It’s interesting that the instructions want you to cup your hands around the nipple instead of just spraying yourself directly
The stuff at Truck Stops to make life on the road doable is really kind of interesting. The most interesting to me is “Idle Air,” this set of gantries in the lot with tubes hanging down that mate with one of the side windows to provide AC, electric, TV, and internet without having the truck idle all night. It’s an impressively large amount of infrastructure.
Some of our deep water ports have something similar so the large ships don’t have to idle in port to keep their engines warm/services online. Massive shore power hookups and the like. It prevents a ton of air pollution being dumped into the city.
They would have made a fortune on placing these in high school locker rooms.
What’s funny is that you (and I) associate cologne with high school, but adult men were spraying that shit on themselves from like the 50s to the 90s. Then Axe Body Spray took over the youth market, and a lot of boys coming of age started reevaluating their life choices. Smoking in public also became rare, and generally people started smelling better without the need for fragrances.
I can’t remember the last time I used cologne or smelled it on another person. But my laundry, shampoo, body wash, and beard balm all have their own fragrances.
I got a pretty bad fragrance allergy a few years ago and would break out in a big rash if I got them near my face. I think things are improving these days, but I was shocked at how much more sharp my sense of smell is now that almost nothing has artificial fragrances (save for deodorant, and some body soap that is like, made from ground up herbs). It’s like someone whose senses are enhanced by losing one or more of them.
One of my siblings brought clothes laundered at his university, and the detergent was so cloying that I could taste it in the air, lol. Five years ago, I would barely have noticed it, because there was so much “noise” from the ~18 different scented products we all used on our bodies, clothes, air fresheners and bedding.
Even with fragrance-free stuff, everything still smells good. Just like cloth though, instead of artificial lemon or that blue-flavored dish soap. On the latter one, I’ve begun to taste it on dishes. I’ve since switched to fragrance-free dish soap because of that, lol.
that blue-flavored dish soap
Damned synaesthetics.
Smoking in public also became rare, and generally people started smelling better without the need for fragrances.
This has got to be a big part of it in two different ways: smokers wanting to cover their own stink, but also smokers having reduced sense of smell!
also smokers having reduced sense of smell!
Nowadays I feel like people have nuked their sense of smell with fragrance generally. I trip to anyone else’s house and I get headaches from the amount of automatic fragrance despensers, reed diffusers, essential oil atomisers, scented this that and the other on top of bombing themselves with strongly scented body products and sprays.
In my experience, it’s fortunately not too common. I disliked potpourri (headaches…) but the essential oil diffusers are so much worse.
I feel like people have scented things for as long as I can remember, but maybe how we’re doing it has changed.
I personally like it when my home smells like “nothing,” even when I come back to it after being gone a while. Smelling changes in humidity, level of dust, or anything else is pretty great.
