to think there's nothing more offensive than cheap body spray

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Teenage DD is obsessed with the stuff - Impulse, So, whatever's on offer in Home Bargains.

IT STINKS.

She left for school 30 minutes ago and I can still smell the stuff and feel it in the back of my throat. Yuk. This phase will pass, right?

And I know it could be worse, it could be a DS and Lynx.

I well remember the teenage years - ds3 was particularly bad for using so much Lynx that I could taste it three rooms away! I used to describe it as weaponised fragrance!

All I can say is that it does eventually get better. Ds3 is 23 now, and has been home from university all through lockdown, and there have been no Lynx odour clouds - and he is always clean and fresh.

@Newfornow

The title is ridiculous. There are many more offensive things going on than impulse worm bu a teenager.

Maybe I should have put "lighthearted".

I have a colleague who sprays herself down with the stuff twice a day. It’s revolting.

Impulse is way better than knock-off Georgio Armani in a yellow box from a stall in the market. Or fake Eden, fake Gucci, fake Cerutti, fake Chanel no5...or liberal amounts of real and very smelly 1990s Jazz aftershave.🤢🤢🤢

Boots do a blue body mist called Mightnight Sparkel, its actually really light and doesn't smell like something from a fruitstall, like a lot of expensive perfumes seem to do at the moment.

I remember there was a sign in a French cafe, that said "no smoking pipes and no Posion (Dior) Perfume" as it would trigger headaches in people. So I don't think the more expensive the better IMO

Lynx mens spary, on the other hand, should be banned, one wiff is enough to fell a gorilla .

I like them and have had positive comments about them, others asking which one I use.

Your thread title is ott.

I have super sensitive sinuses so most perfumes and body sprays are banned in my house because it causes me a lot of pain. Everyone is okay with that. DH can still use his Lynx (which actually does smell nice on him when it mixes with his own scent) As long as it's put on out in the corridor or away from where I am or will be and DDs can use Mitchum body sprays. The smell is mild and only hurts a bit.

I would suggest a new rule for your DD. Spraying Impulse is allowed only in her room with a window wide open. No communal room spraying and ease up on the bloody stuff.

DH used to open a bottle of aftershave and apparently dived in and swam around a bit! My sensitivity didn't start until my pregnancy nose simply didn't go away but by then he'd already got used to easing up on it to stop me throwing up with aftershave induced morning sickness.

@nosswith

Agree its very unpleasant but please don't exaggerate.

The behaviour of some men towards teenage girls/young women is something that offensive is an appropriate word, for example.

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Didn't mean to imply your DD was unsanitary! Just that teens sometimes don't realise that deodorant in itself won't stop the sweat and the smelly bacteria that feeds on it.

I used to hate having soaking wet patches on my blouses which only stopped when I discovered Revlon liquid dab-on anti-perspirant. Sadly they don't make it anymore (probably had some really bad chemical in it) but it was amazing.

Aargh, quoted wrong post, that was meant for the OP.

I'd have agreed with you in the past, however in a bind I used a specific impulse spray a while back and someone said "ooh you smell just like A". A uses a very expensive perfume. So I've hung onto that bottle.

We had a room at work where the guest spent the night smoking cannabis and tried to cover it up with liberal use of lynx.

@LockdownLump

When I was in school, our whole female year group smelled of dewberry oil from the bodyshop 🤣🤣

Definitely just a phase. 'Offensive' is a bit Ott though.

Ours was White Musk

Farts are probably worse

Presumably OP doesn’t actually think there is nothing on earth more offensive.

I’m torn between gagging and nostalgia when I get a waft of an over-enthusiastic applier of cheap perfume. I don’t know how my family stood me.

I find it's worse with men of all ages who utterly douse themselves with stinking man's spray where they've put so much on it both precedes them and follows them around in one huge nuclear cloud of man spray.

With teens the problem is quantity rather than quality.

Look on the bright side, you know your sense of taste and smell is ok.

Sweat is worse. My eldest can't get his head round the fact that he needs to wash at least daily and use anti perspirant. Unless it's within a few hours of me bullying him into the shower, he reeks. It is foul. I'd take cheap shitty body spray any day!

Presumably OP doesn’t actually think there is nothing on earth more offensive

I would have thought that was obvious.

Do people really have to pop in to say "well, Ebola is more offensive" or whatever else.

We have a really good word in Scotland - dour. It means sour faced and miserable. Just saying.

I saw Lynx car air fresheners yesterday. Africa. Just why?

Have to say though I do like the lynx female one, and the unisex one with the rainbow on the can. I'm not really in their demographic being rather old but they smell divine.

It is over powering but better than BO.
I'd have her spray herself in the back garden. Yanbu.

Oh man. I used to work with teens in a home and the PERFUME. It's like... some kind of olfactory siren going off in your nose constantly. It's so important to them though isn't it? Makes me think about that thread a while back where everyone was in love with Heather Shimmer lipstick. Worse, I found, was being in a call centre with someone who wore a celeb perfume that used to be really popular and it made me nauseous. (I hated the job too, that smell catapults me to a baaaad place.) I found out last night that Lynx Africa car air fresheners exist.

Ha! Hexy beat me to it!!

Money spent is no indication of decent smell!

Agree 100%

I have an extremely sensitive sense of smell and I really like some of the cheap body sprays and wear them myself from time to time.

I also like expensive perfumes but some are truly awful. I was once given some Poison YSL? IMMIC the one in the purple bottle. Cost an absolute fortune but I hated it. Far too cloying and left me feeling a bit queasy.

In my last pregnancy I couldn't bear any fragrance at all. Even shower gel was unbearable.

Impulse must make a bloody fortune though, all those 14 year olds going through gallons of the stuff each year.

I'm with you, OP