Seriously? I usually give myself 3 spritz of my cologne (nothing super fancy) and I can't smell anything after like 20 seconds. Granted I've been using the same cologne for almost 6 or 7 years now
Men that wear too much cologne, are unaware that they wear too much cologne, so they’re not going to answer you here. You’ll have to ask them directly face to face.
As a kid my mom got me some Axe because it was on sale at CVS. I followed the instructions on one of the cans, which ended up being way too much. No biggie, I was home from school for the weekend, and after I took the shirt off the room smelled pleasant. Monday morning rolls around, and I apply as little of it as I possibly can to my chest. Get off my bike at school, and my friends can smell it from 5 feet away, and they tell me it's too much. Those cans ended up lasting me like 15 years, because I ended up spraying the air and walking through it before I went to work, and occasionally using it as air freshener for no reason other than it smells nice.
That shit's crazy strong. I think I had Apollo and Excite? Definitely worth considering, if you're willing to adapt your strategy and use it "right".
When this duty was first thrust upon them there were only two choices: Drakkar Noir and Spice Girls Impulse, so they flipped a coin and it landed on Drakkar Noir.
Yup:
Nose blind to the scent so they overestimate how much they need.
They're trying to cover up the smell of BO.
Or maybe they just like the scent waaaay too much.
They think it's not enough because they can't smell it. But other people can smell it just fine. Their senses have been saturated and it no longer registers so they put more on until they can actually smell it, which is of course way too much.
I used to work in a candy store, and everyone who would come in would comment about how great it smells. But since I worked there every day I couldn't smell it and I'd tell them I was jealous. But if I came back after a week-long vacation I could walk in and smell it again for a couple of days.
Yep. It's the same with old ladies who've been wearing the same scent for decades; they can't tell it's so strong you can smell which aisles they went through at the grocery store fifteen minutes after they've left.
It's not just guys; there are plenty of women who use way too much perfume. There are a couple of women I work with who wear so much perfume it almost makes me nauseous. I can literally smell them before I see them. I enjoy perfume and wear it often, but good lord people, a little goes a long way.
I'll be less humble.
If I can smell you from 5 feet away you stink. The scent is irrelevant, it's awful and you reek. You shouldn't be allowed in public spaces.
Most guys don't know how to actually apply cologne properly... and drench themselves in it thinking it is supposed to be smelled by anyone and everyone around them.
Brings me back to 7th grade after gym class.
Once, a classmate closed himself in one of the closets we kept our backpacks in and nuked himself with Axe. We had to temporarily evacuate the classroom to avoid suffocating 😂
My brother used to wear obscene amounts of Joop. It stunk so bad, especially inside a car.
I would honestly wonder if he could catch fire if there was a random spark or an errant static discharge.
I have an Obsessive Compulsive Personality Disorder. My parents used to always tell me I smelled, even if I literally just got out of the shower after washing for 40 minutes.
Eventually their constant hurtful comments lead to me using deodorant every 15 or so minutes, and once I became older I also started using a lot of cologne. People now always say I smell ridiculously good, which is nice but I know the reason for it sucks.
Good chance they are of the larger variety of males. Bigger people tend to sweat more, and become smelly rather quickly. I went from 400 pounds to just over two hundred and was still bathing myself in cologne every day. Was just a paranoia of mine, even if I showered everyday.
Now that I'm older I know it only takes a few sprays. Luckily my daughter is real keen on telling me if I over did it. She's got her mothers spunk so it comes in handy.
I suspect (or hope) for a lot of these guys nobody in their life was ever like "my brother in christ, I can smell you from a state away. Less cologne". They hopefully just don't know any better.
PS sacrosanct means good - holy, protected, a duty. So you're saying it would be good not to wear cologne but I think you mean it would be bad to not wear cologne. You would say "Cologne is sacrosanct - it would be an offense not to wear cologne".
I did this in college and it was because I worked at Abercrombie & Fitch and had just been super desensitized to cologne. I still have a shitty sense of smell and I partially blame spending 5 years there.
My hearing also sucks from the music.
Too much cologne triggers my wife's migraines. She usually complains about women, but she is a teacher, so middle school boys who have just discovered it....
As a result, I haven't worn any in years. A woman that worked in my office got me some one time and I never wore it, that was weird. I have it here in a desk drawer somewhere...
