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You don't have to wear deodorant!-I don't! Spraying on rubbing alcohol and patting on baking soda does an amazing job of fighting odor and wetness without interfering with one's natural scent. My ex-boyfriends (and my new lover) have openly said that they like the way I naturally smell-and the feeling has been mutual! I never manage to go on too many dates/spend too much time around a guy whose sweat I couldn't appreciate, so now I see the early power of pheromones...

One great example I have is a male friend of many years, who I always liked platonically-at one point I decided I liked him beyond that, but he politely said "never". This was for the best, as my mature self would also say "never"-he is far too judgemental and sarcastic for me-but he is a lovely and intelligent friend, always. And he smells amazing, naturally, always.

When people don't like your smell, this too can change! http://fimgs.net/b/img/smilies/sjuk.gifParsley will always be one of my loves. I love garlic with a passion, but don't indulge every day-and I am a diabetic, so my smell is naturally slightly sweeter than normal-not like acetone...The acceptable range for a diabetic's blood sugar is slightly wider than the normal range-so I smell just slightly sweeter sometimes. But I'm also often subject to having a stronger (spicier?) than normal scent for my love of ginger,garlic, and all that is spicy. I love blondes and redheads too-I love everybody, and don't have a set lovemap even-my partner of recent is blondish and on the fairer side-my failed loves were almost all brunette with nice, unique smells. They all have a place in my heart, but my heart sticks with my nose and my brain-in the fragrant present.

I had a brilliant idea today: a cologne that makes one smell like pesto, whose best character is brought out by eating garlic!http://fimgs.net/b/img/smilies/31.gif

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i´ve been reading this for hours, and will truly love to have some of you (good sniffers) around so you can tell me how do i smell!! wouldn´t it be great to discover your natural smell and then use the correct perfume to accentuate it or magnify it? in the meanwhile i´ll stick to my regular perfume...

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Turquoise! That would be a great memorable gatheringhttp://fimgs.net/b/img/smilies/applause.gif

I'm so curious about the way I smell to others! Nobody is used to talk about this kind of topics, it's too personal and intimate!
It's just normal that opinions about body odour are more widespread among couples and with your own children.
Actually I'm not able to know if I smell stinky to someone because nobody is likely to say that.
I can rely on my ex bfs opinions only. They all said I smell good with a faint smell, not strong, slightly musky-floral!
I can be quite a tease when I want to be, so once I was not sure about my armpits because I had a shower and then I had a light sweat. I asked my bf to smell my armpit just to make sure and he said: "You don't stink at all! All I can smell is flowers!" Floral armpits?? I think he was more in love with me than I was with myselfhttp://fimgs.net/b/img/smilies/superglad.png
Another one told me that a smell of vanilla came out of my neck behind like a little cloud when I was happy!
These were too partial opinions.
When I get very very angry I smell an acrid odour on my skin and need to have a shower to take that off, but apparently it's my perception.
I usually avoid garlic and onion because I smell them coming out of my pores the day after.
Different parts of my body have a different smell.
I also think that my body odour changed along the years and this changed my reaction to perfumes. When I was younger everything ambery turned to "dirty panties" to my nose. Now I wear them and they don't give me this feeling, only sometimes they smell diaperish or baby powderish.

I have a very close male friend who became friend after I said "No!" to his moves. He was very taken and once he told me he likes my smell. Unfortunately I don't like his smell. It's a little strong but not bad at all, otherwise it would be difficult for me to stay close to him. He never stinks and he's a clean person, but he smells too familiar to me. He smells like a brother or a father and this is something that totally turn off my sexual arousement, while it gives me cosyness.
I usually wear a very light deodorant of the Nivea Soft kind.
I sometimes go without deodorant when I don't have to spend 10 hours far from home in crowded places, because I think that deodorants are not healthy for your skin. I can't smell any strong stink even after 5-6 hours. After 7 hours my little armpits start to release a slightly acid and musty stink.
I shave very often with razors and if I put rubbery alcohol and baking soda I would jump like crazy around the house!

I want to break free (Freddie M.)

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Have any of you ever applied perfume directly under your arms?  I know that may sound like sacrilege to perfume lovers, but I can't help but wonder.

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Kari wrote:

Nice topic indeed!!

My five children all smell different ( nice offcourse), my boyfriend smells heavenly, the houses of my friends all smell different and I can recognise each of my friends, children, familymembers and colleagues just by their smell...

It's not always a blessing: some people don't smell so good for my nose, and it's sometimes a bit annoying / embarrassing when you can smell for example that a colleague has her period or had sex :-S :-(

Yes, I do smell such things :-(

On public transport it is also a horror when you have a good nose... especially in the summer...

But I learn to live with it....

I also think I couldn't have a relationship with a man that doesn't smell good to me.

Wow!  You have a very acute sense of smell!

