Page 4 | To think that people shouldn’t wear large squirts of very very potent perfume?

Brandnewskytohangyourstarsupon · 2024-10-08T16:53:32+00:00

It’s the equivalent of listening to music and shite on loud speaker on public transport. Everyone around them has to suffer it. I was actually wheezing and felt nauseous at the strength of someone’s perfume the other day and I couldn’t leave or move away from it. FFS, why are people so self absorbed?

OneRarelySeesABrazierTheseDays · 08/10/2024 20:24

Ponderingwindow · 08/10/2024 19:37

@OneRarelySeesABrazierTheseDays

would you react this way to someone who asked you not to get peanut dust on them if they have a peanut allergy?

OP wasn't moaning because of allergies, so your argument does not apply

WiserOlderElf · 08/10/2024 20:23

WiserOlderElf · 08/10/2024 20:20

My dog does stink sometimes, but she doesn’t use public transport.

And neither do I, because people stink 😁

BadPeopleFan · 08/10/2024 20:21

MistyGreenAndBlue · 08/10/2024 20:01

Agree with this. Dogs stink.

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I have dogs and wear whateverperfume I fancy....shoot me🤷‍♀️

WiserOlderElf · 08/10/2024 20:20

My dog does stink sometimes, but she doesn’t use public transport.

MistyGreenAndBlue · 08/10/2024 20:01

PotatoBreadForTheWin · 08/10/2024 19:16

Never smelled a perfume that smelled worse than a dog 🤢

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Agree with this. Dogs stink.

MistyGreenAndBlue · 08/10/2024 19:57

AlmostCutMyHairToday · 08/10/2024 19:32

When I smell such strong perfume it gives me PTSD of when I was in a chemical gas leak accident... No idea why people do it.

I've heard everything now. PTSD from perfume. ❄

Skyrainlight · 08/10/2024 19:56

cookiebee · 08/10/2024 19:10

Decent human behaviour, like banning people from wearing fucking perfume, it’s just so god damn ridiculous. I sometimes wonder how some of the folk on mumsnet cope on the outside without melting like sugar at anything that other people do. Live and let live, and yes, don’t get stabbed 😂😂😂😂

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I never said perfume should be banned. I commented on your low standards of decent human behaviour, I personally don't consider 'as long as they don't stab you' as the indicator of decency.

32nddalmation · 08/10/2024 19:49

Very much agree, it's antisocial. Even worse when people do start spraying aerosols on buses. I like perfumes, but the sheer amount that some people wear is ridiculous and has a negative impact on people around them. And, judging by this thread, some of them know that but think that asthma and migraines are self-indulgent, whereas them wearing an overwhelming and unattractive amount of artificial scent is a basic human right.

SquatWeightaMinute · 08/10/2024 19:49

I find it really hard to train in the gym when people have over powering perfume or aftershave. What’s that about!

JaneEyreLaughing · 08/10/2024 19:39

Ponderingwindow · 08/10/2024 18:43

No one should wear perfume detectable to anyone other than themselves.

heavy perfume is dangerous. It absolutely sucks to start breaking out in hives, wheezing, and have your lips swell because some idiot decided to douse themselves in scent. I vacate the area as fast as I can. One day, I may not be able to get away from the person. I don’t actually know what will happen. I have epipens and inhalers, but I don’t know if they will be enough.

Have you tried wearing a diving suit and helmet?

IDontHateRainbows · 08/10/2024 19:39

AlmostCutMyHairToday · 08/10/2024 19:32

When I smell such strong perfume it gives me PTSD of when I was in a chemical gas leak accident... No idea why people do it.

I'd imagine they don't know about your ptsd.

Ponderingwindow · 08/10/2024 19:37

@OneRarelySeesABrazierTheseDays

would you react this way to someone who asked you not to get peanut dust on them if they have a peanut allergy?

AlmostCutMyHairToday · 08/10/2024 19:32

When I smell such strong perfume it gives me PTSD of when I was in a chemical gas leak accident... No idea why people do it.

