Your Partners Smell

magick

Everyone has their own natural personal scent...
And you are obviously immune to your own smell...

So how long on average does it take you to get used to a new partner's scent and do you like it or did it bother you?

carbonkid

i dont think you ever get used to their scent.
its kinda always there...sometimes when theyre
not ,like on your clothes and stuff

i find myself very attacted to a loved ones natural
smell more so cause of the way they make me
feel rather than it smelling good....kinda like the way
if you like someone so much that you get to like
their bad habits,they become cute rather than
horrible.

i also like the way my bed smells if theyve been in
it the night before...i guess its just embraceing your partner
in everyway...smells in all:)

xx

Was never bothered by a partners smell really. They were always a combo of the perfume that she wore, her own smell etc. Sort of like when you'd be in bed together and you'd put your face to her hair and smell, kinda hard to describe!!!! But the best part is the memories you get if you ever pass by someone who wears the same perfume as your burd used to, its a great trigger for memories.....be they good or bad.

deimos

Actually to be honest that's the reason I hate perfume, its masks their true scent. I must say anybody ive ever been with, their smell after they leave is always pleasent in some way.....

jesus we sound like animals, so lets do it like they do it on the discovery channel (<

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bad attempt at humour)

Seraphina

pheromones.. or something
its all part of physical attraction
smells are extremely important to me, i'm very sensitive to them
i find myself repulsed by some people's smell, not BO or anything, just their natural scent

its odd...

Turner

I like to associate girls with only one smell, i prefer if they wear the same perfume all the time.
Dont know why...

Doodee

I like my partners smell. She gets weirded out when she catches me taking a quick sniff of her hair etc

Cant say that i've noticed a bad smell.
/me shrugs

smiles

Had some nice smells and one or two... offputting smells.

Not a 'bad' smell, like BO or anything, just totally different to anything I'd encountered and I didnt take to it.

It took weeks for me to get used to it.

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tman

Originally posted by deimos
Actually to be honest that's the reason I hate perfume, its masks their true scent. I must say anybody ive ever been with, their smell after they leave is always pleasent in some way.....

same here, i'd much rather smell someones natural musk than some skanky perfume tbh

KlodaX

depends if they smell good or not... I used to date a guy who smelt really bad ... lovely guy ... but it had to end ...

your senses are sight, smell, touch and taste... and the other one
its like asking how long before you get used to your minger boyfriend/girlfriend...

you don't! ... you buy them aftershave/perfum for valentines .. thats how long.. you have a month!

deimos

actually, why do woman get freaked out when men smell them, like their hair or something? or am I just a weirdo?:rolleyes:

KlodaX

Originally posted by deimos
actually, why do woman get freaked out when men smell them, like their hair or something? or am I just a weirdo?:rolleyes:

are you smelling strangers?

deimos

no, a lot of friends say that they have done it before to thier girlfriends and alike, and they get freaked out. It came up as a topic of discussion the other night at a drinking session:rolleyes: Ive done it before and to the same end

hedgetrimmer

There's an ongoing experiment...very simple but incredibly (as experiments go) effective, with something like a whopping 96% success rate, which is almost unheard of.

They get women to sleep in tshirts for 5 days running, get a man to smell the tshirts and then ask him to place the shirts in order of preference. Every time, the man prefers the tshirt that is the most scientifically genetically different to his own genetic makeup, i.e., the match that would produce offspring with the most mutally advantage and best-chance of survival genetic makeup.

Makes ya think how evolved we are...

deimos

So if I don't like how she smells she is probaly somehow related, sssssssssh, as they say trust you instincts.......

Amz

There have been many studies done regarding scent and attraction/compatability etc.

Apparently it's to do with your immune system, if you mate with someone with too similar an immune system it will mean that your offsprings immune system will be incapable of defending the body adequately against disease/infection. Thus the bodies natural way of doing this is the scent, you're more attracted naturally to someone with a more different immune system (apologies for lack of grammar) the only way however the body can detect this is scent.

I'll have a gander for some written form of evidence of this... although I'll most likely get lazy and not bother.

Pink Bunny

Originally posted by deimos
actually, why do woman get freaked out when men smell them, like their hair or something? or am I just a weirdo?:rolleyes:

I don't think it's weird at all. There's nothing wrong with that as long as it's your girlfriend and not a stranger.

