A friend of mine recently went home with a young woman after a party. However, before he, you know, got down to business, he went to use her toilet and spotted Britney Spears's perfume in her bathroom. He promptly made his excuses and left. Was that unreasonable? And what are other similar style deal-breakers?
— Question sent in to the advice column Ask Hadley, in the Guardian. Hadley's answer may be deduced from the column's title, Why possession of a celebrity perfume is reasonable grounds to end a relationship.
Pretty funny …..except that I’m currently wearing a comfy night-tee shirt emblazoned with “Syracuse University”
…..egad, I’m undate-able. …..wait a second: I stole it from my hubby, so maybe HE’S undate-able.
I think being married mostly, sometimes, renders you undate-able.
HA! Yep.
😉 But I suppose that’s the point of being married anyway? No more dating.
picky picky!
I think he might be the only guy in history to turn it down because of questionable perfume taste (and only discovered in a bathroom, not even as if he was being choked by a cloud of it).
You said it! He must be VERY discriminating in his tastes…
Yeah. This is a rare man with serious standards for party hook-ups.
Or he suddently realized that his own daughter also wears BS and and that he was probably way too old to be with that young woman…
I think he just didn’t mention to his friend the bottle of herpes antiviral pills sitting next to it on the counter. Easier to blame it on the perfume 🙂
Ouch! LOL.
Since when is a one night stand a relationship?
LOL…yeah, I thought that was pretty funny too. We aren’t talking about relationships, we’re talking about whether or not you should have sex with a woman who has a perfume you don’t like in her medicine cabinet.
before he left he should have given her a good stern talking to about keeping fragrance in the hot/steamy bathroom that probably has bright lighting as well!
Oh wait, it IS Brit. Spears….the faster it goes bad the better…..
the list is hilarious (and I fully agree, my own list is even longer, but that’s another matter)
Amusing. Now I wonder… If the celebrity perfume happens to be flanked by a Patou and Chanel, do they cancel out the unflattery of the celeb scent?
Wow. I don’t even know if unflattery is a word. Must. Have. Coffee. And re-reading before I hit ‘post comment’ might not be a bad idea either. 😉
Perhaps the Patou and Chanel add a patina of taste/style, and the Britney a soupcon of whimsy?
I’m personally more afraid of the thoughts once the bathroom drawers of suspicious vials (more than at the crackhouse as noted at the ‘Posse) are seen. Or if he takes a look at my real collection. . .and sees the cherished collection of far too many FBs. . .but then, he’d have to be really snooping, and opening dark drawers in my bedroom closet!
Very funny article, and mostly spot-on. I say “mostly” because, yeah, what red-blooded guy about to get some action would actually refuse because of his conquest’s choice of fragrance? Sorry, but this seems a wee bit ridiculous. Also, the list of deal breakers includes “cologne” for a man – as in, any cologne? Huh? Too much cologne, bad cologne, maybe…but does the author seriously mean that even a wonderful fragrance on a good-looking guy is somehow undesirable? I beg to differ…nothing yummier than nuzzling up to my guy’s neck when he’s wearing a little Habit Rouge!
My sentiments exactly. I would think any man about to get lucky wouldn’t be all that concerned about a darn perfume bottle. My guess is that he wasn’t that interested in the first place.
Has no one told him that celebrity perfumes are usually, or often, made by the same noses working for more respectable brands? Clearly he thinks himself more discriminating than the ‘experts’ (Turin, Sanchez, Chandler) who have all praised the odd celeb fragrance.
I found the reply very funny – but what a snobbish pernickety lay – probably useless in bed because of conflicted sexuality anyway.
Conflicted sexuality–exactly!
Snort! …Useless in bed…lol
That was kind of quirky-funny. I would agree on the BS fragrance part; none of them appealed to me. However I did like J.Lo’s Glow and to an extent Faith Hill, but not enough to buy them. I have smelled worse in terms of celeb fragrances.
OK, I admit it – this reminds me of an ex-ex-ex friend. (and not even a boy-friend!)
only one of her bottles actually has her name printed on it (and that is her latest scent, radiance). so this guy definitely knows what a britney fragrance looks like. says a lot about her branding, i think. good for her.
I think if I stumbled upon Angel by Thierry Mugler or Anais Anais that would seriously be several faux pas at once. The Britney Spears I could excuse, everyone has guilty pleasure scents, but anyone laying out for Angel or Anais Anais is a woman who is trying too hard to project herself, and that is not the kind of woman that interests me. Both are too sweet, both are just… too much.
Seriously sad dude…..so way off being a decent human being…what ever happened to don’t judge a book by its cover?
Don’t judge a human by his/her perfume?
Poor dude indeed. Sounds to me like he wasn’t able to rise to the occasion, (ahem) and decided to blame it on poor Britney. First it was the downgrading of pop culture, now she’s blamed for erectile dysfunction. The only possible excuse this guy has is if he had a truly hideous former girlfriend who doused herself in the scent of Britney. I’m just trying to picture what guy would turn down a bit because of perfume? Not anyone I’ve ever met, but I’ve obviously lived a sheltered life. Unless this guy is really Brad Pitt, in which case high standards would be necessary to cull the herd of potential flings.
Hang on. If (as this piece claims) 85% of books on anyone’s shelves are unread, maybe there is a good percentage of perfume in their bathroom that is unworn? Could the BS have been a gift from the girl’s ugly stepsister? She leaves it in the bathroom for show, in case Ugly Stepsister turns up unannounced?
My brother just alerted me to this article, so I came straight here thinking you would be sure to have picked up on it!
Now if that is original Fantasy, I smelt it at the weekend for the first time – the owner of a perfume store challenged me to pick my relative “favourite” out from a table of celebrity scent testers – Fantasy was hers. It wasn’t all that bad, tbh, and I also don’t mind Believe.
The bottle is bad, though!