The scenario: Your ex wore a certain cologne/deodorant/scented something-or-other for the entire duration of your relationship, and now you can't bear the smell. Not even on a cab driver or brother-in-law. Or, their favorite scent of yours now only reminds you of them (goodbye, sweet Narciso . . .). Has this ever happened to you?
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Unfortunately, yes. I used to wear Burberry Brit and my ex wore the man's version, and every time I wear it now I think back to when we first started dating, so I eventually threw what I had left away. I still wear Prada, even though when I'd wear it he said I smelled like Christmas. Sigh...
1Yes. Polo Sport. Puke. Well, that scent sucks anyway!
2Not really. they have ruined good songs for me though.
3I had an ex-husband that doused an 'altar' in sandalwood oil, making the whole house reek for weeks. Sigh, and I used to love sandalwood.
4Calvin Klein's Eternity has been ruined for me, and so has Chrome. Luckily the bf doesn't really wear any cologne so if things go south I won't have to worry about this again...
5yeah totally for me...curve!!!!
6I used to spray it on stuffed animals too!!!
I loved it but not anymore!!!!
Does getting horny when I smell certain axe scent count?
7Adidas sport, but I think I was sick when he wore the scent anyways when things were great.
8I think back to the cologne's of past boyfriends when I smell them again. The most recent wore Usher... But none have worn my favorite, which is Vera Wang for men. lol So that is at least saved for to enjoy.
9Yes!
10Stupid ex and his Armani Black...I told my current lover he CANNOT wear that!
kinda... he bought me this huge bottle of Gaultier pour femme... and I LOVE it... but it's on hiatus right now because he loved the scent so much.
11Not an ex, but this guy I COULD NOT STAND who was in one of my grad school courses. My bf used to wear Issey Miyake's l'eau d'issey and I loved it on him ... then I met this stupid guy and he was such a creep and RUINED that scent. The next time my bf wore it, I told him he'd have to retired it PERMANENTLY b/c it immediately made me think of this guy and made my blood boil! I'm in search of a new one for him ... thinking possibly Marc Jacobs.
12Yes. I can't remember the name of his perfume, but it was a typical yet very nice and subtle guy perfume - whenever I walk behind a guy who wears some sort of guy perfume I still choke up a bit. And same thing with his deo.
Kind of a pain, really.
13Chrome Azzaro and Gucci Envy.
14But it doesn't bother me so much as it used to.
YEs!
15Axe!...I smell it and I just want to smash things...lol...ok I don't go that crazy but I do get upset
My ex hated when I wore perfume, so he didn't ruin it for me... because I actually get to wear it now! I get a little turned off by old spice bodywashes though.
16Oh yes!
17Not scents so much as songs, memorable outfits, etc.
18OH GOD YES!. Although I never knew what perfume he used.
19aqua di gio.
20armani black.
i also usually scrap whatever perfume i wore when with the guy too. i can't wear clinique happy heart, j'adore dior, or marc jacobs any more...
21Mmm one of my exs wore Givenchy Pi..then another of my exs wore it too...now I can't stand it...it brings back bad memories. Also one of my exs also used this brand of liquid detergent for his clothes...and he always smelled of that laundry scent...that smell makes me gag now.
22ehh kinda..when i smell the scent it reminds me of certain things and makes me miss those days but i still love the smell so if i smell it again i get kinda happy.
23Yes.. and when i smell it the hairs on the back of my neck stand up.
but not just that..her ruined a brand... a place... a holiday destination.. oh and my life. Id be happy never to smell it again!
24I don't like guys who wear cologne anyway (it gives me a headache), so no.
25I can't stand Curve on anyone other than my exhusband. He always smelled so nice.
I don't like anything other than Adidas fragrances on my husband. There's something in their fragrances that just makes me melt. Before him I would have never picked that fragrance out for a man.
My first exgirlfriend wore Tommy Girl with Sandalwood. She smelled really yummy.
Smells and scents are so important.. Luckily no one has ruined a scent for me.