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Mellyhelly wrote:

Turquoise! That would be a great memorable gatheringhttp://www.fragrantica.com/board/img/sm … plause.gif

I'm so curious about the way I smell to others! Nobody is used to talk about this kind of topics, it's too personal and intimate!
It's just normal that opinions about body odour are more widespread among couples and with your own children.
Actually I'm not able to know if I smell stinky to someone because nobody is likely to say that.
I can rely on my ex bfs opinions only. They all said I smell good with a faint smell, not strong, slightly musky-floral!
I can be quite a tease when I want to be, so once I was not sure about my armpits because I had a shower and then I had a light sweat. I asked my bf to smell my armpit just to make sure and he said: "You don't stink at all! All I can smell is flowers!" Floral armpits?? I think he was more in love with me than I was with myselfhttp://www.fragrantica.com/board/img/sm … erglad.png
Another one told me that a smell of vanilla came out of my neck behind like a little cloud when I was happy!
These were too partial opinions.
When I get very very angry I smell an acrid odour on my skin and need to have a shower to take that off, but apparently it's my perception.
I usually avoid garlic and onion because I smell them coming out of my pores the day after.
Different parts of my body have a different smell.
I also think that my body odour changed along the years and this changed my reaction to perfumes. When I was younger everything ambery turned to "dirty panties" to my nose. Now I wear them and they don't give me this feeling, only sometimes they smell diaperish or baby powderish.

I have a very close male friend who became friend after I said "No!" to his moves. He was very taken and once he told me he likes my smell. Unfortunately I don't like his smell. It's a little strong but not bad at all, otherwise it would be difficult for me to stay close to him. He never stinks and he's a clean person, but he smells too familiar to me. He smells like a brother or a father and this is something that totally turn off my sexual arousement, while it gives me cosyness.
I usually wear a very light deodorant of the Nivea Soft kind.
I sometimes go without deodorant when I don't have to spend 10 hours far from home in crowded places, because I think that deodorants are not healthy for your skin. I can't smell any strong stink even after 5-6 hours. After 7 hours my little armpits start to release a slightly acid and musty stink.
I shave very often with razors and if I put rubbery alcohol and baking soda I would jump like crazy around the house!

I shave my underarms every day too, but I've gotten used to the sting. It goes away, and sometimes it doesn't sting at all, if I was extra careful in the shower glad

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I love love love the way my boyfriend smells.  To me it is a mixture of comfort, love and sex and it is exclusive to him only.  No one else has that scent.  It gives me a feeling of absolute adulation to smell the back of his head/hair and I snuggle to him at night just for that reason.  I love him, I suppose that's why.  To others he might stink if he is sweating, although no one has ever complained of that, but I find nothing inoffensive about his sweat or smell at all.  I guess that has to be hormonal or pheromones or something.  I love it when he wears cologne, but his natural scent is best of all.

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clairdelune wrote:

Have any of you ever applied perfume directly under your arms? I know that may sound like sacrilege to perfume lovers, but I can't help but wonder.

It's called a French Bath, dear.http://fimgs.net/b/img/smilies/wink.png

And, yes...http://fimgs.net/b/img/smilies/rodna.gif

Be careful with internet quotes as they aren't always real.   
~ William Shakespeare

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Chat Lunatique wrote:
clairdelune wrote:

Have any of you ever applied perfume directly under your arms? I know that may sound like sacrilege to perfume lovers, but I can't help but wonder.

It's called a French Bath, dear.http://www.fragrantica.com/board/img/smilies/wink.png

And, yes...http://www.fragrantica.com/board/img/smilies/rodna.gif

So...it's not only legal, 'mais un peu chic'???  http://fimgs.net/b/img/smilies/applause.gif

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Mais oui! Un peu chic et un peu alerte a` la bombe!
French Bath is perfectly legal and it was beloved in Italy too, just because law is lacking. I find it a scaring practice, but very Louis XIV, le Rois Soleil, who was better known to stink like a perfumed dirty male hormonal goat who had rolled into cheese.

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Mellyhelly wrote:

Mais oui! Un peu chic et un peu alerte a` la bombe!
French Bath is perfectly legal and it was beloved in Italy too, just because law is lacking. I find it a scaring practice, but very Louis XIV, le Rois Soleil, who was better known to stink like a perfumed dirty male hormonal goat who had rolled into cheese.

Melly,
You are a wealth of knowledge and your anecdotes and way of expressing them always make me chuckle!   http://fimgs.net/b/img/smilies/applause.gif

"Dirty male hormonal goat who rolled in cheese!?" 

Uuccchhh -- I totally got it!! 

I need to go spray on some perfume at once! http://fimgs.net/b/img/smilies/wink.png

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Thank you Clairdelune!
Today I tried the French bath, but since I'm a curious Gemini I wanted to try a double one: one scent under my sweaty right armpit and a different one under my also sweaty left one.

I want to break free (Freddie M.)

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Kari wrote:

...you can smell for example that a colleague has her period or had sex :-S :-(

I can also smell sex. LOL  It's very obvious,it's a specific smell of "after sex".  It can even be smelled when you go to visit, in a room, you can tell somebody just had sex there. Even if that happened more than 5 hours ago.

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I smell sex smell too, but I think it changes a lot according to different people. It's not always bad.

