obsessivewoman and I are regularly perplexed by the panoply of goods that are designed on the assumption that adding scent to something is able to make it smell “fresh” or “clean”. If it isn’t already fresh or clean, adding a masking scent won’t help...
I don't even have a clue about whether hair spray gets some kind of scent deliberately added to it at all. It doesn't smell fresh or clean to me, nor does it smell like flowers or citrus or fake pine. It smells like a railroad spike through the bridge of my glasses.
My boss puts it on in her cube, about eight feet from me.
I think everyone in my middle school was addicted to the smell of Final Net. Mind you, this was the late 80's, when the popular girls had peacock's-ass mall bangs.
It honestly never occurred to me that hair spray might smell like it does because that's considered acceptable. I always thought it was like road tar: you want the job done, you put up with the stench.
(gag) Hairspray sends me straight into an asthma attack.
We've been having construction next door all summer long, and I have the thrill of sitting by the shared wall of the building that's being gutted and redone. Jackhammers six inches away from my desk. Random pounding and clattering. Dust, dirt (they keep digging up the street), mold, tar, and the ghosts of a hundred thousand dead cigarettes. It's been sheer hell on my sinuses and asthma -- though they did finally get a HEPA filter for me, hallelujah.
And if I were given the choice, I'd rather have the construction than the hairspray.
I am fortunate enough that I have no medical objection to hairspray. Sitting where you're sitting -- with asthma! -- seems to me like it would be absolute misery.
I'm bemused by the fact that there are people who actively like the hairspray smell, while I have hated it for years, and I never knew. I guess it's just not a subject that ever came up.
*similar sheepish look* I said the wrong thing. To me, road tar is strongly noticeable, but neutral in terms of like or dislike. I should have said roofing tar. I find that stuff nasty. Are you fond of that one? :-)
Oh god, aqua net was such amazingly wretched stuff. Just thinking about it is making my eyes water, and it's been at least twenty years... the web thinks it is still on the market, I'd assumed it went away with a lot of the other toxic aerosols in the early 90s.
(It brings back childhood memories, too. But not *good* ones.)
I guess so! I'm surprised that I never knew some people liked it. I wonder if it took your housemate a long time to figure out that other people didn't like the smell of skunk.
I feel like I suddenly moved to a new planet, one where the smell of hairspray is socially considered to be all right. It's a little bit like when my massive abdominal pain was diagnosed a number of years ago. I learned that despite the timing it wasn't "cramps", and only then did I find out that everyone ELSE has cramps in the MIDDLE, not out along the hip bones. I honest to goodness never thought to ask or to mention it.
Um, I know someone who find the scent of pine needles and diesel fuel, especially in combination, arousing. Go figure.
I only vaguely remember the scent of hairspray, but my mother said when I was four I could hear when she put on hairspray from the other side of the house and I would come and ask where we were going.
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My boss puts it on in her cube, about eight feet from me.
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We've been having construction next door all summer long, and I have the thrill of sitting by the shared wall of the building that's being gutted and redone. Jackhammers six inches away from my desk. Random pounding and clattering. Dust, dirt (they keep digging up the street), mold, tar, and the ghosts of a hundred thousand dead cigarettes. It's been sheer hell on my sinuses and asthma -- though they did finally get a HEPA filter for me, hallelujah.
And if I were given the choice, I'd rather have the construction than the hairspray.
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I'm bemused by the fact that there are people who actively like the hairspray smell, while I have hated it for years, and I never knew. I guess it's just not a subject that ever came up.
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(It brings back childhood memories, too. But not *good* ones.)
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I only vaguely remember the scent of hairspray, but my mother said when I was four I could hear when she put on hairspray from the other side of the house and I would come and ask where we were going.
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