Hoo-doggie! You stink purty, baby!
August 24th, 2005Bane’s taking a poll on men’s preference for or against perfume. It got me ta thinkin’ (and that’s always dangerous). I didn’t want to write a book on his comment thread so I decided to do a post myself.
As many other men there said, I really dig perfume if it’s used properly and is good stuff. I can’t stand any of that cheap, flowery Avon or drug store crap.
Bane also asked a side question:
Can any of you guys name the perfume your best girl wore in High School? I can! It was ‘Charlie’. Stuff still gives me a boner.
Mine wore Obsession and I’m with Bane – all these years later, you can put that stuff on a three-legged mule and I’m instantly turned on the second it wafts into my nostrils.
As for me, I burned through a bottle of Polo and a bottle of Drakkar in high school and the years shortly after. Right now I have a bottle of Davidoff Cool Water that’s about 12 years old and still not empty. (I prefer the scent of a Davidoff cigar.)
I also have a bottle of CK One that I rarely use. That stuff smells great on some women. The most chemically sensitive scent you can buy – it either smells like 10 pounds of erotic in a 5 pound bag or a toxic spill, depending on who’s wearing it. It seems to smell different on everyone that wears it. I was more than skeptical when it was introduced and marketed as a unisex scent, but I have to say I like it on me and I’ve had a few women tell me they do too. In fact…
I was at my favorite stompin’ ground one night a few years ago and the prettiest girl in the place came up and asked me to dance a slow one with her. Now, I’m not telling you that to brag. I’ll give you the full story. She and I were both regulars at this place and I’d been hitting on her off and on for months, to no avail. The reason she asked me to dance was because the guy that brought her that night was ignoring her and dancing with other women. (Apparently he thought “You better dance with the one that brung ya!” is advice only for women.) She wanted to make him jealous and I was the only guy there that she knew well enough to know a) was a gentleman and b) wouldn’t turn her down. That’s the story of my life, but I digress. (If you’re wondering why she would think any guy would turn her down, her “date” that night was a rather large oaf with a proclivity for starting bar fights. He had been removed, simultaneously bleeding and laughing, from this particular establishment before.
Anyway, we got out on the dance floor and she was clinging to me like she just couldn’t get close enough. I knew she was just using me and I was loving every minute of it. I figured she was hanging on me like that for effect. After about a minute, I stepped back just slightly and said, “You smell great! What is that you’re wearing?” To which she laughed and said, “I was just about to say the same thing to you. That’s why I’ve been holding you so close. This spot on your chest (she touched me with her finger) is downright intoxicating.” I said, “Oh. Well, then. Don’t let me interrupt. You can tell me what you’re wearing when the dancing’s done.”
She pushed back in close once again, slipped her hand in my back pocket, snuggled her cheek up to my chest, looked up and breathlessly purred, “I’m wearing CK One. What is this wonderful cologne you’re wearing.”
“Umm… CK One.”
Thus began a very short, very torrid romance.
But back to my current preference. I still wear CK One or Cool Water occasionally for something different, but my favorite cologne is Cacherel Pour L’Homme. It’s about the only thing the French do well. My sister bought me a cologne sampler in a Paris duty-free shop many years ago while coming back from Israel. I fell in love with Cacherel and then discovered that it’s not imported to the U.S. That and the number of women that commented on it, of course, made me want it more. If you think the designer colognes they sell at Nordstrom’s are expensive, try special ordering one bottle at a time from Paris.
Fortunately, the internet has made all that much easier and less expensive. So now I can stink purty with exclusivity for merely exorbitant prices as opposed to blatantly obscene ones. Then again, I’m on my third bottle of Cacherel and I haven’t had to buy one yet. Whenever it has started getting low, there’s always been a woman willing to replenish it.
So ladies. What scents do you wear and which ones on a man drive you wild? Men, you can chime in too.
Uh-oh, guess I’m one of those ladies who wears drug store crap. Right now it’s some citrus based body spray someone gave me.
