Perfumes for inducing a vomitty rage

[Lexiconoflove]

In response to this lovely thread www.mumsnet.com/Talk/style_and_beauty/4336303-Perfumes-of-your-life?pg=4 AIBU to suggest we get some lists of perfume that send you into a head-achy verge of vomiting rage? I’ll start with one I had to sit next to for a 5 hour stretch recently - Youth Dew 🤢. Also disliked by my mother, I’m still getting flash backs now.

Also I’ll add Lulu 🤮. Someone used to wear loads of it at work. I could barely keep my breakfast down when I walked in first thing.

Versace Woman - smells likes cat piss

Angel - “devil” would be a better name for that hellish scent

LAMB by Gwen Stefani was foul

One that actually did make me 🤢 https://www.etatlibredorange.com/collections/fragrances/products/secretions-magnifiques

'Like blood, sweat, sperm, saliva, Sécrétions Magnifiques is as real as an olfactory coitus that sends one into raptures, to the pinnacle of sensual pleasure, that extraordinary and unique moment when desire triumphs over reason.'

My perfume isn't listed yet - 😅

I'm going to add to the Angel hate. My sister-in-law wears it, and it's God-awful.

Red door. yuk yuk

My mum loved it so much

Can't stand even seeing the bottle

Alien, poison, obsession (but I love obsession for men!), samsara (nick named eau de parsnips by my dad!), lou lou, Eden.

I once was accidentally (long story) on a coach trip with elderley women and the smell of Chanel No 5 was making me want to vomit.

As my mum would say they smelt like a who-ers handbag

Ghost, Womanity- both make me feel sick. I’ve got off busses before because someone was wearing one of them!

Marc Jacobs Lola (I like Daisy and Dot though)

Like the smell of Olympia but it gives me a headache so I hardly ever wear it.

Someone gave my Nan a bottle of horrendous perfume recently, she warned me not to spray it as it was rank but I did and oh fuck me, the stench. Literally smelled like a dead body that had been soaked in floor cleaner. I couldn’t wash it off. It was vile.

@LadyRoughDiamond

Jo Malone Lime Basil & Mandarin - a terrifying old boss was always drenched in it - still makes me shudder.

Isn't that supposed to be a room spray??!

I know we shouldn't speak ill of the dead but did anybody ever have the pleasure of trying Jade Goody's perfume? It was awful, smelled like toilet water that had been left I flushed for a month

Angel. No idea why as I love gourmand perfumes!
I wore one of mine favourites to work and my colleague said I smelt like golden syrup and kept sniffing me

@TheUnexpectedPickle

Ghost, Womanity- both make me feel sick. I’ve got off busses before because someone was wearing one of them!

Marc Jacobs Lola (I like Daisy and Dot though)

Like the smell of Olympia but it gives me a headache so I hardly ever wear it.

Someone gave my Nan a bottle of horrendous perfume recently, she warned me not to spray it as it was rank but I did and oh fuck me, the stench. Literally smelled like a dead body that had been soaked in floor cleaner. I couldn’t wash it off. It was vile.

Oops I have ghost, womanity and olympea

Tramp
Tweed
Panache
Je Reviens
Opium
So...?

I had a flatmate briefly who never bathed and doused herself with one of the heavy '90s Calvin Kleins, maybe Eternity? I think it's the association of that specific fragrance with strong body odour that still gives me a gag reflex many years later.

Serge Lutens Muscs Kublaï Khan has a note that smells exactly like fresh horse manure. I know that's probably intentional, but I remember laughing inappropriately and making a visibly offended face the first time I smelled it (and then worrying I'd offended the very attentive and solicitous salesperson).

Hate any Chanel No 5 powdery smelling grot water
Things I have used as loo sprays as gifted to me
Tom Ford - the Black one - stupidly overpowering
Jimmy Choo - grim
Gucci - Memoire - fusty gussets
Armani Blue - smells like off Nivea

Channel No. 5 for me as well. I wanted to love it, it was what the old Hollywood starlets wore, it's the only thing Marilyn wore to bed, etc. No. 🤢

Ooh, love Mitsouko. Classy old school fragrance.

Oriental and a touch exotic. Lovely perfume but seemed too sophisticated for me to wear.

I have occasionally caught a heavenly waft of perfume and asked the wearer what it is. Then, when I've tried the same one, it smells like cat pee on me. The worst was Miss Dior - think cat pee and stagnant chrysanthemums. OTOH, having found a few perfumes I CAN wear (and receive compliments on), every one of them has been mentioned on here. Funny how we can have such different reactions to the same thing.

I have no idea why Chanel no5 is so highly rated. It's awful. Smells like those cheap perfumes you could get from the chemist in the 70s by Lentheric.

A boyfriend once bought me Eternity. I put It on and It smelt lovely for about half an hour but quickly took on the scent of rotting foliage.
Some people can't seem to wear perfume. My mother never managed to find one that didn't smell awful on her. Our loo always had a plethora of perfumes to use as room spray.

@UndercoverIntrovert

Anyone else just here checking that their favourite perfume isn't on the puke list?!

Me! Chloe is my favourite and has made it on to the list!

[quote PinkArt]@DeadButDelicious Off topic, but you might like Tempo by Diptyque[/quote]
Oooh! I'll keep my eye out! Thank you!

I know we shouldn't speak ill of the dead but did anybody ever have the pleasure of trying Jade Goody's perfume? It was awful, smelled like toilet water that had been left I flushed for a month

I wonder who’s still buying it? They’re obviously still producing it. I saw the box set for sale just a few days ago.

NC for this!

I have taken against DS's newish gf partly for the express reason of her gifts to him of the devil's own Lynx and items of her clothing deliberately drenched in her perfume. I don't know what the perfume is, but the stench billows out of his bedroom, combined with the dreaded Lynx and the various usual teenage boy smells, and engulfs the whole house and my head, throat and stomach. No mother, family and pets should have to suffer so for young love.

Channel No. 5 for me as well. I wanted to love it, it was what the old Hollywood starlets wore, it's the only thing Marilyn wore to bed, etc. No

Same, I asked for it when I was about 13 before I’d even smelled it because I wanted to be glamorous like Marilyn. I used to regularly go to boots and spray myself with the sample trying to get myself used to it...but nope 🤢

@ShinySquirrel

Elizabeth Arden Green Tea.

For my Mum, it's her Sunflowers one.

I’d agree with sunflowers