What is it with women who use this extremely strong, pungent, stinky, nose-hair-burning, eye irritating, etc., etc. perfume? I mean, WTF? I don’t wear it and I have spoken with friends and they, one in particular, find that the smell is really close to powdered toilet bowl cleanser! I don’t know if I completely agree with that but I do find it gross.
Hey girls, what famous individual endorsed this shit? You smell like toilets!—Madam Bluenose
This article appears in May 27 – Jun 2, 2010.
now that she’s pregnant… celine dion will be sweating more than ever… filling those bottles in record pace.
I don’t think that crap is any better than axe or those ‘body sprays’…
concentrated pungency should be kept to a minimum.
As Bob Marley said, so well, “Kill it before it grows”
I got on the elevator this morning with one who smelled like ripe compost in a skunk’s colon.
Eau d’ Duck Butter….if you don’t know what it is, Google it and be prepared to be grossed out.
Having studied aromatherapy an interesting part of the curriculum included a tour of a perfume factory. Fragrances are composed of mostly artificial ingredients. One of the ingredients of Opium is essence of lime, likely artificial. A male friend once commented that Opium smelled like the old janitor’s lime that was used to sweep up floors in schools. Lime is a top note which dissipates from the fragrance first, before the middle and base notes. If the Opium was recently applied the lime part would be making some people’s nose segue to toilet cleaner which may also contain lime aroma. My nose tends to notice the florals and spiciness of Opium. The key is moderation. Fragrance should only be noticible up close not 50 feet before the wearer gets there!
“studied aromatherapy”… if ever there were a coma-inducing subject…
I would rather study the moisturizing effects of blue cheese on the canine anus that learn about ‘notes’ in perfume….
Sorry zZz, didn’t mean to bore anyone. When I took the course 15 years ago, it was the medicinal use of essential oils that I was interested in. Natural healing can be fascinating to those with an interest in alternative medicine. A sensitivity to commercially produced household products leaves me with no choice but to make my own with natural ingredients. Better for me, better for the environment.
my strongest sense is smell…definitely a good/bad thing, breathing through your mouth helps. stopped in canso for a few days on a wooden ship, this is when they still had a fish plant, the odour permeated everything including the wood.
maybe they are just trying to attract a better class of douchebag, to mate with, and keep the lines going. thank fuck it ain’t working out too well.and yes, most of the stuff on the market stinks worse than the aroma or smell it is trying to cover.
Glad to see that I’m not the only one who doesn’t like the scent of that shee-at. I’d rather stick my head in an unclean, two-month-old litter box than be subjected to that crap! I was once trapped on a plane with a horde of these Ajax/Comet-encrusted dames. They could make a movie of that and call it “Stinks On A Plane”!
My favorite is when they walk by you and you can actually taste their perfume…not classy at all!
I’m allergic to strong perfumes and I don’t like the scent of them. When I was little, I had to go to church and women would smell like they bathed in the stuff. I would get sick from it.
OL, I believe the expression is, “Perfumes should be discovered, not announced.”
Opium is the worst. I just got stuck behind a woman in line the other day with that shit on. I make it known when someone has too much stank on them. I don’t care if it’s considered rude.
the most foul higher end perfume I’ve ever smelled is Poison , haven’t smelt it in along time thank the lord
even that fabreeze shit is start to get overused lately, quite a bit. if your place is that stanky that you have to use a strong scent to overpower the normal smell, that should tell you that your place is a fucking pigsty, or worse. there is one person here that sprays that shit in the hall downstairs, and it pervades the intire building lately. if i find the culprit, i’ll stick it up their ass and give it a blast. there is no fucking need of that much shit in here. this building is nice and clean, and there is no other stink in here. just being a douchebag. i put notice on wall by mailboxes last night, telling whoever it is, my intent to out them, and what i said here, that i will do to them.
I’d rather smell perfume/cologne than cigarette smoke.
I have cologne. I don’t bathe in it to my knowledge. Haha. And I certainly don’t use it everyday, especially if I’m going to work where I’m going to end up getting enrobed with the scent of coffee regardless. I don’t mind people wearing perfume/cologne, but I do agree that people should ease up on it. I have certain customers that I serve on a regular basis that need to learn the phrase “a little goes a long way”.
rather than using perfume to smell nice is use under arm decorodant. They have difference variety with no scents and with scents…it’s makes sense !!..
Thanks Three for putting it so eloquently.
Dior makes a delicate fragrance that is soft, sweet and barely there called Sweet Sun. Very tolerable.
i like chanel 5 and nuit de noel by caron but you should only be able to smell it if you are in my very personal space
I think the scent industry should take a page from Brylcreme – a little dab will do ya.
They haven’t been calling cologne and perfume shower in a bottle for the last 30 years for nothing. As much as it is gross actually tasting someones perfume, it has to be better than cigarette smoke and especially body odor!!
How do you know it was perfume ?
It may have been cologn.
The Cologn I really don’t like the smell of.
But the Opium Classic perfume at $200.00 + an ounce is different. First at that price you don’t bathe in it.
Secondly everyone who tries it smells different.
Because your natural body oils mix with it & change its scent. you literally use less than a half drop & that’s it.
Sounds like your into the quantity perfume with spray atomizers etc.or your talking about the stuff that comes in the gallon jugs !
And you are right…that shits nasty !
my nana put a dab of perfume on the back of her neck, knees and wrists. it was such a fleeting smell because it was parfume as opposed to toilet water. wash your bum