The best scent on a guy? I hate to admit this, but in my younger, wilder days I went to a male strip show and at the end they mingled with the crowd. One of the strippers (he had long hair – one of my weaknesses) had the most wonderful, drool-worthy scent on. I was too embarrassed to ask what it was and I’ve never come across it again, which is a shame since I’d LOVE to buy some for my hubby! lol
I wear (mostly) L’Eau d’Issey by Issey Miyake. Expensive. Persuasive. ;)
My husband gets the most attention when he wears Cigar. (It’s cheap, but it smells like a good cigar just pulled from a cedar humidor) or there’s a Chanel I like too.
My high school heartbreak didn’t really wear cologne, but, apparently his mom used Tide. There is one exceptionally torrid memory that obviously keeps me using Tide to this day. Ha! I hadn’t ever put that together. Wow, I learn something new every day.
On most men, it’s the freshly showered after a hard days work that gets the most attention from me.
I despise Drakkar. A guy in highschool bathed in it every day. He sat behind me and leched. (is that a word?) Totally ruined it for me.
Is this oversharing?
heidi queried:
Is this oversharing?
Nope. It’s exactly what I was looking for. Thanks for sharing, heidi.
I despise Drakkar now, also. When I was but a young lad, I wanted it so bad because I had been wearing Polo for a while and it suddenly seemed everybody was wearing it. I needed to be set apart from the common ruffians and Drakkar was new. I wasn’t old enough to have a real job, so I had to save for a while to get Drakkar. By the time it was gone, I was more than glad to be done with it.
Joelle lamented:
Uh-oh, guess I’m one of those ladies who wears drug store crap. Right now it’s some citrus based body spray someone gave me.
Don’t fret, dear. I was perhaps a little too harsh in that statement. Not all cheap stuff is bad. Most of it is, but my nose has certainly noted exceptions to that rule.
(Joelle then went on to regale us with a lurid story of debauchery upon which I will not comment.)
}:-)
[...] As an aside, few things turn me on like a well dressed woman smoking a cigar. At the same stompin’ ground I mentioned in the stinky post, I befriended a very classy older woman that was a very high level executive for a multi-national corporation. One night the subject of cigars came up and she informed that she had just come back from a business trip and had half a box of very good cigars left over from entertaining clients. I said I would love one some time. She informed me they were outside in the trunk of her car and, since she had no humidor, they were going to go to waste. Minutes later she returned with one, pulled the label off, tucked it in my shirt pocket and lit the cigar. We shared it and it was one of the best cigars I’d ever had. [...]
My current favorite perfume is “Pink” by Victoria’s Secret. It gets lots of compliments.
Favorite scent on a guy.. I don’t know to be honest. There was a student who came in one time where I asked un-necessary questions just to get him to linger… I have no idea what he was wearing but it was fantastic.
I think I may have to go play at the men’s fragrence counter sometime.
My favorite scent is frankinsence and myrhh. I’ve smelled it in anointing oil and just love the scent. I’ve been thinking of getting an essential oil for the scent. I’d love it if my husband would use it. It is just wonderful. Another scent I really like is sandlewood, which is another essential oil. If I was going to get some smelly stuff for me, I used to really like Wind Song, Chanel #5, and anything with musk in it. I just don’t like wearing the stuff and can’t stand being around someone who is slathered in it. My husband likes to wear smelly stuff and I’ve told him I prefer his scent, which I really love the best of all, though if he has to wear some kind of scent, I would prefer the above.
Love and shalom,
Serena
OOPS! I didn’t notice that my husband was signed in instead of me! I hope you all get a great laugh!
Shalom,
Serena
Oh, yeah, I remember Drakkar Noir. *sigh*
Some gal pals o’ mine used to visit the men’s fragrance counter, spray the scents on the sample cards, and then put the cards over the vents in their cars. “Aaaah! It smells like a man!” we’d giggle.
I’m wearing Basic Instinct by Victoria Secret.
I hate the stuff that makes middle-aged women smell like grannies. Yuck…
Does anyone remember Love’s Baby Soft or Jessica McClintock from the 80s and 90s?
I wear – whatever the wife buys me. Whatever she wants me selling like works for me.
She wears – Either “Turquoise and Silver”, a “southwest” scent that I really can’t explain, ecept to say it’s incredible, and available in about 4 places in the US, or “Jessica McClintok”, which has a Lillies of the Valley scent which makes me behave much like a dog fresh from the pound.