Weird smells
We’ve all had someone walk by smelling like something really peculiar. Our elevator is like a torture chamber some mornings, as people put on perfume at 9 am so they smell nice at 5pm. It’s enough to make a guy take the stairs.
This morning, someone smelled intensely of Egg Nog.
What strange smells have you come across?
(No, poo isn’t strange. Sadly.)
Somebody just made or brought in lunch somewhere near by that smells delicious!
In the elevators here, we have the problem of the math grad students who don’t seem to have heard of deodorant. I’m not sure which is worse – too much perfume or scary body odor.
I work with a guy who smokes. Everytime he goes to smoke he comes back in and sprays himself down with this body spray. So he then smells like smoke, chemicals, and flowers.
You really want me to answer this?
Actually, I do have a non-gross good one: we had a drunk roll in smelling (to me) like cookies. That’s what happens when you run out of booze money & drink antifreeze.
PS. Don’t do that.
*snort* I have heard what it does to animals, I will keep that in mind when I’m desperate for booze.
Wow, though. I’m kinda curious. About the cookie smell, I mean.
I have perfume that smells like Egg Nog. And I have a few perfumes that smell like cookies. I generally try to avoid wearing enough that people can smell it from several feet away, however.
I thought about BPAL, but this was definitely not a BPAL kind of woman.
Then again, things spread in strange ways, so maybe she got an imp from a friend.
Food scents are very popular, actually, outside of BPAL. Remember when we went to Geralyn’s work and were smelling the cake and gumdrop products? Yummy!
Ask K about how my breath smells after eating awesome salad. She wouldn’t let me sit near here until I used mouthwash to get rid of the smell. Also, I’m banned from eating awesome salad at my desk at work. I don’t know what it smells like except, intense and bizarre.
Err, Awesome Salad? Is that different from normal salad?
I am not a fan of onion breath.
Imagine a salad beyond space and time! Constructed from everything and anything that is vaguely “saladish”. Mexican cheese, artichoke hearts in olive oil, jalapenos, peppercinnos, imitation crab, tofu, baby corn, kim chee, peppers, and garlic.
This is an awesome salad. It’s taste is heavenly but I guess the smell is not so much. But I don’t know because I’m immune!
Dude, Kim chee? Nothing like burying food for months until it decays properly! No wonder she doesn’t like it.
I imagine if you left out the kim chee, it’d be tolerable. :)
*Gag* NO. He left it out last night. Even without the kimchi, it’s some strange astringent vaguely vinegar-y unpleasantness. I think it’s because most of the large items have been preserved in various things. (He forgot his olives… sometimes there are beans as well…)
You’d be surprised! She never likes it even without the Kim chee! What’s up with that. I don’t know.
…I was always taken unaware by the odd sniff of Downy at City Club….
this entry made me smile:)
The best thing about working in a lab around scientists is that *all* smells other than the neutral smell of plain old air is regarded as something to be determined and eliminated (or, if you’re expecting the smell-stinky chemicals, for example-they’re tolerated until they’re supposed to go away). We aren’t allowed to wear perfume at work, and if you use a scented hand lotion, you better *bet* someone will give you shit for it. This all works really well for me since I like only one perfume scent and absolutely loathe the smell of flowery or fruity lotion.
Just the other day, the newest member of our group wore an OK-smelling perfume to work. It wasn’t particularly offensive, but it was different from the smell-free smell we’re all used to smelling. One or two remarks later, and she finally said “okay! I get it! no perfume! ever! again!” it is just totally distracting and ridiculously rude to be smelly at work. sooo, in short-any smell that isn’t the smell of air is my answer:)