My standby deodorants have failed me.  First, my orange and cranberry Deodorant was discontinued. The sea salt deodorant was awful.  It was so bad that I routinely wondered if I'd forgotten to put on deodorant (and by deodorant I always mean anti-perspirant) because my underarms would be wet by 10 a.m.  Then I'd put on more deodorant and get the same feeling a few hours later.

I went back to Secret Clinical (aka Nuclear), and it was ok but I wondered if I should try another flavor.  I picked up Secret Clinical Strength Stress Response Women's Advanced Solid Serene Citrus Scent. Say that one time fast.  What drew me to it was "stress response."  I didn't get a chance to sniff the "serene citrus scent" but I figured it couldn't be that bad.

Boy howdy.

I put it on and it smelled pretty fruity.  Like a fruit salad with lots and lots of oranges or tangerines or something. I guess that's okay if you want people to think you're constantly eating an invisible orange.  Or if you want people to think you're on your way to a poker tournament a la Johnny Chan.

The true test would be how it held up at work, given I am at a high level of stress pretty much at all time and OH YEAH, (STILL) NO A/C*.  Good news first - so far, it seems to work at stopping me from being too sweaty.  Bad news - the scent is so strong I can smell it emanating from myself hours later (I can't even imagine how strong it must be to my coworkers and/or what they're thinking about the smell). 

I mean, the only thing keeping me from feeling like a horrible person for scenting the whole office is that it does kind of smell like Fruit Stripe.  There's a lot of things worse than Fruit Stripe, so I don't feel too bad.