Attn: Perfume wearers (mini-rant)

[WatchinCaptKangaroo]

Please be considerate of those around you. What smells so good to you may cause migranes for others. It's not necessary to douse yourself in it before you go to work.

Please don't tell me your boyfriend/husband likes it so you're not going to stop wearing it. Your boyfriend/husband does not work here and you're making my life miserable.

Thank you for your cooperation.

 

[Sparx]

I do wear body spray. It is a very light scent and I wear very little. It is barely noticable. I'm sorry that your coworkers wear too much.

 

[twinklebug]

I'm also allergic to perfume but I'll put up with it to some extent. I believe that it's quite inappropriate to wear it at work, school or Jury duty (!!!).

The problem is that most folk who wear perfume have no clue how to apply it. The proper way of applying a spray is to spray the air ONCE and walk into the cloud. For true perfume, a tiny dab on a pulse point is more than enough. The idea is to trigger the senses in a positive way, not cause complete meltdown.

 

[mallcat]

I totally agree ! Heavy perfume makes me want to heave. I am very allergic to strong smells - perfume, some cleaning fluids, etc.

 

[Tina]

I agree. Nothing smells worse than stepping into our elevated crosswalk between the garage and building and to be ASSAULTED with perfume from someone who passed through who knows when! The elevators are the same. I can't see you, but I sure can smell you!! Its just awful.

 

[floridafam]

My DH swims almost daily at the local pool.

They have a group of older women who do water aerobics at the same time. They all wear that awful smelling perfume that some older women seem to wear here in Florida.

He says the whole pool smells like it by the time he's done swimming.

Yuck!

 

[disykat]

I agree! I have allergy problems, but even without the allergy issue - I don't think you should be able to smell someone unless you are hugging them. The idea that people actually want me to smell them kind of grosses me out.

 

[lulugirl]

I feel your pain. I have an extremely keen sense of smell, it's a curse because I hate being able to smell people!!!!!
I prefer the smell of Ds's poopy diapers to most perfumes.

 

[always quiet]

This reminds me of my son (who's 15) earlier this year. The "in" thing for guys is to wear Axe. He asked me if he could get some Axe deodorant and I had no problem with that. HOWEVER, when he walked out of his room the next morning, I could of died!! He reeked of the stuff!!! He insisted that he only used on spray per underarm, but the smell of it had me sneezing up a storm. I even threatened to have him sit outside til it was time to leave for school. My daughter (14) told me how much she loved that smell and how all the girls are crazy for it. I asked my son if the guys wore it because it fumigated all the girls and made them easy to catch

 

[jenm2878]

I entirely agree! I had to go to a continuing education class required for my job, and I was TRAPPED for eight hours in the room with someone with a gallon of perfume on. It almost took on a life of its own! I spent the day trying to keep my hand over my nose/mouth to filter it. Blech!

 

[chyam]

Wow........maybe we should make a copy of this thread and post it on the bulletin boards of our work places! I know exactly what you mean, I have 2 women at work who wear so much perfume (Poutouli?) I cannot stand the stuff! and it never fails that I will be behind someone at Disney that bathes in the crap too.............I swear I can smell this stuff 500 yards away, and those that wear it ALWAYS wear to much of it! I have actually put camphophenique under my nose to smell rather than that stuff! I have never even seen it in a store, but apparently they sell it by the gallons and it must be cheap too since they wear entirely to much of it!

 

[Tuffcookie]

Even a little can tigger a migraine. I walk the stairs at work so I won't get stuck in an elevator with someone with perfume/colgne on.

TC

 

[LindsayDunn228]

The only time you can smell my perfume is if you are giving me a hug.

 

[Crankyshank]

I wear essential oils instead of perfumes normally because they bother me too. I follow the perfume rules, though

I gag at least a dozen times a day at work because various people come and go all day long and some of them wear the most gaw-awful perfumes and colognes. It makes me wonder what on earth they're thinking.

and why is it they never bathe in colognes/perfumes that actually smell good? Why is it always the ones that burn your throat when you smell it?

 

[Lisa loves Pooh]

I 2nd that....I wouldn't ordinarily mind...just hold my breath...but any fragrance that has ANY type of floral scent, I'm allergic to. It is so bothersome those that "bathe" in perfume. I don't mind subtle scents...easy to just hold my breath until I pass...but the bathers..I can smell a mile away...makes me itchy just thinking about it.

On that note--ease up on the dryer sheets and Tide. Those send me into an allergic fit as well!

(anything with a chemical scent designed to make you or your stuff smell like plant life).

Okay with spicy scents though.

 

[clh2]

I do wear body spray. It is a very light scent and I wear very little. It is barely noticable. I'm sorry that your coworkers wear too much.

While it may seem like a very light scent to you - it still may be offensive to some - like me.

There are those of us who just get headaches from perfumes. Period.

 

[Lisa loves Pooh]

camphophenique under my nose to smell rather than that stuff! I have never even seen it in a store, but apparently they sell it by the gallons and it must be cheap too since they wear entirely to much of it!

You've given me an idea..

Maybe I should carry around coffee beans. My allergic isn't bad enough for an epi-pen....but my goodness, it ain't pretty either.

(coffee beans is what they use in stores so you can cleanse the odor from your nose and smell a new perfume without the scent being mixed with what you sniffed previously--in case anyone is wondering why I mentioned it.)

 

[Lisa loves Pooh]

There are those of us who just get headaches from perfumes. Period.

Or who get all tingly and itchy and sneezy and watery eyed....

 

[SleepyMom]

I stopped wearing any type of perfume years ago because of my MIL. She complained so bad about anyone wearing anything, just totally ragged on them. I barely wore any, just tiny dabs now and then, but you would have thought by the way she reacted that I was dumping a bottle on each day. So I quit wearing any, any time... and guess who still gave me a hard time for another 2 years or so because she thought I was wearing it

Well, one time on a visit there I was sitting in the living room with our niece and this smell started to take over the room, it was just the two of us and we both were trying to figure out where it was coming from. It was vanilla based, so I thought maybe it was coming from the kitchen but no one was in there either.

This went on for another 5 minutes or so and then MIL walked out of the bathroom and we figured out where the smell had come from. She was wearing so much that the smell came into the room before she did

I figured out that the smell she was always complaining about was more than likely her own perfume. She asked for it every Christmas and the smell was awful, but she just said it was everybody else's that reeked, not hers.

 

[twinklebug]

Or who get all tingly and itchy and sneezy and watery eyed....

Wheezings always fun too. I simply love it when I physically can't get the air in/out of my lungs because of man-made odors (this includes much more than just perfumes, I'm not picking on you ladies!) I'm the one who can't go into Yankee candle for more than a few moments because I can't hold my breath that long -however- I can deal with and love a few of the scents they have. Odd how it works.