Male fragrance sections at shops are always so sad. Would you like to smell like you just downed a bottle of gin, like a leather couch, or like you were sitting on the wrong side of a campfire? Women get all the nice fruits and flowers. This stuff shouldn’t be gendered anyway like most things.
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@Gargron You might go to the wrong Perfume Boutiques. Try Van Clef and Arpels or Maison Francis Kurkdjian. Not gendered.
@Gargron same goes for women section in new yorker, i want a t shirt with mickey mouse as well !
@Gargron knowing a few good perfume shops in Paris most of them have mostly non-gender perfumes. Like l'artisan parfumeur
@Gargron dollar shave club has some decent scents
@Gargron True. I like more "female" perfumes.
@Gargron clinique happy? Kenzo leupar? Paco rabano blackxs?
@Gargron it makes me laugh that 'Sauvage' for men is one letter away from 'Sausage' snigger
@Gargron Rather go for the burnt wood or sad couch on a cabin than vanilla flowery lemony (it makes me nauseous) ahah
@Gargron Grass clippings and diesel exhaust
@Gargron I want to smell like some forbidden incense that you burn to invoke a long forgotten deity.
@Gargron I think it's often what does the other people like to smell if they are standing close to a person.
Also just wear what you like why should a shop be able to tell you what you are allowed to.
Maybe if more people do so the men/female categories vanish over time.
I mean in history we had also a switch for heel sizes on shoes. As far as the Internet told me.
@Gargron Beats "Stale Tobacco" or "Eau de Outhouse"
The fediverse is waiting for the official Scent of Mastodon to come out! For the physically imposing but emotionally accessible citizens of the fediverse!
I find similar biases in alcohol. The last time I was in a bar (stupid work "dinner" meeting after a day on-site at a customer's, more than a decade and half ago) I took grief for ordering a "girly" ginger-ale+peach-schnapps. I have no qualms about ordering something my mouth would prefer over the taste of overpriced wood-stripper and leather that the other guys were drinking.
(fwiw, I'm not a drinker, at one or two drinks per year, so this easily met my quota 😆)
