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cefirus

Touch

Jan 30, 2007 15:52

Before it started thundering (no kidding!) and raining today, I was walking on campus doing various errands. I was talking on my cell phone, mostly oblivious to the world and using my peripheral vision to scan for rampant bikes. This campus is amuck with about thirteen thousand bikes, but that's not germane.

So I was wandering and talking and ( Read more... )

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Scent is very important. blueiiidgirl36 January 31 2007, 16:37:18 UTC

Isn't that how we are influenced by phermones? via our olfactory sense?

Did you determine what scent the not-so-visually-appealing male was wearing?

Re: Scent is very important. cefirus January 31 2007, 17:29:56 UTC

There is indeed a good bit of material, some scientific (like the ads in the back of magazines where you can mail off for pheromones, probably extracted from some Mexican mink),and some extremely interminable literature (*cough cough* Marcel Proust *cough cough*) that supports the pheromone idea. I'm sure it's not that unusual, but if I had to give up one of my senses while threatened by a mad scientist at gunpoint, I would probably give up anything but smell. Then again, I'm a big touch person as well. And I like shiny things, so sight is apparently important too.

Crap. I'll just keep all my senses.

I did not in fact determine what the smell was. I've blocked out time to go to Sephora and try on every male cologne they have. By the way, never EVER venture over to the perfume section and try on J's-Glow. It never comes off, it makes you vaguely nauseous, and people avoid you in the mall.

Re: Scent is very important. blueiiidgirl36 January 31 2007, 18:15:38 UTC

I don't know. I rarely find a scent that does not smell like soap when I apply it to my skin.
Odd personal biochemistry quirk?

Re: Scent is very important. cefirus January 31 2007, 23:08:41 UTC

I've heard that every perfume takes on a different tone once you apply it to your skin.

Get thee to Sephora and ask the girls with a bunch of makeup on to spray you down with different perfumes. I'm sure they don't all smell like soap.

If that fails, there are worse things than smelling like soap. :-)