To think people who wear intrusive perfume are unreasonable?

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I'm not talking a discreet dab, but people whose perfume I can smell even when they've left the room.

And if we're eating it spoils my sense of taste.

'deodorant even. I can spell, honest!

My mum wore Estee Lauder's Youth Dew. It was so strong my dad begged us not to buy her any more.

Also incredibly lingering and cloying was the Body Shop's Dewberry Oils.

A colleague used to wear a Worth perfume. God it was so awful I had to open the windows as she walked to work, became very hot and sweaty, making it smell even stronger.

When buying gifts for close family, I have found I have never gone wrong with Gucci perfumes for all age groups.

Do Body Shop make that white musk anymore? I knew a girl who used to wear it. She smelled like cat pee.

YANBU

Estee Lauder's Youth Dew - I was just about to post about this perfume! The stuff steals every scrap of oxygen in the air!

Anyone who drowns themselves in perfume/cologne/aftershave is being unreasonable, a light scent is fine. My personal favourite is Euphoria by Calvin Klein, it seems to settle in seconds and I've never found it over powering on anyone else either.

It's minging, luckily modern scents are a bit more subtle these days but the older ones like Channel #5 are overpowering and intrusive!

I walked past a woman in the park walking her dog the other day and was nearly suffocated by her perfume. How much must she have been wearing???

I can't stand the smell of CK1 because it is so similar to the insect repellent I had to cover myself in one memorable and pungent night in a hostel place in Tibet.

I love strong perfumes. Hypnotic poison (smells like playdough), Byzance, Chanel No5, Cinema, Women but in the summer Pure by DKNY and Gucci one.

I have a little obsession (not the fragrance...yuk) with fragrance and have day/night, summer/winter options.

I also have no friends

Paris and Poison give me an instant headache.

I worked in a shop in the eighties and would dread a customer coming in wearing either Paris or Poison.

I used to sometimes wear Aromatics until I met DH. His mother bathed in wore it. I didn't want him reminded of his mother when he was with me.

I don't like Opium perfume on me but I love the body lotion. The smell is different IMO.

Eau Dynamisante is my all time favourite. I don't think it is very strong, but I'm maybe mistaken.

I love Eau Dynamisante, too. It's another 'baby cologne' thing, isn't it? It doesn't last at all, though - it's not a perfume, more of a spritz - so I can't justify the purchase, sadly. It's a great finish to the Sunday hangover shower, as I recall

As may be evident by my frequent references to baby cologne, I did my nannying in France. It was pointless wearing the stuff myself while there - reactions would be "wtf?" and Chanel was de rigeur - but I used gallons of it when I came back to the UK, since nobody knew its infantile associations!

Oh I've bought the baby cologne from Zara before, it is lovely must get more

The thing with Eau Dynamisante, especially if you have a hangover, it gives a massive boost. I use the whole range at once and still don't feel as if I've overdone it. If I use the shower gel and mousse the bathroom smells lovely for the rest of the day too.

Do people really spray cologne on their babies?

Europeans do. I use it on myself rather than on the cherubs, however. My DDs both manage to smell scrumptious without perfume of any kind.

The baby colognes are supposed to be aromatherapeutic - other Europeans are much bigger on herbal & floral remedies than we are. Hence the restorative properties of Eau Dynamisante; it's herbal.

I love Eau Dynamisante. Lovely in the summer. Also love Bronze Goddess in the summer too. It's by Estée Lauder and smells like a light coconut suntan oil!

Winter is Channel No5 (day), Channel Coco (eve).

Am currently getting compliments every time I wear my new Hermes scent. Also love Aromatiques. God, I love perfume!

(Hate Angel, all the Gucci's, all the Chloe's, all the Marc Jacobs, Armanis, Donna Karans, the Jimmy Choos - anything sweet, sugary basically. They smell how I imagine Jordan to smell!)

Which Hermes scent is it?

Elixir Des Merveilles. Slight tobacco and citrus. It's taken me years to find a perfume that isn't Channel that I like! Most on the High Street are way too sweet & sugary for me.

In my twenties and thirties I had a signature scent, but now I'm 43 I like to have a scent wardrobe. It depends on mood, weather, outfit, what I'm doing, who I'm seeing etc.

Sometimes I like to wear something very expensive just to change the cat litter.

Will some of you people stop using this thread to discuss your choices of scent noxious fumes to overpower the rest of us. Please.

YA definitely NBU. My mum always told me never to respray perfume. Decent quality perfume lasts and if you can't smell it on yourself, it's just because you've got used to it. She always tells the story about some heart-throb actor (can't remember which one) saying he stopped complimenting women on their perfume as they'd always make an excuse to disappear and respray it. Then they'd come back reeking.

It always tends to be people who wear perfume that makes you want to vomit (YSL Poison is one that does it for me).

Poison is by Dior, not YSL. Sorry to be pedant! I do agree though, Poison is a shocker. I tried it again after 20 years of loathing it and still had to wash it off. Dreadful stuff.

Come over to the Perfumista thread to indulge your fragrance love without let or hindrance...

*pedantic even.

I agree with Cointreau. The thread to end all threads on perfume are the Perfumista threads on S and B. Any questions- they will find an answer. There are some real experts there. I have learnt so much.

I think I'm the woman you all hate. I have a poor sense of smell and I've worn the same perfume for nigh-on 20 years. I think I must be unable to detect it on myself anymore and so overdo things a bit.

To make it worse, my perfume has been mentioned on the hate list (although it isn't Angel).

Sorry, I was thinking of Paris which is another one that gives me a headache. MIL is lovely but I hate her perfume and the baby always stinks when she's been holding her. Don't know quite how to broach the subject without offending her.

You are totally NBU. I have asthma, and get annoyed in Hospital or in public loos (any place I can't quickly leave, tbh) - as if someone starts spraying deodorant/hairspray/batista, I can literally end up on the floor unable to breathe.

I do feel that people should be able to wear what/where they want, perfume/aftershave-wise, but only if it's somewhere I can get away from the smell! If you're attending a function, please think first. The 'Angel' and 'Amen' scents are particularly long-lasting - does make you wonder just how much people put on.

Years ago a work colleague used my 'phone, and it reeked afterward - I had to clean it several times before I could sit at my desk. To be fair to him, this was not usual - he had a really heavy cold, and said that he'd reapplied his aftershave several times until he could smell it! We could smell him coming before he got to our office door.