Do any of you ever actually notice other people wearing fragrance in public?

Yes, I made a comment to a woman just this past week. She was wearing and oriental/vanilla scent.

No, you are not a black sheep here. You're in good company.

I do notice other people wearing fragrance but usually never say anything.

yes here in UK/Ireland on public transport in the mornings its war of the fumes. LOL
Out walking around in stores etc most people are wearing perfume. Do I approach them no, I do play the game in my head What is That Perfume?

Yes, I do.

There are some co-workers that I know they wearing perfumes. One of superviser at my office wear quit loud fragrance that I bought for him so people can not blame me for wearing fragrance in the office --just kidding.

By the way, I have noticed that our former director's female secretary only wear Dior as her signature scent.

Occasionally I pick up on something. Someone obviously walked up a staircase wearing Kyoto not long before me yesterday. Coromandel, Vanille Galante, GIT are a few others I have recognised. You can't miss Miyake but mercifully less people seem to be wearing it these days.

This reminds me of my first day as a freshman at a public university in South Carolina (34,000 students on campus).
I'd woken up for my Chemistry 101 class which started at 8am. Sprayed something (about 4-5 sprays) and got on the elevator of the dorm. The guy next to me says "are you going on a date?". I said yeah - chemistry 101.
And that was it. Later on in the day I realized that I was probably the only one on campus with perfume on.
Aha I get it. I never stopped using perfume.

Yes, all the time. I think at least one of the staff at my local Tesco loves to douse himself with A*Men, I smell it so often when I go there, it must be one of the people who works there. Else you get a lot of men who overdo the sweet stuff, women too. And when I visited the overcrowded Da Vinci exhibition last week, you could smell your way through dozens of fragrances. Suited men wearing something suffocating on a tube train are no rarity either.

The few times I really enjoyed fragrances on women and men have usually been when they were wearing something nice and fresh.

I wear fragrance every day, even when I'm just going out grocery shopping (My job requires phases where I work entirely from home). Most people I know only wear perfume when they go out at night.

Sometimes, but it's mostly cool water I smell on other people.

I guess I can only notice easily the scents worn by other people if they are wearing very popular ones like ADG, Fahrenheit,
Eau d'Issey, female and male Eporio Armani variations etc.

I always notice perfumes on people, since I was a kid: I remember following 2 ladys that live near me by their smell. They are so smelly. I've even discovered wich fumes one use; I asked her niece, whom studied in my class. Nowadays Angel makes me want follow the girl. Chypres also gets my attention! People here like to smell nice and who smells nice.

I notice it all the time, but maybe 10-20% of the time do I recognize it, or even get close (as in the basic type, and a few candidates). Most people around me seem to wear fragrance at that perfect level, where their personal odor morphs the perfume into some very nice and very personal scent.

I notice fewer people wearing fragrance, but *when* I notice, if the situation seems appropriate for it, I pay a compliment. I do this even if I don't like the perfume : a) so that I might learn the name of the perfume for future reference (off the test list); b) to encourage perfume wearing, b/c frankly, I'm thrilled to experience perfume, even when it is not something I'd wear myself.

I have recently detected (and verified!) Hiris, Infusion d'Iris , Opium, Songes, Giorgio, Calyx, Chanel No.19, Obsession, Chanel No. 5, Coco Mademoiselle., Elixir. Also noticed (but was unable to ID myself): VS Pink, Wonderstruck, Allure, Ciara. The Ciara smelled *so* familiar but I couldn't place it.

When I began teaching, long ago, I could ID at least 50% of the perfume trails left by fragrant wrists on on hand-written assignments. Those days are long gone (along with pens and lined paper). I now often ask my students on the first day of class to introduce themselves and to mention their favorite smells (not necessarily perfume). It helps me learn their names much more quickly than 'What's your major?" Most of the women who mention perfume (and that's most of them) indeed like fruity florals. The men never, ever mention perfume. They mention salt air, snow, bread, bakeries..So far no bacon!

Like others who have posted above, I notice more perfume more often when at special events. Also at professional conferences.

