What is the WORST Fragrance of All Time???

[CO Liberal]

I vote for either Brut or Hai Karate for men, and Poison for women (because it smells like Deep Woods Off).

[kedrys]

Patchouli

Someone at my high school broke a bottle of the stuff in their locker and we could still smell it a year later. It ate into the steel and etched itself permanently or something. To this day, my first reaction when I get a whiff of it is to run out of the room screaming.

[Maddy McCall]

10. Yes. It reeks.

My ex-boyfriend used it on himself and in his home. I could smell in in my clothes after three washes. He was a wonderful guy, but he stank. :-)

[Kathy in Cambridge]

67. It smells like a stinky gym locker

:puke:

[tyedyeto]

1. Definitely Poison for women.....

but I think it smells like Raid. :puke:

[Mz Pip]

7. Poison

makes me nauseous. It's awful. Tender Poison is kind of nice, though.

Mz Pip
:dem:

[FellowAmerican]

14. Me too!

dizzy, sick . . . it's aweful!

[trof]

49. Yep. Smells like stale beer.

Used to bartend in a place that had slatted "duckboards"(?) on the floor behind the bar so you didn't have to wade around slippin & slidin in spilled beer/drinks all night.

Monday mornings we'd pull up the boards and scrub down the floor. The week's accumulation of spills had a sickly sweet smell.
Years later that same odor came to mind the first time I smelled Poison.
Unfortunately it's my daughter's favorite.

[procopia]

2. Well...

In college, I wore Taboo, and my roomie told me it smelled like the local courthouse bathroom.

[Mz Pip]

9. Hate Tabu

Had a guy leave me for a woman who doused herself in that stuff. Worked for her I guess.

Mz Pip
:dem:

[New Earth]

12. isn't that old lady perfume?

[timber84]

3. island gardenia

[TexasProgresive]

19. any gardenia-yccch!

[PassingFair]

26. I'm with you on the gardenia...

that stuff STINKS. You can't get the smell out of your nostrils, either.

[no_hypocrisy]

4. Obsession. First runner-up: Brittany Spears' feet.

[CO Liberal]

20. As I Asked In The Other Thread....

...are they SURE it was her feet they were smelling?

:-)

[SmileyBoy]

5. I smelt some real funky shit at Marshall Field's at the mall tonight.

It reeked like B.O. It must've been entitled "Musk".

[Cobalt Violet]

6. Ciara .

Sticks forever.

[bettyellen]

8. giorgio ... stanks you very much!

[AlCzervik]

56. Thats the one, and they put so much on!!!!

awful sweet smelling shyte!

[yardwork]

63. I loathe Giorgio - hated it when it was so popular - smelled it EVERYWHERE

[njdemocrat106]

11. We may not agree on Emeril, but Brut REEKS!

My brother used to BATHE in that stuff. I'll wretch if I ever have to smell Brut again.

[agates]

13. Emeraud

for women is the worst, followed closely by Tabu. Tabu smells like cheap aftershave dumped on old gym socks. Ick!

[dolo amber]

15. Axe

Any variety. It smells like an old hobo after rolling around in the bus station bathroom floor. :puke:

[NervousRex]

16. Brut or Aqua Velva...

That Used Car Salesman aroma.

[Left Is Write]

58. Both very very bad, I agree.

[asjr]

17. Back in the 40s and 50s it was Evening in Paris. And if Paris

smells like that I will stay away. That was the most gosh awful smell of all time.

[MaryH]

44. I used to buy that for my mother because the bottles were

pretty and I could afford it. I don't think she ever wore it - she just let it sit on her dressing table.

[trof]

50. Same here. Bet our numbers are legion.

I'm 63.
Used to but Evening in Paris at Woolworth's.
I think mom would put a little on when she opened it Christmas morning and then it got "lost".

[Left Is Write]

57. My mother told me lots of kids her age (she's 65) bought

Evening In Paris for their mothers. :)

My grandmother preferred Chanel No. 5.

[BeatleBoot]

18. After a few Heineken's and some Raw Broccolli...

:hurts:

[arwalden]

21. English Leather, Canoe

[Beware the Beast Man]

69. I wore English Leather when I was 10.

I thought I'd be a babe magnet. I was wrong. That stuff smelled like a combination of shoe leather and bug spray.

[chaska]

22. They're all bad. Perfumes of any kind are like and annoying salesman...

that won't go away and leave you alone - always in your face. I hate manufactured scents. Give me an Ellie May with a touch of vanilla extract behind each ear.

[Rowdyboy]

23. Taboo for women....

My mom wore it and I always thought it was cloying.

I don't really care for Hai Karate either.

[FizzFuzz]

24. giorgio. smells like those pink deoderant cakes in public toilets.

r-r-r-r-rrrRRRRETCH!