But it's funny because a friend and I had this very discussion a while back and I think it's comforting to sleep on your partner's pillow, for instance, when's he's gone. Or wear one of his shirts, it's just a way to keep that person with you I guess.

phaxx

Originally posted by Doodee
I like my partners smell. She gets weirded out when she catches me taking a quick sniff of her hair etc

mmh.. so nice to just bury your nose in someone's hair during a hug and stay there, one of the most relaxing things there is. (I find)

Oriel

For a start, there's a big difference between the natural association with the smell of a perfume/aftershave, and with somebody's natural smell. E.g. if you go out with somebody for 1 year, and they wear the same perfume, then you split up, whenever you smell that same perfume from a stranger, you're going to think of the ex.

A natural smell on the other hand is completely unique from one person to the next. Just like every house has a different smell, every person has a differrent smell also. So the place that you feel most at home (i.e. your "home") you're going to find the same thing with your partner's smell also. One partner's smell will not remind you of another's.

I'd find it very difficult to believe that a person doesn't find their partner's smell attractive. If they did, then I don't think they'd be with them to begin with. But then again, I guess it takes a certain about of time to be able to detect a particular smell from a partner. The bed and pillow thing being a primary example.

I think it's a very animalistic thing though - "for the moment", so to speak. If your partner leaves, you can't remember their smell at all, unless you have something that they wore, and like your feelings for them, they will wear away given time.

sionnach

Originally posted by Amz
Apparently it's to do with your immune system, if you mate with someone with too similar an immune system it will mean that your offsprings immune system will be incapable of defending the body adequately against disease/infection. Thus the bodies natural way of doing this is the scent, you're more attracted naturally to someone with a more different immune system (apologies for lack of grammar) the only way however the body can detect this is scent.

yup, saw a program bout it on one of the discoverie channels a good while ago, was really interesting. They did dna or immune tests beforehand and were able to predict who'd hit it off with who based on the results of the tests

The Beer Baron

Personally I think it's got a lot to do with attraction in general.
If I were to make a joke about my gf I guess her "smell" would be that of cannibiss smoke and red wine but that'd be mean.

She wears a nice non-offensive but light perfume, and every night I finish work I just come in the door and hug her tight for a good long while and just breath her in. When she's gone out and I'm in the bed alone I find myself subconsciously moving in my sleep towards her side of the bed. After a little nookie in the morning I generally don't want to shower as I know my skin is utterly impregnated with her, well, feminine flavours, so I like to leave it there so I can get a little whiff of it as I go about my day to day ****. Why any man would spray hios body with Lynx crap is beyond me, I wear this fragrence sometimes as a badge of pride, others it's a nice way to tide me over until I get home to the woman I love.

I know some men don't like "going down" either because they can't stand the smell- what crazy sh1t is that- I just breath it in like I'm a gawdam glue sniffer or something.

I can be a pretty smelly ****er myself but she doesn't seem to mind, well unless its my socks but it's best not to talk about those things...I generally just smell of beer and cigarettes none of that Old Spice for me.

phaxx

Originally posted by The Beer Baron
I know some men don't like "going down" either because they can't stand the smell- what crazy sh1t is that- I just breath it in like I'm a gawdam glue sniffer or something.

One word: yum.

There is nothing more to be said on that subject.

dr_manhattan

heh... strange thread, but yeah:

A (female) friend of mine insists that if she can smell the crown of someone's head, she can tell whether she's attracted to them or not 100% (as in, removing all doubts, no she's not deaf and dumb LOL) - when I enquired as to whether or not dirty hair is a factor, she insisted it didn't matter...

And I agree with her in principle: the whole thing mentioned above about immune systems and pheromones is completely the case and on point, but may seem to simplify the fact that immune systems govern a hell of a lot of things we do, and it's all really about complex chemical interactions based on respective DNA trying to find itself the best possible home...

Off topic to a degree, if anyone knows a bacillum called "toxial plasmosis" (yes, the one from trainspotting) which has a reproductive cycle that means it has to move from human brain tissue to cat instestinal tissue. Apparently it's present in a third of the human population and almost all cats, and produces complex sets of neuropeptides when in the human brain that, cutting a LONG story short, make people want to be around cats. In order that their passengers can get back to base, haha.

So most cat lovers are being manipulated by microbacteria. And in the same ways, everything we strongly like or dislike is a micro component of hormones, enzymes and little creatures fighting for control of the steering wheel. What we think of as "a personality" seems to me to be more like a bacterial/micro-organic parliament ;-)

As regards a partner's smell... well, never been with someone whose smell i didn't like, to be honest. It's kind of a moot point with me thus far in my life. If I didn't like someone's smell, I can't see them lasting long...

Aaaanyways, damn friday evenings can be boring ;-)

Sherlock

"I can be a pretty smelly ****er myself but she doesn't seem to mind, well unless its my socks but it's best not to talk about those things...I generally just smell of beer and cigarettes none of that Old Spice for me."


:rolleyes:

Agent Smith

so the new thing is love at first smell?