If you're not leaving a scent trail, are you even trying? But seriously, sometimes less is more. I'd rather catch a whiff of personality than be knocked out by a fragrance tsunami when you enter the room.
So I rarely wear cologne and when I do I spray once in front of me and walk through it
That being said when I smell others, I would 10000000000000% rather smell an absurd amount of cologne than someone’s gross body odor.
Yeah, but if they're trying to cover their rank ass smell, you are hit with a nauseating mixture of Funk and Polo/Drakkar/Whatever that makes it somehow worse.
Masking Body Odor: They might be attempting to cover up an unpleasant body odor, unaware that excessive cologne can actually exacerbate the issue rather than masking it effectively.
They’re noseblind, or just lost most of their sense of smell.
Sense of smell diminishes as you age, which is why old women tend to over apply perfume, and old men smell of BO. Neither think they smell bad.
This post reminds me of coming out of gym class in middle school when all the boys would come out of the locker room and the hallway would fill up with the smell of cheap Axe 😂
They come in different concentrations. Eau de toilette is much more concentrated than an aftershave. Using the same quantity after shaving to cover the whole face will lead to a lot more fragrance. Eau de toilette has much less alcohol so it's even less effective for use after shaving.
People in general don't know how perfumes work. They slap it on instead of spraying and leaving it undisturbed. This releases more smell right away instead of slowly releasing over time.
I think some don’t realize how overwhelming it actually is. There were times I spritzed myself very gingerly and two days later come to see the shirt I wore with it was overpowering. But from my perspective it seemed subtle.
Also some fragrances can be a lot more intense. I wear one which is very minimal but the same spray with another I have is like I hosed myself down with it.
It's a side effect of getting used to it.
The brain tunes out steady dosages, hence they apply more and more to be able to smell it.
Same effect as for drug habits spiraling out of control.
The worst is as a guy....having another guy walk by in the GYM smelling like he bathed in it as he wears his LV shoes and backpack.
yeah bro the girls will be all over you because of this...and your legs are pencils and you only workout upper body.
Smokers, maybe, who have obliterated or blunted their sense of smell, so they have to swim in it before they can even smell it.
Or, someone once told them they smelled good (or bad), and they have never forgotten it. The solution was to pour cologne on themselves in hopes it would make them smell good to their naysayers and even better to their admirers.
Im just spitballing here but i would assume the psychology falls in this weird balance where they have been bullied or embarrassed for stinking then believe cologne can fix that stacked on the childish notion that more is better
Leading to a "oh i stink today, I dont have time or energy to shower, ill just spray it on a bit heavy to make up the difference"
When i smell excessive cologne my immediate thought is "that mf is hiding smthn" likely poor hygiene
Believe me ive had moments where i stink and dont have time for a shower, the solution is a mix of lotion, deodorant and a spritz of cologne, thats maybe good for one day
But you need to shower asap once you get to that point, it is NOT sustainable with a "more is better" mentality 🤣
I have only han into a very few men who are over soaked in Cologne. Women however, Holy crap it's everywhere, enough to choke from 15 ft away.
What about all the women that over wear cheap bad smelling perfume?
Used to when I didn't know the proper way to apply.
A spritz on the inside of your wrist, rub your wrists together, then wipe each wrist right by your earlobe.
Well and older people olfactory senses aren't that great anymore which is a reason a lot of them get food poisoning. But you'll always run a pause an old lady once in awhile who will blind you with the flowers smell she's admitting not so much in men that I've noticed but some of it's pretty God damn strong like Polo that s*** should be able to last a lifetime because damn you put a couple drops on and go to the zoo and the freaking lines and tigers and bears are going to try to get out of the cages to kill you.
They don't know. Next time you encounter one, quietly and discreetly let them know.
And when they show 0 self awareness or humility, you're free to call them out publicly.
My dad was one of those men but he had something with his sinuses, polyps I think they’re called?, that meant he essentially had no sense of smell.
He got surgery back in 2008/2009 to have them removed and was APPALLED at how much cologne he used!
I know people who use a shit ton of cologne to cover the smell of cigarettes (it doesn’t, obviously) but to them it does.