[fortyfeetunder]

25. I think Fendi was in that "smells like Raid" category

I thought whoever wore it smelled like an extermination plant.

[Turn CO Blue]

27. Wind Song for women. Ugh.

[RebelOne]

39. Hey, I just bought that for myself.

Don't know about you, but I like it.

[Turn CO Blue]

65. Ooops. Sorry.

[MaryH]

45. That was my favorite perfume commercial - I can't remember

quite how it went. "Windsong is calling her name" Something like that.

[barackmyworld]

59. that windsong stays on my mind! (I think)

[Left Is Write]

62. "I can't seem to forget you. Your Windsong stays on my mind!"

[Blue_Tires]

28. Pierre Cardin

[Wapsie B]

29. You don't like

old men who smell like they've bathed in Brut rather than soap and water?

:evilgrin:

[leftofthedial]

30. eau de boosh

[Rabrrrrrr]

31. Old Spice

though, really, let's face it - all perfume is suck.

But then, I'm terribl;y allergic to perfume, so I have a major bias against all of it, since I can't smell it well because the perfume locks up my breathing ability.

But Old Spice is definitely a shitty smell.

[illbill]

34. Old Spice is the worst!!!!

Rabrrrrr knows the deal. Old Spice is weak!

[MaryH]

46. Sorry - I love Old Spice

Makes me think of sailors coming home from the sea.

[trof]

51. Au contraire. "Old Spice means quality...

said the Captain to the Bosun.
Look for the bottle with the ship that sails the ocean."
Circa 1960s TV commercial?

[Rabrrrrrr]

32. Also all the "air fresheners" that are based (ostensibly) on flowers

like all the glade shit. And all the plug-in fresheners. but mostly the spray-can shit.

[Rabrrrrrr]

33. and the "teen girl" perfumes, like "apple" and "cherry" and etc.

all nasty.

[GingerSnaps]

35. Anything by Elizabeth Taylor

I like Liz but her perfumes stink she should name them Valley of the Whore Alley or Bordello #1,2,etc. :puke:

[REP]

36. 'Sunflowers'

I asked a woman once what perfume she was wearing. I didn't mention that I was asking so I could be sure to avoid it like the plague in the future. Sunflowers is nasty.

[FizzFuzz]

55. funny thing! Sunflowers is one of my faves, and I always get compliments

when I wear it! Funny how different noses are.

[yardwork]

64. Scents react differently to everybody's personal chemistry

So something that reeks on one person might smell nice on another.

[laheina]

37. Many.

I am not into perfume, and I usually leave the sample flaps in the magazines closed, but I remember Black Cashmere by Donna Karen smelled like musk and black licorice (fennel?) and that Still Jennifer Lopez smells strongly of pepper.

I probably only know this because one of my friends was like "Smell this! It reeks!" Why would someone want to slather themselves with random cooking spices?

[mrbassman03]

38. Stetson...

The worst... my roommate wore it last year! He was 20 and wearing the same cologne as my grandpa.

[RebelOne]

40. Anais Anais

I had a sample of it once. It was the most vile smelling perfume. I couldn't wait to take a shower and get it off.

[Abelman]

41. Pig Shit.

[jmowreader]

42. English Leather is *the* worst

[Dzimbowicz]

43. I am allergic to most colognes

because of their alcohol content, so I find most of them offensive.

[Danmel]

47. Obsession

It makes me feel like I have diphtheria- my throat just closes up. The only other perfume I have any problem with is White Linen- it makes me sneeze, but almost no one wears it so it isn't a problem.

Either Obsession totally reeks or people who use it use a lot of it- I can barely be in a room with it.

[Left Is Write]

60. When I was younger, I liked Obsession, but I can't stand it now.

It's very heavy and "perfumy." I don't like heavy fragrances.

[Tony_Illinois]

48. The smell in Washington these days . . .

[nutshell2002]

52. White Shoulders

Old lady meets latrine = the most vile smell actively placed on one's skin...

[Malikshah]

53. Polo by Ralph Lauren...the stink of frat boys in the 1980s

So bad you could taste it in the air...had a roommate who bathed in it.

Nasty crap

[TheCentepedeShoes]

54. Joy

Another one that smells like bug spray.

[wovenpaint]

61. Aramis, Brut

White Shoulders, Tabu
And ....what's up with those new "Scent story" cd players for the home???????
I saw the thing yesterday and besides the fact that the "machine" is $30.00+ and the discs are pricey, do we really want smelly "stories"??
:shrug:

[terrya]

66. Aspen

A former boyfriend gave some of that to me for a Christmas present. It stunk.

[immoderate]

68. Those pine tree things that people hang in their cars.

--IMM

[AlCzervik]

70. I can only imgaine this one smells of

asshole.