PotatoBreadForTheWin · 08/10/2024 19:16

abracadabra1980 · 08/10/2024 17:58

I agree - it just screams chavvy to me - whatever the perfume may be.
Also I have dogs-wearing perfume is tantamount to abuse of their senses-so I let them be comforted by my own natural smell - whether it's perfumed or not 😜

Never smelled a perfume that smelled worse than a dog 🤢

outforawalkbiatch · 08/10/2024 19:11

I've honestly rarely smelt perfume on anyone else and I'm a perfume person so I notice

Mostly all I smell is body odour, old alcohol and tonsil stones (so many people have bad breath and you know the smell if you've ever had them!)

cookiebee · 08/10/2024 19:10

Skyrainlight · 08/10/2024 18:53

That's the standard you live by? As long as they don't stab you? My standards for decent human behaviour are higher.

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Decent human behaviour, like banning people from wearing fucking perfume, it’s just so god damn ridiculous. I sometimes wonder how some of the folk on mumsnet cope on the outside without melting like sugar at anything that other people do. Live and let live, and yes, don’t get stabbed 😂😂😂😂

Didshejustsaythatoutloud · 08/10/2024 18:58

HowYouSpellingThat10 · 08/10/2024 18:28

I was away to have this rant last week but in regard to swimming pools.

Just how much have you put on that I can still smell it and cough every time we pass. I don't understand how it's possible but even with my face in the water and steamed up goggles I knew exactly when you were coming.

It gives me a headache too.

Omg, I missed this rant. Wtf is wrong with wimmin in the swimmin pools. They don't shower before swimming, therefore I have to taste their nasty perfumes/deodorants
Absolutely mingin.
We should start a campaign!!

Guavafish1 · 08/10/2024 18:58

Better than BO

Iwontlethtesungodownonme · 08/10/2024 18:57

Perfume triggers my migraines. I wish some people realised the effect they can have on others.

Ceilingplatter · 08/10/2024 18:57

OneRarelySeesABrazierTheseDays · 08/10/2024 18:34

This is ridiculous
Just because you feel wheezy and sick, the whole world has to wear less perfume?? This is entitled
And please explain how a squirt of smelly is self-absorbed? Because if we are using no explanation, or a riduculous definition of being self-absorbed, people who wear too much slap are self-absorbed because it offends my eyes
People will uncontrolled children are self-absorbed
People who don't look where they are going because they are on their phone are self-absorbed
We could go on

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Do you not think it’s a bit entitled to subject everyone to overpowering perfume though? One or two sprays is obviously enough

Skyrainlight · 08/10/2024 18:53

cookiebee · 08/10/2024 18:40

They are just people living their lives, as long as they don’t stab you, that’s the main thing, life’s becoming so boring and intolerant!

That's the standard you live by? As long as they don't stab you? My standards for decent human behaviour are higher.

Evenstar · 08/10/2024 18:52

Some of them trigger my asthma badly, I am glad Dior’s Poison seems to have gone out of fashion as I once coughed till I nearly vomited after sharing a lift with someone wearing a massive amount of it.

Gruffalosoulja · 08/10/2024 18:52

I used to think Angel smelt amazing. In the end, some people intervened and I realised the error of my ways.

Still feel quite embarrassed about it. And it was so expensive! I used to save up and go to Selfridge’s especially!

EatSleepSleepRepeat · 08/10/2024 18:51

It's not a binary choice between BO and perfume!

Nobody should be able to smell you unless they want to be close enough to kiss you

Skyrainlight · 08/10/2024 18:50

OneRarelySeesABrazierTheseDays · 08/10/2024 18:34

This is ridiculous
Just because you feel wheezy and sick, the whole world has to wear less perfume?? This is entitled
And please explain how a squirt of smelly is self-absorbed? Because if we are using no explanation, or a riduculous definition of being self-absorbed, people who wear too much slap are self-absorbed because it offends my eyes
People will uncontrolled children are self-absorbed
People who don't look where they are going because they are on their phone are self-absorbed
We could go on

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Clearly you are one of the perfumed nose blind problem people that stink everyone out.