<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class="">Not at all pungent once they have bathed, which they of course do after training and competition.<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">The sweet bintsuke smell is quite strong and you can tell if there is a rikishi on the train , for example.\</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">On my way to Tokyo for the sumo once I thought I was imagining it as I smelt bintsuke getting off the plane, and sure enough, there was Kyokudozan ahead of me to the exit.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">One of the barbers told me he was strap hanging on the train and some other passengers were convinced there was a rikishi on board somewhere. The barbers never quite get the bintsuke smell off their hands after years of applying it to glossy sumo heads every day.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Hope the J-Scent “Sumo Wrestler” lives up to expectations.</div><div class=""><br class=""><div class="">
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<br class=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On 19 Nov 2020, at 13:48, Mark Wige <<a href="mailto:markwige@gmail.com" class="">markwige@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div dir="auto" class="">Interesting! For some reason, never experiencing the "eau d'sekitori", I imagined the scent might be more on the pungent side. Thanks Katrina!<div dir="auto" class=""><br class=""></div><div dir="auto" class="">Makunomojo</div><div dir="auto" class=""><br class=""></div></div><br class=""><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Wed, Nov 18, 2020, 4:13 PM <<a href="mailto:sumorina@mac.com" rel="noreferrer noreferrer" target="_blank" class="">sumorina@mac.com</a>> wrote:<br class=""></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div style="word-wrap:break-word" class="">Bintsuke is camellia oil and has a sweet and distinctive fragrance. A few times I was asked why sumo wrestlers used talcum powder. They may or may not use it after bathing, but I always assumed those questioners were confusing the smell of the bintsuke hair wax with their memory of talcum powder’s scent.<br class=""><div class="">
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<br class=""><div class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On 19 Nov 2020, at 11:02, Mark Wige <<a href="mailto:markwige@gmail.com" rel="noreferrer noreferrer noreferrer" target="_blank" class="">markwige@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class=""><div class=""><div dir="auto" class="">Thanks Jeff! Just ordered one, sight (scent?) unseen. No idea what bintsuke smells like, hoping it's close to the real thing.<div dir="auto" class=""><br class=""></div><div dir="auto" class="">Makunomojo</div><div dir="auto" class=""><br class=""></div></div><br class=""><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Wed, Nov 18, 2020, 1:05 PM Jeffrey Anderson <<a href="mailto:jpaitv@gmail.com" rel="noreferrer noreferrer noreferrer" target="_blank" class="">jpaitv@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br class=""></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><a href="https://pronewsreport.com/2020/11/18/j-scent-the-fragrance-brand-from-japan-came-out-with-their-newest-fragrance-tsukishizuku-mother-of-pearl-on-nov-18/" rel="noreferrer noreferrer noreferrer noreferrer noreferrer" target="_blank" class="">https://pronewsreport.com/2020/11/18/j-scent-the-fragrance-brand-from-japan-came-out-with-their-newest-fragrance-tsukishizuku-mother-of-pearl-on-nov-18/</a><br class="">
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