I’m pretty sure it’s been a thing since cologne was invented.
FWIW I went to high school in the early-mid 00s, and during those days, it wasn’t cologne - it was Axe body spray. My friends and I would joke about there being ads in the future similar to the, “Did you work at such-and-such and develop mesothelioma? You may be entitled to compensation.” Except instead of asbestos filling your lungs and giving you a disease, it’s Axe. That crap was in the air perpetually.
Oh god, the smell of the middle school side of the building... it was putrid. Axe mixed with with misted body odor from the boys who had gym in the morning.
It's not just young men. There are men and women of all ages who wear too much perfume or cologne. I seem to be allergic to some of them, because I will often have my sinuses suddenly clog up, get a massive headache and swelling in my throat from smelling them.
On multiple occasions at work, it's been so bad that I have to go ask a coworker to take over helping a customer because their perfume is giving me such a severe reaction. Then the perfume continues to linger for hours after they are gone.
Find a colon scent that works for you. You'll be surprised how women respond to it and it'll make you feel more confident! One of my favorites smells like wood and leather, for example.
The lovely part is that the voiding of said area has a unique sound. Just imagine, as the beaver buddy, hearing three distinct sounds coming from the bathroom. You'd know which one to head in after to take a sniff.
USians have decided so, and they're certainly not going to start using the Italian pronunciation! If they were that smart, they'd already do it (it's not hard to say 'Bolonya').
Or a bunch of us get together and try each others colons, like a gang?
Wow, imagine how eye opening that would be. The lovely fumes of all those used colons just hanging in the air...
Are they? If I'm in a perfume store and ask for cologne the store clerk will hand me eau de cologne and not parfum. Parfum, eau de parfum, eau de toilette and eau de cologne are different perfume categories that are also priced differently.
Maybe I'm just uneducated in the subject, but in terms of colloquial usage, perfume is intended for women and cologne is intended for men.
I think it would be safe to claim that most Americans would agree and would assume eau de toilette to be an air freshener you spray after taking a stinky poop.
Technically, it's eau de toilette, eau de parfum, and parfum, in rising order of concentration, and therefore lasting smell (and also price). Cologne is usually a different category from perfumes, but is at roughly eau de toilette concentration. At least that's how it works in France.
Cologne is for drinking, they're probably spraying parfume.
No, jokes aside, cheap cologne was called "odekolonn" (VERY bastardized and estonianized pronunciation of eau de cologne) and bums would drink it. Since there's no excise tax, troinoi was apparently cheaper than vodka.
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glorkon@lemmy.world · 120 pts · 322d
And009@lemmynsfw.com · 12 pts · 322d
Dingle berry does grow on bushes..
pigup@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 322d
Made right here in Manassas VA
jlow@discuss.tchncs.de · 3 pts · 322d
Wait, this is a boneapple tea! Don't we have a community for this?
zurohki@aussie.zone · 97 pts · 323d
TIL I should eat beans before a date.
captainlezbian@lemmy.world · 52 pts · 322d
This is lemmy, we'll encourage you to eat beans for all scenarios
arrow74@lemmy.zip · 14 pts · 322d
Beans are very nutritious high in both protien and fiber. Truly a great food
wesker@lemmy.sdf.org · 75 pts · 323d
When you wait until he's asleep and then try on his colon.
BoxOfFeet@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 322d
Like a glove.
taiyang@lemmy.world · 55 pts · 323d
Jokes on you, these were actually written by dogs enjoying the sweet scent of manass.
Strider@lemmy.world · 44 pts · 322d
Oh shit that took me far too long.
But when did this horrible trend start with young men putting like half a bottle of cologne on them?
(it's a major issue for me due to sensory overload)
Whats_your_reasoning@lemmy.world · 26 pts · 322d
I’m pretty sure it’s been a thing since cologne was invented.
