If there’s one thing I my brain honestly cannot process, it’s perfume or after shave. I’m totally blind to any of it. My sense of smell is pretty good generally, I can appreciate and identify fine flavours in things like coffee and cheese, but to me ALL perfume just smells like perfume. That’s anything from soap to expensive perfume. And I cannot tell the difference between manly or feminine smells. I find it rather interesting, it’s almost like some kind of genuine neurological impairment. Perhaps related to the fact that all alcoholic drinks to me taste and smell like an industrial solvent.
The only smells I like are things that smell like simple real things – so I use original source shower gel (lemon, orange, lavendar, coconut etc) and my wife only uses vanilla as perfume. Which is fantastic on her 🙂