Cultural smells are interesting. In Japan, they find the strong scents of perfume, cologne, and even shampoo that westerners wear to be intolerable and people at restaurants will discreetly ask to change tables to move away from those wearing it. They are more sensitive to fragrances there while Americans have fragrance in almost everything.
Of course, the most respectful thing to do when traveling is to just take a shower and wear a neutral deodorant so that you're not giving off any unique smells.
This situation sure sounds like it blew up into a racist power trip though.
perfume, cologne, and even shampoo that westerners wear to be intolerable
Apparently I'm secretly Japanese because I am so fucking tired of every product I use increasing their scents to intolerable levels.
Irish Spring and Pert have gotten to stupid levels of scent, and trying to find scentless soaps and shampoos is really tough now.
Cultural smells are interesting. In Japan, they find the strong scents of perfume, cologne, and even shampoo that westerners wear to be intolerable and people at restaurants will discreetly ask to change tables to move away from those wearing it.
See, stuff like that makes me like Japan and then I turn around and read something like there's a tentacle porn-based toddler splash pad in Kyoto.
For me it’s that the country is hostile to foreigners. You can get arrested for stepping out of your hotel room without a passport.
Cultural smells are interesting. In Japan, they find the strong scents of perfume, cologne, and even shampoo that westerners wear to be intolerable and people at restaurants will discreetly ask to change tables to move away from those wearing it. They are more sensitive to fragrances there while Americans have fragrance in almost everything.
Of course, the most respectful thing to do when traveling is to just take a shower and wear a neutral deodorant so that you're not giving off any unique smells.
This situation sure sounds like it blew up into a racist power trip though.
Apparently I'm secretly Japanese because I am so fucking tired of every product I use increasing their scents to intolerable levels.
Irish Spring and Pert have gotten to stupid levels of scent, and trying to find scentless soaps and shampoos is really tough now.
See, stuff like that makes me like Japan and then I turn around and read something like there's a tentacle porn-based toddler splash pad in Kyoto.
For me it’s that the country is hostile to foreigners. You can get arrested for stepping out of your hotel room without a passport.