Page 5 | To think that people shouldn’t wear large squirts of very very potent perfume?

OatcakeCravings · 08/10/2024 18:48

God I was trapped in the car with my elderly MIL for 3 hours last February, there and back, and she reeked and I mean reeked of Angel which she resprayed all over before we got out of the car. I was gagging, we had to open the windows and it was snowing! My DH actually ended up having to use the carpet shampooer on the seat and even then it lingered. She has always used far too much perfume but it has become ridiculous.

OctoberOctopus · 08/10/2024 18:47

I agree it's awful they stink. Does their nose not work!

CabbagesAndCeilingWax · 08/10/2024 18:46

I must have seen it on a bossy 90s teen movie once, but I always spray the air and the walk through the mist, rather than squirting it directly on my skin. Multiple squirts directly onto the skin is far too much of any perfume.

YANBU - heavy perfume, even on other people, gives me a migraine (although tbf everything gives me a migraine these days 🙄)

Hunglikeapolevaulter · 08/10/2024 18:46

I've mentioned this before but wearing a lot of perfume is a faux pas in Japan and some restaurants will even not let you enter.
All part of living in a society with consideration.

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.

letmego24 · 08/10/2024 18:41

You entitled to your opinion but can't control it

Shhhthedogssleeping · 08/10/2024 18:41

I forgot to say I’m mid 60s but have a v good sense of smell still. Hearing shot but am like a bloodhound when it comes to smell.

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Brandnewskytohangyourstarsupon · 08/10/2024 18:41

OneRarelySeesABrazierTheseDays · 08/10/2024 18:37

It seems you would be happier to not interact with the public because they all seem to offend you
Are you blessed with a family that does none of the above?

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So all of these things are ok with you then?

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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!

Afriendwithbreastsandalltherest · 08/10/2024 18:39

It's always the foul smelling perfumes, never the nice ones, too.

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Brandnewskytohangyourstarsupon · 08/10/2024 18:39

Too much slap won’t make you wheeze, give you headaches and make you feel nauseous will it.

You know from the strength of the stink that it has been squirted to death… excessively.

Self absorbed, ABSOLUTELY because they have zero concern or even thoughts about anyone else around them.

Selfish, self absorbed and do not care about others. That’s the definition isn’t it.

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WiserOlderElf · 08/10/2024 18:39

OneRarelySeesABrazierTheseDays · 08/10/2024 18:37

It seems you would be happier to not interact with the public because they all seem to offend you
Are you blessed with a family that does none of the above?

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I am, thankfully. All those things are disgusting.

Shhhthedogssleeping · 08/10/2024 18:39

YourLastNerve
Yanbu..i find a lot of people, particularly women my mums age (60s +) are very nose blind and wear huge amounts of strong perfume. I find it sickening.

I was walking in the local park yesterday and as a perfume addict, I notice smells in general (good and bad) and scents in particular. I noticed most of the strongest chemtrails of powerful scents were left by groups of young men and women. Strong washing products applies across all generations but with more wafting out of young adults jogging past me. I’m in my 60s and none of my friends wear strong perfumes. Not noticed overwhelmingly strong scents when I go to WI meetings (most of us are 50+). I try not to be an offender when I’m wearing stronger perfumes (just a small spray on each wrist) but spray more on of the mild ones .

DaemonMoon · 08/10/2024 18:38

I prefer the stink of BO. Perfume smells make my skin and eyes burn, nose run and itch.

OneRarelySeesABrazierTheseDays · 08/10/2024 18:37

Brandnewskytohangyourstarsupon · 08/10/2024 18:25

Turn your shit music/program off or put ear phones on, don’t have loud obnoxious phone calls in public, pick your dog shit up, put your rubbish in bins, don’t fucking spit, take your feet and bags off the seat on the train and don’t buy/soak yourself in poisonous awful perfume.
Clean your teeth so your breath doesn’t stink for everyone within a foot of you breathing all over them.

oh and try soap & water. BO is equally as offensive.

There. I said it.

It seems you would be happier to not interact with the public because they all seem to offend you
Are you blessed with a family that does none of the above?

OneRarelySeesABrazierTheseDays · 08/10/2024 18:34

Brandnewskytohangyourstarsupon · 08/10/2024 17:53

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?

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

WhatsInTheRug · 08/10/2024 18:31

Is a small squirt acceptable then?

How do you know how large the squirt was?

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.

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Brandnewskytohangyourstarsupon · 08/10/2024 18:25

Turn your shit music/program off or put ear phones on, don’t have loud obnoxious phone calls in public, pick your dog shit up, put your rubbish in bins, don’t fucking spit, take your feet and bags off the seat on the train and don’t buy/soak yourself in poisonous awful perfume.
Clean your teeth so your breath doesn’t stink for everyone within a foot of you breathing all over them.

oh and try soap & water. BO is equally as offensive.

There. I said it.

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GETTINGLIKEMYMOTHER · 08/10/2024 18:23

OMG, yes!

Though I don’t think I’ve ever come across anything as stinkingly overpowering as a massive ‘overdose’ of Estée Lauder Youth Dew - thankfully back in the 80s.

ThisHangryPinkBalonz · 08/10/2024 18:21

I prefer it to BO that's definitely anti social

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Brandnewskytohangyourstarsupon · 08/10/2024 18:21

No, not spraying while out. That is disgusting.

I mean dousing themselves excessively before.

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bryceQ · 08/10/2024 18:19

Honestly I never find a perfume too strong, but I am regularly exposed to pungent BO which I find very off putting

Tir3edAndTested · 08/10/2024 18:17

Yes! One of my biggest frustrations!
We were in a soft play this morning and someone had the STRONGEST perfume filling the whole room, surely they don't think that so much smells good?
Not to mention people suffering with allergies, asthma and the babies too

ObieJoyful · 08/10/2024 18:16

I’ve had migraines at the theatre, and on a plane because of perfume.

I don’t think people who douse themselves in it realise how much everyone else can smell it.