To think this is a strange present for a baby?

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Friends came back from Dubai last week and brought a present back for 3mo old DD.
It was a set of 6 baby perfumes!
Who the hell would want to cover the smell of a baby, they smell yummy.
What kind of company would think ' I know what's missing off the market, baby perfume to make them smell better'

This is lighthearted, so don't say I'm ungrateful, I'm grateful that they bought something and the thought was there

Yanbu what an odd choice of gift. Maybe they just thought of it as 'how cute' and decided to get it, do they have kids of their own.
Btw baby smell should be bottled up

I remember buying a baby perfume to wear myself over 20 years ago. I think they were a new thing then.

It was the Tartine et Chocolat one.... I quite fancy trying some of the newer ones now.... Would actually put them on a baby though

My sil is Spanish and they have a special cologne for babies- it's lovely and cooling. I remember using some on dd when it was very hot and when SIL picked her up she went all soppy and nostalgic about her "proper baby smell".

Bit like The smell of Johnson's a Baby Powder for the older amongst us!

Ugghhhhhhh, yak. Not nice at all.

Normally, I'm very "be grateful, it's the thought that counts" but I find that present quite strange. That said, unless it's a cultural thing?

Maybe the perfume is not to use on the baby, but to use in the vicinity after a particularly pungent eruption of bottom wind or a filled nappy?

That is the most fantastically weird present!
Tbh, if I'd seen it for sale

I saw baby/child perfume in an in-flight shopping magazine - six little Hello Kitty bottles, the only one I can remember was sugar, which just added oddness to oddness. It's nice that they thought if your DD, but it does seem a strange choice of gift.

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I'd have racked my brains thinking of who had a baby I could buy it for.
It's definitely a joke sort of present I'd say.

Use it yourself. Or put in the hoover so it smells nice while you clean

I was brought up in a hot country and remember having my arms and legs bathed in eau de cologne.

I did the same with my little ones.

It's no different to my English friends being puffed with baby powder.

I always grab a squirt of Tartine et Chocolat when I see it, it takes me right back to their childhood.

The clouds of Polo they sport now aren't quite the same!

Bizarre! Did you manage to say nice appreciative things? MIL bought DD (3) a long multi strand necklace with heavy, fragile glass beads on leather thongs for Christmas last year. It hangs below her knees! So utterly inappropriate I put my foot in it by saying "oh no! I think DD's opened someone else's present accidentally." I still don't think I've been forgiven for that.

Oh I have a bottle of baby cologne that came in a flight bag when we flew Iberia - it's LOVELY and refreshing to splash around sweaty bits on a hot day and I jealously guard it.

Must see if I can get some more somewhere..

I've seen baby perfume before, it's an odd gift no doubt, but I also have to comment that my babies don't smell lovely - about 30 mins after the latest cleanup they'll have thrown up/done a wee/poo and be a bit whiffy and in need of washing again...

I remember my BIL taking DS2 when a baby, picking him up, smelling his head and announcing it smelled lovely. I had a sniff - he mainly smelled of breast milk and sick where he'd thrown up in the car on the way over and rubbed his head in it....

Doesn't surprise me. Frivolous, materialistic, ostentatious, poor taste, misogynistic... All words I'd use to describe both the perfumes, and the hell-hole that is Dubai. Just my opinion....!

Just so you all know, baby girls smell different to baby boys.

Baby Girl

Maybe they bought it precisely because it was fantastically weird.

This is for grown ups who want to smell like a baby

Lots of baby perfumes here. I quite fancy one for myself.

Many years ago I looked after a little boy with a French mother. I used to spray something nice smelling on him....his mother was adamant it was never to touch his skin, just his clothes. Can't for the life of me remember what it was now.....

It's common in hot countries world wide for children to be cooled down with cologne. I think it stems from the alcohol that was/is present in it.

I've loads of friends of various nationalities who had it splashed on as babies and who splash their own children with it.

It's common in hot countries world wide for children to be cooled down with cologne

On rereading this extraordinary thread, I can only conclude that there are both unsophisticated and ungrateful people out there.

It's baby cologne. It was a kind thought. Not a bottle of cat piss. Listen to yourselves.

"Frivolous, materialistic, ostentatious, poor taste, misogynistic"

Baby perfume. Not crotchless gold-plated nappies.

well, that's one poster you're quoting there, Monte.

I have never heard of such a thing, so I would it very odd. Makes more sense now I hear about baby cologne and hot countries.

Ooh, buy some diffuser reeds, stick them in the bottle, and use it as a room fragrance. Bet it smells lovely! It is an odd choice of gift though, and smacks of hurriedly picking up an airport gift when you don't know what the feck else to get!

I'd be same as you, gift is a lovely thought but a total chocolate teapot and I'd pour it straight down the drain and recycle the bottles.

But then I hate perfume of all kinds and am always weirded out by baby cologne in Spanish pharmacies, I find it a totally bizarre concept