FWIW I went to high school in the early-mid 00s, and during those days, it wasn’t cologne - it was Axe body spray. My friends and I would joke about there being ads in the future similar to the, “Did you work at such-and-such and develop mesothelioma? You may be entitled to compensation.” Except instead of asbestos filling your lungs and giving you a disease, it’s Axe. That crap was in the air perpetually.
burntbacon@discuss.tchncs.de · 6 pts · 322d
Oh god, the smell of the middle school side of the building... it was putrid. Axe mixed with with misted body odor from the boys who had gym in the morning.
blimthepixie@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 6 pts · 322d
It was always Lynx/Axe Africa as well
Soapbox@lemmy.zip · 25 pts · 322d
It's not just young men. There are men and women of all ages who wear too much perfume or cologne. I seem to be allergic to some of them, because I will often have my sinuses suddenly clog up, get a massive headache and swelling in my throat from smelling them.
On multiple occasions at work, it's been so bad that I have to go ask a coworker to take over helping a customer because their perfume is giving me such a severe reaction. Then the perfume continues to linger for hours after they are gone.
funkless_eck@sh.itjust.works · 17 pts · 322d
1200BCE Mesopotamia?
Strider@lemmy.world · 0 pts · 322d
Fair, but we're noticing a huge rise in the city in the last months.
Seems to be a 'recent' trend for young mens to overdo it.
qarbone@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 322d
I doubt "application" has changed. You'd be better off looking at the types of scents being sold over the years.
Strider@lemmy.world · 0 pts · 322d
I don't think it's the scent but the amount but not an expert either 🤷.
Anyhow for me the only option is again just staying home, that's what neurodivergent do.
jubilationtcornpone@sh.itjust.works · 8 pts · 322d
I remember in highschool that some of the other boys seemed to think AXE body spray was an adequate substitute for showering regularly.
It's not. It just makes you smell like AXE and BO.
Hadriscus@jlai.lu · 4 pts · 322d
holy shit, cologne !!! thank you. damn
titanicx@lemmy.zip · 2 pts · 322d
I would say it probably started sometime in the 17 or 1800s when they first started powdering their noses and throwing a ton of perfume and cologne.
Washedupcynic@lemmy.ca · 1 pts · 321d
When they stopped washing their assholes.
xxce2AAb@feddit.dk · 40 pts · 323d
Well. That's all very unfortunate.
shalafi@lemmy.world · 35 pts · 322d
Can't even fart under the sheets without my wife spazzing out. Where these girls at?!
zarkanian@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 322d
She's not down with the Dutch Oven, huh?
tgirlschierke@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 26 pts · 322d
It took reading the comments for me to realise this was about cologne.
expatriado@lemmy.world · 26 pts · 323d
that's how you know she's a keeper
ivanafterall@lemmy.world · 25 pts · 323d
Find a colon scent that works for you. You'll be surprised how women respond to it and it'll make you feel more confident! One of my favorites smells like wood and leather, for example.
ramble81@lemmy.zip · 33 pts · 322d
Love to know what your diet is.
evidences@lemmy.world · 37 pts · 322d
They're actually a beaver.
idiomaddict@lemmy.world · 21 pts · 322d
Then it would smell like vanilla
burntbacon@discuss.tchncs.de · 3 pts · 322d
The lovely part is that the voiding of said area has a unique sound. Just imagine, as the beaver buddy, hearing three distinct sounds coming from the bathroom. You'd know which one to head in after to take a sniff.
ramble81@lemmy.zip · 2 pts · 322d
You’re about to find a few of the lucky 10,000 with that comment.
merc@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 318d
No, beavers smell like fish.
rumschlumpel@feddit.org · 20 pts · 323d
If "Bologna" is "baloney", should "Cologne" be "caloney" or "calonay"? Or colony, it's a cognate of the roman place name "Colonia Agrippina".
TheOctonaut@mander.xyz · 24 pts · 322d
It's not
Passerby6497@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 322d
Buh-log-nuh
rumschlumpel@feddit.org · 1 pts · 322d
USians have decided so, and they're certainly not going to start using the Italian pronunciation! If they were that smart, they'd already do it (it's not hard to say 'Bolonya').
ReginaPhalange@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 322d
I defend with "Colonia Agrippina" only if the enemy knows both Capo Ferro and Thibault. Of course they rarely realize I'm not left handed.
