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Teenage cologne + Perimen HELP!!

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NationMcKinley · 15/11/2025 23:23

Please help me! I’m VERY perimenopausal and I have 4 teenage boys including one 17 year old who’s obsessed with “smelling good”.

He douses himself in the most God-awful cheap oud cologne and my perimenopausal sense of smell could easily have a side hustle at Heathrow with the sniffer dogs. I hate oud at the best of times but now it’s unbearable.

He’s a sweet boy and he’s happy to try other colognes.

Any suggestions please? For him it needs to be “cool”, for me it needs to be fresh, clean, light, citrusy and subtle. I’d buy him CKOne but I don’t think that’s very cool these days?

A friend of mine was laughing like mad at me the other day when I was wailing about it - she also has teen boys and has had an almost non existent sense of smell since she had covid 7 months ago. She said she never realised there were advantages to this (there are certainly a lot of disadvantages).

Any suggestions please? Would definitely prefer the more reasonable end of the market price wise. Please help me!

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