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.

Oh and Tommy girl m I wore it in thr 9ps,worked with a woman who wore it in the 2010 ish time and she gave me a head ache every day till she left

@rookiemere

Someone at work used to wear Obsession and would liberally respray it during the day. Gave me horrendous headaches.

I love Obsession! But I know it's a "big" perfume and a bit divisive. I'd never wear it to my (very small) office, and especially not to a restaurant!!!

@itsutterlyshit

Angel by Thierry Mugler 🤮 I can smell it a mile off and it gives me an instant headache and makes me gag.

A friend sprayed me generously with this one lunch time in high school. I had a headache and felt sick all afternoon. Now I gag instantly when someone wears it close by 🤮

I liked Paloma Picasso when I was younger but once I’d been pregnant it was horrible on me. Hormonal changes really affect perfumes in my experience.

Embarrassed by all the Chanel No.5 hate; I like it and feel like Katharine Hepburn when I wear it.

Poison, Opium, Samsara and all the Smack-you-in-the-shoulder-pads cloying perfumes of the 80s and early 90s give me a headache. My mum loved them.

Teen daughter loves those sickly sweet things PINK sells. The only thing worse was teen son’s Lynx phase. Both sprayed so much you could cut it with a knife

Chanel mademoiselle

absolutely fucking any scent in sanitary towels or panty liners that isn't clearly flagged up on the box.
Should be made illegal - or at least made a legal requirement to state whether or not the product is scented and guaranteed to give you thrush I don't care if it's dermatalogically tested - just don't put any scented crap in.
Detest the word "panty liner" as well

Sunflowers and Cerutti 1881.

White Linen. I used to have a boss who wore it. Could always smell her coming. She was a bitch. Vile smell, vile woman

@CorianderAndCream

No!! Youth Dew was what my mum wore when I was very little! I LOVE that smell

me too - I love it in small doses, if I walk past someone wearling it bit too cloying (either the perfime or memories of my Mother) in long bursts.

Scents in loo roll!!

Remember Giorgio? In the yellow and white bottle. Now that’s a minger.
For totally personal reasons Clinique aromatics. Because the bitch fucking my dh while I was pregnant wore it, sprayed all over our car and made sure he came home stinking of it. I used to wear it, but as soon as I got pregnant I hated it. She also bought him L’egoiste. Poured it down the sink.

I had that for my wedding perfume in 1994!
I am sure it was a Thierry Mugler one though. I have a tiny bit left, to remind me, takes me right back...

@BlueTongueSkink

When I was at school I lent a friend my exercise book and when she returned it, her pet cat had sprayed on it I wasn't allowed a new one until I had used up all the pages so my mum sprayed her Rive Gauche on it. My whole schoolbag smelt of tomcat pee and Rive Gauche for months and smelling it now makes me feel so ill!!

Omg I think we went to school together ha ha ha my best mates mum did that too and it stank 😂😂 oh sweet memories on damp cold buses in the winter

Rive gauche/ fendi femme/ poison/ Loulou/ cinnabar/ aromatic elixir / youth dew/ white linen/. Dolce and Gabanna light blue.

Tweed
Opium

See I love Davidoff Cool Water - reminds me of great sex years gone by!

If someone wears it I’m like those ladies chasing men in the old Lynx adverts!!!

Coco chanel. Wtaf. Cat urine mixed with something hallucinagenic. Cuts right through the nasal passages like a scalpel, and lands behind my eyeball like a poisoned dart.
Safe to say I'm not a fan.

Joop, Poison, Chloe 🤮

I've just been reminded of a few weeks ago when I went to a restaurant with DP. Someone there was wearing a strong oud-based perfume which I normally love. It was completely unbearable to keep smelling it around the food though!

I spent my 20s doused in Cerrutti 1886. Had a nostalgic sniff in duty free a couple of years ago and can only say sorry about that.

Some perfumes smell good on some people and rank on others. My DM and I definitely have different skin as neither of us can wear each other’s perfume (though we both have several hits in this thread).

In the meantime, one of my girlfriends used to be cabin crew and once told me that the Poison sample on the duty free trolley was just the ticket for freshening up the loo after someone spewed.

Obsession & lynx

Lynx oud gold isn't too bad... but my son actually showers now so only a quick spray and the house smells pleasant afterwards

I hate Jasmin noir by bulgari 🤮🤮🤮

My mum wore Hermes In the 80's and all of her clothes still smell of it... but o like it

@nbee84

Cerrutti 1881 - smells like strong perfume that's gone off 🤮

Thank god it's not just me!

I like to think of myself as a bit of a fragrance nerd, but I just can see why reviewers rave about 1881. Looks like a weird attempt at a sci-fi prop from the 90s, and smells like sour chemicals as if someone's left it on a shelf in direct sunlight for 20 years.

(If anyone's curious, the "stale" smell from slightly older perfumes usually disappears after the top notes have dried down, so you can often still use bottles from a decade or two ago as long as they're not completely gross!)

*can't(!)

@Mascia

Not exactly vomitty, but I never liked Davidoff Cool Water - I remember it being popular in the late 90s and I even got it for my 18th birthday, but I hardly used, it smelled somehow „cold“ and clinical to me.

It's strange how people perceive smell. Davidoff is my go to everyday perfume