The difference in perfume culture in the US and France has become astonishing. I rarely catch a sillage walking around indoors or outdoors in the US. But the mix of perfumes on the streets and métros of Paris? Yowza.

double, sorry!

Sure I do. Probably because fragrance aficionados like us are well-tuned to them. Unfortunately 25% of the time I had to gag & blow out my nose after a 'cologne guy' walk past, reeking of some harsh smelling chemicals that pass for designer/sport fragrances these days. And it's my observation that where I come from, the women wear their fragrances more elegantly than their male counterpart...and at volume levels which are teasingly discreet.

It seems pretty rare here and, on the odd occasion that I do, it's often someone who has drowned themselves in some relatively generic fragrance.
On the whole I don't think many Aussies even think about smelling good beyond a shower and deodorant.

Boy, I certainly notice when people do, simply because it's so rare to smell anyone wearing anything here. Don't get me wrong, we are not a hick town (although sometimes I wonder) but people like to think we are uber-trendy instead. At the same time our town is really "oudoorsy" and "natural", so I suspect that has something to do with it. So the lack of people wearing things makes those who do all the more noticeable, particularly when it comes to guys.

This is totally off topic, but :
When I was in a fancy grocery store this Christmas, they were making up fresh samples of chocolate. They would melt it up and then mix it with things. They had this dark chocolate they were making that had chilli powder and fresh cooked bacon chunks in it, and I gotta tell you, as a guy, it was simply some of the best stuff I had ever tasted in my life !

I'm in Texas too (yee-haw back atcha!). I rarely pick up a scent on anyone. When I do its almost always a woman while I'm out shopping or something like that. Almost never at work. One time I did smell something on a man at work it was at an internal conference - he was probably French, though.

I think many people wear fragrance, but they don't seem to apply enough to make it detectable to others. I recently asked a friend that I have worked with (who is French) if he ever wears fragrance, and he told me that he wears Allure every day. I never detected it on him, and since we don't see each other often we usually hug when we do. Its either wimpy stuff or he's applying it in homeopathic amounts.

Lately Ive been smelling it in the elevator at home. usually in the evening. It always smells like some sour/aquatic/ck type of frag. Must be someone spraying it on right before they go out. Or maybe its a new stainless steel polish for the doors? Other than that never.
Oh I forgot, Yee-Haw!!!

Yes, I think there may be a certain prejudice against wearing scent these days, and perhaps that may have a lot to do with why so many modern frags seem to mindfully have such poor projection. Like where you live, I rarely smell anything on guys around here, but when I do I always come away with the impression that here's a fellow knows how to enjoy the nicer things in life, and has a considerably more self-confidence than most of the folks around here.

all-the-time.

LOL SAME HERE , coming from south florida I smelled fragrances on almost everyone , but here in Texas I haven't gotten that at all. Most people simply don't wear cologne as much here.

I know exactly how you feel , yet at times people might wear cologne , I know because my friends usually come to me for it. I feel like "the guy " , it is quite akward.

Every morning. And every evening.

And there is some nasty stuff out there.



On the downtown 2/3 in the morning, when I'm jammed up against something cheap smelling, I imagine that my fragrance is battling theirs. And mine almost always wins

lol.

Now and then. But it always seems too awkward to mention. I do find it interesting that a scent trail of something that I know wouldn't work for me can be perfectly fine on whatever total stranger.

usually in a negative way! "this guys (nondescript) cologne is disgusting", and I automatically assume it to be a Hugo Boss scent.

I always notice but only say something if a woman is wearing something that I recognize. Then I ask "are you wearing....?"

I'm also in the Lone Star State, but I *do* notice people wearing scent. A lady who comes by work wears Fendi. There's a section of our business that always smells of one of Britney Spears' variations -- lots of vanilla. I think she's the only person wearing it, but that whole section of their office reeks of it. It's a pleasant smell, because I'm only there briefly, but if I had to work in that part of the building, I would probably protest!

I used to work with a guy who always wore the same thing, and in heavy doses. I actually liked it though, so it wasn't a problem.