There are some people that regardless of their sexual life smell totaly crap, very very bad and in such a way that I would call "spermatic" . Please, no offense to anyone here, I simply can't find a better term. It happens to men and also women around 40-50, but not many people! It's a smell I can't stand and totally upset my nervous system. I had to change place on a bus because a young man smelled that way and he didn't look dirty or unkept. I met a man that had an annoying strong odour like boiled carrots and another one who smelled divinely like almonds!

I want to break free (Freddie M.)

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I once dated a guy that I very, very badly wanted to like, but I could not.  His smell.  He just stunk.  He smelled dusty and musty.  And I know he showered daily, kept himself clean, but even if he put on cologne I could smell his bad smell underneath it.  It turned my stomach.
Another guy loved my smell but his would also sometimes make me sick.  It was whenever he ate French Onion soup, which he would eat a few times a week, that bad odor would creep back into him.  He also had very oily skin and I think that made it worse.
It's weird how personal scents can smell good to one person and bad to another, but it's very true!

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Mellyhelly wrote:

Thank you Clairdelune!
Today I tried the French bath, but since I'm a curious Gemini I wanted to try a double one: one scent under my sweaty right armpit and a different one under my also sweaty left one.

Wow, I thought I was fickle when it came to perfume! 

So how'd that work out for you?

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the results were quite scaring.

I want to break free (Freddie M.)

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Sugar419 wrote:

I once dated a guy that I very, very badly wanted to like, but I could not. His smell. He just stunk. He smelled dusty and musty. And I know he showered daily, kept himself clean, but even if he put on cologne I could smell his bad smell underneath it. It turned my stomach. ...

Me, too. I dated a guy who sometimes smelled like dog poop. Seriously! He had a horrible diet - always ate junk food and drank soda - no fresh vegetables or water. He complained to me that his previous girlfriend had told him he smelled bad & didn't want to see him any more. But when I told him that he needed to start drinking water and eating fresh food to be healthy & have a healthy smell, he still seemed to think that it was some conspiracy among women! I'm thinking he isn't going to live very long if his body is that angry about how he's taking care of it.

Oooh, and I wish I couldn't smell so well sometimes - a lot of times I want to tell people that they need to floss their teeth, not just brush them. I can smell the bacteria. Bleah!

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Oh, yes the dog poo stink. I met a boy that smelled like that and I wasn't able to do anything with him. He was a random eater too. He ate just anything and especially meat, McDonald's, lots of sugar, alcohool... Being very slim he didn't care about gaining weight. His breath was a killer, his armpit smelled from far away. He was not unclean.
I have to say that many people around used to eat in the same way and they didn't smell so badly, so it's not all about food.
Pitbull, you just remembered me I need to go to the dentist for check and cleanse and maybe something else... I let it go for a while because I'm terrified of dentists!

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I want to break free (Freddie M.)

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Interesting topic. I knew a guy who was partial to me but apart from all I felt uncomfortable about his natural smell, it wasn't  bad at all, don't get me wrong, but somehow he smelled very alien to me. Once he mentioned that he's got a very rare negative blood group and I thought to myself, maybe that's just it? We are not biologically compatible and the nature warns about it in advance!? glad

“Take care to get what you glamorously like or you will be forced to like what you glamorously get” Shaw/Attributed by me

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Biologists say that women are instinctively attracted in a sexual way by those men who smell not too familiar because different genes bring more healthy children.

I want to break free (Freddie M.)

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Dear Mellyhelly, it sounds pretty logical in terms of avoiding incest things, etc.!
Another case was that the man smelled with his natural smell absolutely stunning , just for everybody, and I didn't realise that attraction immediately...  Once his friend said to him in my presence that you smell better than all women here (he wore no perfume at that time). Later that guy confessed that his cousin was obsessed with smelling his sweaters and shirts...http://fimgs.net/b/img/smilies/wink.png

“Take care to get what you glamorously like or you will be forced to like what you glamorously get” Shaw/Attributed by me

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Hm...reading all your comments made me remember my long lost acute sense of smell. Used to have it, then slowly it fades away..i dont know why...

about family member's smel... i hate hate hate my family's smell! even with my waning nose, i can still recognize when my clothes is washed in the machine together with other family member's clothes... ugh...

ohh..the dog poop smell, the earthy ones, the garlic smell i had them in the form of my friends. especially after rigorous physical training, i just avoid hanging out near my smelly friends...

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Teedee, so your sense of smell is fading...http://fimgs.net/b/img/smilies/21.gif
It seems to me that it's still alive&kicking!
You made me remember that I don't like my family's smell too.  I don't like the way my parents smell. They are not perfumed people, but they are generally clean. I live with them now and I have a clear perception that they kills my hormons. Especially sexual hormons. If I stay in a car with them for more than one hour I start feeling nervous and depressed.

I want to break free (Freddie M.)

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I really wonder sometimes whether we have so much more acute sense of smell than other people, or whether we just pay more attention to it. I also wonder whether that's part of my affinity for dogs - maybe all of us creatures who like to sniff things understand each other better?