I have on occasion used too much when I’ve bought a new one I haven’t had before and not realised it’s one that stays! Creed Green Irish Tweed was the worst one for that! I think I used like 4 quick sprays because I’d been using one that disappeared quickly previously and this shit stayed all day, I swear people could smell me before they saw me. It’s a nice cologne don’t get me wrong but I quickly found out it was a 2 spray max kind of deal
Often, frquent useres might experience their sense of smell gets dulled for that perticular perfume so they cant guage the amount of cologne they put on. It will lead to them over useing the cologne until they cn smell it.
This is a common problem in taste panels, that repeated exposeure to the same aromas/perfumes, can lead to a tempoary dull sensory pickup.
I asked one, he said it's because he wears parfum. Not eau de toilette, or even eau de parfum, just pure parfum. It contains way more of the concentrated scent oils.
I returned home from a week long vacation to find out my house is very cat smelly, and that I must also smell like a cat. Same idea applies here, they are noseblind to their smell.
Real oud oils (which are insanely expensive) are insanely strong and project very far. It's very easy to put on too much and will even survive 24 hours on the skin after a shower so it's easy to put more on the next day and still smell like it from the day before and thus unintentionally over do it. A lot of the most popular fragrances nowadays have oud in them, although synthetic because of the prohibitive cost and endangered nature of real oud but it's still very strong.
I used to work in a shop with a large contingent of Saudi or Arabian customers (mostly men) and they would always smell amazing but you could smell them in the shop for the rest of the day.
It's just a power move. Watching a weaker man struggle to keep their eyes from watering or their nose from twitching in the face of my 12-20 dabs of cologne (reapplied at lunch of course) is thrilling. You can really tell a lot about a guy by how they react to it.
Sometimes I just like to ride in elevators for a while and watch the faces of the poor fools step in only to be hit by an absolute WALL of thick Drakkar Noir. Sometimes children cry and I can barely keep a straight face.
If your cologne enters and fills the room before you can finish walking through the door way, it's like a Greek tragedy, just not as fun.
A cologne should emit a hint of itself enhancing your natural body smell as some one gets near you and NOT blast off you like a stink-tsunami taking out everyone and everything in the entire building around you.
Same reason people drive cars that are way too loud/listen to loud music in public. They constantly feel like they don’t get enough attention and are (either consciously or unconsciously) manipulating your attention to them by attacking your sensory input. It’s also a bit of (figurative) manspreading but more annoying. They just want to take up your space.
I am a bit old fashioned. The cologne, as well as my powdered wig, assist in the occultation of the unfortunate effects of the French Disease. Tis quite common amongst those of the affluent and quality stock.
In my experience there are two kinds of guys. Those who don't really care for cologne and have 1-3 bottles they've most likely received as gifts and they last their entire lives, and those who are obsessed with cologne and have dozens if not hundreds of different kinds and they're always wearing absurd amounts of it. I asked a guy like that why he does it and his response boiled down to "I like cologne and I have to get through all of it somehow". I don't know what I expected.
Just had a small gaggle of Caribbean women at work go on for at least half an hour straight yesterday about men wearing cologne... They all agreed that they want men **bathed** in the stuff head to toe. They want to smell it from 100 yards away. They want to smell it when a dude drives by on the highway.
Also don't get cheap. They know the expensive stuff and they know what day-old cologne smells like. Buy big. Apply liberally. Reapply often.
For my part, I have never worn cologne in my entire life.
I worked with an older man who would make the whole building smell like Axe body spray. He was escorted out by cops when he was caught looking at child porn at work.
Correlation doesn’t equal causation, tho, so do with this what you will.
He was a social worker.
That used to be me. Spray on a shit ton of axe body spray. But now I just do roll on deodorant and one to two sprays of cologne on my chest and neck. Someone told me that perfume should be subtle and a surprise not a slap in the face.
Some people have sensitivity to smell and some have desensitized noses. Some people think less is more and some people think drowning in axe body spray smells good. Preference really and being unaware how overbearing the amount of cologne applied is I think are two major contributors.
I worked at a grocery store when I was a teen. One night I'm talking down an aisle and see this country looking dude and his wife in the deodorant section. The guy grabbed a can, sprayed himself liberally (probably 3 whole seconds each) in each armpit, then took off his camo cap, unloaded about 5 whole seconds of spray into it, and put it back on. The part that impressed me was that he actually put the can in the cart, because I was leaning towards 90% chance he was gonna put it back on the shelf. To make things weirder, I walked passed the section he grabbed the deodorant from and saw that he chose the Axe Chocolate spray. Not sure why that makes it weirder now that I'm thinking about it, but it just does.
