Seriously

[Pooh67_68]

People need to wear so much perfume and or cologne why?

I had to use my inhaler.

 

[Christine]

I agree with you. It's gotten really out of hand and these people don't even smell good. A hint of perfume is nice--drowning yourself in it is a health hazard. I really don't know how they even live with themselves.

 

[ols386]

Too much is.... too much. I don't usually even wear perfume anymore. If I do, it's only one tiny little squirt.

 

[Golf4food]

Bathing in perfume or cologne does not count as a substitute for actual bathing...

 

[Rella Bella]

Oh!! I so agree!

If you wear a scent long enough you can't smell it anymore... too many people think "I can't smell it so I should just put on more". YIKES!

I have frequently wondered if it would be acceptable to mention to someone that they are wearing too much. Is there a polite way to say it? I think I would want to know if people couldn't breathe around me. I've never been courageous enough to say anything... I just get away as fast as I can.

 

[Pooh67_68]

Isn't that the truth.

Bathing in perfume or cologne does not count as a substitute for actual bathing...

 

[ols386]

Bathing in perfume or cologne does not count as a substitute for actual bathing...

Now that's funny

 

[disykat]

I think if people can smell ANYTHING on you from more than a foot or two away, it's waay to much. I use fragrance free products because of my allergies, but I'm always amazed at the people who actually want strangers to smell their perfume, laundry detergent, etc. I can see wanting to smell good up close, but if people who aren't hugging you are commenting on your smell, that is not a good thing!

I always thought people didn't know they stunk until reading things on the DIS like "people always tell me they can tell when I walk into a room because I smell like Downy." And they say it like people were complimenting them!

 

[disykat]

I have frequently wondered if it would be acceptable to mention to someone that they are wearing too much. Is there a polite way to say it? I think I would want to know if people couldn't breathe around me. I've never been courageous enough to say anything... I just get away as fast as I can.

I actually had to have that conversation with a lady at church. I was practically running away everytime I saw her because I'd have an asthma attack if she got too close. She noticed it and asked me what was wrong and I had to tell her I was allergic to her! She was very nice about it and I think she is very careful now because I can't smell her!

 

[Gagirl69]

I used to work the front desk at a doctor's office. A patient came in with his shirt open, gold chains, and a bunch of cologne. It gave me such a headache. He stunk up the whole office. He thought he looked and smelled good.

 

[bumbershoot]

Bathing in perfume or cologne does not count as a substitute for actual bathing...

I'm fairly sure that perfume was actually invented to cover other smells up when bathing wasn't done all that often.


I once babysat for a family. The father was from France and rarely bathed, which I could tell from his hair, face, and what he smelled like under his cologne. Alas he got his wife in on the no-bathing thing, and she wore a ton of this very expensive French perfume.

They went away to visit his family, and brought me back a bottle of that same perfume. SO generous, but I couldn't wear it, b/c I couldn't smell it without smelling THEM (strangely enough, the kids were bathed often and smelled fine, it was just the parents), like some people can't smell patchouli without smelling the scent it's often covering up. Such a waste of their money!


When I wear perfume, I spray it once, an arm's length out from my body, wait, then walk through it once. And that's it. And even THAT is sometimes too much...for me! Nothing like needing an inhaler (or nowadays, just some nettle tea or black coffee to hold off an attack) b/c of your own perfume.

 

[lowie]

it especially makes me crazy at restaurants. stong perfume gives me an instant headache. i've been known to ask to be moved or leave a restaurant. when i ran my family business, the employees were told that they would be sent home if i could smell anything other then soap or deodorant coming from them.

 

[maslex]

OMG----this is SO my MIL. I always tell her that you can smell her before you even see her because of how much perfume she uses. And she wears Pachoulli (however it's spelled) and so if that's not putrid enough, I always tell her that she doesn't need to MARINATE in it. LOL She tells me that she has no sense of smell (which she doesn't) so WHY BOTHER?????????

Oh man does she stink. (disclaimer though...she is clean, does bathe, but just drowns herself in that stink)

 

[arminnie]

I love the smell of Amazing Grace by Philosophy. It's a very "clean" fragrance.

But why should I assume that anyone but me wants to smell it? So my treat to myself is to spray it on my sheets at night before I go to bed (but not every night).

 

[Kitty 34]

I so agree!! You shoud be in the Junior High wing when gym class has been let out!!! I think the kids bathe in the stuff!!!

 

[sha_lyn]

ITA... Kept running the same same person in a store yesterday that was setting my allergies off.
Worst I remember is some guy in home depot yrs ago. I don't know what tat guy was wearing, but I could not breath.

 

[DarthKTrava]

Bathing in perfume or cologne does not count as a substitute for actual bathing...

I can't stand anyone who wears too much perfume. Can trigger the allergies.

 

[clh2]

OMG----this is SO my MIL. I always tell her that you can smell her before you even see her because of how much perfume she uses. And she wears Pachoulli (however it's spelled) and so if that's not putrid enough, I always tell her that she doesn't need to MARINATE in it. LOL She tells me that she has no sense of smell (which she doesn't) so WHY BOTHER?????????

Oh man does she stink. (disclaimer though...she is clean, does bathe, but just drowns herself in that stink)

One of my favorite lines from a Jay Leno monologue is: That is a nice colgne - but you don't need to marinate in it!

 

[GeorgeG]

Bathing in perfume or cologne does not count as a substitute for actual bathing...

There's a lot of truth in that. I do think that people used to use fragrances to mask body odor back when they only bathed every few months, if that. It wasn't that long ago when I was a kid (well, maybe that was a long time ago) and weekly baths were still the norm. I think, too, that when just about everyone smoked, it was helpful in covering up that particular stink. Nowadays, we've gotten very used to clean, fresh air.

I play in a 100+ piece concert band and most of our concerts are in tight, warm quarters. Rule #1: NO cologne/perfume/aftershave. Rule #2: PLEASE use deodorant.

I like a very subtle perfume on a woman, but anything strong gives me a headache.

 

[MM27]

I work with 9 and 10 year old boys that bathe in cologne. They don't get the less is more thing yet.