To think over enthusiastic use of perfume is selfish and yucky?

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Woke up at six with the baby, and when I go downstairs to the kitchen I am met with a wall of fucking heavy duty perfume (mil's). The whole house stinks of it, all the windows are open but the smell stink lingers.
What the hell did she do? Bath in it?
Feeling queazy and eyes and nose running.
Bloody hell what's wrong with people?

but FAGS is the worst

YOU DO SMELL

Stinky, highly-scented washing powder makes me gag too. You can smell those clothes approaching!

It's possible she doesn't smell it any more so doesn't realise how much she wears. Apparently once the brain has smelled the same thing for a while it decides it's safe and therefore stops notifying the conscious mind about it...

I know this as my nose gets regularly blocked from allergies and when there has been no olfactory input for a few weeks the reverse happens and absolutely everything registers - the world is a very smelly place!

Not excusing her by any means, I hate it when people smell of strong perfume, but perhaps buy her a bottle of something different so she can interchange - might fix the problem?

Also I must defend Chanel No 5 to the pp! I wear it and I don't think it's offensively ott? Not that I bathe in it (aware of the above issue), but still.

My brothers girlfriend literally douses herself with Angel, pops out for a cigarette then sprays herself with more Angel. I'd prefer the stench of. Marlboro Lights to be honest!

Cigarettes are the worst smell. I know one friend who when she had given up smoking, was totally shocked to realise how much people who smoke smell. She asked if she used to smell like that. We were honest and said yes.

I don't mind it.

Jean-Paul Gaultier is worse than cigarettes. In fact it's worse than a dead rat in a pool of piss.

How has no one mentioned 'far away' from Avon. It is the devil in a bottle.

If we drop my sister off anywhere for a night out her perfume lingers in the car for days , less is more

I have threee teenage girls in the car every morning, all reeking of a different perfume.
They must get through a bottle a month.

In the last year I have started to be really sensitive to some perfumes. I've always thought some smelled a bit rank, but now it makes me feel physically sick if someone walks past with certain fragrances on.

MIL wears an awful smell by Nina Ricci. She has sluiced herself in it for the last 25 years, and now her whole house stinks of a stale version of it. Makes me gip. It has really put me off wearing the same scent, since everything they own pongs of it - books, lampshades, the lot.

YANBU, I just do not understand perfume. A clean person is a pleasant enough, fairly neutral smell. Why would you think you would improve on that with a load of stinky chemicals?

Most perfumes make me gag - why do people wear it? Do they think it smells nice? 9/10 they are wrong - you are just giving other people the boak.

At least with fags & booze, the stink is a side effect. With perfume it is the entire point.

FruVikingessOla You beat me to it. I was going to mention Estee Lauder's Youth Dew. I love it though because it has a strong smell. I also like Miss Dior, Beautiful, Anais Anais and White Linen. I don't buy perfume for myself though and, at the moment, I'm wearing Aldi's own at £3.99 special buy. Someone bought me some Lou Lou once. Is it still available?

Yes, Lou Lou is still available.

I like a bit of perfume. Since being menopausal I find I smell a bit shortly after having a shower. A squirt of perfume reassures me that I won't smell dirty.

calmet I am sure you don't smell - or at least that your natural smell will be far pleasanter and less offensive than whatever perfume you are squirting on.

Oh I love perfume but a subtle amount not awash with it. On a clean person.

The thought of perfume on a stale body is just revolting.

Cigarette smell is a whole different world of vile though.

itkaka - I do. It is like being a teenager again where your hormones are all over the place, and you really need to shower multiple times a day. I admit I do worry about it.

And it does seem to be women my age who use too much perfume. So I wonder if they have the same worries?

I really can't stand my mil's perfume. She douses herself in it and it stinks. Even worse is then DS smells of it. I don't know what it is but it's way too strong.

One of my old uni flat mates used to wear Sunflowers, and I think drowned herself in it. Horrible stuff.

I'd much rather smell of clean and showered and deodorant.

Subtle perfume or aftershave on a freshly showered person is ok.

Too much perfume on a dirty person is not.

I hate the smell of stale cigarette/pipe/cigar smoke; and the smell of fried food on clothes makes me feel sick.

YANBU!! Obsession wearers are the worst offenders. I fantasise about perfume being banned on planes. Nothing worse than sitting next to someone who has doused themselves at the duty free IMHO.

I have been at the duty free where the staff ask if you want a squirt of perfume, and when you say yes, they drown you in it. As a result, I was once that person on the plane,

pobble i loves sunflowers!

I like most perfumes except angel provided that they have only been sprayed about twice. I don't want to taste someone elses perfume.

Another common mistake is that most perfumes (which are alcohol based) go 'off' after about 6 months of being opened and due to the alcohol the smell becomes stronger. Summer versions of fragrances dont usually contain alcohol so don't suffer from this problem.

My sister wears ALien its bleurgh , do women stilll wear obsession im trying to think og the one my mum used to wear jeez it was hardy lasted days, I want to say poison ?

I loved the smell of sunflowers but on me it smelt like fairy liquid how does that work then

Agree. And as for heavily-perfumed women holding my babies and making them flinch due to the smell and then smell of the person who held them...