If I can smell your real vagina from way back here, it's not the same scent I find so enticing were I tickling your clit with my tongue. Suffice to say that scent is arousing from close-up...but the scent of a vagina from 10 feet away is usually the reason one douches.

That said, it's still a weird idea for a product.

But the website does have some great soft-core porn.

Thanks for the tip, so to speak.

P.S.--Maybe an untapped market among lesbians?

Yeah, it's a bit weird that the Germans came up with a fragrance called Vulva, but it is also a country where women had orgasms looking at Adolf Hitler and David Hasselhof is considered a pop star.

All this does is prove my long-held belief: Germans are weird.

Just accept it and move on.

Since i already have a vulva, why don't i just use the one i have to dab my pulse points before a night out on the town instead of buying a bottle of someone else's scent?

:D

...because then people would just ask why you smelled like fish and urine.

This is a true life imitates art story. Check with your fellow writers who have tabs on porn movies starring Ron Jeremy, because I recall from my college years seeing a certain stag film starring Ron Jeremy in which his secretary shuns his leering and clumsy advances. Then, one day he meets a young blond and performs oral sex on her. Later when he returns to work, his secretary smells her vulvic presence on his face and succumbs to his every angled blandishments. The rest of the movie details finding this woman and collecting her vulvic excretions for sale as a men's cologne. I don't know about you, but if I was the maker of this movie I'd be suing for damages. The funny thing is 1) why would any man want to attract women by slathering their nether scents on his face, or 2) why would any woman pay for such a fragrance when it would be much cheaper to insert finger, rub a few minutes and dab behind the ears?

As for a male counterpart? Honestly, you jest! As soon as I'm done snorfing my pizza bagel bites through my nose I'll try to explain how male "essence" is to perfume what "wet dog in heat" is to air freshener.

Ass: For Men

(Ass: It's what's for dinner!)

Please don't misinterpret this but, I am an avid Salon reader and although new to "Broadsheet", I feel compelled to comment about the new German fragrance. I'm prolly a bit older (52) than your average reader and have been married to the same woman for 27 years. I am also much older than the target audience for the new fragrance but there may be a market that is not mentioned.

My wife and I are still very much in love (and have a fairly active love life - even though we are almost senior citizens) but my spouse recently went thru menopause.

I can tolerate all the changes this entails but I actually did say to her recently that I miss the smell. Having had only one partner for the last 30 years, I have no clue if the absence of this smell is a menopausal thing or not but it is something that I noticed and actually do miss.

Not enough to buy the German fragrance but I am curious.

The mistake of using 'flavour' instead of a smell is a common one when native German speakers translate German into English. 'Aroma', in German, means both 'flavour' and 'smell,' but it's almost always translated as 'smell' by them, even when it's referring to flavourings added to food products.

...Even Cowgirls Get The Blues?

It's called Chlorox.

I seem to recall the recommendation, in the original edition of The Joy of Sex I still keep stashed in my nightstand (more to point and laugh at the hairy seventies models than anything else) that dabbing a little of one's scent on pulse points would drive wild a man with whom one came in close contact. I never tried it. I think, though, that the assumption is that these secretions would come from a clean, healthy vagina, and that they were intended to be taken in by someone who was already known to be capable of being sexually aroused by the wearer (in other words, a lover or partner) who would be very close at hand--and not all men within a radius of ten feet. I have no idea whether this suggestion made it into the yuppified Second Edition.

But then, perfume is not really meant to be discernible more than a foot or so away from the wearer. Dousing yourself with anything, whether it be "Vulva" or "Champs d'Elysees," so that it overpowers all innocent bystanders within a radius of ten feet, is bad manners and a form of air pollution.

Look. A healthy, clean vagina does not smell like "fish and urine." A vulva that smells like this is diseased. Can we lay this (and the damn douche industry which is responsible for causing more problems than it solves) to rest now?

Aha! I've got it! It's the perfect accessory for those guys who own one of those "Living Dolls"!

I think think Vulva is meant to be a masturbatory aid for men rather than a means of attracting the opposite sex. Here's what the website says about how to use it: "Then apply it to the back of the hand and sniff. Your libido will take care of the rest all by itself."

I'm sure there'll be (and has been) worse, but for now, what comes to my mind is, Marketing has finally lost its mind.

Wouldn't it be nice if there were an accessory purse to put this in? Maybe something dark pink, red...

David/sf

Can't believe I'm writing in about this subject, or that I know this, but there already was such a perfume; it came out a couple of decades ago, and it was a French perfume called "This." One of those little facts that always stuck in my head, probably saving up to write about it here.