Gack!

[andrewducker]

Joe's preparing for his girlfriend's return from France. (Yay Joe and Gemma!)

This includes spraying horrible artificial scent all over the place. I made the foolish mistake of opening my mouth within a minute of him spraying it in the living room, and now I want to go and scrub my tongue with something to get the plastic taken off.

Erin once made the mistake of spraying me with some kind of odor thang. It took me about 2 hours to forgive her, because every time I opened my mouth to say something, I felt sick.

Honestly, I've never smelt one of these things that smelt anything other than vile.

Still, at least it heralds Gemma's return.

Comments

[broin.livejournal.com]

The idea is that it hides the smell of your coat, the various socks dangled around the livingroom, the mold growing on the bathroom wall, the decaying food under the fridges, the lingering stink of the cat litter tray and mince-based food.

It may have to smell very bad to do all that work.

[andrewducker]

My coat smells? I had no idea.

And the air freshener smells far worse than any of those other things, many of which have no smell at all to me.

YMMV, of course.

[derumi.livejournal.com]

You should pick out your own air freshener... Maybe the New Car Smell won't be so bad?

[broin.livejournal.com]

This would be where you picked up a reputation as 'Andy the Perceptive'?

Trivia question: which two flatmates got new glasses recently?

[andrewducker]

Well, my last comment here made fuck all sense, because I didn't check the context all the way back.

But I can smell various things around the flat, and largely none of them bother me. Air Freshener, on the other hand, really does bother me.

I remember someone complaining once about dogs, saying they smelt. I didn't understand what they meant, because dogs didn't smell. It wasn't until much later that I realised that, of course dogs smell, but it's such a low level, relaxing, nice smell (to me) that it generally doesn't impinge on me.

[broin.livejournal.com]

Well, you're way, WAY in the minority about the house stinking (me, Saint,most of our friends), so I'm afraid the awful air freshener experiences will continue.

[andrewducker]

Which is fine and dandy. If more people want it than don't, then go ahead. That doesn't change my original post at all - I hate the smell and it makes me feel vaguely ill.

[broin.livejournal.com]

Incidentally, perceptionboy, you missed the question:

Which _two_ flatmates have new glasses? Nick and...?

[andrewducker]

No idea, don't really care. People constantly get new clothes, glasses, shoes, etc. They pretty much fall beneath my notice level unless they're particularly funky. When I actually looked at Nick's glasses yesterday, I had no idea if they were new or not because I'd never looked at the old ones and had no idea what _they_ looked like. It's just not something that captures my attention.

House

[wordofblake.livejournal.com]

Yeah, as far as I could tell your house didnt have a particular smell, certainly not a strong offensive one.

I agree about the dogs too, personally I think dogs smell like the seaside and find it tremendously comforting.

[wordofblake.livejournal.com]

Use that fabreeze stuff, it's supposed to leave no odour.

that said,

I don't live in your house, so I'm not just used to the smell, and when I visited it smelled fine, houselike.

Maybe it's a medication side effect, or brain disease.

[octopoid-horror.livejournal.com]

Houses all have their own smell.

Guy got freaked out when I visited him because I said his flat smelt -just- like my late Grandmother's flat used to when I was a kid. It was neat.

Oh and Andy...? If you're making a jibe at me for burning incense like a hippy, just say the word and I'll rub it in your face ;-)

[andrewducker]

Ok, I've reread three times and can't see anything that might be taken as a jibe against incense.

I have nothing against incense whatsoever.