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[kaberett]

Right, so scent is an important thing for me, right? Using familiar scented products (shower gels, moisturisers, perfume, etc) is very grounding and helps me remember where and what my body is, and so on. Consequently I tend to keep shower gel of my own at partners' houses.

Currently, the shower gel I have on the go at facesfriend's is Original Source Raspberry & Cocoa.

It turns out that Original Source only use a limited range of dyes in their shower gels; Raspberry & Cocoa is the exact same colour as the Black Pepper & Chilli MANLY MAN MAN MAN shower gel. It is genuinely quite difficult to tell the difference between the two if you're half-asleep and wholly-myopic.

... guess what facesfriend has acquired a bottle of. GUESS.

Comments

[kaberett]

(Having emerged from the shower I crawled back into bed and accused him of having done this to troll me. "Yep," he said, smugly & sleepily.)

[rmc28]

Oh, I remember that black pepper and chili one. It's one of the few shower gels that I had to actually give up using because it was so POWERFUL a smell.

[kaberett]

ha. :-)

[withagreatlove]

Ah, those things are kinda all the same anyway. All filled with parabens :)

[kaberett]

One of them contains more capsaicin and is therefore more shocking to the mucous membranes, though. :-p

[withagreatlove]

Ouch, yeah, I imagine! Not good for women, perchance!

[vass]

Yikes. That's... one way to wake up. My condolences to your mucous membranes.

And a digressive whine: all the stores near me have stopped selling Old Spice Classic body wash. All they have is these revolting remakes that smell like the teenage boy your teenage boy could smell like.

I am very nearly at the point where I'm prepared to order it in bulk online. In fact, I think I've reached that point.

[kaberett]

Happily I noticed shortly before I noticed the hard way, and beat a strategic retreat to the raspberry. >_>

[birke]

Slightly on-topic, ish: Nature's Gate herbal shampoo smells enough like Old Spice that I'm happy to use it instead.

[vass]

Thanks for the tip. Unfortunately, I don't think we have it here.

[jedusaur]

smell like the teenage boy your teenage boy could smell like

and then I collapsed of lol

[davidgillon]

I'm really not sure I'd want to be smearing black pepper and chili on my intimate body parts. MANLY MAN MAN MAN only goes so far as a sales gimmick.

[kaberett]

it is really funny this is why there was a pre-existing tag for it

[silveradept]

...that's an eye-opener of a mistake, I suspect.

[azurelunatic]

Oh *dear*...

[feanelwa]

WHY would you put that in a shower gel. WHY WHY WHY.

[shadowspar]

THIS. Like...what the hell was the conversation that lead to the development of this product?
Manager: "Now...what can we put in a shower gel that'll really, really help people who have a difficult time waking up in the morning?"
Employee: "Well guv, I bet some people would really enjoy the invigorating sensation of capsaicin being applied directly to their sensitive parts..."
Manager: "BRILLIANT!"