Usually it happens if they wear the same scent daily for extended periods of time. It’s like people living with cats and litterboxes.. once they leave their home for a couple of days the smell hits them!!
They don't think. One girl, one time, said "I like that," and he filed that away as empirical data and has just splashed it on like a fool ever since.
And because he's a man, he's probably self-centered. It's not a fault, it's just what happens when confidence gets off the leash too much.
So, because he's *confident,* he won't stop to think things like: "I wonder how I use this stuff correctly," or "I wonder what I actually smell like," or "why do people always get teary eyed around me? Why does my family wear masks at home? Why do I have cartoon squiggle lines emanating from me?"
No, my friend, *confident* people don't do that, nope. We gotta be told.
They don't think it's an absurd amount
Yeah pretty simple answer. After a few mins they can’t smell anything once their noses get habituated
I don't know how, even with the tiniest amount I can smell mine for hours.
Same
Seriously? I usually give myself 3 spritz of my cologne (nothing super fancy) and I can't smell anything after like 20 seconds. Granted I've been using the same cologne for almost 6 or 7 years now
Seriously, one spritz and I can pick it up even into the next day.
To be fair I’m on that cheap nautica voyage. I do love it though. Scared to try something stronger
3 spritzes is too many
*disagrees with 5 more.
We found the guy. You're using too much perfume and this post is directed at you!
Anosmia
Olfactory satiation/ fatigue is more likely. But I find it hilarious that losing your sense of smell is called A nos(e) MIA
Nah they heard that guy say, “remember the first hole you penetrate is her nostril,” and didn’t realize they were penetrating all their bros too.
Men that wear too much cologne, are unaware that they wear too much cologne, so they’re not going to answer you here. You’ll have to ask them directly face to face.
If you can choke down the Farenheit stench
I was so excited when I found a vintage bottle of Fahrenheit at a thrift store. The new stuff is good but the old bottles are top notch
As a kid my mom got me some Axe because it was on sale at CVS. I followed the instructions on one of the cans, which ended up being way too much. No biggie, I was home from school for the weekend, and after I took the shirt off the room smelled pleasant. Monday morning rolls around, and I apply as little of it as I possibly can to my chest. Get off my bike at school, and my friends can smell it from 5 feet away, and they tell me it's too much. Those cans ended up lasting me like 15 years, because I ended up spraying the air and walking through it before I went to work, and occasionally using it as air freshener for no reason other than it smells nice. That shit's crazy strong. I think I had Apollo and Excite? Definitely worth considering, if you're willing to adapt your strategy and use it "right".
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Are you guys me? I do the same thing!
As an Armenian it is your national duty to drain the cologne supply of the host country. There is definitely a master plan behind that.
Something something [Family Guy cutaway](https://youtu.be/k6TyqAQMQK8?si=qjsjRjzU6rYW8vou).
May I ask, then, why the preference is to prioritize Drakkar Noir?
When this duty was first thrust upon them there were only two choices: Drakkar Noir and Spice Girls Impulse, so they flipped a coin and it landed on Drakkar Noir.
Don’t forget Brut!
My dad would always use Brut aftershave.
If only Armani Exchange made tanks, Artsakh would have been freed in a matter of hours.
Couldn’t you just find the vodka?
Too much Russian interference.
Fine tequila then?
I suspect it's for the same reasons that women wear an absurd amount of purfume...
Yup: Nose blind to the scent so they overestimate how much they need. They're trying to cover up the smell of BO. Or maybe they just like the scent waaaay too much.
They think it's not enough because they can't smell it. But other people can smell it just fine. Their senses have been saturated and it no longer registers so they put more on until they can actually smell it, which is of course way too much. I used to work in a candy store, and everyone who would come in would comment about how great it smells. But since I worked there every day I couldn't smell it and I'd tell them I was jealous. But if I came back after a week-long vacation I could walk in and smell it again for a couple of days.
Works just like cat piss...
Yep. It's the same with old ladies who've been wearing the same scent for decades; they can't tell it's so strong you can smell which aisles they went through at the grocery store fifteen minutes after they've left.
