Personal Scents

[Etoile]

Does anybody notice their partner has a particular scent? My wife is a perfume fanatic and has enough perfume to wear a different one for each day of the year, but my Daddy has a specific scene that I can identify easily. I have often said "you smell like you" when we're just lying around in bed together. And when I come home, Daddy's scent is on me until I shower. When e's come to visit us down here, I can smell em on my pillow for days. Sometimes eir smell will just hit me out of the blue wherever I am...I'm not sure what it's from, but a similar smell pops out and I am instantly reminded of my Daddy.

How about you? Do you use scent as an identifier for your partner, or do you not notice it? Do you smell it when they're not around?

 

[graceanne]

I've always identified people by scent, whether they wear perfume/cologne (sp?). When I walk into my mom's house, or my grandma's house, the first thing I notice is that it smells like them. Every guy I've dated it was the same thing. After a while they couldn't sneak up on me, cause I could smell them, and not in a bad way. I can tell a lot about K and my kids by their smell, too. When they're sick they smell differently, I don't know how to explain it.

 

[FungiUg]

I'm scent deprived (or should that be depraved?) I honestly can't smell most people, unless they smell really bad, or they have just soaked themselves in perfume.

As such, I generally get my partner to pick a scent she likes for me to wear. At the moment it's CK One. I wear it, I can't smell it (except when I put it on), and she enjoys it.

It's not often I can tell a person by their smell. Now taste would be a different story...

 

[serijules]

Mmmm, yes. Perhaps because I'm deaf and my eyesight is pathetic without my contacts, my sense of smell is very particular.

D smells just...I don't know, so fresh and clean all the time. I love to snuggle up to her after she gets out of the shower and smell that just-showered scent. It lingers on her for hours and hours too, which is wonderful.

I don't like perfumes much. I like bath and body products.

 

[D's mariposa]

Neither one of us big on scents, but he smells good, like his shampoo and anti-persperant. I've got uber scensitive skin: air makes me break out when the palo verdes are in bloom, and there's only two lotions that don't hurt. One is unscented, and one is very very mildly scented. I don't know if he really associated either with me, though, I've never asked.

 

[Desdemona]

I'm pretty sensitive to pheremones and scents. I like a person's own smell and would rather not smell perfumes at all.

 

[RavenousRae]

My ex had a particular smell that I loved and I get turned on or get a warm feeling whenever I smell something that reminds me of it.

My best friend in high school had a wonderful smell as well, it very floral and light - I will always associate that smell with her and smile.

 

[graceanne]

I'm pretty sensitive to pheremones and scents. I like a person's own smell and would rather not smell perfumes at all.

Yeah, me too.

 

[Xelebes]

Oh how I hate perfume. Hate the stuff. The most I can stand is deodorant.

 

[Mistress_Woulf]

I despise perfume most of the time. I love my boyfriend's scent and he says he loves mine too. What he really loves is when I put on some lavendar oil (not a perfume). I put on a very little bit behind my ears and on my wrists (and anywhere I want him to kiss). It literally drives him crazy. There have been times when I was worried that he wanted to ravage me in public. *giggles*

 

[serijules]

I despise perfume most of the time. I love my boyfriend's scent and he says he loves mine too. What he really loves is when I put on some lavendar oil (not a perfume). I put on a very little bit behind my ears and on my wrists (and anywhere I want him to kiss). It literally drives him crazy. There have been times when I was worried that he wanted to ravage me in public. *giggles*

check out http://www.attarbazaar.com

Best you can buy IMO. I especially like their african violet. i think they have a lavender...they are very subtle and all natural.

 

[Mistress_Woulf]

Oooo I'll definitely have to check that out. Thank you! I've been wanting to try a new scent, but I can never get to the store I bought the lavendar from (it's an hour and a half drive and we just never seem to have the time).

 

[sunfox]

Excellent site, serijules.. thanks

I use jasmine-scented bath products and vanilla sugar scented ones.. those are my preferred scents. C loves both, and says I smell good enough to eat. Which is exactly the reaction I'm going for, of course. I've been told that my natural body scent is like baby powder. I don't know if that's true, but since I was told it most notably after I'd just spent three hours in a barn cleaning stalls and grooming sweaty horses, I'm inclined to guess he really meant it if he could smell it through that reek

C doesn't usually wear any colognes.. he uses a lime shaving gel, so there is that scent on his skin, and a kind of evergreen, pine smell about his skin that I really love. It's just him.. if he's just showered, I can't smell it as well as a few hours later when the soap has faded a bit.

 

[YinandYang]

I love the smell of my SO when after we have had sex and we lie there together, he is sweaty and has a very nice manly smell....if you know what I mean! Not exactly B.O...but a nice musky man smell lol (definately not stale sweat thou!). I don't wear perfume much, i prefer aromatherapy oils. I am always mixing some concoction from base oil and essenses, my favourite is usually always something with patchouli and ylang ylang in it. Smell I think is an extrememly powerful aid to sexuality...and can help us relive many moments by just smelling a whiff of a memory.

 

[serijules]

Excellent site, serijules.. thanks

Most welcome.

I have tried almost all of their scents....some of the more exotic ones are definately aquired tastes...errr...smells, as the case may be, but the flowered scents and musks are for the most part wonderful. (and I say 'for the most part' because there are some scents I just plain don't like in any circumstance, like jasmine) Other faves include the Blue Nile (very fresh, clean scent), Arabian Wild Rose, Sundanese Coconut, French Vanilla (it you like coconut or vanilla, these smells like you just broke one open and rubbed it all over...good enough to eat for sure lol), Lily of the Valley, and Pearl Musk. Usually I *hate* musk smells, but this one is so subtle and alluring I actually like it.

