I\u2019ve been trying to get into cologne lately. I\u2019ve basically been wearing the same BDU pants and leather jacket and hair (facial and otherwise) every day for years, only the t-shirt cycling, and I\u2019m pretty okay with that, but the ability to accessorize into another sense seems like it would add some nice variety.
\n\nThere\u2019s a pretty great perfume store in town with a staff that\u2019s been great at taking my vague, uninformed preferences and steering me to stuff I like - I\u2019m going with Serge Noire as a standard night scent and I\u2019m looking for a vetiver or some light, planty scent for the day, if I can find one that doesn\u2019t fade to nothing immediately.
\n\nThe thing is I\u2019ve never done this before - I have no idea how to apply without an atomizer, that plastic wick attached to the cap is a real three shells mystery, I don\u2019t have a sense how \u201cloud\u201d I should smell it, and how that translates for people whose noses are more than 4 inches from my neck. There\u2019s no such thing as a mirror for smell. So I\u2019m constantly afraid I\u2019m That Guy With Way Too Much Cologne On and strangers are too polite to say. Lot more sympathy for 15-year-old guido/ettes.
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