Blogspot Experiment: (A) Smell

Dear duck-billed-platypus,
Breathe in and tell me what the air is like near your lake...
Can any perfume or showgel top the smell of fresh morning air right after it has rained or the scent of yasmine when it tickles you and makes your lung smile? The smells of cherry-blossom-spring accompanied by a whole orchestra of rainbow colored birds, of rose petals, of basil or lemmon grass leaves, of strawberry fields, of pizza? Wait or should I say Smareni Kureci Jizek z Hranolkami (czech for chicken steak with fries)? Prague, oh where should I begin... When my brother was around 5 or 6 they used to have these "horrible histories" books at kindergarten and school; you could smell the different epoches like the medival times or the Renessaince. Well, trust me after 10 years of Prague, those books were nothing.

Prague Public transport during summer makes me wonder if people know that deodorants have been invented (and showers too btw). Hold your nose because I'm going to tell you one of the stinkiest stories; even the smell of rotten fish and cheese is nothing compared to what I smelled.

One morning, my brother and I were travelling to school and we entered a very crowded tram; people pushing from all dirrections made me feel like an old car getting squashed to a metalic square. There was an empty seat; we had to ride for 50 minutes so an empty seat was perfect and kind of out of place. I didn't feel like sitting so my brother sat down. Something smelled really weird. All of a sudden I noticed my brother jumping up. The tram doors closed. We were all trapped. I noticed that the people were opening windows everywhere. There was a beer-dead shabby looking man sleeping in a puddle of piss and he smelled like he hadn't showered his entire lifetime. He was drooling. People where trying to move away but there was nowhere to move to. We had to suffer through it as of course the traffic lights went red and the tram stood still. We pushed ourselves to the front of the tram but the smell was just everywhere. Let me draw it for you:

seats--free seat (not so FREE at all)----mr.stink (not to be confused with mr sting) -- door-------
anna+michael+people+people+more people


I never smelled anything this bad. It made ME want to take a shower. It's sad people let themselves go so much; maybe something tragic happened in his life, which resulted in his addiction to alkohol, maybe not. How can people like that be helped? Ok. This was a person in an extreme situation but how about your average czech person, if you don't know what I mean take the public transport (it's the fastest way to get around but also the smelliest). I'd like to award a special award to Prague as the city with the biggest: SPC (smelly per capita). I was talking to this german girl at school who had just arrived and she told me about how every time she smelled the "pleasant odeur" in the metro, she sprayed arround madly with her spray deo so everyone thought she was mad. Got any interesting stories about smells? Wether positive or negative, let me know about them, I'd be really curious.


To me smelling good is a plus. If you don't smell like perfume, smell at least clean!!!


Here are some of the products I use or liked (can you smell me)?

Favorite Showergel

-DKNY Energizing (Woman)


-pretty much anything that smells like roses or honey and milk (by Palmolive)
-Cindy Crawford Summer Days





Favorite Shampoo


-ok if I judge by the smell it was this japanese shampoo+conditioner (can't remember the name) that came in really pretty pink bottles with little silvery flowers all over. It smelled very natural. A whole rose garden came out of it when I opened it but it made my hair all fizzy and it did something really odd to my hair, when I used the dryer at the swimming pool it had made my hair so weird that it knotted up sooo badly that I had to cut some of it.
-Right now I'm using Head and Shoulders Lime (don't know if it's my favorite though, it fullfills it's intention)




Favorite Soapsmell
-Mango or Coconut by Oriflame
-Milk and Honey's the best for soaps

Perfume

Oblique by Givenchy "play" is MY smell (-:P

Good Deodorant/Evil Deodorant
I wonder how many Axe responses I'll get on this one. You, yeah you! I bet you're using Axe if you're a guy. Am I being prejudiced? Luckily, you platypuses (platypies with tomato sauce) can't be influneced by one of the best deodorant advertizing campaigns. You probably smell like the grass you walk on and maybe the flowers around you. I don't use sprey deodorants because they have a negative effect on the ozon layer. I sometimes wish that more people acted that way because if the demand went down for them they would produce less or non at all. The roll on's are better anyway, they don't contain those chemical substances, which damage our environment and they're much better for your skin. Not to mention when a puffy cloud of the "greatest" smelling deodorant almost blinds you and makes you wish that your nostrills evaporated; or guys spraying male deodorant on girls so if P.E isn't your last subject, you'll smell like it for the rest of the day. Please do me a favor will you? If you usually buy spray deodorants, buy an alternative one next time. You might think, "oh what effect can this one bottle have?" As the chinese proverb goes, the journey of a thousand miles starts with a single step and our enironment in these days of global warming does need every possible thing we can do, especially if it's this simple.