What do you smell of right now ?

[Smooth88]

Soap, Old Spice, and cotton.

 

[helgaleena]

roast chicken and lager.

 

[D_Andreas Sukov]

roast chicken and lager.

Fast food chicken and Bad cider.

 

[Drifterwood]

How much???:biggrin1:

Fabulous, and you're exactly right, I did ask. You smelling of Korean pussy is as fascinating as anything else you might smell of right now. :biggrin1:

The funny thing is, she always tells me how good I smell. There is more to this than might first appear, because generally a lot of Asians find the smell of Westerners disagreeable. This is apparently because of the dairy in our diet and it smells like foul yoghurt on us.

I though do not smell of rotting cottage cheese. :smile: The reason for this, and its relevance to the thread, is because of the way I like to wash. I try to visit the spa at least three times a week at home, and when I am travelling, like now, I always stay at hotels with good spas. I use the hammam, or steam room. I think that this cleans you from inside out, rather than the superficial wash of the shower, and as for lying in your own dirt in the bath, spare me . I do love a good soak, but only when I am already clean.

So, most days I am squeaky clean and just use the soaps and shampoos on offer. This hotel has Occitane which I do like. These then mould with your natural clean odours and pheromones. Or if you have your face in a wet pussy.......:tongue:

 

[D_Tim McGnaw]

The funny thing is, she always tells me how good I smell. There is more to this than might first appear, because generally a lot of Asians find the smell of Westerners disagreeable. This is apparently because of the dairy in our diet and it smells like foul yoghurt on us.

I though do not smell of rotting cottage cheese. :smile: The reason for this, and its relevance to the thread, is because of the way I like to wash. I try to visit the spa at least three times a week at home, and when I am travelling, like now, I always stay at hotels with good spas. I use the hammam, or steam room. I think that this cleans you from inside out, rather than the superficial wash of the shower, and as for lying in your own dirt in the bath, spare me . I do love a good soak, but only when I am already clean.

So, most days I am squeaky clean and just use the soaps and shampoos on offer. This hotel has Occitane which I do like. These then mould with your natural clean odours and pheromones. Or if you have your face in a wet pussy.......:tongue:

I don't know what the deal is in Korea for sure, but actually I don't suppose it's radically different to Japan, from whence I recently returned, but there I encountered huge amounts of consumption of dairy products of all kinds.

Every convenience store carries milk and cheese and cheese and milk bearing products, every corner has a cafe selling milky coffees and cream-filled cakes and butter pastries. Everywhere (literally) you looked there were drinks vending machines where half the cold or warm drinks are cans milky coffee.

I even asked someone, a guy we met and spent some time with in Kyoto, about the notion that I also had about east Asians being revolted by the smell of cheese emanating from the animal-fat laden bodies of westerners. He explained that this may have been the case a very very very long time ago indeed when consumption of dairy products in Japan and other countries was the complete preserve of highly born people and the poor only ate rice and fish but that Japan at least had changed so much since then that he couldn't imagine why westerners still thought that they must stink of cheese to Japanese people.

He also pointed out that if we are supposed to smell of cheese then surely they would smell of fish to us. I had to admit that despite my own fairly acute sense of smell though I could smell a difference in the way people smelled in Japan I could not say that smell consisted of anything specifically marine.

I was rather worried about the possibility of smelling like a big ol hunk of pont leveque to Japanese people, having been under the same impression as you Drifter, but thankfully and not for the only time by any means my presumptions were completely contradicted :tongue::wink:

Now if a more general notion exists in Japan that westerner simply aren't as cleanly as Japanese people I'd be willing to believe that because just Like you Drifter, everyone in Japan uses the traditional Japanese spa, the Onsen, on a regular basis. They use hot and tepid baths and steam rooms in some cases every day, so it may just be that their native politeness and general good manners have kept them from saying to Europeans and Americans et.c. "Will you ever go and take a wash you stinky barbarian" but I don't think our smell would consist of a specifically "dairy" stench which they find particularly acrid.

And Japan does have a unique perfume culture, and I do know for certain that the Japanese think most perfumes from elsewhere are loud and bizarre and indelicate, so this may contribute to the idea that they think we smell bad.


Now as I say, Korea I have no direct experience of, though I have been to China, and I did enc outer the notion there that westerners smelled bad but they attributed this to the idea that we eat too much sugar and sweet things which they claim makes our sweat more acidic and which they say contributes to our odoriferous nature.

Korea (the south anyway) has had a similar arc of development to Japan since WWII so I'm guessing that it's not so radically different to Japan were consumption of dairy is concerned.

And after all, as my Japanese friend pointed out, not only have east Asians had cows and eaten them and their products for just as long as Europeans (if not longer in fact) but in Japan's case they produce the most fabulous cow meat in the world, just packed with oozing animal fat, the famous Wagyu beef, which when cooked looks and tastes a bit like uncured Bacon :biggrin1::biggrin1::biggrin1::biggrin1::biggrin1:

But that doesn't mean you don't smell absolutely GORGEOUS Drifter! Your habits sound exquisite and I'm sure that lucky Korean woman was intoxicated by your smell. :smile:

 

[B_Hickboy]

Coffee breath and clean old man hair.

 

[avg_joe]

Cider vinegar. I eat a lot of subway sandwiches.

 

[Drifterwood]

But that doesn't mean you don't smell absolutely GORGEOUS Drifter! Your habits sound exquisite and I'm sure that lucky Korean woman was intoxicated by your smell. :smile:

I smell rather diferent this morning :tongue:.

Old habits die hard. Peeps definitely smell of what they eat.

 

[poizen-ivy]

A mixture of:
clean fresh skin
baby powder smell (possibly from the Dove soap)
subtle vanilla
coconut

...and that clean hair smell you get when you have clean sheets and pillow cases and sleep in them for the first night and the next day your pillow smells oh-so-luffly!

 

[D_Inglethorp Rumpshow]

cocoa butter

 

[D_Tim McGnaw]

Gin and regret, and Cristalle by Chanel.

 

[nudeyorker]

Yesterdays Eau D'Hermes, sex, cigarettes, coffee and wet dog.

 

[D_CountdeGrandePinja]

morning! and a good one to ALL.

 

[Drifterwood]

and wet dog.

Snap

 

[nudeyorker]

Snap

I knew you would go there. I'm soaking a sweater in the bathtub and my dog jumped in to play with it. Now just shut up and eat your orangettes.

 

[Drifterwood]

I knew you would go there.

Like a dog with a bone, you might say.

I should smell of champagne and cherry cheesecake - no orangettes on offer, sadly. Though I am off out soon, so normal service will be resumed shortly. :smile:

 

[luka82]

A guy I just made out with.....Good kisser

 

[hard8foru]

bacon, eggs, and kush

 

[Pye]

Green tea and mint soap

 

[B_Hickboy]

Chiles, cumin, garlic, onion, paprika, black pepper, and apple smoke.