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?

Ooh, my favourites are Angel and Alien (I do only squirt, not drench, though). And used to love Loulou.

Years ago the lady I shared an office with had to ask me not to wear Poison (another favourite) as it was making her feel sick. Of course, I reluctantly obliged!

I like powerful scents, they suit me more (I do shower or bathe twice a day, I hasten to add)!!

Youth Dew, Georgio, double boak - bleurghh!! My Mum once treated me to a bottle of a Van Cleef and Arpells (sp?) fragrance. Very expensive, I know, and it was absolutely disgusting. I felt so guilty at not wearing it, but I just couldn't. Never dared tell her

Maybe sometimes part of the problem is people who try to hide other odours with a perfume. Body odour and ciggie smoke simply cannot be disguised

I recently got a lodger & got a bit freaked by occasional smells of aftershave, weird-smelling shampoo etc wafting through the flat. I almost wished I'd put something in the ad along the lines of 'fragrance-free only'. But I honestly don't think I could live with a perfume-wearer. I HATE the stuff. Especially the way it gets in people's clothes & hair. I once took a beautiful scarf back to the shop because it stank of perfume. I said 'I think someone's tried it on wearing perfume' & the assistant said 'oh no, that's our room spray, we spray all the clothes on display with it'. Boak.

This is the reason I hate women's locker rooms. They all douse themselves in terrible perfume after work outs.

lol at locker rooms
are we in some kind of american teen movie?

No Troy, PBC lives in the US.

YANBU, it should be banned from aeroplanes and cinemas and limited to one squirt per person per day. I like a subtle waft, but some people really overdo it. I was on another thread when people were saying they spray it on wrists, cleavage, hair, neck. I spray into the air and walk through and still sometimes end up too strongly scented.

Oh and why are do many hair products etc scented so heavily?

A colleague brought her baby in the other day and the poor little thing reeked really strangely. She left ME smelling after I cuddled her! I fear she might have used... BABY PERFUME. We were even given a bottle for our DS. Eugh!

No need to wear perfumes if hygiene is followed. Dove Soap and water is more than enough . I read some,alcoholics wear perfume as nd eat mints to disguise odours and The sooner working spaces is zone free from perfumes will be good. A small amount of something light worn on a date is fine.

I love perfume and think it is only offensive if overused.

The only problem is that, after a long time of using your favourite, you do become immune. Other people still appreciate it though - someone told me this afternoon that I was wearing "lovely perfume" and asked me what it was.
I also love the way my daughter's perfume lingers after a visit - it's as if she's still here with me.

I totally agree. Strong perfume gives me migraines that can last several days. We had a health visitor when DS was born who was lovely, but we could quite literally smell her perfume as soon as she opened her car door outside the house and it took days for the smell to clear after she'd gone. DH has virtually no sense of smell and even he struggled with it. There's just no need for it.

I've been wanting to start this thread for ages

I have a very sensitive sense of smell and cannot bear the smell of most perfumes. The worst place is the theatre. Ladies (of a certain age) who have got themselves done up especially and liberally sprayed the perfume and you are stuck sitting near them for 3 hours.

Selfish?! Not the word I would use!

So many people overuse it though and clearly they don't think they are, it's very subjective. To me anything more than one short squirt in the morning is overuse, so anyone who tops up during the day, sprays it on hair, wrists, neck etc is overdoing it.

What's wrong with Thierry Muegler Angel?

I luffs it!!!

I used to wear Body Shop Dewberry back in the day though

For me, it's Chanel No 5 forever. I tried another perfume once.

This thread could be turning - there's a lot of us perfume devotees out there!

I like perfume but find some do give me allergies. I had a massive allergic reaction to a Lush perfume, a vanilla scent. I also can't use the room deodoriser in vanilla scents either. Shame because I love the smell of vanilla.

If I was working closely with someone I would use perfume sparingly, I only ever use more than two squirts if I am going out for the night.

I have an embarrassing body odour problem right now as I managed to get some sort of bacterial infection downstairs. Caused by cleaning myself too much apparently, but if I don't do that then I get UTI and then kidney infections really quickly. So to feel a bit more confident I use perfume in the hopes that it's not apparent.

Agreed. I used to have to do early shifts (starting at 4am) in an enclosed studio with someone who liked Poison. You could smell her soming several corridors away.

That said, if your baby is relatively new, you are likely to be uber sensitive to smell right now.