26Oh gosh yes-- my ex wore this scent from a&f so now EVERY time I walk past the store, I smell it and I feel the need to run. It sucks because he and I had this insane love of Hot Tamales (the candy) and whenever I smell the a&f scent, I also smell cinnamon!
27HAHAHA Lovestephunnie I'm in the EXACT SAME situation. The ex wore A&F Cologne and he doused himself in it and now even when I am remotely near (or even 100 feet away) from A&F in the mall or if I smell it on someone I freak. It makes my skin crawl now
28Yeps. Aqua di Gio will never be the same. My past two exes wore it and now, the guy I'm dating is also wearing it. I think I should give him an ultimatum.
29fortunately - i don't put that much importance on something that an ex gave me or wore. there's this one perfume that i LOVE that i probably never would have tried if an ex hadn't bought it for me, and now to this day i'll still wear it - it's one of many that i rotate.
30Polo Blue. I still love the scent but I cant stand how it brings back the memories.
31I actually love the scent a guy used to wear! He was one of those bad boy types and we had a month long fling (best way to describe it,ha), nothing serious what so ever... And so there were no hard feelings or anything when we went our separate ways, so the smell brings back a lot of good memories.
32Aqua Velva aftershave. It was our little thing; when he'd shave, and put on his Aqua Velva, he'd come to where ever I was at and say "CLEAN! SMELL!" and I'd thus proceed to put my nose on his cheek and take a big whiff of that smell. I loved it.
33I agree with you Mstinalin, love the scent, but I don't want it to bring back memories. I hate how when I really miss a person, their scent seems to linger everywhere I go. I hope it doesn't happen anytime soon
no exes, but the hot but evil boy I used to know in high school used
34to wear one that i really liked ( I don't know what it was.), and when I smell it I remember him.
Oh, fo sho. I actually TOTALLY mishandled the relationship, and smelling his cologne always reminds me of him, which always reminds me of how I treated him SO badly without meaning to. I don't even know what it is, but I recently smelled another guy wearing it and couldn't bring myself to talk to the guy for more than a minute before I had to excuse myself!!
35My ex wore pretty cheap cologne.
He wore Lynx Voodoo and Rexona (some random smell).
For a while my next boy wore BOTH of those, and would often wonder why I refused to hug him while he was wearing that.
Thankfully my current beau occasionally breaks out the Hugo Boss.
36Excellent question....and the answer is a definite yes!
37Aqua Di Gio... I loved that scent and felt so safe when I smelled it. Now I'm utterly disgusted. One of my coworkers wears that and it's a horrible reminder every time he walks by.
38Aqua di Gio...it seems to be a popular one that ruined it for us. i have mixed feelings about it. i don't think i could ever date anyone else that wears it as a guy I date for 2 years straight and then off and on for the past 4 years wears it. There's mixed feeling because its one of those "someone who makes me so angry because of all the hurt but someone that makes me the happiest person in the world at the same time" kind of thing. it's one of those scents that i immediately smell when another man wearing it walks by and i just stop for a minute and remember the good times. haha!
39Yes, but eventually I get over it...or at least, tell myself that.
40Sort of...I have this perfume that I LOVE, called ...Be Kissable. I wore it all the time when I was with my ex, and when we broke up, I stopped wearing it, because it reminded me of him too much. I went back to my original scent, True Honesty.
41Curve no longer smells good to me anymore..but it's great because my boyfriend doesn't like that scent
42Yes. I love Issey Miyake but can't smell it anymore without the ex reminder.
43Goddess by Baby Phat was what I used to wear but can't because of the memories it brings back. For me, scents and smells from anything be it hygeine products or just the atmosphere in a place carry a lot of meaning and thus trigger memories.
44Kenneth Cole Black, and Guess something (the blue one). Both men I had completely fallen for wore Guess, at times it got confusing.
Its hard talking to him again, and he still wear the same cologne, brings back urges that go with the scent.
45Whoops...made a mistake! My scent is really SWEET Honestly. The hell was I thinking? You see, that's what exes do to you.
46yes, several scents (and songs) have been ruined by ex-boyfriends.
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