The african violet is by far the most unique and pretty though, I wear it often.

 

[sunfox]

Most welcome.

I have tried almost all of their scents....some of the more exotic ones are definately aquired tastes...errr...smells, as the case may be, but the flowered scents and musks are for the most part wonderful. (and I say 'for the most part' because there are some scents I just plain don't like in any circumstance, like jasmine) Other faves include the Blue Nile (very fresh, clean scent), Arabian Wild Rose, Sundanese Coconut, French Vanilla (it you like coconut or vanilla, these smells like you just broke one open and rubbed it all over...good enough to eat for sure lol), Lily of the Valley, and Pearl Musk. Usually I *hate* musk smells, but this one is so subtle and alluring I actually like it.

The african violet is by far the most unique and pretty though, I wear it often.

I like the clean scents and citrus scents.. and while I like roses, I honestly don't care for their smell. I'm not sure why *laughs* I love the flowers.. have three bushes that we just bought for the yard, even. I tend to not care for floral scents unless they're very understated. I love lily of the valley... I'm thinking about getting the sandalwood for C. I think he'd like that, and it's a scent I like as well.

I'm with you on the musk scents, but if they're subtle, I find them much more attractive.

 

[Trinique_Fire]

She's got this perfume...and the way she smells when she comes out of the shower or bath....damn.....

 

[shy slave]

I always seem to remember the smell of particular scents people wear and associate it with them.
If I am out and smell that particular scent I always somehow expect it to be the person I associate with that smell; no matter how unlikely that would be.

I have a particular perfume I wear for work. If I am working at home I still put it on and it helps me develop the right mind set for work and not sitting watching day time TV.
I know that sounds odd but then again I have never said I was normal lol


But Why is it that small boys always smell of sweat and mud??

 

[Mistress_Woulf]

C doesn't usually wear any colognes.. he uses a lime shaving gel, so there is that scent on his skin, and a kind of evergreen, pine smell about his skin that I really love. It's just him.. if he's just showered, I can't smell it as well as a few hours later when the soap has faded a bit.

Tofu (my nickname for my boyfriend) occaisionally uses a shaving cream. One day I accused him of wearing cologne and I was just all over him. I think it was Barbosol of all things. I don't know why, but the smell reminded me of the Aspen cologne a boyfriend I had in high school would wear on occasion. I just love to nuzzle and kiss his neck when I smell that.

 

[BlueSugar]

oi do I.

I'm sure i've given myself wiplash.

I've been in places where I know 100% a person couldn't possibly be there, and someone else will smell like them and I'll do a complete doubletake/whiplash and generally have an "OMG WHERE ARE YOU?" moment.

I've actually moved across the room from a few people in classes that smelt too much like an ex.

 

[curiousjen]

I just LOVE the smell of him. I can't get enough. I get really cross now he has to wear fake smells like deoderant for work. *growls* when he was a slobby student it was much better!

He thinks I'm weird, and even I have to admit I'm pretty gross. I love the smell of his sweat, his smelly feet and even his farts

The only smell I dislike, actually, is the smell of marmite on his breath after he's eaten his breakfast.

Yuk.

Aside from that, let it all hang out, baby, I can't get enough.

 

[sunfox]

Tofu (my nickname for my boyfriend) occaisionally uses a shaving cream. One day I accused him of wearing cologne and I was just all over him. I think it was Barbosol of all things. I don't know why, but the smell reminded me of the Aspen cologne a boyfriend I had in high school would wear on occasion. I just love to nuzzle and kiss his neck when I smell that.

*laughs* I really love that lime scent too.. I do enjoy citrus smells. I like to nuzzle C's neck and smell him.. he thinks it's weird, but I love his scent.

Scent is definitely a big memory thing for me.. Drakkar reminds me of high school boyfriends, and Coolwater is a huge turnon smell for me.

 

[graceanne]

A smell I really like, although I don't think they have a perfume/cologn like it, is the smell of a spring shower. Another smell I like is the smell of the ocean. I really don't like floral scents, or citrus cents. Although if given a choice I'll take citrus.

 

[Etoile]

I've been in places where I know 100% a person couldn't possibly be there, and someone else will smell like them and I'll do a complete doubletake/whiplash and generally have an "OMG WHERE ARE YOU?" moment.

Yes! I do that visually too, thinking I see someone who couldn't possibly be in that place at that time. I definitely do it with scents too.

 

[bridgeburner]

Smell will evoke memory or emotion in me faster than anything else. I associate particular scents with people and places both good and bad and it affects me pretty viscerally. I've noticed that my brother smells like my mother and her mother, while I smell like my father and who smells like his mother. I don't know if it's diet or just body chemistry but I definitely recognize my family and intimates by their personal musk.

I like natural body odors best with maybe just a hint of something else if absolutely necessary. I don't like deoderants and antiperspirants or lots of cologne, but it does depend somewhat on what the scent is. Generally if it's an immensely popluar either male or female scent I can't stand it. Most of the really popular scents are too strong and people tend to marinate in them and it triggers my asthma.

I like citrus scents that are tart rather than sweet, clean smells like cedar, sage and juniper, but I also like sandalwood and actually own a bottle of Lauren that I wear occasionally. I'm generally not a fan of rose but the sandalwood rose products at Bath and Bodyworks are pretty yummy. My all time favorite from them is a toss up between Bergamot Corriander and White Tea Ginger. Oh, and Orange Blossom is my exception to sweet. Love Orange Blossom or just sitting at dusk under blooming citrus trees. It's the most amazing smell, calming and energizing at the same time and very arousing.

-B