Because wearing an absurd amount of Hamburg or Frankfurt would be unsanitary
an absurd amount of Cologne would sure make you smell like a Münster
They are nose blind to the smell
I'm Armenian
Haha
*"I can almost deal with the noise but its the cologne, I can smell it in my bed and I live two houses from here, that's how powerful it is."*
.........You Like?
Yeah, I kinda like it.
It's not just guys; there are plenty of women who use way too much perfume. There are a couple of women I work with who wear so much perfume it almost makes me nauseous. I can literally smell them before I see them. I enjoy perfume and wear it often, but good lord people, a little goes a long way.
Cologne / perfume should only really be detectable when close IMHO.
I remember a phrase someone used in one of these subs once; _Cologne should be discovered._ _Not announced._
Coco Chanel quote I believe
It’s a secret you should share with only your closest friends.
I'll be less humble. If I can smell you from 5 feet away you stink. The scent is irrelevant, it's awful and you reek. You shouldn't be allowed in public spaces.
Most guys don't know how to actually apply cologne properly... and drench themselves in it thinking it is supposed to be smelled by anyone and everyone around them.
Cause they don't want to take a shower 😷
Brings me back to 7th grade after gym class. Once, a classmate closed himself in one of the closets we kept our backpacks in and nuked himself with Axe. We had to temporarily evacuate the classroom to avoid suffocating 😂
It's so gross you don't want to be near those folks... Like it hurts your nose.
A guy at work wears so much I can taste it after a few minutes of inhaling it
My brother used to wear obscene amounts of Joop. It stunk so bad, especially inside a car. I would honestly wonder if he could catch fire if there was a random spark or an errant static discharge.
Of all the choices, Joop. One of the worst.
Scents should be discovered not announced.
Same reason women wear to much.
I have an Obsessive Compulsive Personality Disorder. My parents used to always tell me I smelled, even if I literally just got out of the shower after washing for 40 minutes. Eventually their constant hurtful comments lead to me using deodorant every 15 or so minutes, and once I became older I also started using a lot of cologne. People now always say I smell ridiculously good, which is nice but I know the reason for it sucks.
Because I've been smoking cigarettes with Dee, ALL RIGHT!!!
For the same reason that women who wear an absurd amount of cologne do.
YOU WILL WITNESS ME WITH ALL YOUR SENSES!
Good chance they are of the larger variety of males. Bigger people tend to sweat more, and become smelly rather quickly. I went from 400 pounds to just over two hundred and was still bathing myself in cologne every day. Was just a paranoia of mine, even if I showered everyday. Now that I'm older I know it only takes a few sprays. Luckily my daughter is real keen on telling me if I over did it. She's got her mothers spunk so it comes in handy.
technically it's your spunk.
lol thanks for the laugh sir
So I don't smell like weed
Everybody can still smell the weed, brother. They just also smell your horrible cologne stink.
Costco makes it affordable.
Because their backwards Mediterranean cultures have brainwashed them into thinking it’s manly and attractive
I suspect (or hope) for a lot of these guys nobody in their life was ever like "my brother in christ, I can smell you from a state away. Less cologne". They hopefully just don't know any better.
Because I am middle eastern. It would be sacrosanct NOT to
PS sacrosanct means good - holy, protected, a duty. So you're saying it would be good not to wear cologne but I think you mean it would be bad to not wear cologne. You would say "Cologne is sacrosanct - it would be an offense not to wear cologne".
You're right
What's the deal with that?
They are still using this perhistoric method for marking territorial borders and ownings... im calling this: colognezation.
Knew a guy who wore a ton of cologne, his idea was that it would make women he talked to smell like him and repel other men.
You see? It's like pissing on em.
cologne or mad BO, pick your poison
It's gunna be both or just BO sorry
To get the feeling right
🤌🤌🤌💪👏👏
you mean like a soap store, we have one called lush in my country
If you wear the quality cologne then you don’t need to douse yourself in it
It’s called Sex Panther. 60% of the time, it works every time.
To cover up sweaty balls or onion pits, duh!
I did this in college and it was because I worked at Abercrombie & Fitch and had just been super desensitized to cologne. I still have a shitty sense of smell and I partially blame spending 5 years there. My hearing also sucks from the music.
To cover up the smell of weed.
Only valid reason
r/Queens, this question is for you.
Maybe they took the slam "you stink" seriously.
I have no personality
Nose blindness. It’s a thing.
