I've done something insane for a 38-year old woman - found and bought the signature fragrance of my crush

[BrokeAssLookingBitch]

I have a crush on a bloke.

He always smells great, really great. Not like aftershave great. It's not a smell I'd ever been able to pinpoint to being a particular thing he uses like a soap or fragrance or even laundry detergent.

It's just like a generally nice aroma - clean, fresh, kind of warm.

He takes good care of himself so I always assumed it was a nice body spray or lotion or whatever. But it's never felt quite right to actually ask what he uses that makes him smell so good. We're friends but that'd be a very weird conversation.

Anyhow, yesterday I was having a big old browse in the posh body care section at Boots to spend some vouchers I received at Christmas. And I found the smell. His smell. His exact smell. Bottled up all neat and tidy in a little tub of body cream.

So I bought the body cream. And now I'm wearing the body cream. And I can't get any bloody work done because I can't concentrate.

I have form for this kind of behaviour. When I was 14, I found out that a boy I liked used Aussie shampoo. So I convinced my mum to buy me some Aussie shampoo because Sugar magazine had said how great it was for teenage hair.

But I was 14 at the time. And we all do mad stuff when we have a crush at 14. But I'm not 14 now. I'm 38. I'm a professional, level-headed woman. But here I am huffing my own arm like its fucking amyl nitrite.

Large parts of me are cringing at my ridiculous teenage behaviour. It seemed such a good idea at the time when I was swept up in the excitement of the moment. But now I'm sat at my desk smelling like a bloke I want to bang wondering what the hell I was thinking.

Tell me you've also done insane and cringe things when you've had the crush blinkers on.

Bum bum cream - this is utterly brilliant! I've been howling at this thread 😅

And he's definitely now named Mr Bum Bum Man for the purposes of MN, sorry OP - maybe it will help cool your crush 😅

But I need to know - what does this magical bum bum cream smell like? Is it lavender? I really really hate lavender and someone on this thread mentioned lavender. But I adore clean, almost soapy smelling scents - and this sounds like it might fit the bill......?? I'm thinking I need to go and find some bum bum to sniff..... <snigger>

I am not sure if this word is even in use any more, but in my day (the nineties), that choice of skin product would have made this chap extremely 'metrosexual'. My DS and his generation are all quite comfortable with skincare, thankfully - no basal cell carcinoma for them - but I think they would draw the line at £35 for something called Bum Bum Cream.

Lol if I ever go into Boots or somewhere with perfumes, I have a sniff of Fahrenheit and go a bit giddy about the various boy crushes I had in teenage years.

An ex boyfriend (who is awful and I have no interest in being with) always smelled amazing. It was just a big standard cheap set from his country’s supermarket, but I have to seek it out and smell it whenever I go over there. Smells really do something to me.

Oh, and I have a strong record of cringe behaviour around crushes. But thankfully, I found MrBigSkies and he has absorbed my craziness quite happily for 20 years.

@chaos76 I don't know if wax melts are a great idea. I'm not sure I want my whole house smelling of this chap. Or maybe I do.

@SpidersAreShitheads Nope, definitely not lavender. Definitely not. The website has all the proper information about notes and the like. But I'd say its a warm, caramel-like smell but not 'heavy' - very fresh and uplifting. But I'm biased of course.

Oooh that does sound nice @BrokeAssLookingBitch.

I think I need to go and have a sniff.

You realise that you could be making things worse for yourself? This thread is bringing the delights of bum bum cream to the MN masses so now whenever you go out, there will be hordes of us wearing the scent that gets you all perky. You'll be surrounded by the smell of Mr Bum Bum Man everywhere 😅

Crushes are fun! Huff away!

@SpidersAreShitheads This is very true. What a wonderful world that will be.

Laughing so much at this.
I must say OP, I am totally with you on buying the scent of your crush, but if I’d seen a pot of Bum Bum cream on DH’s bathroom shelf when we first met I would still be teasing him and laughing twenty years on.

crying with laughter

What was it ?

Also want to go and sniff, although my closest Boots isn't exactly brimming with cosmetics etc so may have to journey off to the 'big town' to join the fun!

When I was in a kinky relationship I bought the female perfume in the range to go with his male one. But they smelt completely different and the women's one wasn't particularly interesting.

A year or so ago I got obsessed with the memory of an ex from many years ago. I started going to the church he went to (he'd moved far away, it was just that I wanted to go somewhere where he's feet once walked @BrokeAssLookingBitch 😂 ) Then I got baptised into Catholicism mostly because he did. (That's quite a long process, too.😂 )

To be fair, I did get more into the Catholicism over the year it took me to go from attending to being baptised.

I bought some Bum Bum Cream this weekend as I keep sing it on ASOS and was curious. The smell is incredible but the price is ridiculous.

Anything with a name like that would suck me in though I'm a marketing man's dream.

I want bum bum cream now and I don’t even know this bloke!

How many hits do these trending posts get I wonder? Because there are now an awful lot of people wanting to buy some very expensive moisturiser.

Call me cynical….

@OldFan WOW. That's impressive dedication. I'm not at the stage of getting baptized because of a crush. But maybe Bum Bum is the gateway drug. And eternal salvation is the end point.

I use this cream and it is fabulous. Firmed my thighs and arms right up! Pricey though as you say, and I tend to only wear it to bed as it smells so strongly. Clearly I’m missing a trick! I also use the shower gel and it’s lush.

The pink one is amazing too as a PP said!

For those asking, I would describe the smell of Bum Bum as summery, beach, faintly coconut, powdery. It's very sweet.

Oh I was hoping it might smell of pistachios. It says something about pistachios

I dont care what it smells like, I could never wear anything called something so stupid as "Bum Bum Cream "

Boots tell me it's selling fast and 24 have been bought recently.... you been stocking up @BrokeAssLookingBitch 🤣

Go anywhere with teenage kids and you can't escape it, I'm currently in a coffee shop in a tourist town and the college students are here from school - after about 2pm, it smells permanently of Bum Bum Cream.

ahhh OP, this thread has made me laugh.

Bum Bum cream has had a recent cult following and for months was really difficult to get. I picked it up in duty free recently as a gift for DD as it appears very popular with the late teen age group.

It does smell lush but is vastly overpriced.

The smell of Sol de Janeiro reminds me of lockdown.