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post #61 of 69
4/17/12 at 12:28am
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Originally Posted by Tappio View Post

I think many comments spring from hyperbole, but I think there is a genuine element of truth in many "bathroom-esque" reactions. I imagine large aromachemical companies do a bit of cross-pollinating between products, with certain elements used as part of a larger composition in perfumes similarly being used in bathroom and/deodorizing products. I imagine many of the same chemicals we are accustomed to smelling are used in higher doses as part of less-complex smelling cleaning products.

Not too long ago I was in a gas station bathroom and smelled something very similar to the base of Chergui. While nobody would outright confuse the two products, since Chergui incorporates several other notes as part of its olfactory profile, there was nonetheless a strong similarity there.

My wife won't let me wear Blenheim's Bouquet around her because she says it smells way too much like a bathrom cleaner sold down here called Pine-O-Clean. Similarly, when Tommy T came out, some people thought it smelled like an insecticide called "Off" - and I thought I could see where they were coming from, but I've also always liked the smell insecticide, so I bought it.
Cheers,
Renato
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post #62 of 69
4/17/12 at 1:04am
I think that when people say that something "smells like pee", they are referring to a potent animalic musky smell. To be honest, I used to walk through a street where these disgusting teenage drunkards used to pee on the weekends, and the stale piss smell reminded me of MKK (I'm saying that it reminded me of it, not that it smelled like it).
I get an unpleasant, obnoxious body odor smell from Kouros, but apparently it is such a masterpiece that I probably simply don't have a good enough nose to really appreciate it, if you catch my drift...
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post #63 of 69
4/17/12 at 4:09am
Perhaps it's time to make a list of the usual (BN hyperbole) suspects.

Offhand I can think of

urinal cakes
cough syrup
cough drops
lemon pledge
hamster cage (referring to a strong cedar note)
tear gas


Your turn.

Mario

P.S. From an actual I.Q. test: " Which side of a hamster has the most hair? "
You have 15 seconds to answer.
I aced that one but then, I was wearing L'Occitane Cedar.
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post #64 of 69
4/17/12 at 6:05am
Kouros just really reminds the smell of urinal cakes, it's not horrible, but it's not something good as well
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post #65 of 69
9/14/12 at 4:55am
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Originally Posted by Mario Justiniani View Post


P.S. From an actual I.Q. test: " Which side of a hamster has the most hair? "
You have 15 seconds to answer.
I aced that one but then, I was wearing L'Occitane Cedar.

The outside?
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post #66 of 69
9/14/12 at 5:15am
Another issue, I'd guess, is the density of the frag. If you can smell honey, eugenol, clary sage, etc. clearly it doesn't seem like a wall of stench you might perceive walking toward the monkey cage at the zoo or something along those lines. When I diluted some Kouros with vodka I was able to get a clear honey and it no longer came across as a nasty odor. In many reformulations there is a dense, strong opening that masks mediocre or poor-quality base notes, so with Kouros I think it would be necessary to make sure everyone who comments is sampling the same formulation, which of course is not likely, further complicating such discussion..
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post #67 of 69
9/14/12 at 7:25am
90% of the time kouros doesn't smell anything like a urinal cake, but sometimes i smell it on myself and say wow it really does smell like a public restroom.
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post #68 of 69
9/14/12 at 7:40am
I actually was thinking about this yesterday because I wore it as a teen and thought about the thread regarding something you won't wear again. Don't take this wrong but urinal cake may actually be giving the wrong impression. At least those have a perfumed smell to them to mask the urine. To me it is more like a baby's wet diaper in the sun. Just a stale urine type smell.
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post #69 of 69
9/14/12 at 8:04am
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Originally Posted by Jack Hunter View Post



A guy smelling Kouros for the first time.lol

lmao!!!!!!!!
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