Smell Ya Later
Perfume these days is getting really, really bad. A little goes quite a long ways, but too many people (and products) don't seem to realize this.
Soap
My brother, for some strange and likely bizarre reason, bought some Dove soap the other day. "Unscented" it said on the box. Well, when I got up the next morning, he'd already showed (with the brand spanking new soap) and left. My first thoughts upon waking up where that he'd had spilled garbage in his room (which is near the bathroom). I was sadly mistaken; he'd simply used the unscented soap.
Smell laws?
The fact that soap-smell alone (and unscented at that; perhaps I've discovered the Zen smell-of-nothing) can make a grown man gag is scary enough, but too many people use too damn much perfume (or aftershave or cologne or whatever you want to call it). I remember a few years ago someone here in Calgary was trying to get perfume outlawed in public places. I wouldn't go even close to this far, as I'd lean more toward "education" (maybe "I don't smell" T-shirts), but it at least shows some other people share my concern. And those laundry sheets: geez! But nothing is quite as bad as the perfume.
Perfume of the Devil?
My first day at work I was working kinda late (I'm not a morning person, and luckily my boss isn't either, so we both show up late and leave late) and I smelled something funny. A couple minutes later the janitor showed up to take out the garbage and her perfume (which wouldn't have smelled any better no matter how little she wore) was overpowering. I could smell her before I heard her! Only exasperating the problem is the fact that people don't seem to realize that you stop smelling something soon after you start; if your perfume-smell seems to be fading, please do the rest of us a favour and don't put more on. Thanks.