trembling hands and body odours
Somewhere between the bike, waiting patiently for my return from the gym, and the treatmill going up and down patiently to keep my heart at 142 beat per min, there was time to think and suffer. They say it is good for you and I think it is true, but in weak moments the thoughts tend to circulate around the question what a perfumer needs to worry about his arm muscles…to lift paper strips and add drops into a bottle?
Returning to the dressing room, relieved because the torture is over, immersed into a multitude of body odours, covered by clouds of Axe or something else sporty and some apricot stuff coming from the shower, the thoughts move on to the ideal pre-and post gym scent. Any idea?
Lavender would be great. Light woods, something light, that’s for sure. So ….any light scents in the Tauer portfollio, you ask yourself, and the answer is: no, not yet. One of these days, the treatmill routine might lead to a perfume formula. These days it still leads to complete exhaustion and trembling hands that stop trembling when the knee muscles are asked to bring the bike up there on the hill where a fridge is waiting with cold drinks. At least, with all these body related thougts one tends to forget the misery of a 7 hours meeting day.
Fragrant post-gym greetings
April 18th, 2007 at 11:35 pm
I don’t really wear scents to the gym. I find that working out makes whatever I’m wearing become too much. Of course, there are people who do, and usually far too much of it.
Axe covers nothing. Nothing replaces a hot shower. I love to come home after a workout and hit thie shower: hot water, Biglelow lemon body scrub and Lazartigue shampoo. After I’ve dried off, then I’ll apply scent.
April 19th, 2007 at 8:06 am
Well, I entered gym with the left-overs of a trial version of the spicy orange flower eau d’epices and -as it seems to last for ever- had a scented layer protecting me….
And yes: Mission cover up, be it A. or Tauer, that’s not the right application for perfumes!
April 19th, 2007 at 9:11 am
Hmm, well, I always try to avoid going to the gym with some perfume becuase the chances are it will overwhelm me at one point to such a great extent that I will have to leave the gym without finishing my task. This obviously does not happen often since I prefer to do my yoga at home in the morning and for that I can wear any fragrance. As to Axe, I think it is the strongestthing I have smelled - don’t know whatthey put in that stuff but it is so strong and stereotypically “gym”-like that it is inevitable I would feel my muscles tense as soon as I smell it ;-)
K.
April 19th, 2007 at 9:26 am
Now you put it right: stereotypically gym like. That’s it! I have to admit, I never wore A. , maybe I should once, just once, because -I must admit- I am really curious to see how it would work on me. I have no clue what goes in there, but it is heavy duty stuff, that’s for sure. And, second confession, I somehow admire it for its power.
Greetings to you
April 19th, 2007 at 9:30 am
I know I’m completely weird, but each time I go for a run, I try a different perfume sample. I put it only on my wrists, so that it doesn’t overwhelm me close to my face. It’s sort of the ultimate test for me - if I don’t find it too cloying while I sweat and suffer, then I should probably buy a full bottle of it. After gym scents…lavender sounds nice, citrus too. I like woodsy-spicy at just about any time of the day, maybe Vetiver too…I’m all over the place with my tastes.
April 19th, 2007 at 9:38 am
Now that ’s a tough test to stand. But…I do the same from time to time with my trials. First to see how they behave under jogging conditions and also because the nose becomes very clear when running.
I was also thinking corriander, petitgrain, cardamon, vetiverol, texas cedarwood and all pumped up by some woody-synthetics like kephalis et al. I could also see neroli doing a good job, but as you said…all over the place, me too!
April 19th, 2007 at 10:36 am
My favorite at any time – then before, during and after suffering/sweating is my chérie de toujours Guerlain Vetiver. During suffering it cooles you down and after the shower you feel clean and crisp and mysterious at the same time, it is never all-dominant – and never boring. And Andy – a vetiver dominated fragrance in the context of Tauer’s signature – may we hope???
By the way: wearing Rêverie could certainly turn the gym-suffering into a happy strolling through fragrant gardens… Soon when holding my “big” bottle I’ll let you know!
April 19th, 2007 at 3:22 pm
After shower in the gym- Rive Gauche by YSL, fresh and clean. What is in the smell of a shaving cream?
April 19th, 2007 at 5:06 pm
Well, Jivko, I guess this depend s on the saving cream. I know Weleda shaving cream, smelling quite good….lavender! Cheers
April 20th, 2007 at 10:25 am
Misunderstanding here. Rive Gauche smells of classical shaving cream, but I don’t know what is it.