It sounds quite interesting when people ask another one “How do you feel when you smell the scent of fragrance that you don’t like?” Well ya, usually people will always ask others “What is your favorite perfume?” or “What kind of perfume you are wearing now?” Indeed, that sounds like some kind of tedious random interviews on the street or some questions that you won’t wanna answer when you are in the convenience store or the shopping mall, which sounds like just like a kind of brand wanna ask some potential customers of their stores that the products that they hate so they will avoid producing them in the future.
Well. personally, according to what I know, the hating scents could be different due to biological and regional differences. For example, people who are living in the East Asia area prefer some scents that smell fresh, clean, or even bitter like medicine. This is due to the ancient times, Eastern usually liked using some scents like clove, cardamom, sandalwood, and so on for indoor incense. Because I am Asian, I know that they usually don’t like very sweet or strong scents of perfumes, such as something that smells like plum sugar or a bunch of candies. I do not like some perfumes that smell too sweet. Perhaps is due to some chimerical issues or just basically due to the perfumes smelling different on different people’s bodies, I always think that if some sweet perfume is too strong, it will no longer smell fragrant, but will become a strange fishy smell. For example, YSL’s black opium can be said to be my most hated perfume.
But the situation is always different, in North America and Europe, the women usually prefer a very sweet scent like candies or dessert. Some classical perfumes such as Mon Paris by YSL. It is common for me to see so many fragrances that smell like cotton candy or other very “yummy” scents in the shopping malls.
So, let’s talk back to the topic of how to react to the perfumes that you don’t like. I remember clearly that when I was in high school, every time I just used a little bit of my solid perfumes, there would be someone reacting very emotionally “Who used the perfume?!” Well, it sounds like the smell that I brought did confuse them a lot. But I just never care, I am a person who has a really sensitive nose that needs to use good smells all the time.
