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If the 90s smelled like sex and candy what did other decades smell like?

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If the 90s smelled like sex and candy what did other decades smell like?

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  • SplashJackson@lemmy.ca
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    2 months ago

    Farts and sandy

  • coaxil@lemm.ee
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    Everything everywhere before the 2000s smelt like cigarettes and old smoke, it was rancid a fuck.

    • Hegar@fedia.io
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      I miss it so much.

      • WhatYouNeed@lemmy.world
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        Coming home from the pub and your clothes and hair reaking of cigarette smoke

        • BeardedGingerWonder@feddit.uk
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          Who’s saying they don’t still?

          • coaxil@lemm.ee
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            For starters, it’s been illegal to smoke indoors in my country for over 20 years

            • BeardedGingerWonder@feddit.uk
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              Okay… what about that stops someone coming home smelling of smoke?

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                You don’t get exposed to it in the pubs at all?? So unless you self inflict, chances are almost non existent to come home smelling if the cancers

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                  So absolutely nothing then.

    • Beetschnapps@lemmy.world
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      Good lord yes. It was glorious.

  • MantisToboggon@lazysoci.al
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    70s probably cocaine and body odor.

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    You could argue the 90s smelled like teen spirit too

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      I thought teen spirit was sex and candy?

      • criitz@reddthat.com
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        Nope just deodorant

        • proudblond@lemmy.world
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          Specifically lots and lots of Axe, like way too much

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    My olfactory experiences in the 90’s were not like that.

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    70s was patchouli and weed

  • grasshopper_mouse@lemmy.world
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    2020s smell like nothing because COVID

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    80s was clove cigarettes and Obsession

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    Post 2020: Had covid, can’t smell shit.

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      Might as well unban smoking in public places again. 🤷‍♂️

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        2 months ago

        That’s… on the Trump Bingo Card.

  • GreenKnight23@lemmy.world
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    I can tell you right now, the 2020s smell like shitty depends, cheap cologne, and dial soap.

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      Or burning.

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      Yes, but what about for those of us outside of the Oval Office?

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    2010s: Axe body spray

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      That was more 2000s than 2010s.

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        LOL 2000s was what I typed first, then I remembered Leslie Knope remarking about Tommy Haverford being surrounded by “a dense cloud of Axe body spray” which was like in 2011 or 12. I figured he would be using whatever was trending.

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          It was just as pungent around 2006 and probably earlier.

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            I remember it being a thing when I was in highschool, but that was late 90s.

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              Late 90s, early 2000s was peak adolescent Axe usage. I entered high school in 2003, right when the fad was peaking. Which is good because it covered up the stench in the PE locker room.

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                PE locker rooms and axe are a terrible, terrible combo. Some kid inevitably empties a full can, then no one can breath.

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    The 2000s smelled like new tech plastic, the static from CRTs, microwave dinners, pump hand soap, and grass.

    2010s smelled like hibiscus, then beach sand, then sickly sweet and rubbing alcohol.

    ETA: Gas fumes were also part of the ‘00s

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    The 2000s smelled like axe body spray and watermelon bubblegum

    • SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world
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      Because you were twelve

      • MoreFPSmorebetter@lemmy.zip
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        93 baby. So yeah pretty much haha.

    • Midnight Wolf@lemmy.world
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      Fuck, guys dousing themselves in an entire fucking can of axe, all throughout middle and high school. gag

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        I just wish more people were like my mom. She told us from a young age that women have a far better sense of smell. So when we think we smell good we have gone too far.

        My brother and I learned a small amount of body spray or cologne goes a long way. If I can smell someone from 5 feet away I can only imagine how unbearable it must be for women and their heightened sense of smell.

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          I forgot who exactly it was, but a woman in my life when I was younger, probably a family friend, told me that less is more when it comes to fragrance. A quick spritz across the neck and right wrist was all you needed. I’m not sure why the right wrist though…

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            I would just put a drop directly into the part of my jacket or shirt closest to my neck and then sorta rub it into my neck.

            Then I would usually rub another drop between my inner wrists and again rub them on my neck.

            My theory is that you want to mix the pleasant scent of the cologne with your natural scent as well. That way even if someone else is wearing that same cologne you won’t smell exactly the same to women or something.

            Idk it made sense to 8th grade me and it has served me well since haha

  • Yerbouti@sh.itjust.works
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    Nah, the 90s smelled like dog turd, but nazis were hiding themself so it was a good decade.

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    2010s smelled like acetone… for some reason?

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