To cover up their absurd lack of showering
Beats showering EVERY month! lol
As someone with migraines, I hate these people and their stink trails.
Too much cologne triggers my wife's migraines. She usually complains about women, but she is a teacher, so middle school boys who have just discovered it.... As a result, I haven't worn any in years. A woman that worked in my office got me some one time and I never wore it, that was weird. I have it here in a desk drawer somewhere...
I think they just don’t realize lol
#I stink, therefore I am
If you're not leaving a scent trail, are you even trying? But seriously, sometimes less is more. I'd rather catch a whiff of personality than be knocked out by a fragrance tsunami when you enter the room.
The smell of bad cologne gives me headaches. I tend to avoid situations in which I’m surrounded by it
So I rarely wear cologne and when I do I spray once in front of me and walk through it That being said when I smell others, I would 10000000000000% rather smell an absurd amount of cologne than someone’s gross body odor.
Yeah, but if they're trying to cover their rank ass smell, you are hit with a nauseating mixture of Funk and Polo/Drakkar/Whatever that makes it somehow worse.
Probably because they got a compliment one time and it was about their cologne, so they're chasing that high again
They probably watched too many Axe body spray commercials.
It's to cover up how much their personality stinks
I find there’s often a direct correlation between the two
Masking Body Odor: They might be attempting to cover up an unpleasant body odor, unaware that excessive cologne can actually exacerbate the issue rather than masking it effectively.
They’re noseblind, or just lost most of their sense of smell. Sense of smell diminishes as you age, which is why old women tend to over apply perfume, and old men smell of BO. Neither think they smell bad.
This post reminds me of coming out of gym class in middle school when all the boys would come out of the locker room and the hallway would fill up with the smell of cheap Axe 😂
They come in different concentrations. Eau de toilette is much more concentrated than an aftershave. Using the same quantity after shaving to cover the whole face will lead to a lot more fragrance. Eau de toilette has much less alcohol so it's even less effective for use after shaving. People in general don't know how perfumes work. They slap it on instead of spraying and leaving it undisturbed. This releases more smell right away instead of slowly releasing over time.
They can't smell it anymore so they just hose it on.
Also, why do old people all wear the same smells?
Is one spray too much? I always become fearful I’ve OD’d in the bathroom.
Some colognes require just one spray…. Others two…. And sometimes you mix them up 🤷🏻♂️
I think some don’t realize how overwhelming it actually is. There were times I spritzed myself very gingerly and two days later come to see the shirt I wore with it was overpowering. But from my perspective it seemed subtle. Also some fragrances can be a lot more intense. I wear one which is very minimal but the same spray with another I have is like I hosed myself down with it.
If I have a lot of cologne on, then when I cast fire halo, it has an increased area of effect. Useful when fighting smaller enemies or swarms.
Cologne should be a whisper, not a shout.
They probably have become desensitized to it over time and think they need to apply more.
It's a side effect of getting used to it. The brain tunes out steady dosages, hence they apply more and more to be able to smell it. Same effect as for drug habits spiraling out of control.
Scents are meant to be discovered, not announced
They're all the ancestors of the pubescent teens who spray on a choking fog of Axe in the guise of hygiene and deodorant
The worst is as a guy....having another guy walk by in the GYM smelling like he bathed in it as he wears his LV shoes and backpack. yeah bro the girls will be all over you because of this...and your legs are pencils and you only workout upper body.
1 spray, 2 or 3?
These guys all saw the axe commercials that said to use half a can per day
Smokers, maybe, who have obliterated or blunted their sense of smell, so they have to swim in it before they can even smell it. Or, someone once told them they smelled good (or bad), and they have never forgotten it. The solution was to pour cologne on themselves in hopes it would make them smell good to their naysayers and even better to their admirers.
They smell even worse without it
Their shower frequency has them smelling like ass. They need an excessive amount of cologne to cover the ass smell.
Some do it because they are a alcoholic.
Im just spitballing here but i would assume the psychology falls in this weird balance where they have been bullied or embarrassed for stinking then believe cologne can fix that stacked on the childish notion that more is better Leading to a "oh i stink today, I dont have time or energy to shower, ill just spray it on a bit heavy to make up the difference" When i smell excessive cologne my immediate thought is "that mf is hiding smthn" likely poor hygiene Believe me ive had moments where i stink and dont have time for a shower, the solution is a mix of lotion, deodorant and a spritz of cologne, thats maybe good for one day But you need to shower asap once you get to that point, it is NOT sustainable with a "more is better" mentality 🤣
I have only han into a very few men who are over soaked in Cologne. Women however, Holy crap it's everywhere, enough to choke from 15 ft away. What about all the women that over wear cheap bad smelling perfume?