Zwiebel@feddit.org · 6 pts · 322d
Colonia Claudia Ara Agrippinensium or CCAA was the name. Today it's Köln tho so good luck with that :p
rumschlumpel@feddit.org · 5 pts · 322d
And people make fun of Germans for using long words Ü
crt0o@discuss.tchncs.de · 2 pts · 322d
Bologna is pronounced more like "boh-loh-nya" in italian
rumschlumpel@feddit.org · 2 pts · 322d
Trying to describe vowels of other languages accurately in English is kind of a lost cause. "Bolonya" is a hell of a lot closer than "baloney".
Washedupcynic@lemmy.ca · 19 pts · 322d
I thought this was a meme about guys not washing their asses because it makes them gay.
Samskara@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 322d
It’s a meme on pegging.
DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social · 14 pts · 323d
At least put an "e" on the end, goddamn
grissino@lemmy.world · 13 pts · 322d
blimthepixie@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 13 pts · 322d
Colon should be discovered, never announced
merc@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 318d
Silent but violent.
Juice@midwest.social · 13 pts · 322d
I'm so spelling pilled I thought that was the joke
axexrx@lemmy.world · 16 pts · 322d
No joke, those women are just into pegging.
Juice@midwest.social · 4 pts · 322d
Magnificent
over_clox@lemmy.world · 12 pts · 323d
Why thank you, I can bottle some up for you later..
You wanna go get some Taco Bell?
Skullgrid@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 322d
Women : Ew, he looked at pictures of feet? That gives me the ick!
Also women : Oh, that guy is coming by...
zarkanian@sh.itjust.works · 5 pts · 322d
This might come as a shock, but women have a wide variety of opinion on different things, much like men do.
D_C@sh.itjust.works · 9 pts · 322d
Would any of you like to try my colon?
Or a bunch of us get together and try each others colons, like a gang?
Wow, imagine how eye opening that would be. The lovely fumes of all those used colons just hanging in the air...
ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca · 9 pts · 322d
Köln*
Colon is closer in spelling than Cologne
FridaySteve@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 322d
Shout out to Colon, Michigan, magic capital of the world.
bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de · 12 pts · 322d
I hope it's a sister city of Darmstadt, Germany.
SkunkWorkz@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 322d
How much cologne do these guys spray on? It’s the least concentrated scent, it’s 90% alcohol. Shouldn’t last longer than an hour or two.
Or do these people think cologne is what parfum for men is called?
falseWhite@lemmy.world · 12 pts · 322d
BananaIsABerry@lemmy.zip · 5 pts · 322d
These terms are interchangeable from a product sales perspective.
SkunkWorkz@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 322d
Are they? If I'm in a perfume store and ask for cologne the store clerk will hand me eau de cologne and not parfum. Parfum, eau de parfum, eau de toilette and eau de cologne are different perfume categories that are also priced differently.
BananaIsABerry@lemmy.zip · 3 pts · 322d
Maybe I'm just uneducated in the subject, but in terms of colloquial usage, perfume is intended for women and cologne is intended for men.
I think it would be safe to claim that most Americans would agree and would assume eau de toilette to be an air freshener you spray after taking a stinky poop.
AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 322d
Technically, it's eau de toilette, eau de parfum, and parfum, in rising order of concentration, and therefore lasting smell (and also price). Cologne is usually a different category from perfumes, but is at roughly eau de toilette concentration. At least that's how it works in France.
Damarus@feddit.org · 4 pts · 322d
Yes that is what they think.
ayyy@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 322d
I just call them all “toxic VOC pollutants” and don’t worry about the arbitrary details.
boonhet@sopuli.xyz · 2 pts · 322d
Cologne is for drinking, they're probably spraying parfume.
No, jokes aside, cheap cologne was called "odekolonn" (VERY bastardized and estonianized pronunciation of eau de cologne) and bums would drink it. Since there's no excise tax, troinoi was apparently cheaper than vodka.
mechoman444@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 322d
I also smell like his colon but that's because I put some on.
merc@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 318d
On? Don't you mean in?
mechoman444@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 318d
😉
Rachelhazideas@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 322d
Hey, don't kink shame.