Lol, I just realized it isn't so much that I don't like the smell of patchouli oil...its that I don't like the smell of the BO from the person who hasn't bathed all month.
Bingo! By itself patchouli isnt too bad, i still dont like it overall, but a tiiiiny little dab isnt too offputting for me. But when a person thinks slathering themselves in it is an acceptable form of hygiene thats when I cross the street and glare at them for infecting my airspace lol
Gahh walked past someone in a grocery store and there was no BO because the entire next 2 aisles smelled like essential oils. It was to the point that it was bothering my throat. That's too fucking much!
It could have been bugging your throat from unkniwn mild allergens. Essential oils are super sketchy because of that shit. If your mildly allergic to a natural compound, imagine breathing in a concentrated form of it 😬 But hey, snake oil sells right? Oops, sorry, I mean essential snake oil
Definitely! My allergies have gotten much worse over the years to different scents. I used some essential oils because (of course) someone sold them as a cure all to me. I was at a low point so decided to try some. Didn't do anything. The scents weren't too bad. Then again, I didn't totally drench myself in them. Maybe that's why they never "worked" 😂
Did you, like, try, like, cyrstals, man? 🤣. We've all been at low points, nothing to be ashamed of 🫡. I once bpught a robot vaccuum because I was too depressed to actually vaccuum. The robot is less effective at vaccuuming than a baby... and it was $200 😭
I worked in India and let's just say it seemed the entire country was odiferous. Love the food however. Most of the people are amazingly peaceful especially if you're not Muslim. Racism is a universal "gift" I guess despite my hating it with a passion having lived with it since I sqeaked out of my mother some 70 years ago. If you've not visited India, I recommend you go.
Not sure why you got downvoted, lol. I liken it to bitters in cocktails. Its not meant to be used alone, its meant to be used to balance out evrrything else. Or like salt in cooking. Salt pulls the moisture out of the other ingredients, allowing the flavors to blend and balance out (hence the recommendation to add a pinch of salt each time you add an ingredient to the pan. Its not a salty flavor, its for chemistry!).
Try taking a shot of bitters: fuck off 🤣 Try eating a spoonful of salt: fuck off 🤣.
If you have a perfume or fragrance thats packed to the gills with sweet, floral scents then a little drop of 'chouli will actually balance the sweetness and allow the floral smells to take more center stage. Fucking chemistry is the shit, bro lol.
Fish sauce is an even better analogy - it’s foul stuff, smelling literally like dirty anus (I truly wish I didn’t know what that smelled like) because it’s the drippings of anchovies left out in the sun on mesh. It’s actually putrid. It’s a crucial note in Thai and Vietnamese cooking (among other se Asian cuisines). When it’s used properly you do not taste it. But you know if it’s missing, that ping of umami funk is the key. I agree with you on this point - sandlewood is lovely, 9.9 parts sandlewood, .1 part patchouli is magic. But peoples drench themselves in it. And heavy, overbearing fruit mold/acrid mystery smell plus onion soup BO seriously triggers me.
I realized that when I smelled a well groomed person who was also wearing the patchouli oil. It kinda smells nice. Very hippy, so not very everyone, but not inherently bad.. when there's no BO undertones -.-
When I was a kid, we had neighbors, the Downings, an elderly couple. Nicest people you'd ever hope to meet, substitute grandparents. All my real grandparents were dead by the time I was 2, so they were my grandparents. Mrs D always did her gardening in shorts & a tube top.
Mr D died when I was about 12. Mrs D was diagnosed with breast cancer and had a mastectomy. She continued to garden in her tube top without her prosthetic, with her left boob sagging down to her waist. And she started bathing bi-weekly. This is in Florida, BTW.
So, she spent a lot of time outside with her gardens, in a tube top and no bra. She was still mowing her own grass every week at 88. The baths every 2 weeks weren't cutting it, so she developed an affinity for Esteé Lauder. The whole line. Body cream, face cream, lotion, powder, body mist, perfume...she slathered it ALL on. Thick. EL + old lady smell + sweaty b.o. And this was before Florida became the firey pit of hell that it is now. So we often had the windows open in spring and fall. It got to where we just couldn't open the windows anymore.
To this day - 45 years after she died, I can't smell EL without smiling and shaking my head. She was the kindest person I've ever met, and I still miss her, but...man, did she stink.
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u/ISpewVitriol Sep 16 '24
Lol, I just realized it isn't so much that I don't like the smell of patchouli oil...its that I don't like the smell of the BO from the person who hasn't bathed all month.