On my mind recently because someone I’m not fucking mentioned that my scent aroused them. At first made me a bit self conscious because I had forgotten to wear deodorant, but it’s not the first time someone has told me that, and I’ve definitely thought to myself that the way some guys smell can get me rock hard.
It’s something I would normally keep to myself, but now I’m wondering if other people are into natural (but still clean!) scents and we just don’t talk about it because of social hangups. I think I prefer people to smell like people and not volatile chemicals.
I love perfume, for myself. Not trying to be sexy with it, but like to smell affirmatively good not just clean. I don’t like “clean smelling” perfumes at all, the laundry musks are not my thing. Some of my kids like those, I don’t. Guys, as long as they don’t smell bad, that’s a win.
But I have twice in my life been ridiculously, outrageously sexually attracted to guys I didn’t like the look of, and could only conclude my body must have thought they were biologically compatible. It wasn’t an obvious smell or anything, not consciously, but I do think it was a smell that I could subconsciously perceive.
That’s really interesting! Maybe it is a pheromone thing, haha. I totally get that not quite conscious thing though.
I admit I’m not sure what you mean by “laundry musk.” I shy away from any kind of applied fragrance because they tend to be overwhelming to me (I don’t even really like unscented deodorants becaise they still smell like…idk, lemongrass?), so maybe I’m just unfamiliar with the term.
It’s a sort of inhumanly clean sorta soap smell in some perfumes, usually in the understated minimalist ones. I like florals, fruity stuff, dirty musks, spices, but apply lightly because it’s for me, don’t want much projection. I don’t think guys usually care. I remember once I asked 3 men and one said “only vanilla”, one said “anything but vanilla” and one said “I don’t care”
So I went on just pleasing myself. Anybody close enough to smell it hopefully is already into me, lol.
Oh! I also wanted to note, it took a long time for my husband to believe that I was wearing perfume. He would say “you smell so good” and I’d say “yeah, Mure et Musc Extreme” (or whatever I had on), and he’d say “no, it’s a little bit your shampoo or body wash mostly just you, not perfume” but it was definitely the perfume.
So it is possible that some of the scent you think is just person is actually perfume, a lot of them wear down to really pretty, very human smelling skin scents.
I meant to circle back around to this but that’s fascinating. It’s totally possible some of the people I’ve noticed a scent on have been wearing some kind of fragrance. I’m so used to them being overbearing or chemically that maybe I’ve missed some really subtle ones.
Now that you’ve defined laundry musk too, I have definitely smelled that before. I’d have said it was a little…antiseptic, maybe? Almost like a hospital but not quite.
Hmm, now I should research some of these. Do you know od anything that kind of mimics or accentuates a sort of stereotypical subtle body odor? Nothing overbearing, but like you said, wears down.
I think you might like an Egyptian Musk lightly applied. The Nuxe dry oil also dries down to sunwarmed skin on me. Phlur Missing Person gets recommended, they have a travel size so you could try it without paying too much. It might be too sour with the bergamot. But a lot of stronger perfumes do dry down to something really nice, subtle and human, even if at the beginning they are more assertive and inhuman, that basenote may be what you are smelling. I’d start with the Egyptian Musk, not a spray, something you can dab on.