To find the person wearing Poison (lighthearted)

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in the office and ask her never to wear it to work again?

Seriously, that stuff hasn't got any less stinky since it's late 80s/early 90s heyday. Plus I can smell it at my desk and whoever it is - and let's face it, she won't be hard to find - must be over ten metres away.

Being trapped in an enclosed space with the wearers of these very strong fragrances is hideous, I developed a migraine in a cinema because of it once (I know you can leave but if you've paid for the tickets you don't want to), being stuck with one on a longhaul flight would be a complete nightmare. Even more moderate fragrances get unpleasant after a while, I don't mind a waft as someone walks by but do not want to sit in someone else's fragrance cloud for any length of time.

There is a powdery smelling scent a lot of older ladies wear that always makes me feel really really sick. Worse thing is paying a lot of money for good theatre seats and being surrounded by this smell.

I do have issues with smells and don't understand the obsession with dowsing yourself in perfume. It's horrible for everyone else.

We had a woman at work (luckily a temp and she's gone now) who was respraying her perfume 3 times a day. You could smell her from the next room. I complained about it, as did a lot of other people, and she was asked to desist.

thank you for the laughs from this thread

I don't wear perfume all that often but I prefer the old favourites like Chanel No 5 and Blue Grass - both of which smell nice on me.

OP, what to do is pick up a load of samples from a department store and get a bunch of people to try them and start talking about perfume then say. "What's that one from the 80's? Poison? I got a whiff of it the other day, I was nearly sick! Then do an exaggerated face and continue with your (infinitely nicer and posher) perfumes.

I quite like Poison but it has to be applied very sparingly - just the tiniest little spritz. If you give yourself a single good squoosh of it then it's far too much. I remember my Mum wearing it when it first came out. We were going out for a family dinner and she was the last one to get in the car. The smell was so overpowering that we all got out and she had to go and wash it off. Even after a rinse you could still smell it - although it was much nicer once it had been toned down a bit.

My pet hate perfumes are Paris and Amarige. Both of them smell sickly sweet. I wear Issey Miyake, Stella McCartney, YSL 'In Love Again' and occasionally Marc Jacobs' 'Lola' (although that is also quite strong). I find perfume buying very difficult as most of the new ones that come out smell very floral and sickly to me. When I do find one I like then inevitably it smells like cat wee when I put it on - very few suit me. I love Thierry Mugler's 'Alien' on other people but it smells rank on my skin.

My Aunt wore White Linen, it set my teeth on edge.

I love Poison. Poison Girl is lovely too.
Can't stand Angel.

Kouros still gives me the horn.

So many memories here. I worked in a pharmacy that had a perfume counter in the late 1990s, I went home stinking every day and usually with a headache.
Poison was the worst offender, but Angel smells like cat pee - vile stuff, samsara was horrible too.
we sold loads of anais anais, loulou, blue grass, Eden and cabotine.

I spent a year in a cloud of Chanel No5 thanks to a colleague.

No way Hoose
I bought dp a bottle after he was saying how much he liked it. Not realising it was one he used to have, I bought it for him hoping to move him on from his other horrible aftershave.
He smells like the gents in 1992 when he wears it

I know ninja, I'm a sick, sick puppy

DH doesn't wear aftershave so I have to make do with a quick sniff at YSL counters now and again.

Normally, I'd be with the perfume-haters. I love antiseptic smells. But today I went out absolutely reeking of tea tree oil, and it was too much even for me. If I wear perfume, its Romance (hate the name but love the gentle scent). So bring on your nasty Poison, this afternoon. If it drowns out the tea tree, it will be worth it.

Funnily enough I smell of tea tree too following a nit combing session found a couple, thanks kids

Gosh that stinks smelt it last week walking past someone.

Perfume smells different on different people. The only perfumes that last more than an hour or so on me are the YSL ones.
In the 80's and 90's I had all sorts of friends ans acquaintances giving me their bottles of Opium as word got round it actually smelt nice on me. No men's cologne lasts on DS2 unless it is a YSL one so I am assuming we have a similar skin type.
Issy Myiake smells worse than the cat on me, ans I didn't know you could still even buy Poison, it is a rather overwhelming scent!

Why has my "d" key turned into an "s" Key????

I must be showing my age, because all those scents bring back so many good memories, even if I didn't like them much.

Rive Gauche reminds me of being in University, Eternity reminds me of my sophisticated 90's self, as does Youth Dew and White Linen. Blue Grass reminds me of my auntie, and Je Reviens (seriously vile stuff, that) my mother.

I LOVE Chanel 5. Classy!! IMHO.

Gosh some real blasts from the past there.

I hate Poison reminds me of small windowless offices in the 80s. Cant stand Opium ,it is just too much . Finally , Ysatis , I think it was in a black box by YSL reminds me of nights out in the 90s thinking I was super cool . Not realising that everything I touched would stink of it for days .

**originalmavis

It's not called 'poisson' for nothing. I'd rather sniff week old prawns.**

You do know you have typed the French word for fish, don't you?

Body Shop White Musk used to give me the runs.

You're all welcome.

I used to love Poison!

Gandalf - I know! We had a sociology lecturer who used to say it (not sure how it came up tbh) with a French accent whilst we tittered. To me it has always be 'Poisson'.