Aromatherapy is AdSpeak for "This Stinks"
11Okay, I will admit up front that there are people who derive pleasure and/or relaxation from having certain smells delivered to their olfactory senses, but most of my friends seem to be just as repelled by that prospect as I am. Which is to say, if the room at the motel has been doused with “air freshener”, sleep is not going to happen there because a nasty headache is going to happen pretty damn quick.
So when I see a product that isn’t made just for the limited purpose of polluting the air with a floral/herbal/whatever stench, but uses the word “aromatherapy” as part of the pitch, I’m Outta There. This is also why the cosmetics department of a store like macy’s, which always seems to be pretty close to merged with the perfume counter, is never going to get me to stop and try anything; I’m already holding my breath in defense of my nose when I come through the door, and there is no way I’m stopping until I’m safely upwind of the gas cloud. Even the laundry detergent aisle at the supermarket is a bit of a trial, which is annoying because the stench-and-dye-free stuff is usually right there in the middle of the display of chemical warfare agents, IF they haven’t run out of it again.
Who’s with me on this?
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Yup. I avoid the perfume counters like the plague. Or really, a bit more than the plague because I’ve had immunizations for plague, but have never found one for “perfume headache” or “whiff of Febreze” nausea. I am also not fond of print matter that includes a stench sample.
@rockblossom
Open magazine
An interesting article
POW scent in your face
I actually love (the right) perfumes, but I agree 100% on scented cleaning products! I HATE LOATHE & DETEST scented dryer sheets in particular. And scented laundry detergent, and scented cat litter. Puke!
Oh, one Safeway store here in town had a table of these higly scented “natural” bar soaps; the “Zum” brand. They reeked of patchouli and similar earthy scents, and I couldn’t stand shopping for food with that odor in the air.
@Kyeh
Scented dryer sheets
Help housewives make home smell like
Chem OSHA hazardIndustrial swamp
I have yet to find an “air freshener” that smells better than what it’s supposed to be covering up.
If your house stinks, just fry some bacon or bake something.
@2many2no
Most welcoming house
Muffins or cookies baking
Disregard the corpse
@2many2no @replicacobra
Honorable mention for the smell of sauteed onions.
@2many2no There’s also the option of cleaning up the source (or evicting the person) creating the stink. Although in my house the smell may be coming from a dark corner where a house spider has caught a centipede. Both are critters that are hard to keep out.
@replicacobra
The last scrap of flesh
Has decomposed from the bones
Fresh potpourri please
@macromeh
Your post inspired me
A product to freshen crotch
Called Potpurrenis
/giphy been a long week
@macromeh @replicacobra
Hmmmm, fresh cucumber scent?
Yup, I hold my breath before entering the cleaning products aisle. Can’t deal with synthetic scents. And certain hobby craft stores seasonally put great swaths of eucalyptus or lavender near the front of the store, which essentially repel me from even going in. I’d rather be plastered in hippo farts.
I rarely comment in dissent, but my opinion regarding my favorite fragrant odors is so starkly in contrast to the opinion presented above that I felt it was warranted this time. LOL
I find that the right scent contributes considerably to the atmosphere in a space and even sometimes one’s mood. It can also go a long way to conceal minor or mild odors, but isn’t a good way to combat strong offensive smells.
Rarely do I meet a scent I dislike, unless it’s a universally disliked one, like sewage or rotten eggs. I find things like diesel, kerosene, and fresh vinyl appealing.
@PooltoyWolf You missed your calling as a truck driver for an oil company.
@Kidsandliz I’d much rather be a diesel locomotive engineer!
@PooltoyWolf @Kidsandliz I don’t love deisel or kerosene, but I like the smells associated with old fashioned printing, the inks and paint thinner/type wash. I’d rather smell any of those things than dryer sheets
or those artificial “air-freshener” plug-ins and sprays!
They have air fresheners all over the place in those plug in things with replaceable cartridges in this apartment building which makes everything stink to high heaven. These are the kind that spray some out on occasion, that occasion appears to coincide with when you walk by. On my floor I take the chambers out, empty them, wash them, reflil them with water and put them back. I no longer get that stench from the hall in my apartment anymore. Been doing that for over a year and no one has figured it out. And - why do I want to inhale chemicals all day and all night? Or at all?
I don’t mind walking down the street and smelling flowers as I walk by, but I hate hate hate anyplace that smells like perfume or being around anyone wearing perfume (cheap or expensive) because there is no escaping the stench. It is beyond gross. And I agree with whomever it was above who hates scented cat litter. So do I.
@Kidsandliz
Some of our cats apparently dislike the scented litter as much as I do.
@Kidsandliz I used to work at a job many years ago, in a row of “cubicles” situated between a woman who wore too much perfume on one side, and a man, who wore too much cologne on the other side. And both smoked, to top it off. (This was back in the 80’s).
It was not a happy situation for me!
@ELJAY That would have been so untenable for me too. It is just totally disgusting and repugnant.
@ELJAY @Kidsandliz I worked briefly for a very small printing company that had a sales guy who must have bathed in his cologne. You could tell from the back of the building as soon as he came in the front door.