To spray a bit of perfume on the bus.

[logicalmum]

I don't want to sound horrible about people with strong body odour, , but some do positively honk when i'm on the bus. Today a man sat in front of me and the smell nearly took my breath away. Wibu to spray a bit of impulse round my neck. Anyone else do this.

I've thought through my position as instructed, and just popped back to confirm that, if I'm ever on a bus (which is very rare) and there is someone or something really smelly, I will still definitely reserve the right to surreptitiously squirt a little perfume or splash a little essential oil. As long as we all understand I won't actually be striding up and down the middle of the imaginary bus squirting my completely hypothetical perfume in people's eyes or anything.

YABU OP, I'd rather have the smell of BO wafting around the bus than have it smelling like Boots/Debenham make-up & perfume stands.

I smelt BO at the gym today

Give me a nice scent any day

If you sprayed any deodorant or bodyspray in an enclosed space, I'd be hard pushed not to elbow you in the back of the head as I got off the bus to finish having my asthma attack...to be fair.

Yabu OP. Knob.

I know someone who has an extreme reaction to freshly sprayed perfume or aerosols. She can’t go into most department stores and avoids using public toilets or changing rooms as much as possible. Many people don’t see the harm in a quick spray on the tube or whatever though. There have been occasions where people who have sprayed in an enclosed space and caused her to collapse and require medical treatment then become very distressed and panicked by the fact that she has collapsed or had a severe asthma attack.
You really shouldn’t spray in public. Especially not if you then become a blithering idiot when faced with a person unable to breathe or fainting.

A bit of normal BO isn't the worst thing in the world at all. But am at everyone who given the choice would choose terrible BO/all encompassing odour over most perfumes/body sprays (not counting for the aerosol allergies of course - I'm asthmatic btw).

We need a scientific mumsnet test. One room with the specific smell the OP smelt and one room impulse. Everyone chooses. I suspect that the result may be a little different to the way this thread has gone

Sadly I feel violently sick with perfume, incense, air freshener. book is bearable

But am hmm at everyone who given the choice would choose terrible BO/all encompassing odour over most perfumes/body sprays

But it’s not a CHOiCE - you can have BO or BO PLUS cheap nasty chemical smell

Bo is just a horrid smell. Nothing more. Perfume makes me completely gag and dry wretch

Is it permitted to spray a little perfume in a supermarket ? I could really have used a liberal dose of Blue Stratos/Denim/Brut (but not Old Spice, God no) in Morrisons this afternoon. The appalling stink of stale wee emanating from a particular gent could have stripped decades-old paint. Eurgh.

Impulse is handy for emergencies.

I actually know of someone who is asthmatic and ended up spending two nights in hospital after going to their hospital appointment. She was perfectly fine until some twat decided to spray deodorant in the waiting room.

I have asthma and sneeze really easily but I'd rather have an attack than smell BO... or bad breath!

Goodness me so many people having such dramatic physical responses to spraying scent! It's amazing the bodies aren't piled up in Debenhams beauty hall really

You'd rather have an asthma attack than smell BO?

Asthma kills. Quickly.

BO not so much.

My friend hasn’t been into a Debenhams for over 15 years. If we go out shopping she has to wait outside if I go into a department store. Hers is the most extreme reaction I’ve ever seen and it can be pretty alarming if you’ve never seen it before. She’s suffered head injuries from collapsing in the past and has ended up in A and E on multiple occasions since I met her.
She knows to avoid department stores, she wouldn’t expect to have to avoid the bus.

But you'd expect that to be rare wouldn't you dumble? There appear to be lots of similarly affected people on this one little thread

Dumbledores bless your friend.

Some people have no idea do they?

Recommendation for similar price
These little roll ons - they do others but this is a vanilla type scent
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Soft-Perfume-Oil-6ml-Rehab/dp/B005TT8RPM

Or if you like v sweet smells this
http://www.thefragranceshop.co.uk/products/hashtag-i-love-you-eau-de-toilette-30ml-spray-30395.aspx

Or buy perfume dupes here. I like the Dove one
https://www.perfume-parlour.co.uk

You were being unreasonable. Then you turned quickly into a right GF

"Triggered" in inverted commas? You don't think asthma is a real illness?

Some people have no choice but to take public transport.

My goodness, you're awful.

There appear to be lots of similarly affected people on this one little thread

Yes Bubble. Asthma does that.

Her reaction is extremely rare. But more asthma-attack responses are actually pretty common. The school I work in is spray-free for just that reason, most classes of 30 will have one student that reacts badly to perfumes and aerosols and some classes have a few. Kids were having asthma attacks caused by sprays in the toilets and changing rooms and parents of asthmatic kids thought that allowing sprays put their children at risk unnecessarily. I think they were probably right.

DDs school year doesn't have spray deodorants because of a child with an asthmatic reaction to it. So not that rare after all. It's no biggie. She takes roll-ons, so do all her friends and it actually works better most times anyway. Someone brought a spray in for PE in recently and all the children told them nicely they weren't being respectful to X. It says a lot when the kids can act more sensible than some adults who simply think the kid or adult is just being precious.

YANBU. I have asthma but I'd rather sit in a mist of Impulse than inhale someone else's filth.

Perfumes don't get rid of BO or other smells. They just add one more smell to the mix

Exactly nooka. You just end up with a sickly sweet BO smell.

Do you honestly think that everyone who smells bad just can't be arsed to wash? I suppose you take any medical issues relating to bad smells as seriously as you take asthma.