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.

Any lynx, boys and overdose!

Oh any Estée Lauder DM wears in my car 🤢

@Anotherdayanothernight

Can't stand CK One, hated it when It first came out, hate it even more now, makes me gag...

Same

A friend wears a Gucci one I don’t know the name specifically but it makes me physically ill.
I have a ridiculous aversion to smells which was amplified when I was pregnant.

@ThinWomansBrain

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

Oh dear lord, yes indeed.

''Poison''~ Smells like cheap penny sweets and uber sickly to my nose.

Jean Paul Galtier homme blue stripey bottle it just smells like mould to me!

Armani Diamonds, pretty bottle, pretty awful smell.
Armani Code, what a disappointing Christmas present.
Paris, boring and nondescript.

New West was the worst in the 90s! It gave me an instant migraine!
Shalimar (reeks of prostitution) all Poison varieties (very aptly named!) L’Air Du Temps (dusty old women).

Another Alien hater here.. I don't like Angel either and I think a lot of the celeb perfumes have the same sickly undertone. I have a lovely friend who wears Alien, she used to work with me and I miss working with her everyday but I do not miss her chosen fragrance 🤮

Theflying19 I'm with you on Coco Mademoiselle.
Absolutely ghastly.
As is Lime Basil and Mandarin.

Opium is really pungent as well

@Delphinium90

Opium.I remember being trapped in a two-hour car journey to a wedding with someone wearing this.It was pouring with rain,so all the windows stayed closed and there was no ventilation.I felt so ill.

Oh god. Opium. Dgrandma wears it and her poor arthritic hands she gets so so much on her. It’s overpowering.

That said it’s “her” perfume. The smell reminds me of her.

I don't find any perfume ( other than Eden) vomit inducing but it is the amount that is used. I have lived all over the U.K and i can honestly say the women in N.I are the worst for using half a bottle at a time. Just 1 skoosh of a heavy perfume is enough, 2 or more smell worse than a teenage boy soaked in Lynx. Ladies less is more.

Not a perfume but those little tree shaped air fresheners that people hang in their cars - they make me feel AWFUL 🤢!! I feel like I'm going to throw up the whole time. Must have some pretty toxic chemicals in thrm. I also hate Glade plug ins, scented candles etc. They all smell completely artificial and make me feel very ill.

I totally went off coco mademoiselle when pregnant with my 1st dc. Few yrs later, someone I worked with wore the lidl version if it. Can only describe it as mademoiselle mixed with BO. 🤮

Poison, Magie Noire, Opium were everywhere in the 1980’s 🤢 Those used to burn my sinuses. Poison was so overpowering I’m sure it emitted a low hum 😂 Someone upthread said they were probably made to disguise stale fag smoke.

Those impulse sprays were a bit dodgy too - yes I used to douse my 12 yr old self in them.

Angel and Poison both give me a headache and make me feel ill

Neals Yard womens balance roll-on reminds me of my patchouli oil days. I love it! 😊

Bluegrass, I think it’s Elizabeth Arden

All of them, ditto aftershave. They all stink, and people seem to bathe in them, rather than just a quick squirt.

Oh, including heavily scented fabric softeners too. Jesus the stench.

I loathe Poison too.

@Carpedimum

New West was the worst in the 90s! It gave me an instant migraine! Shalimar (reeks of prostitution) all Poison varieties (very aptly named!) L’Air Du Temps (dusty old women).

And here I was on page 14 feeling all smug no one had mentioned Shalimar 😂

Oh gawd I love Angel but I can only wear it in the winter and literally one drop. If liberally sprayed I agree it’s just sickly and cloying. I had a similar issue with Dolce and Gabana - more than a speck and it made me want to cut my arms off.

Lots of aftershaves and perfumes make me very nauseous and heavy achy. Lynx stinks indeed. Youth Dew - ugh. All those BIG 80s niffs - Poison, Obsession ugh. Alien - the absolute stuff of nasal nightmares