I LOVE perfumes. Wear it all the time, love it on other women. My ex would wear a cheap gourmand perfume from Zara, and while I usually hate those types of fragrances, during the breakup I straight up considered buying a bottle just to smell her again. I didn't, but my love overrode the general dislike I have for gourmands and sweet stuff. I'm more of a floral chypre type of girl. Recently started wearing Venus by Nina Ricci, it's disliked but I fell in love with it the minute I smelled it. Men's cologne or perfume though? BARF. HARD. I can't stand it. It's worse in a car. Good thing I'm not into butch lesbians because many of them do enjoy wearing men's perfume.
But a woman's natural scent is always going to take the cake. Interestingly enough there is one particular body scent that I smell mostly on Asians, but not only. Some women of other ethnicities have this... same smell. I'm not sure how to describe it, but it smells very warm, I would describe its colour as beige-yellow and a beautiful light in the dark that creates a brown and orange atmosphere if I had to portray it the best I could. It's just yeah, warm. And it drives me ab-so-lu-te-ly nuts. I fucking love it. My ex didn't smell that way though. For a reason or another, I could not perceive her individual scent...
A former crush of mine (who turned out to be a complete bitch, still mad 8 years later at how she handled things) smelled exactly like that and I would randomly smell her sometimes up to 15 times a day. Each time, an euphoric and intoxicating feeling that left me disoriented for a second or two after. I did smell similar scents also on some old men (> 65 years old), which throws me off because it's mostly feminine, but perhaps it has to do with a lack of testosterone or something.
Oddly enough Black women smell different to me, not very pleasant for the most part, which is a shame because many of them are beautiful although not my type. I've theorized that this smell thing is just a sign of genetic/biological incompatibility since we do perceive pheromones albeit not consciously. But it's a bit weird because my mom is very attracted to Black men, and since we obviously share a whole lotta genes, you'd expect me to be more receptive to Black ladies. But no... so I have no idea.
(Now let's pray this does NOT snowball into a controversy...)