Someone in another office wears Mariah Carey M. There's another woman who comes into our office who always wears Angel -- and in very high doses. Agh! I am not a patchouli lover, so I try to keep our interactions brief.

I remember the last time I was in L.A., the guy who showed me to my rental car gave off waves of Le Male.

I'm still in high school, so there's not much here, other than the occasional Boss Hugo Element or something like that. Pretty rare, but I always smell it.

Women are another matter though. Half the women in my school wear perfumes with chocolate and caramel notes, and none of it ever smells good. Just serves to give me a headache.

I do notice other people wearing fragrance and I'll only complement a women, and if I like it I'll tell her she smells nice. Once I did that in front of my gf without noticing it...didn't end well for me that day lol :P

Haha nice, I almost did the same thing the other day and just barely caught myself. Women... its too bad my girl doesnt seem to realize that just because I told another girl she smells nice doesn't mean I want to hop in bed with her.

I know right...oh man what a day that was lol

Haha did she remember it for 3 days afterward? Oh boy.

I always notice, never say anything, and seldom recognize it. But from the time I was a child, I always enjoyed smelling fragrance on people (even if it wasn't particularly good perfume).

If i remember correctly it went on for a few days. Dude she wouldn't drop it. To her it was like I cheated on her. I wasn't even flirting with the women. All I said was you smell nice, what scent is that, its intoxicating. I turn around and my gf is staring right at me and she says "really are you serious". I dont think she liked the intoxicating part lol. I'm telling you never again. I've learned a lesson that day and I'll use a quote from a friend "happy wife, happy life" lol

Still all the time. I notice them much more now. Funny is that most people don't smell all that great, obviously not Basenoters. One fit girl smelled massively like vanilla powder the other day.

I smell people semi regularly but it's always 1 million, la unit de l'homme and poison.

Haha when a woman pulls something like that I squeeze her arm, make deep eye contact with a half smile and say "Ooh, I didn't know how easy it is to make you jealous! That's cute."

I love the overly used Angel; my mouth gets wet!

I don't smell much on guys around where I live. If I do, it mostly seems generic aquatic/super synthetic. I think my roommate may be a bit typical: can of Axe body spray that sometimes gets use (fortunately not very frequent), and a bottle of Hugo for special dates with his gf. He sticks with Hugo - even the handful of colognes I gave him haven't gotten any use. I think one of the guys with an office down the hall from mine likes AdG - it lingers in the hall. Aside from that, I don't really know any other guys who routinely wear fragrances.

On women my age, use of scents seems a bit more common, but definitely tends towards the realm of overapplied synthetic floral stuff. I was surprised in church yesterday to smell Chanel No 5, but I'm pretty sure the wearer was about my grandmother's age.

Here at Brazill the things are excruciantly expensive, so most of the colognes are from O Boticario (50usd base price) wich are so so but veeeery weak.

An "Imported Fragrance" costs about 200usd retail price, 150usd on the internet, and im talking about the regular Azzaro, 212, Cool Water, Hugo, Calvin Klein, Boss...

So im always "that guy" on the streets.

But here people do love to smell good, but the tax kills the market.
While in other countries it looks like a crime if someone can smell a fragrance on you...(35% of the people prefer to smell body odor instead of a strong fragrance...)

I occasionally detect something on someone while I'm out at night, but it seems a lot of people out here go for the clean, unscented approach. I've ID'd Aqua di Gio and Bleu de Chanel on people. I was at an outdoor mall and at least 4 different times a guy walked by me with about 10 sprays of Bleu wafting about, I couldn't NOT notice it...

At work quite a few people wear enough to notice. One of the test guys working for me uses an Axe spray heavy on the iso-e super. So I kind of like it, but I can always tell when he's walked up behind me. Same with one of our customer reps - he wears this soft white musk scent with impressive projection. Smells a little like CK one, but I can't tell for sure. And a lady in my hallway also wears a white musk with massive sillage. Like, I can walk down the hall 20 minutes after she's been by and I know she's been there. Most of the people here wear it pretty low-key though, you've got to get pretty close to smell them.

