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?

It's banned in this house because it makes me wheeze and I hate it

Something about it is far worse than lots of the other toiletries. Even if it's sprayed 2 floors up and behind closed doors the smell still manages to spread through the entire house immediately. It's nothing to do with snobbiness.

Our 4 DS range from 13 to 22. The amount of antiperspirant and deodorant they spray is shocking. It gets on my chest so much that it's banned from use in the bathroom which is right next to our bedroom .
I do sometimes find myself lighting candles to mask the smell of lynx when they are all In the living room together.

It's awful- a school bus was evacuated because of the stuff, ambulances called an all sorts.

I smell it when I'm out, blokes walk past and I gag. Wish wish wish some9ne showed them how to use it.

I’d say lots of people like it or it wouldn't be so popular.

Aerosols are really bad for the environment. If you care about the environment, ask him to use a roll-on instead (and he can put on some cologne if he wants to smell nice - you could buy him one he likes. The smell from cologne is often less overpoweringly horrid, and it will last longer too - so it will be a win for both you and him!)

I can agree that the smell of BO would be off putting, and his deodorant is not at all offensive when we see him normally, but I very much doubt he needs to spray as much as he did this morning! We both use roll-on so I had forgotten the need for a gas mask 😀

TBF, I don't actually know if it is Lynx Africa - but it definitely is Lynx.

Dh doesn’t use Lynx (but some other equally smelly spray). He keeps it in his car now!

For those of you suffering with overload, you have my sympathies, and I may have worked out his Christmas present for next year 🎁

I've banned it inside.

If they must use it, they have to go outside into the garden.

DS3 has a can which lives outside on the front doorstep. My boys think Im a total tyrant and seriously weird about their smelly stuff.

@GetUpAgain - I promise you it is different from other male toiletries. I can be in the kitchen and DS1 upstairs a hallway, flight of stairs and landing away from me, when I get a strong asthma attack. I can't even smell the stuff but its evil molecules are trying to kill me.

I told DS to chuck it out as it caused bad asthma. When he didn't I chucked it away for him and told him I was choking. One of the few times I ever got cross with him.

Now they use Dove or Nivea which don't trigger asthma.

I absolutely hate Lynx Africa. It smells like piss. I thought one of my co workers must have a wee infection or something and then eventually realised it was someone spraying that after they’d been for a fag. Bloody grim! My ex was banned from using it, not that he wanted to tbf.

The only known antidote is Impulse.

And even then, when they come indoors having applied it I need to keep the doors open to let the fumes from them dissipate.

"DS3 has a can which lives outside on the front doorstep. My boys think Im a total tyrant and seriously weird about their smelly stuff."

He may have a point...

He may have a point..

It's vile stuff. The newly minted teenager here got 1 can. I binned it and bought him roll on. It has to be a hazardous chemical, it gets everywhere

Preferable to eau de 15 year old

The only known antidote is Impulse. 🤣🤣🤣

If he were staying longer, I might have to try that cure - but he's gone now. Issuing orders to apply it outside might be a little draconian for one overnight stay every 3 years 😀

I have an adult son, you can tell when he's been over as the cat smells of him

Well at least it's Victor and Rolf the cat smells of

My DH is a lynx user. Not Africa though.
It doesn't set my asthma off though.

Most men's aftershave only smells when you get close enough to shake hands and kiss on the cheek. One man I know smells great, but after the obligatory greeting, so do I!

Lynx however...

I think the problem with Lynx is that it isn't an antiperspirant so teenagers, who are not known for their cleanliness, use loads of it to cover up their BO smell rather than washing and using anti-perspirant, with a little bit of body spray to smell nice.

It does come in an antiperspirant version, may the Gods save us all.

God how old is he? I don't know anyone over 19 who goes near the stuff