Thread: Are there "age appropriate" scents?

Two polar examples.

Ever notice when you walk into the house of really olde people, there is a distinct and unpleasant funk? Okay.

Ever notice how when you walk into a 17 year old boys room, it smells like a nest of weasels? yep.

As our body goes through chemical changes, such as the myriad of changes collectively known as "decay", our natural scent changes. The trick is to find scents that compliment whatever our natural body chemistry smells like.

I think, for example, that vertiver stinks fine when combined with that weasely odor of teenagers, but (in the words of one SRP contributor) smells like someone pissed on a campfire when applied to old folk.

You get the drift. My recommendation: drag your daughter to mens section of the perfume aisle, get squirted until she finds a scent she likes, buy shave product in that same general family. Why daughter or other youngish female relative? Our noses grow distinctively less sensitive overall, and distinctively more 'colorblind' as we age.

NO ! .......................:<))

Are there agree appropriate scents? Yes, my boys are to young to wear any of my top shelf stuff until they can afford to buy it themselves.

Originally Posted by Birnando

As others have said, there really are no rules regarding this.
However, I will wear a scent only if it ticks all three boxes in my selection regimen.

1. I like it
2. My wife likes it. Or at the very least isn't put off by it.
3. It doesn't associate negatively on me in regards to my surroundings.
After all, they are to smell it too, when in a crowded elevator, a small meeting-room or whatnot.

So, no Old Spice, 4711 or Brut for me, to name a few really stinky ones

I seem to remember you mentioned 4711 was quite frowned upon by European men because of its reputation of being an old ladies favorite. I don't think you were alone in the observation.

Personally, I find the same think with almond smells such as Cella soap. Smells like my grandmas perfume. Can't stand it. Loved her, of course.

Originally Posted by jgjgjg

Two polar examples.

Ever notice when you walk into the house of really olde people, there is a distinct and unpleasant funk? Okay.

Ever notice how when you walk into a 17 year old boys room, it smells like a nest of weasels? yep.

As our body goes through chemical changes, such as the myriad of changes collectively known as "decay", our natural scent changes. The trick is to find scents that compliment whatever our natural body chemistry smells like.

I think, for example, that vertiver stinks fine when combined with that weasely odor of teenagers, but (in the words of one SRP contributor) smells like someone pissed on a campfire when applied to old folk.

You get the drift. My recommendation: drag your daughter to mens section of the perfume aisle, get squirted until she finds a scent she likes, buy shave product in that same general family. Why daughter or other youngish female relative? Our noses grow distinctively less sensitive overall, and distinctively more 'colorblind' as we age.

"Sir, please get back in your panel van, the one with "Free Candy" spray painted on the side and leave the party."

Sorry, I just couldn't help myself. Really, I couldn't. Don't flame me