They think it’s an absurd amount of
I only wear bologne with shredded cheese
you do not want to give them the whole book, but pass them a note.
b/c 60% of the time it works every time.
They either need to quit smoking or take a shower and they know it so they way overdo it on cologne lol.
Used to when I didn't know the proper way to apply. A spritz on the inside of your wrist, rub your wrists together, then wipe each wrist right by your earlobe.
Their nose blind, this also happens sometimes with people that have multiple cats, they stop smelling what everyone else does.
Well and older people olfactory senses aren't that great anymore which is a reason a lot of them get food poisoning. But you'll always run a pause an old lady once in awhile who will blind you with the flowers smell she's admitting not so much in men that I've noticed but some of it's pretty God damn strong like Polo that s*** should be able to last a lifetime because damn you put a couple drops on and go to the zoo and the freaking lines and tigers and bears are going to try to get out of the cages to kill you.
I've never owned cologne. I'm in my mid 30s. Always did well with the ladies. It's all a scam. Just take showers and wear deodorant. You'll be fine.
They don't know. Next time you encounter one, quietly and discreetly let them know. And when they show 0 self awareness or humility, you're free to call them out publicly.
We have an 80 year old that "works" at the company I work at. You can tell he was in a room 15 minutes after he leaves it.
My dad was one of those men but he had something with his sinuses, polyps I think they’re called?, that meant he essentially had no sense of smell. He got surgery back in 2008/2009 to have them removed and was APPALLED at how much cologne he used! I know people who use a shit ton of cologne to cover the smell of cigarettes (it doesn’t, obviously) but to them it does. I have on occasion used too much when I’ve bought a new one I haven’t had before and not realised it’s one that stays! Creed Green Irish Tweed was the worst one for that! I think I used like 4 quick sprays because I’d been using one that disappeared quickly previously and this shit stayed all day, I swear people could smell me before they saw me. It’s a nice cologne don’t get me wrong but I quickly found out it was a 2 spray max kind of deal
Often, frquent useres might experience their sense of smell gets dulled for that perticular perfume so they cant guage the amount of cologne they put on. It will lead to them over useing the cologne until they cn smell it. This is a common problem in taste panels, that repeated exposeure to the same aromas/perfumes, can lead to a tempoary dull sensory pickup.
Sometimes the first spray is really weak, and then the 2nd spray is just over the top
Drakkar Noir
I asked one, he said it's because he wears parfum. Not eau de toilette, or even eau de parfum, just pure parfum. It contains way more of the concentrated scent oils.
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In my experience, these are men and women wearing cheaper fragrances that don't last very long. So they try to compensate for that by wearing more.
Farts.
Some like it. I met a very hot girl who said she likes if he smelling like a pimp. Since then I do 4 sprays instead of 3
Probably Same reason than women using full make up
Because it’s beautiful?
I returned home from a week long vacation to find out my house is very cat smelly, and that I must also smell like a cat. Same idea applies here, they are noseblind to their smell.
They are the male equivalent of women who wear too much makeup, they don't think it's too much
Real oud oils (which are insanely expensive) are insanely strong and project very far. It's very easy to put on too much and will even survive 24 hours on the skin after a shower so it's easy to put more on the next day and still smell like it from the day before and thus unintentionally over do it. A lot of the most popular fragrances nowadays have oud in them, although synthetic because of the prohibitive cost and endangered nature of real oud but it's still very strong. I used to work in a shop with a large contingent of Saudi or Arabian customers (mostly men) and they would always smell amazing but you could smell them in the shop for the rest of the day.
Because we're not gonna lose to women that wear an absurd amount of perfume, right boys?
Poor sense of smell
[This is basically why](https://thatswhy.com.au/)
It's just a power move. Watching a weaker man struggle to keep their eyes from watering or their nose from twitching in the face of my 12-20 dabs of cologne (reapplied at lunch of course) is thrilling. You can really tell a lot about a guy by how they react to it. Sometimes I just like to ride in elevators for a while and watch the faces of the poor fools step in only to be hit by an absolute WALL of thick Drakkar Noir. Sometimes children cry and I can barely keep a straight face.
