Perfume - akin to cigarette smoke ?

[Squills]

AIBU to feel saddened by a blog I read recently or am I just out of touch?

The article related to our taste in perfume often changes with age - especially after the menopause. It was followed by an online discussion and I was amazed to read that some people feel that perfume shouldn't be used at all in public and liken it to cigarette smoke in both smell and hazardous effects.

I felt really saddened by the sanitised view of life some of the posters portrayed. One poster called it a 'perfume habit' and went on referring to perfume as if it was a Class A drug.

I love perfume and feel 'undressed' without wearing it. I feel it will be a sad day if users are banned from wearing it (as some of the posters felt they should be).

I'm getting confused with the users here, but if you are the same user as with the pleasant smell, then the fact that something is "natural" doesn't mean it can't be inappropriate.

Garlic is natural.

My nose has switched off? That doesn't sound good. I wish it would switch off to my husband's morning poo, nothing natural about that smell.

This is true, Chardonnay. Artificial isn't always bad either. I do use both.

Just getting on my high horse with the assumption because I like perfume I waste all my money and smell unnatural

I call for a ban on cats outside private homes because some people are allergic to them and dislike them and they carry fleas and therefore all have the plague.
People are crazy, totally agree with PP, people will always find something to get worked up about because they haven't anything better to do. It amuses me. We all sit back and watch the world go to pot and then find something small and ridiculous to rant about to distract us!

I love perfume, I just try to aware that not everybody likes the same as me, so I do try and use it with a light hand.

Having said that, I did have a long fling with Poison back in the days.

I lost it in the early nineties hahahaha.

I feel the same, when working with oils my nose switches off and I go nose blind.
I normally have to get someone round to smell when I have been making things (candles and soaps)
However i always smell my partners morning poo and there is nothing natural there either

The number of mumsnetters who immediately become seriously ill by having purfume near them is astonishing! IME almost everyone wears purfume everyday and no one gives it a second thought.

Can't stand pious moany blogsters though. Give everyone a chance to publish their stream of consciousness and you're bound to get some twats

I think it's an odd thing to get upset about. Some smells I like some I don't. But that's throughout my life to include food, drink, nature.

I'm not over the moon when farmers start spreading manure on fields but I don't feel the need to ban it. I sniff and move on.

In my office someone chooses to put on their perfume in the lift every morning. The stench stays there alllllll daaaaaay. Wish I knew who it was!

I don't wear perfume often but I'm totally paranoid that I smell so I do overdo it. My clothes are clean on every day, I shower and wash my hair every morning before work but I suffer from anxiety and that's one of the things I worry about.

I understand if someone doesn't like it but i would rather offend someone by smelling too strong of perfume than by smelling of anything else iyswim.

However i always smell my partners morning poo and there is nothing natural there either

Errrrr why? Do you mean you actively go and sniff it?

I'm with Museum
I do tend to get comments on that I smell nice but never that it's strong or overpowering. I wear maybe one spray of perfume and that's it

Oh god no livia... I leave my bedroom door open for the cat to come and go as he pleases. My bathroom is next to the bedroom

It was a jokey reply to I lost it in the early 90's

user Fair enough - I had visions of you going in every morning to sniff it and check for digestive issues like Gillian McKeith

No I am not a fan of Gillian mckeith... she's not my cup of tea

Poo sniffing like Gillian McKeith.. haha

Believe me, you don't have to sniff it, just be in the same building.

I think it's quite rare to encounter a woman who reeks of strong perfume. Most of us use it in moderation as it's so bloody expensive. However, I'm now paranoid that I've gone nose blind and maybe my perfume is actually horrible.

I'll always equate that with the combination of B.O and Lynx Africa

Oh yes, what a combo! A full can of Lynx spritzed over that weird sweet smell of teenage boy B.O. A heady mixture indeed!

It's nothing like cigarette smoke in the degree of harm it may cause.

I cannot stand the smell of Chanel no 5.
I go swimming regularly and one particular woman when she swims as I am coming up to breathe between strokes her perfume is so strong I can bloody taste it. I have to move right over to the far side of the pool. I have no idea what it is, I assume it's something in a spray can like Impulse as it appears to dissolve in the water and surround her. I would put her in her early 60s and the scent is disguating in the water, though I'm sure she thinks it's nice, and as she swims head above water I don't think she gets the full on shock of it when she takes a breath.

It's tricky. I have to wear certain scented products for medical reasons since sniffing it is the only thing that manages my disability-related nausea. Not heavy perfume but an essential oils roll-on (type of thing you buy from a health food shop). I would hope the scent is inoffensive and not triggering, but if it is, frankly I have to put my own medical needs first. And some of my medicated skin creams have a smell.

I do hate it when people cover themselves in clouds of perfume. That shows a lack of self-awareness.

Am I the only person who doesn't know what Poison smells like? Seems to be hugely disliked!!

I love wearing perfume and have worn the same for years. I love it and think yabu. Agree with the comment about people having become way too fucking precious!!

Cigarette smoke is harmful, perfume scent is not!

It's lovely smell, impossible to wear lightly though.
Nuclear strength.

It's a soft plummy oriental.

I'm not sure I know what Poison smells like either. I'll have a sniff next time I'm at a Dior counter. It's a classic 80's scent isn't it? Like Giorgio Beverly Hills.

In the last 5 years I have given up cigarettes, spirits, sugar and sex...I will NOT give up my perfume collection for any moaning bugger, it's one of the only great pleasures left in my life!

Titsywoo I agree except with me its DS2 I have to get to go in the garden . .Dear God he sprays his deodorant so much ,, gets down my throat .