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I hate perfume. I realize that living with 160 lbs of dog, I probably smell nasty most of the time. I try to make up for this with personal hygiene, but there is only so much I can do. Still, I generally refuse to wear perfume. It gives me a headache, and it usually smells rank.

I generally don’t mind when someone wears a *little* perfume/cologne, but last week at at ballroom one of my partners was wearing enough perfume to asphyxiate a small horse. Honestly. After dancing with him, my next partner commented on my perfume. I wasn’t wearing any. It was residue from the over-perfumed guy’s cologne. He was wearing that much. Ewww.

So guys, if you are going to wear cologne, at least aim for something that smells pleasant. Some of that flowery/musky crap makes me (and everyone around you) want to hurl. Seriously. You smell like a combination of an unclean ferret and the Yankee Candle Store. And that isn’t a good thing.

Today I was out shopping (yes, I do girly things like shopping occasionally), and I came across a scent I hadn’t seen before. Play-Doh.

To be honest, I’m not sure how I feel about that. I almost bought it. I mean, someone bottled that fresh, just-out-of-the-can, “eau de play-doh”. How cool is that? I love play-doh. And while I don’t like perfume, at least *that* scent brings up pleasant memories.

Does play-doh smell better than dog?

Of course, even Hasbaro admits that the scent is more likely to bring back happy memories of preschool than make men swoon. “It’s definitely more of a fun, nostalgic thing,” said Courtney Curzi of Hasbro’s public relations firm. “Hasbro is not going into the perfume business,” she said.

I think she is wrong. I think I would swoon for play-doh…