Never heard such a phrase even in movies, but I heard(and thought too) "Who the fuck poured a bucket of concentrate on their stupid head? Impossible to breath!" many times.

Perfume and cologne should be discovered and not announced. I should only be able to smell it if I'm within your personal bubble, not just passing by on the street.

If someone can smell you outside and not know that the smell came from you, then you are wearing 100x too much perfume. It should not be possible to smell you just by passing you on the sidewalk.

I actively avoid people who wear feagrences.

I've never smelled a cologne or perfume that wasn't utterly offensive.

I think more people should be aware how offensive a strong smell can be. There have been more than a few people who I genuinely have negative opinions of, and it basically stems from them wearing perfume or cologne.

Olfactory nails on a chalkboard.

Please don't put that much perfume... My nose is pretty sensitive to perfume and it makes me sneeze. Most of them smell like dust. I never understood why people try to smell that strongly of dust.

I recently got into fragrances and they are great but I think you need to chill if people can smell you randomly like that in public. I'm no expert, like I said I just got into it, but my understanding is people shouldn't be able to tell unless they are inside your personal space.

Honestly, I need people to stop bathing in cologne it's fucking disgusting and you shouldn't be allowed into places where people eat or you sit near others for more than one whole second. Also this new popular perfume smells like straight up rubbing alcohol.

Rage: baited

Guys are wearing too much perfume at work but get upset when I ask them to cut back on the perfume. Of course it’s still perfume no matter what they call it.

NO. Perfume is the worst. ppl need to stop wearing it in hospitals and community centers. other people should feel comfortable with being in public too. Comfort matters more than your need to feel entitled to validation for stenching out places. It's like assholes with music and no headphones. this is public. as in other people can be here too. its not here for you to work out your narcissistic fucking fantasies. We arent your fucking background characters you self absorbed weenus.

I can't stand strong cologne; I've told multiple men and women publicly it's supposed to be suggested, not announced.

I’m so glad I don’t waste my money on that shit

Perfumes and colognes give me headaches and make me nauseated so I'd rather people just didn't wear them at all.

I remember this girl at uni. Could identify her at 100m downwind.

Like others have mentioned suggested, announced and then there was this amount. Sort of like smelling salts.

I hope she is doing okay in life now.

Perfumes are a very common trigger for migraines for people who get them. For me it's the number one trigger. Strong expensive perfumes are some of the worst for me.

I have to avoid indoor crowds or eating out during times when people will be out with lots of scents on. I take drugs before a wedding etc and leave as soon as I can. The best ones are outdoors.

In business I have bypassed interviewees who wore perfurme/cologne to the interview in favor of less qualified canditates who didn't. I have also dropped suppliers, vendors, dealers etc.. because they showed up to a business meeting wearing a cologne/perfume.

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC10213061/

If I'm down wind of you and I smell you, you are an evil person and I hate you.

If I walk through a place and I smell where you have been, you are an evil person and I hate you.

If I order food and I can smell you on my food, you are an evil person and I hate you.

If I'm walking through a place where you were once standing and I can taste you, you are an evil person and I hate you.

I don't care if it's BO or perfume or lotion. You are an evil person and I hate you.

I think I’ve only worn cologne once in my life and it intentionally smelled like nature. All of that shit drives my senses crazy. I don’t even wear deodorant (I don’t get BO).

It's kind of like... I dunno, a delicate balance. A good, subtle fragrance? Love catching a whiff. Someone wearing something that smells like they soaked their whole body in straight alcohol? Kill me.

Like, putting in the effort to pick out a pleasant scent, male or female and getting recognized is the good part. Wearing buckets of the stuff should be considered olfactory assault.

I remember this woman got on the bus once, and that's when I understood what good perfume was. Every head turned. She was a brown-skinned woman in her forties, not overly attractive or anything, but she carried herself with such worth, likely heightened by the perfume that I was instantly lovestruck by her

I've not experienced that perfume since, so I think what we sniffed that day was exceedingly special

It's so hard for me rn to find a good frag. I have been endlessly doing research on fragrantica and trying samples but I'm realizing now I have to get something they still actually produce. Otherwise I'm just buying from some stash some random persons have 'cause they wound up with the last inventory or something.

I have a list now for some that I want to try for wearing at the office during colder months here but feck man this is mind boggling me.

Since you are getting a lot of hate in here, let me say you smell great. I do enjoy when I'm coming through the entry door at work and whoever went through it before me smelled good. I think the smell intolerant have to win in the office - it's an enclosed environment and some people have actual allergies. But personally I do love it when I, say, walk into the bathroom and smell perfume not shit, it's a surprise and a welcome one. And perfumery is olfactory art.

Basenotes is a nice site if you are into perfume. It's the only social media forum I use besides Lemmy.

Scents are very confusing. I hate the smell of cologne because im not gay. But I love the smell of strawberry perfume. So when I go to pick out a cologne people say to me "pick one you like" so i pick a strawberry perfume then i get called gay for picking perfume. You cannot win. How is a guy supposed to pick out a smell thats designed to appeal to women? It makes no sense.