Airing out the smells

My apologies in advance if I am overly opinionated and offensive in this post.  I am, however, writing my blog - my personal space for airing out my thoughts and sharing whatever vignets of (not really) wisdom, and tidbits of this and that.  

Tonight I write about smells.  Yes, smells.  I am obsessed with smelling good.  My personal space and my person.  I also enjoy when other people smell good (think:  "Gain" commercials where the woman is sniffing the man on the bus).  Okay I don't go around sniffing people but I do appreciate a good clean fresh scent.  However, having said that, I do baffle, (and do so not so quietly sometimes), at people who either put on too much perfume, or are saturated with food smells.  This happens frequently when riding on the bus.  Seriously, if you are going to cook fish or onions for breakfast, you may as well not even bother showering or putting on clean clothes because YOU STINK.  I tell you, if I find myself smelling of food because I have been to a restaurant, it is enough to drive me to distraction. It's awful. 

As for the matter of too much perfume, or for that matter, the type of perfume, well, here we have a whooooole other story.

Lets be honest, fragrance is a very, very personal thing (which is why buying perfume as a gift is a mistake unless you have been instructed by the receiver of said gift).  And even though I have now acknowledged that, I feel it is my duty and obligation to tell everyone who wears that L'il Goat's Milk that they STINK!

I was at the grocery store today and passed by a woman wearing that dreadful Goat's Milk stuff and got a lung-full of it.  Ugh, it was gag-a-roo-a-rama. I'm not sure what it is about it, but it's the worst smelling stuff out there.  It is just so "old lady" too.  And while on the topic of "old lady", when it comes to old lady perfume, I have been convinced that "they" send out sample bottles with the old age pension cheques because they ALL smell the same.  I would be curious to know what it is.  Is it just old age and the body chemistry and it wouldn't matter what they spray, they would still smell like that?  Or is it just some particular brand from their young years that they have all held on to???  And I guess the sniffer must go with old age too because they all smell like they took a bath in it.  I had the pleasure of being on a plane once with a bunch of grannies who all smelled to high heaven.  Ugh...that's all I can say about that.  Don't get me wrong, I have nothing against old ladies, just the way they smell of "old lady" perfume.

Well, since I'm sure I will never be able to rid the world of that awful Goat's Milk stuff nor stop people from cooking onions before going out anywhere, I'm going to go and Febreeze my house now. 

Those are the (rude) bits and pieces from my cupboards and drawers for now...

Till next time...

~M~