Stunk out at Wal-Mart.

[Paul_H]

I can smell the hate for your family from here  

[zopi]

Not fond of any of those places...easy to not go there...no money! lol

[Ironwood]

I had a roomate in the Army who piled on the Colgne, gave me an immeadiate headache.

I am getting more chemically sensitive. Some of these people and businesses are killing themselves and their customers as well.

Ironwood

[thecfarm]

I have breathing problems and know what you mean and are going through.

[Linda]

Oh boy can I relate!!! 

The really bad thing is going to a doctor's office...where they are supposed to help you be healthier.  Instead I end up sick for 3 days!

If only people knew how many cancer causing chemicals can be in just one perfume/cologne, they might think twice about using so much (if any).  Most people that wear it get so used to the smell that they can't tell they still smell later in the day, so they put more on.  In reality, they still smell almost as much as when they first put it on.

One time when Al went to the dentist he came home with his clothes reeking of perfume so bad that I had to air them outside for 3-4 days (in between daily washings to get the smell off)!  :

We use Fragrance Free Clearly Natural Brand glycerine bar soap (good for dry skin/hair) & Kirk's Original Coco Castile bar soap (better for oily skin/hair). They both do a fabulous job cleaning body AND HAIR, don't leave any nasty perfume smells, & they cost lots less than expensive shampoo.  For laundry we use All Free & Clear or Seventh Generation detergent.  Seventh Generation has lots of other wonderful cleaning products (for dishes, etc.).  Vinegar, baking soda & plain soap & water are great inexpensive cleaners for most everyday cleaning needs.

[metalspinner]

I know this thread is about the scents we purposely add to ourselves, but...

My oldest son is 11 and about to turn 12.

OMG! Some funk has engulfed his body and is funkifying the entire house. :D :D 

He used to be able to wear these sandle things as shoes, but I've thrown those out. He took them off in the car once. I had to pull over and we all piled out gagging.  The smell had a weight to it that lingered for days in the van.  We were all sticking our heads out the windows of the van the rest of the way home. And I better not see/smell him wearing his tennis shoes without socks! :

My wife and I went to the store and shopped for every anti-smell, deodorizer, neutralizer for all of his body parts and articles of clothing we could find.

Can you imagine being a 6th grade teacher and dealing with a classroom full of this each day?

[Bibbyman]

I don't know if it's a biological age they go through or what.  Our granddaughter Alex had stinky feet and shoes for a few years.  We were always after her to keep her feet washed, put on clean socks, etc.  We had powder for her shoes but she still had awful foot and shoe Oder.  She rode shotgun with me on a delivery to West Plains.  Along the way she pulled her shoes off.  Gowd! It was awful!  We had to stop and put her shoes in the tool box on the outside. 

[Roxie]

Metalspinner, when my brother was about his age, my Dad ordered him to the shower.  After my brother had been in there for 10 minutes, my Dad stuck his head in the door of the bathroom, and my brother was standing outside the shower stall with just his head stuck in the water.  My Dad got a scrub brush and gave him a "GI scrub" and my brother never, ever did that again.  

Good memories!   :D :D

[SwampDonkey]

 :D :D :D :D Roxie

My uncle always has bad foot odor, worst I ever smelt.

[beenthere]

We prolly can smell others, but can't smell our own. 

[Ironwood]

We had a BIG ole boy from Tennessee in Basic Training aptly named Tennessee. He refused to shower properly, they threw a party for him (I wasnt there), they used wire brushes on him. He smelled like a rose after that. Although poor fella didnt take him too long to start stinking again. Just his chemistry I guess


Ironwood

[SwampDonkey]

We prolly can smell others, but can't smell our own. 

Some people's feet sweat a lot, mine don't. If I stink from being in the woods I can smell it, saw exhaust and all. I tried to use that to my advantage once when a couple of female cousin's came at me for hugs.  But they said I don't care.  They were from out by Paul H's way.  ;D :D :D Their father was a woodsman so they were used it. ;)

[Bibbyman]

I think the food we eat and the smells around us where we live contribute a lot to our "natural" smell.

Kind of a long story.

A half a live ago Mary and I took evening classes.  We just stayed in town and grabbed something to eat between work and class.  One place we hit about every week was a Chinese restaurant.  It was ran by a couple with the help of their daughter who was about twelve when we first started eating there.  The mother could speak enough English to run the cash register and deal with the customers.  Her husband could hardly make a conversation.  They relied on their daughter who could speak fluent English to wait on tables. 

Odd thing was that these people were not Asian but from Central America – Nicaragua or Costa Rica, as I remember.   They had come to this country to escape some political unrest.  They had friends or relatives in Florida but soon moved to Columbia, MO where they worked in a restaurant and then to Jefferson City and opened this restaurant. 

They were both educated.  He was an architect and she a lawyer but they were not able to practice those professions here.  They had got their citizenship and had the documents posted on the wall of the restaurant. They were proud "Americans".

They just had the one daughter, Rebecca, and they lavished everything on her.  She was not spoiled.  She worked her little butt off and was a great kid.

Our paths crossed again.  Son Chris was planning to join the Marines when he got out of high school.  To get a jump on the process, he joined the Sea Cadets.  The Sea Cadets were kind of a junior version of the Navy were kid 12-18 years old could get some kind of training.  Anyway, as it happened, Rebecca was also in the same group of about a dozen doing the program. 

One Saturday the kids had a rifle instruction class at the local ROTC range.  I took Chris over to the class.  While the kids took turns on the range, others stood out in the outer lobby and visited as did I.  Rebecca was visiting with some of her friends when her dad showed up.  He had taken a few minutes out of the kitchen to come see her shoot.  You could tell she was very upset and embarrassed at her dad showing up in front of her friends and pretty much shunned him.   I went over and shook his hand and we visited.  He reeked of the smells of the spices and foods he'd been cooking in the Chinese kitchen.   

I could see Rebecca in the background with her friends making excuses for her dad. 

I felt it was one of the times when I fell short.   I should have got Rebecca aside and told her how much pride she should have in her dad for working so hard to give so much to her.  And that his smell was that of honest work that was done to provide them with a better life.  But I didn't.

[jim king]

I don´t like the smell of perfume either but here you couldn´t smell it anyway in the local market.  The bottle of red stuff in this meat market is blood from a bull.  They say a good shot of that in the morning makes a better person of you.

[Bill Gaiche]

Boy Jim if thats the case I live with and around a bunch of nogoods. Good story though. bg

[tomsteve]

i can relate. i kind of wonder iffen the nasty colognes/ perfumes i smell are sold there.i was downstate for the holidays and went into a pretty pricey store with my neice. my oil stained jeans, well worn tennis shoes and worked in carhart jacket didnt quite fit in, but the perfumes and colognes i smelled had $$$$$$ all over em and didnt bother me.