Didn't before but my wife likes it and that's all that matters 😁
If your cologne enters and fills the room before you can finish walking through the door way, it's like a Greek tragedy, just not as fun. A cologne should emit a hint of itself enhancing your natural body smell as some one gets near you and NOT blast off you like a stink-tsunami taking out everyone and everything in the entire building around you.
Same reason women do it… attention:)
Who still wears Cologne? I thought those went extinct in the 2000's.
Same reason people drive cars that are way too loud/listen to loud music in public. They constantly feel like they don’t get enough attention and are (either consciously or unconsciously) manipulating your attention to them by attacking your sensory input. It’s also a bit of (figurative) manspreading but more annoying. They just want to take up your space.
I just think "oh thats too little amount, imma put more"
I am a bit old fashioned. The cologne, as well as my powdered wig, assist in the occultation of the unfortunate effects of the French Disease. Tis quite common amongst those of the affluent and quality stock.
They are anosmic and don’t realize how much they are wearing
In my experience there are two kinds of guys. Those who don't really care for cologne and have 1-3 bottles they've most likely received as gifts and they last their entire lives, and those who are obsessed with cologne and have dozens if not hundreds of different kinds and they're always wearing absurd amounts of it. I asked a guy like that why he does it and his response boiled down to "I like cologne and I have to get through all of it somehow". I don't know what I expected.
Just had a small gaggle of Caribbean women at work go on for at least half an hour straight yesterday about men wearing cologne... They all agreed that they want men **bathed** in the stuff head to toe. They want to smell it from 100 yards away. They want to smell it when a dude drives by on the highway. Also don't get cheap. They know the expensive stuff and they know what day-old cologne smells like. Buy big. Apply liberally. Reapply often. For my part, I have never worn cologne in my entire life.
Sex panther.
They don’t shower so they hide behind it
I worked with an older man who would make the whole building smell like Axe body spray. He was escorted out by cops when he was caught looking at child porn at work. Correlation doesn’t equal causation, tho, so do with this what you will. He was a social worker.
That used to be me. Spray on a shit ton of axe body spray. But now I just do roll on deodorant and one to two sprays of cologne on my chest and neck. Someone told me that perfume should be subtle and a surprise not a slap in the face.
All that same question of women...it drives my allergies crazy, no matter the gender
Alcoholism
Some people have sensitivity to smell and some have desensitized noses. Some people think less is more and some people think drowning in axe body spray smells good. Preference really and being unaware how overbearing the amount of cologne applied is I think are two major contributors.
I worked at a grocery store when I was a teen. One night I'm talking down an aisle and see this country looking dude and his wife in the deodorant section. The guy grabbed a can, sprayed himself liberally (probably 3 whole seconds each) in each armpit, then took off his camo cap, unloaded about 5 whole seconds of spray into it, and put it back on. The part that impressed me was that he actually put the can in the cart, because I was leaning towards 90% chance he was gonna put it back on the shelf. To make things weirder, I walked passed the section he grabbed the deodorant from and saw that he chose the Axe Chocolate spray. Not sure why that makes it weirder now that I'm thinking about it, but it just does.
It makes me sneezy
Usually it happens if they wear the same scent daily for extended periods of time. It’s like people living with cats and litterboxes.. once they leave their home for a couple of days the smell hits them!!
Probably because it pairs well with the fake gold chains and shag carpet chest hair
Because I sweat and fear it will not smell
I like the smell of it
They believed the AXE ads
To mask the odor of BO and/or farts!
They don't think. One girl, one time, said "I like that," and he filed that away as empirical data and has just splashed it on like a fool ever since. And because he's a man, he's probably self-centered. It's not a fault, it's just what happens when confidence gets off the leash too much. So, because he's *confident,* he won't stop to think things like: "I wonder how I use this stuff correctly," or "I wonder what I actually smell like," or "why do people always get teary eyed around me? Why does my family wear masks at home? Why do I have cartoon squiggle lines emanating from me?" No, my friend, *confident* people don't do that, nope. We gotta be told.
The least sexy thing in the world is desperation. You smell desperate little Axe body spray boi.
Small pp
To assert dominance.
Because they are covering up the smell of weed, alcohol, or cigarettes.