Verbena? 
There must be a new perfume out, something in every magazine or pushed at every cosmetics counter or endorsed by a very popular celebrity.
Because every single last woman I go anywhere near is wearing it. Patients, checkout ladies, shoppers, the mail lady.
Please don’t misunderstand me, I am all for folks smelling pretty. Good scents are a good thing. And I myself love perfume. It’s one of my favorite things to receive as a gift. I don’t get to wear it very often, working in healthcare and all, but there’s very little else that makes me feel as pretty and grown up and sexy. I get it. I understand. Perfume is fun.
However, this particular perfume is very, um, shall I say, cloying? Very sweet and sticky and lemony. And all the ladies I run into seem to have taken a bath in it.
Frankly, it makes me ill. So I now feel ill whenever I go anywhere that women are.
And I have no actual end to this anecdote, except to perhaps suggest that if you decide to try whatever perfume this is, for my nose’s sake, please start out with a small amount.
It seems to be quite powerful.
September 20th, 2006 at 3:48 pm
I’m gonna roll around in some Drakkar Noir before coming home tonight, and make you bury your nose in my neck.
September 24th, 2006 at 7:28 am
LOL I remember back in high school (in the dark ages) when all the girls were wearing Love’s Baby Soft. It was The Thing to wear. I absolutely hated it. Thought it stank. It smelled like rancid baby butt coated in too much talc. I couldn’t believe all the girls thought it actually smelled good. And I never succumbed to peer pressure; I wore a cheap little fragrance called “Babe.”
September 25th, 2006 at 8:36 am
My aunt once gave me a little gift set of Baby Soft. I never wore it either, because it smelled like a baby to me. I couldn’t figure out why anybody would want to smell like that. Made me think of diapers.
As a teenager, I wore something by Avon called, I think, Far Away, or Far and Away, or someting like that. My Dad used to ask if it was called that because it kept people far away from you.
I think he was trying to tell me something.