Your parents, legal guardians, or gym and health teachers should have explained this to you during puberty, but since they obviously didn't, consider this a public service announcement. Please, read and learn:
To put on cologne or perfume you spray ONCE into the air in front of you IN YOUR OWN HOME, not at work, not in the supermarket, not outside, and then you QUICKLY walk through the spray.
If you put cologne on with your hands or fingertips, you should WASH YOUR HANDS afterwards.
A scent should be SUBTLE, perhaps only detected by a lover who is interested in being very close to the backs of your ears and knees and the insides of your wrists.
I'd like to personally congratulate every dummy who is contributing to the massive cloud of bad cologne hanging over Fort Wayne. We didn't have enough pollution problems from traffic. Your desperate, need to be "cool" - by the standards of cologne advertisers, of course - has nauseated and triggered allergic reactions in the rest of your fellow citizens.
Yes, that's right: some people are allergic to cologne and perfume, even if it smells pretty. You don't have to see them gag, fall to the ground, and die in front you for them to be physically affected. But who cares if they can't breathe or swallow or get a rash or migraine after shaking your hand or having to sit next to you as long as you get to pretend you're hot, right?
Frankly, people would be better off smelling cigarette smoke or BO than inhaling your half-bottle of cologne every day.
THIS ISN'T ANCIENT EGYPT: IF YOU WANT TO SMELL NICE, TAKE A BATH or a shower! Get in the water and use the soap. Use deodorant afterwards. When you start to smell again, repeat. Do not drown yourself in cologne instead. There is no substitute for good hygiene.
If you must wear cologne, you might want to smell it before you decide to put it on SPARINGLY, IF you CAN smell anymore. Some of them stink. Despite what it says in the magazine, it actually does NOT smell good. Advertisers lie. If you put on stinking cologne, that means you stink, too. No one likes a stinky co-worker or date or clerk.
Stop wearing it to work. Stop wearing it to the gym. Stop wearing it at all and see your social life improve.
If everyone gets tears in their eyes when they see you coming, it's probably not because you are just so dear.
Rule of thumb: No one should smell you coming or after you leave.
THANK YOU.
5 comments:
MSN:
VERY well said...
(wonder if the EPA will check into this?)
Oh, btw...people should NEVER see a puddle forming UNDER you when you stand in one spot for 30 seconds, BECAUSE of ALL that cologne/perfume you doused yourself with either...NOR should anyone "smell" you coming three blocks away...right?
I'm just sayin'...
:)
I don't know about anyone else, but when I get close to someone who pours their perfume on, I get the taste of it in my mouth for a couple hrs, and it is disgusting!
Springtime36:
Yeah, that IS nasty, especially when you're trying to enjoy a nice lunch or dinner...
"Why thank you, I would like some CHANEL #5 to go with that T-bone steak and baked potato. And get I get a side of JOOP?"
(ughhh!!!)
GOOD observation!
With me having breathing issues it is a serious thing. I actually can't breath around stinky people. Glad I am not the only one who finds it offensive. Thanks for stopping by and for commenting.
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