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"Folks" who use perfume to cover
up because they haven't taken a bath is very nauseating.
The three reasons I don't use cologne (but have tried it off and on) is
1. I - like most Americans (maybe everyone does today, I have no idea and do not intend to offend, I just know the cliche used to be that no one showers more than Americans) - are ridiculously clean (showers at least once a day, fresh clothes after each shower, bush teeth at least twice a day, etc., etc.,) - so I'm reasonably comfortable that I don't smell and think a "fresh" clean scent is the nicest.
2. I use soap, shampoo, conditioner, plus antiperspirant, talc and a face moisturizer and while I buy "unscented" when I can, not everything is, so I already have several scents from those things on me - why add another.
3. If you use a cologne, regularly, you will become immune to its scent after several weeks, hence, you run the risk of using too much because you increase it until you smell it. This is, in part, why some "old ladies" use so much perfume as some have lost a good part of their sense of smell and they put a lot on - not knowingly.