also: On smelling me in Serge Lutens Gris Clair, the same loving spouse: "You smell like Comet cleanser."

For this I paid $140? Twice?

My reaction to the second remark: "Sweetie, you need to have your nose examined!"
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post #25 of 28
3/10/10 at 2:55pm
I was wearing By Kilian "Straight to heaven" the other day at work, a coworker told me: "Hey, you smell like a tree!"
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post #26 of 28
3/10/10 at 4:08pm
I realized that women love gourmands (ahem JPG and Doir Homme)
and anything that smells like Aqua Di Geo (Light Blue, etc)

The worst comment I got was when I went to Macys and an SA asked me what I liked to wear, I told her Safari, she said "Ewww thats old man cologne" and pointed me to some AdG, I smiled and told her I'm not into that stuff lol
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post #27 of 28
3/11/10 at 11:22pm
My mother told me when I was wearing Theo Fennel Scent

"You smell like a Chinese restaurant bathroom, like that certain incense and Chinese food and bathroom cleaner."

It was kind of a brilliant review, actually, if you know the stuff.
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post #28 of 28
3/12/10 at 12:44am
I lady-friend of mine once told me about most of my frags in my wardrobe: oh, they are too strong, too Oriental, an attractive man should never wear such overpowering stuff
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