What's Odor Got To Do With It?

[PatrickHenry]

Your lover. If he/she smells right, it's all good.

If not, somehow it doesn't work.

What's up with that?

I don't mean either applied fragrance or offensive BO.

I am talking about their natural body aroma.

The one I have for the last 28 years smells just right. Can't let NOBODY else have her... :eek:

[bishop]

yeah... that chicken soup smell is mmm, mmm good...

*takes a deep whiff of his own armpits and gets surprisingly turned on.*




personally, i'm more of a fan of no odor at all. if there is a smell, i don't mind the smell of some soap.

[Nono]

I agree with bishop. It's safer.

But a lot apparently goes on at the subliminal level.

As for consciously perceived smells, they do make an incredible difference. But so do the other senses.

Getting away from sex (sorry about that), Penfield noted that the olfactory sense is by far the most evocative where memory is concerned. Interesting, and obvious to us all. We are all familiar with the experience of getting a whiff of something (walking down the street, say) and are immediately transported to another time and place. For example, I had this on an ass-freezing winter day in Toronto about 10 years ago: just the right mix of bad sewer, automobile exhaust and exotic-spicy cooking that immediately made it feel like downtown Bangkok.

[brien]

Quote by: PatrickHenry Your lover. If he/she smells right, it's all good. If not, somehow it doesn't work. What's up with that? I don't mean either applied fragrance or offensive BO. I am talking about their natural body aroma. The one I have for the last 28 years smells just right. Can't let NOBODY else have her... :eek:

I too have the same spouse for 28 years. All I can say is I am glad we don't greet each other like dogs.

[dreamer]

my arm pits a like .
computers doing stupid thinks iam haveing bath

[Mia]

The right applied scent can be sooo nice too, though. But not overdone. Just enough to draw you closer....

[Nono]

Quote by: Mia (...) not overdone (...)

That's one of the wild-card variables, though. Perception (including degree of olfactory receptiveness) is everything. So I can drown myself in after-shave and some might not smell a thing, whereas a few molecules can be too much for others.

[brien]

Quote by: Mia The right applied scent can be sooo nice too, though. But not overdone. Just enough to draw you closer....

As guys like Brien, ah, ah ahchoo, sneeze, because of the allergic reaction. This is really unfortunate because I think it quite attractive when women wear scents in a very subtle manner.
It is a probelm for me in an elevator though. :)

[bishop]

i definitely hate it when some heavily perfumed woman walks past me and i'm smelling her trail for about a minute before it dissipates.. that's pretty horrible, and unacceptable imo - but better than smelling like the underside of a ballsack.

heh, and on a side note, my girl can go a day without taking a shower and i can never smell the difference. if i were to do the same, however, people'd be thinking that i was washing my face with a can of campbell's chicken soup.

[Scribbler1]

Smell means a lot to animals, which is what we are, in case anyone hadn't noticed.

I think attracting as well as keping a mate involves odor to some degree. I'm with PH, 30 years this July and she still smells good.

[BIGMIKE]

I smell like Axe Snake Peel body wash. Why? Because I shower 3 times a day. Don't worry it's not like I wash my hands 10 times a day. 30-40 is more like it. I'm a little OCD about these things lol.

[SteveA]

Quote by: bishop yeah... that chicken soup smell is mmm, mmm good... *takes a deep whiff of his own armpits and gets surprisingly turned on.*

I'm lucky. My wife actually enjoys my natural scent. I personally don't think think it smells bad either unless I've had a shirt on for too long.

personally, i'm more of a fan of no odor at all. if there is a smell, i don't mind the smell of some soap.

This is generally the way I feel also ... though, sorry if this stuff is too intimate, there was one girl I remembered kissing that actually tasted great ... almost sweet. Sadly, that's not my wife though. Oh well, can't have everything.

I apologize. That's more detail than I normally put in my posts

Something else to consider though is that how you perceive a scent could depend on how much you enjoy other aspects of someone. For example, it's hard to imagine myself enjoying the smell of someone I was unattracted to. Also, for my wife, her teeth were obviously crooked when I first met her and it always stood out to me when I saw her until we dated a little and within weeks I never noticed it anymore and almost couldn't see it even if I tried to notice it. There are probably lots of associations that go on that merge together.

[Scribbler1]

Baby powder and Speed Stick. Make of that what you will, I just like it.


Not to eat, just wear.

[Jack]

Baby powder and Speed Stick. Make of that what you will, I just like it.

You're truly strange. I like that in a person.

My fascination with this subject mirrors Nono's. How is it that a quick whiff of a particular odor can evoke such amazingly strong and detailed memories often forgotten for years? It simply amazes me.

My once-upon-a-time fiancee had absolutely no feminine odor whatsoever. I remember being very surprised at that. It made me feel like I must smell like a musky pig compared to her.

[Rive]

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[Kite]

I guess its an instinctual thing. Leftover remnants from our caveman days.

[Scribbler1]

Quote by: Isherwood You're truly strange. I like that in a person. My fascination with this subject mirrors Nono's. How is it that a quick whiff of a particular odor can evoke such amazingly strong and detailed memories often forgotten for years? It simply amazes me. My once-upon-a-time fiancee had absolutely no feminine odor whatsoever. I remember being very surprised at that. It made me feel like I must smell like a musky pig compared to her.

It's pheromones. Whether deliberate or natural certain scents can have a noticeable effect on people. Food smells remind you of holidays and the like. Everytime I smell creosote (like in a new telephone pole) I think back to good times down at the Jersey shore. Why? That wood preservative smells the same as the boards in the boardwalk.

[bishop]

my girl and i like indian food... the odors after we've digested that stuff are unmistakable - and definitely memorable. it's like volley after volley of missile attacks... gastrointestinal nuclear warfare at its best.

who knew lentils could be such potent weapons?

(sometimes i think my natural BO is masked by my natural gas assedness.)

[Scribbler1]

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[Kite]

I'm getting
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Eww.