To be sick of breathing strong aftershave and perfume

[Hingeandbracket]

I don’t mind a whiff of it but this is getting bloody silly.
I should buy shares in the makers I guess given the fact so many people seem be permanently drenched in the stuff.
It’s unpleasant and inescapable, like someone who won’t stop shouting working next to you.

[Reallybadidea]

@FacebookRager AFAIK it's not a specific rule at this Trust, but I find it hard to believe that she's not aware of the potential for discomfort to patients in wearing heavy perfume! I can think of another 3 or 4 people in the department who wear heavy perfume, but there's something quite foul about this one in particular.

Personally, I can't imagine doing something that I know will be unpleasant for some people around me and just not give a shit, but as this thread shows, some people really don't give a shit.

[Ponoka7]

"Perfume sprayers don’t seem to realise they get used to their own perfume and think that because they can no longer smell it neither can anyone else."

My DD uses Lush Vanilla and Bvlgari jasmine noir. Both smell good on her, but I have to tell her to ease up on them.

I like perfume/aftershave that are subtle as you walk past a person. I love chanel Allure Sport on men.

I don't like plug ins, but do like wax burners, but not to cover smells or make up for a lack of cleaning.

[ClientListQueen]

@FacebookRager no rules as a home carer with the company I worked for
I did stick to specific scents - one because the person I cared for said it smelt of sweets and they liked sniffing my top (made rolling them easier!) and the other because I did a lot of care for people with severe visual impairment. Obviously you shout who you are as you walk in but the smell also gave an association
It's actually really important in care, something like a spray of perfume for an elderly person can make them feel more like themselves again, or talc brings back happy memories etc. Obviously not drowning yourself in it but not necessarily fragrance free

[NightsOfCabiria]

I hate it and I think it’s anti-social. Forcing people to stand in a cloud of your odour.

I think the current stink is Victor & Rolph ‘Spice Bomb’ for men and ‘Flower Bomb’ for women. It’s replaced the ubiquitus ‘Angel’ by - I think - Thieri Mugler (?) which was bad enough.

Now, I do like a nice scent in the evening. Some Creed is nice as well as the Hugo Boss range but its the fact that people drown themselves in it that I cant stand. Our accountant reeks so badly that he leaves a trail wherever he goes.

You should spray a fine mist and walk through it, then you pick up just enough so that people who are next to you can smell it, not the people in the next room.

I was always taught that it was bad manners to wear scent during the day.

[stayingaliveisawayoflife]

I can't stand strong floral or vanilla scents. If I wear any I wear fruit scents. My current one is one called eau de cucumbre which apparently makes me smell like I have just come out of the shower! That's the right scent for me!

I do wear ones with fruit oils in like fig or mandarin.

[FadingStar]

Was never a fan of Angel or FlowerBomb. Too suffocating and cloying. I prefer much lighter scents.

[VisibleShantiLine]

I was guilty of wearing too much strong perfume at one stage when I was “young”. It’s tucked away in the rather large cringe corner of my memory along with my very thinly plucked eyebrows and overly complicated hairdo phases.

But I totally agree, OP. It’s an assault to the senses and I would rather smell a person’s natural scent/odour than be whacked in the face by too much perfume. I used to work with a horrendous woman in an open-plan office who would regularly douse herself in Impulse throughout the day while sitting at her desk. I didn’t even sit that close to her but it was truly eye-watering.

[YouAreTheEggManIAmTheWalrus]

For some reason my DS aged 15 loves Joop and says it's a hit with the chicks 😆 but God it makes me nauseous.
YANBU, most scents these days seem so OTT and migraine inducing to me. I don't mind catching a nice faint whiff of something light and fresh as someone walks by. But I have worked in offices with people who thought it was socially acceptable to wear daily the heaviest perfume on earth and there's nothing worse. They should have perfume free zones in workplaces and public transport carriages, like the quiet zones. I'm not suggesting anyone stink instead, it's nothing soap and water and clean clothes can't prevent.