Lynx: how do you cope when you share a house with a user?

[9GreenBottles]

Obviously I've seen the memes about dangerous levels of Lynx Africa moving up the country and laughed but we've just had DP's adult son to stay overnight. He hasn't stayed with us for a few years and I'd forgotten about his over liberal use of Lynx. I'd been outside when he got up and was overcome with fumes as soon as I came in. The good host in me battled with my overwhelming desire to open all windows and doors to air the house. It's noxious!

As a result, I wonder: how on earth do you cope when you have to share a home with a user?

Do you get used to the smell over time?

How quickly do they get through a can?

I'm assuming there is never a need to spray air freshener to mask other smells in the bathroom?

Are the men who use Lynx still under the impression that women will clamber over anything and anyone to be with them because of how they smell?

How many women would actually run a mile in the opposite direction if they found a new man was a devotee?

I have lived for years in a different country to my parents, and it took me a while to realise why my asthma (which hasn't generally bothered me at all in adulthood) always played up in the early mornings when I stayed overnight with them -- my Dad celebrating the morning by giving himself a good blast of Lynx, even though there were three closed doors and a landing between us.

No idea how my mother deals with it without a gas mask.

It's a popular deodorant. It smells of normal male toiletries-type smells.

I've just taught DS (age 13) to use roll on antiperspirant and do one quick spray on top of his clothes. Result being he smells of the God awful stuff but my house doesn't.

Ime a day use...empty can.

It's banned in our house, even the teenager boy jokes about how much it smells of Lynx at school

Any Lynx smell is hideous

Lol! Having a teenage DS I can honestly say the smell of lynx is preferable to the smell of stale BO so I'm afraid I've actively encouraged it!

Everyone who knows me (and any jew person who comes into my life) knows that they cannot stay in my house and bring this stuff with them. I'll happily go out and buy them a roll on deodorant. The stuff is dangerous and triggers an instant Ashma attack for me. Similarly I can't and won't use air fresheners / aerosol kitchen cleaners etc. Full of deadly chemicals.

my 12 year old is obsessed with lynx at the minute. he went to town yesterday and bought five bloody cans of it! i make him spray it in the back garden so that it doesn’t get on his baby sister’s chest. he was getting through a can in two days but i told him to calm down with it and he now gets through one a week. i feel sorry for his poor teacher having to sit in a classroom with 15 boys doused in the stuff!

i feel sorry for his poor teacher having to sit in a classroom with 15 boys doused in the stuff!.

@sunshineandshowers21 It is preferable to entering a classroom of reeking of BO

When my own DS was a teenager, I drove him and his friends to parties with my windows rolled, down even in the depths of winter, otherwise I risked being overcome by Lynx fumes

Probably avoid having naked flames in the house!

It's no different to any other male toiletries imo except for some reason people like to be snobby about it.

Everyone who knows me (and any jew person who comes into my life)

Hang on, gentiles can be susceptible to deodorant fumes, too.

You're all weirdos. Lynx Africa smells amazing, I buy it for my partner as I love it. He doesn't care, he finds it funny that I love it so much.

Oh no! I have 15 and 14 year olds and I had hoped they grew out of it by about 16

Have to say though, he doesn't use an entire can in one go or similar. He does just use a sensible amount.

I must add that my roll on and one spray applies to all body sprays, so his hollister stuff as well as lynx. To be honest it applies to my perfume and DHs aftershave as well.

It's deodorant. Who gives a shit?

@SlightlyStaleCocoPops For me it is the way any spray deodorant gets on my chest. I just prefer roll on.

Buy him a different brand and see if he likes it.

As for schools, we have a spray deodorant ban, partially because of asthma and partially because the kids (male and female) would occasionally spray it liberally around the classroom.

Aaah the dreaded bug spray as it is known in our house.

Converted them to Bionsen roll on sharpishly

One whiff of Lynx Africa and I am snapped back to university in the mid 90s.

Luckily no one in my life these days uses it but I have two young sons so there is time ...

I must be one of the few people who like Lynx on a man ...

I quite like Lynx Africa

no aerosols in my house due to asthma.
lynx is also available as stick...