An increasing number of advertisements seem to be drilling it in our minds that the better smelling girl or boy is the most coveted. So, how important is it that you smell good, especially while on a date?
The current crop of deodorant ads, point out some youth say just one thing — that if you spray just one round of their deo, you will attract almost anyone’s attention.
Though the ads seem to be clones of each other, the message they are trying to send out is clear — that the person who smells good definitely has an advantage over the person who doesn’t. Ask actress Neetu Chandra about how important it is that her date smells good and she says,
“Sense of smell is just about the strongest sense humans have. It can either distance us or attract us to someone.”
The actress says that the person who smells good will always get a second glance from her. “Think of that person who always walks past you smelling like heaven itself. You can’t get enough of them, right? That is the person you’d want to know more about and be around,” she smiles.
Marketing professional Aditya Shah says that since his job involves going out on the field daily, he has to take extra care that he smells good at all times. “I carry my perfume with me. It’s something I just can’t do without. I’m sort of addicted to dousing myself in my favourite scent before I enter a board room meeting or if I have to meet someone. So you can only imagine how much care I take to smell good before a date. Nobody wants to stick around a person with bad body odour,” he says.
College student Aarti Rao says that she learnt the important of smelling good the hard way. “I was not a perfume person at all, till one day, I was sent to greet some film stars who were judging an event in the college,” says Aarti.
“I was beaming with confidence till the time my friends told me that I had better spray some perfume on me, since I was stinking. I had spent four hours in the college laboratory and the distinct scent of some chemicals just didn’t seem to let go of me,” she recounts. Aarti didn’t have any perfume handy but her friends bailed her out and she now takes care never to be labeled as ‘stinky’ since then.
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