The Scent of a Shower
Feb. 13th, 2010 12:10 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
Overheard earlier today:
Me: <reads back of humorous body wash>
K: Yeah, I bought that on a day I couldn't smell, largely because of the packaging. It turned out to be rather... licorichy.
Me: Which is odd to me, since it's marketed as "for Men", and more people who like licorice that I know are female than male. But maybe that's the point - smell like what you want to attract?
K: If that's the case, then Body Wash for Men should smell like chocolate, because marketing tells us that all women love chocolate, and Body Wash for Women should smell like vanilla.
Me: I didn't know men were known to like vanilla.
K: I just report the news. Anyway, I'd really rather smell like... coffee.
Me: You want to attract people who stay up late at night?
K: Nerd-bait, that's me.
Me: <reads back of humorous body wash>
K: Yeah, I bought that on a day I couldn't smell, largely because of the packaging. It turned out to be rather... licorichy.
Me: Which is odd to me, since it's marketed as "for Men", and more people who like licorice that I know are female than male. But maybe that's the point - smell like what you want to attract?
K: If that's the case, then Body Wash for Men should smell like chocolate, because marketing tells us that all women love chocolate, and Body Wash for Women should smell like vanilla.
Me: I didn't know men were known to like vanilla.
K: I just report the news. Anyway, I'd really rather smell like... coffee.
Me: You want to attract people who stay up late at night?
K: Nerd-bait, that's me.
Hmmm....
Date: 2010-02-13 06:53 pm (UTC)And coffee.
Maybe my nose is a nerdy woman.
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Date: 2010-02-13 09:22 pm (UTC)And a man wearing coffee aftershave would DEFINITELY get my attention.
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Date: 2010-02-14 01:02 am (UTC)--
I vote for the chocolate-coffee combo.
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Date: 2010-02-14 03:18 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-02-14 05:01 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-02-14 10:27 am (UTC)Granted, there is no perfume that smells like bacon, so it goes right along with making designer clothes that have a whole lot of effort into them, and aren't really attractive at all. At some point perhaps they will realize that the sexiest thing is a sarong and a smile.