CBMused

Sometimes. I go more for the nut or vanilla smelling stuff, more.

Next time cook a pan of bacon. There is nothing sexier on earth than a woman that smells of fresh cooked bacon.

Using perfumes, deodorants and artificial smells is COMPLETELY against nature. It is just clever marketing to make us spend money on unnecessary things.

Your “natural” body odor is in fact more attractive to the opposite sex than all those stinky perfumes.
Nature took care of all those body odor issues.

There is a very interesting article about “natural” odor here:
http://www.nhne.org/news/NewsArticlesArchive/tabid/400/articleType/ArticleView/articleId/4244/How-Smell-Influences-Sexual-Attraction.aspx

I quote:
The first study to indicate that chemical signals play a role in attraction was conducted by Claud Wedekind over a decade ago. Forty-four men wore the same T-shirt for three days. They refrained from deodorants and scented soaps so they wouldn’t interfere with their natural smell. Women then sniffed the shirts and indicated which ones smelled the best to them. By comparing the DNA of the women and men, the researchers found that women didn’t just choose their favorite scent randomly. They preferred the scent of man whose major histocompatibility complex (MHC) — a series of genes involved in our immune system — was most different from their own.

From an evolutionary perspective, choosing a mate with a different immune system makes survival sense. Kids of parents with different immune genes are more likely to be disease-resistant and are therefore more likely to survive. The women in this study also reported liking the scents that reminded them of their current or previous boyfriends, showing that MHC attraction is consistent. And because MHC profiles differ greatly from one person to the next, there is no universally “good” smell. One woman’s Romeo was another woman’s raunchy.

So in my opinion you better throw all your fruity soap and perfumes away…
You want to have healthy children in the future, don’t you Cléa?

Fruit smells great, but as Sidney pointed out, artificial smells impede correct mate selection. Perhaps just save your fruity fragrances for your girlfriends (and ape friends).

You had me at “obligatory minute”.

I’m a scent person. I don’t necessarily like people who smell fruity, but I know every one has a different smell to them. Some like vanilla, some like citrus, some like fresh leaves. It’s that natural smell that I love about a person. All that remains is the memory that those scents leave behind.

Perhaps the question to ask is: Would you really want a guy who snubbed their nose because you weren’t wearing the “right” perfume? It seems a little too, I don’t know….uptight (?)

And to answer your question, a subtle nice breeze of fruit is nice. I also use apple scented shampoo/conditioner, but it doesn’t seem to be doing me any favors.

If it’s natural, then yeah. I know people who naturally smell like fruit. What about those people? They do have a hint of natural fruitiness to them, but it’s nothing to do with every single product out there

I myself like a more mysterious scent. Fruit-based perfumes tend to remind me of the smell of sweets at the “pick-and-mix” counter. Hardly the most sensuous of images…
However, If the perfume has to be fruit-based, I would obviously prefer something exotic ,like lychee or papaya, preferably in a post-modernly shaped bottle.

Because I’m a stylish kind of guy.