he/him, bi (maybe just queer is more appropriate?), early 30s.

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Cake day: March 2nd, 2025

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  • 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.






  • That was kind of my question: Why? I understand doing it for personal comfort, but I’ve never understood how shaving became an expectation of mainstream beauty standards, especially for women. Just let people have their own standards, you know?

    Agree with you that stubble sucks though, it’s like the worst of both worlds lol. Also doesn’t it get itchy? When I was 16 or 17 growing belly hair for the first time I tried shaving it and it was awful, never done it since. The stubble just ruined me.








  • Yeah for me at least, it’s not so much musk as it is some quality that’s almost not even a smell, but just kind of a rich warmth that comes off of some people. Deodorants and colognes kind of obliterate it, which is a shame. It’s hard to describe it, but it just smells very human and comforting.

    Not to say smell itself never excites me. I have a friend I go down on occasionally who is festiduously clean, but the way his balls smell when he’s turned on is like catnip for me. Like I can sense how turned on he is by the scent, it’s strange.