The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #24944   Message #288776
Posted By: sophocleese
31-Aug-00 - 06:03 PM
Thread Name: NonMusic: Anyone with me on this?
Subject: RE: NonMusic: Anyone with me on this?
Well guinesschik it would appear that you are not alone. In the last two choirs I sang in it was common practice for the choristers to not wear any kind of fragrance for a performance or a rehearsal, it interferes too much with the singing. The only time I use scent is when I'm in a bath.

What I find bizarre is the Orwellian language that now advertises laundry detergent as having Fresh Scent. Apparently you can use your towel all week and it will still smell 'fresh'. What? You mean that the 'fresh' fragrance in the detergent is strong enough to cover the moldy damp towell smell. I worked in a place where I was to do light housework for a while. No matter what I did people didn't think I had cleaned. One day one of the women came in to do some cleaning and used some floral-scented window cleaner that had me gagging, that's when I realized that my use of unscented cleaners meant that people used to fragranced stuff thought I hadn't done my work. People are equating cleanliness with smelliness.