[TANGO-L] Oh No! odours

[TangoLady @AOL.COM]

Dear List:

I am glad for the postings and suggestions on BO.  Perhaps and hopefully the
culprits will read them and correct their situations.

Personally, I am completely "turned off" by body odor and smelly men at the
Milongas, especially the ones with smelly, dirty beards and mustaches.  I
believe if one has a mustache or beard, it must be washed all the time after eating
anything and sneezing, etc.  Massive amounts of hair get germs and bacteria
and become sour and very smelly... I can't stand them.

Astrid wrote:
"Now, on that etiquette paragraph Ilona sent, I saw another point: "Go easy
on the perfume and eau de cologne." Since I love perfume, the costly French
and Italian kind, not the cheap stuff from the corner drugstore, I would
like to ask the list: Is perfume, even a good one, a problem to many?
I personally appreciate it, when a man wears a good cologne to tango. It
tells me, he is aware of his body and of having people in close physical
proximity, and it conveys a certain elegance. If I really like the scent he
is using, I tell him."

Like Astrid, I also love the good kind of French perfume, and worn
appropriately is soft and is not strong and cheap like the Walgreen's or Eckerd's kind.
I am completely "turned on" when a man wears nice expensive perfume on a
"clean and showered body" not on a dirty and sweaty body to cover the smells.
Like Astrid, I also comment on their nice smell and ask them what kind they are
wearing so I can suggest it to other men.  I am in 100 percent agreement with
Astrid.

I have had so many bad experiences that I have opted to dance in open embrace
most of the times.  I don't want to spend the rest of my life dancing in the
Milongas with my head turned and gagging through most of the dances, the
sacrifice is not worth it.

Pleasant scents and clean partners in all your Tangos,

Lydia