Not exactly wearing fragrance in public, but a female coworker have just unbox a perfume in the middle of our office, it seems to be from a local brand.

By the way, one of my supervisors wears perfume that I bought him for his birthday, we had been the secreataries of the former director together a couple years ago. I think he also own a few bottles.

I lived in Dallas for thirty years and smelled women wearing good perfume all the time.

Lately what I smell is cheap stuff that smells like it's blowing out of the vents at a laundromat, so when I smelled a woman wearing 1000 (Patou) the other day it blew me away.

Yes....all the time.

Can *flowerbomb* and *million* please be banned.......even if just for a short period of time.

Generally I just smell my own. If I smell someone else, either they have a ton of it on, or I have gotten pretty close, or some combination of those. I occasionally smell perfume on female coworkers, and there are a few guys at the gym that slather on way to much of some chypre or other fresh type scent and fill the whole gym up with the odor. That seems to happen once a week or so. I have yet to notice one and be able to identify it yet, though.

I don't smell good fragrances on people that often - here in Australia they tend to fall into groups of "no fragrance" "[insert generic fruity floral/sport fragrance here]" and "genuine fragrance lover". The genuine fragrance lover is usually only found in fashion stores or arts people.....

I without FAIL get comments on Chanel Coco Mademoiselle EDP and it is not my favourite perfume, although it has incredible sillage and dries down nicely. Now if they would notice my Diptyque! (love Olene and Philosykos)

All the time, yes. Men (and only young men, curiously - I have only once observed any man over 25 or so wearing a fragrance), unfortunately, tend to wear only a few types - boozy, or aquatics. Not actually unpleasant, despite their monstrous sillage. One thinks, 'How unadventurous, yet successful for all that.' I find that women wear a greater variety. Young women 18-21, tend to wear rather vapid sweet things, especially when going to the races (which are a high fashionable event where I am). Those beyond that threshold seem to wear an endless variety. I have sometimes been rather fascinated, unable to recognise some fragrance of theirs, yet, being rather reserved, not daring to ask. I tend to particularly like enigmatic herbal scents in this vein.

I was out at dinner with my family a few nights ago, and smelled Chergui on a woman I walked past a couple of times. She was very attractive, well-dressed, in her late thirties or early forties, I would guess. She had light olive skin and black hair pulled up, and this fragrance was very nice on her. This is a rare occurrence in my area. When I do smell something on a woman, it is almost never anything this "exotic" - mostly classy florals on older ladies and fruity ones on younger ladies.

I rarely smell fragrance on anyone anymore. I wear fragrance every day even at work. Everyday is a special occasion for me, it's exciting to wake up in the morning and haggle with myself over which perfume I'm going to chose. If I do smell something I like, I try to find out what it is so I can at least look up the notes or try to find a sample.

I notice fairly infrequently, but about 50% of the time, it's pleasant.

Most always when I'm in Dallas I notice that everyone is wearing cologne keeping in mind now that most all the people at the meetings are gentlemen. I find that they all are wearing the same cologne. Heinz 57.

At work, I have noticed that while most of my coworkers don't wear fragrances, one coworker often wears A*Men, while another wears Versace Pour Homme.

Elsewhere in town, I've noticed that a lot of men here wear AdG (or similar scents), Le Male, and the YSL L'Homme series, though 1 Million seems to be getting popular as well. For women's fragrances, it's often Angel or one of the Juicy Couture fragrances.

Notice lots of Angel on women and Le Male on men. Live in the French Quarter and actually smelled Yatagan on a gentlemen the other night.
Couldn't believe my nose!

edit: Also smell lots of calone in the air-ADG, Cool Water etc. In our climate here in New Orleans, they usually smell nice.

Yes, I always notice, and I always compliment and ask the name of the fragrance.
In the Midwest, people are hesitant to wear it and afraid to wear much.

Ones I seem to smell the most, or at least something similar (apart from tons I don't recognize)
Mitsouko on the elderly
Fahrenheit 32, which surprises me
Fleur Du Male or Altamir
good old Le Male
A*Men