Gift code (was Main List's: Why Ron Loves Hermione)

[charisjulia]

Laura ruled:
>>>>>Perfume, on the other hand, when given from a *guy* to a girl 
(girls 
give other girls body sprays and perfume samples all the time), is 
*definitely* indicative of romantic interest.  IMO, anyway.<<<<<<

Really? I’d definitely see it the other way around. To start with, 
girls tend to wear much more smelly stuff than guys do for no 
especial reason. So it’s ok to assume they need and want more and 
therefore to take it upon yourself to provide them with it. But even 
the very basic * deodorant* is only just coming in as a must-have of 
male existence. Look at the relentless promoting! (There’s an advert 
currently running in this part of the world which after many, many 
images of men running about and playing football and dancing and 
otherwise engaging in kinetic activities of all sorts, ends with the 
caption: “Male perspiration? Only men can stand it” <g>) On the other 
hand however most men appear to attemt drowning themselves in cologne 
before going out. Quite often it’s positively asphyxiating to get 
within ten miles of them. 

So, if you give a guy a bottle smelly stuff, he very likely to look 
at it and think “*Why * exactly are you giving this to me? *Why * do 
you care what I smell like? * What * does this mean? Errrrrrrr. . .” 

And “Because you stink” won’t go very far to getting anybody feeling =

comfortable again.

Charis Julia