I just finished my cardio workout at the fitness center here at the college where I work. About halfway through my treadmill routine, someone comes into the cardio theater who had doused him/herself in Calvin Klein's Obsession, the most wretched cologne ever dreamed up. That stuff is RANK -- it smells like musty carrion to me! I started to develop a headache almost immediately, and it wasn't too much longer until I started feeling like my throat was going to close. So I cut my workout short and left the gym. Even now I can still smell that rotten smell in my nose. Why do people feel compelled to put on cologne before going to the gym? And even more important, why does it seem like everyone who wears Obsession knows nothing about moderation? It's like they BATHE in that ****.
If a person has something going on with their body that needs to be covered up by fragrance...that person needs to go to a doctor.
This is why I only wear Drakkar Noir at the gym, because you can't wear too much of that ****. The downside, of course, is keeping the ladies clear of my shoulders when I'm doing preacher curls.
People who wear stink juice regularly lose their sense of smell to their odor of preference. They can't smell it so they think no one else can. Thus they bathe in it. I have the same reaction as you do to most colognes/perfumes. Some of that stuff is toxic as hell.
I love obsession, it reminds me of high schools and strip clubs. Wet Lipstick and Glitter. Strippers.
That's disgusting. At my local gym, the cardio area is open to the rest of the gym, so the effectiveness of the odoriferous emanations are limited.
Nasty. For that matter, why do people need to wear ******* perfume/cologne to the office? I mean, it's the freaking office where you're there to WORK. In close quarters. For several hours. Straight. And I hope this is ok to say, because it's truly only an observation....but black women are the very worst offenders in the perfume/cologne overload category.
my high school english teacher used to say there's an inverse correlation between the amount of perfume/cologne someone wore and their intelligence...
Obsession, Drakkar and Polo remind me of Jr. High....I cannot believe people still wear them. I laugh at people wearing make up in the gym and running around the park at Memorial. What is the point of that?
I wish I would just get a headache when I am around someone with too much offensive cologne/aftershave on. My throat immediately constricts and I cannot breathe. It does not bother me to tell someone they need to wash some of it off. It does not bother me if it embarrasses them that I am choked up, red faced, and tears are running down my cheeks from their fragrance. Nothing smells better than the fragrance of soap from someone having taken a shower/bath.
I agree, I don't want to smell cologne, perfume, deoderant, soap/shampoo, or smoke embedded in your t-shirt. I can understand it at 5:00 pm, when you're coming from work, but why at 6:00 a.m.? Are you showering just for the workout? That combined with the almost constant "refinishing the floors" makes me almost forget my mantra.
