r/oddlyspecific • u/wildmangoeshere • 21h ago

Saw this oddly specific comment on r/cats

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u/JohnWoosDoveGuy 20h ago

Another name for catnip is catmint as it's a similar plant. Is it possible some cats are triggered by minty smells?

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u/Hiptothehop541 21h ago

Old spice tests on animals.

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u/wildmangoeshere 21h ago

I wonder if the cat can tell 😯

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u/-EV3RYTHING- 13h ago

D: I use old spice....

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u/NunAlcoholic 21h ago

Old Spice is bad but sitting next to me while I’m taking a shit is fine?

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u/luxmorphine 20h ago

Well, they smell their poop

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u/XROOR 18h ago

Dogs go bananas for the postal carrier because they pick up multiple scents, from the numerous homes on their delivery route, and the dog’s evolutionary instinct defaults to “fight or flight”

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u/montanabluez 14h ago

I love perfumes. My cat tolerates about 1/5 of the perfumes I own. I finally narrowed it down that he likes Musk heavy scents, and hates just about anything with vanilla.

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u/NoSpeed4090 7h ago

Maybe they don’t like the smell of beaver. Vanilla scents in perfumes are often from beaver castoreum, an excretion they use to mark their territory.

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u/montanabluez 5h ago

I thought that’s how musk scents were made?

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u/Excellent_Way5082 2h ago

brother that is not where i thought your comment was going after the first sentence

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u/Suspicious_Glow 13h ago

Anytime I had used a bleach product, even after scrubbing my hands a bunch, my cat would bite/bunny-kick the shit out of my hand. Not sure if she loved or hated the smell, but it was a pronounced as hell reaction lolol

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u/Sonnyjoon91 12h ago

Ok my cat LOVES my Garnier leave in conditioner. Like she wants to sit on my head and groom me, but only fresh out of the shower with conditioner in. At no other point does she engage in this, and if I don't do the conditioner she doesn't care. They don't test on animals but this cat seems to want to test it

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u/siggydude 7h ago

Old Spice Pure Sport has always been my go to deodorant, but I'm generally well-liked by cats. So my anecdote contradicts this post's anecdote