...Okay, you are very funny, and for some reason this has cheered me up tremendously. I guess just knowing hat someone else sees the weirdness.as for the aliens, i think you are onto something...

...never saw that wikihow before. i suspect she was being paid by the word.

...today on fragrantica there is a big brouhaha that has broken out over long reviews, basically a bunch of folks that dislike "long" reviews and at some point someone said they popped balloons of long reviews.I honestly didn't think anyone was that dramatic or mean-spirited on either side, but there was a skirmish any way. The sad part to me is that the anti-long review peeps really have the writers on the ropes. The writers of long reviews are being described as wannabe writers, as pretentious, as long winded, as attention seekers, etc. Meanwhile, most of the good writers have abandoned Fragrantica precisely because the quality of reviews has deteriorated so dramatically. There is increasingly a culture that really dslikes and rejects anything more substantive than (all caps: I LOVE/HATE THIS!! I am just feeling sad about it all.

...You know, I signed up on parfumo the last time there was another break out of either the old lady wars or the LGBT wars, I no longer remember. I wouldn't give up on fragrantica for a few reasons: I am so lazy and I didn't want to rebuild my collection; I still had friends there; and they had attacked me enough times that I was feeling stubborn, like you peeps will have to KILL me to make me leave.Then there was the ridiculous front page article attacking vintages, I cam over to parfumo then, read some of the response here. So today we have two "issues" the first is another article by Elena V called "Extinguishing Scent Remnants" which ostensibly was a column on how to get rid of perfume that really clings to the skin, which I thought was an interesting topic, but wait... this column soon devolved into this bizarre essay on personal hygiene advice: " Naturally human bodies produce smells as a matter of course. Intimate genital smell, armpit sweat, smelly feet, bad breath, sebum accumulation on scalp ...The solution unless there's a medical condition is usually a good shower. Wash your scalp rubbing gently, also behind your ears, where glands produce a sebaceous secretion that can smell intensely and which mix with the perfume you are trying out to produce a much more potent blend that might turn "waxy" or rancid. Use a neutral deodorant under the arms, but no deo of any way in your private parts because it's considered damaging to the good bacteria in the area (just dry your skin well, and if you need to get to skin folds use a hair dryer on cold setting). " The following routine is of course known to all but it bears repeating: Opt for clean underwear and clothes (preferably line-dried to avoid the tad musty smell of indoors drying). Brush your teeth, brush your tongue too (an often neglected spot) and rinse with some soda water instead of mouth rinse (those are full of alchol and further dry out your mouth which continues to smell bad after a while). Use that Listerine instead for a foot soak, diluted in warm water: it will make dry skin fall off and keep soles clean-smelling. Let your shoes bask in sunshine; it kills fungi and the clean air will have them thoroughly dried out. If you need to have your shoes deodorized and fungus-free use boracic acid in powder form (or Daktarin powder), sold at your chemist's. "And everyone just loves this article, I was stunned, but everyone else is just like, great article.I feel like I am losing my mind over there.

...is there a place on parfumo that goes over all the features, i am having a tough go of it. for example, i can not understand how to change my perfume and then see a timeline. the only way i have been able to change is to click on not wearing this perfume? and enter a new fragrance. am i deleting the prvious entry? and if not, where is the list stored? i keep seeing just one perfume, i.e. whatever i am wearing.i have a pretty steep learning curve here. is there an overview of features? i have been to various boards and also searched the forums. thanks. sorry for being slow to figure this out.