Perfumes for inducing a vomitty rage

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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.

I had a big bottle of Pomegranate Noir, which I stupidly bought blind, having bought into all the hype around its launch. I tried very hard with it, having spent £100-odd however I ended up selling it on EBay as it gave me the most horrific headache every time I wore it!

Also I find Angel and Obsession give me headaches too.

I've been sent samples of new fragrances and I find many these days are too sweet, cheap and cloying, and I can't wait to wash them off. Give me a good earthy unisex scent any day!

Lynx, Lynx
Me thinks thou stinks.....

Get in the shower and scrub thy wink

My faves are all on here as being vomitty rage-inducing. Love Youth Dew, Loulou, Chanel 5 - anything strong and overpowering. I've just bought myself Angel for my birthday. It doesn't smell strong to me at all. I must have a strong stomach.

I draw the line however at Obsession, Eternity and Rive Gauche. Can't abide those - waaay too sweet and cloying.

Angel..gag inducing

Glow by J Lo...... literally makes me gag and gives me a headache.

Chanel.no 19

@Dsisproblem

OMG Je Reviens. My mum wore it and it was horrendous.

This smells - to me - of a powder for Athlete's Foot which I think was called Mycota? Horrible!

Eden-I bought some once as I liked the box
Fuck me-I honked so badly,I walked through town and people where avoiding me
My dad told me I smelt ‘like a rotting hippy’
He wasn’t far wrong

CK Eternity smells like carrots to me. I used to drench myself in it as a sixth former unfortunately.
After much thought and planning, I decided to treat myself to Jo Malone perfume some years ago and ended up with Peony and Blush Suede. I can't stand it, it's so strong it makes me feel icky. It now glares at me from my dressing table, unused.

The original Gautier - but only because an ex boss used to douse herself in it at any opportunity. I try to avoid smelling it now.

I used to stomp around in clouds of Poison in the 80s. I do apologise! I wonder if I'd still like it now. It seems unlikely.

Youth Dew is vile! Lots of my contemporaries wore it and it is just too overpowering and sickly. My perfume hasn't been mentioned; it is one of the oldest from the 1920s.
Surprised to see Rive Gauche on the list, though.

@Alleycat1 Florida Water?

I offer my deep apologies to all who came into Harrods perfume hall, and bought Obsession and G - Beverly Hills, I probably sold it to you..
I didn't last long there, couldn't handle the Arab wives demanding I gift wrapped all the Beverly Hills they bought buy the 100's
Still gag at any whiff of Obsession

Ah, no. Probably Blue Waltz, @Alleycat1.

Florida Water is 19th Century.

AutistGoth no, Mitsouko by Guerlain. I have never heard of Florida Water, who is it by, please?

On my Perfumes I hate list :
Angel
Pomegranate Noir
Tweed
Rive Gauche
Opium
Tresor
Lime Basil and Mandarin

Anything Jo Malone, never met one I liked.

Lush snow fairy as already mentioned, revoltingly sweet!

Chanel no.5 is atrocious. I once got given a bottle as a teacher Christmas present and couldn't even pawn it off on the other staff for fear people would start drenching themselves in it Went to a friend I don't see much.

YSL parisienne is horrible imo. If you combined my granny with a tree, that's what you'd get.

I can’t cope with Fahrenheit. A flat mate years ago dropped a whole bottle on the bathroom floor. It reeked of it for months! Attempts to get rid of the smell using bleach and other assorted cleaning products just resulted in a bleachy Fahrenheit smell 🤢

@Alleycat1. It's very old: America's answer to 4711 Eau de Cologne (which I love, by the way). Still ubiquitous enough to buy on Ebay, though it's mainly sold in the USA and presumably Canada.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Florida_Water

I'll look up Mitsouko. I'm not familiar with that one.

Jean-Paul Gaultier (I had two part-time colleagues who used wear it into work on the same days and I swear, I couldn't grab my Plague Doctor Mask fast enough).
Guerlain Insolence. Just no!
All Estee Lauder perfumes. All of them!
Elizabeth Arden Sunflowers has got to be the worst offender!

AutistGoth I love 4711! It brings back memories of my Czech grandmother and my auntie.
I like Alvarez Gomez too. I like cologne/cologne waters. They're very fresh and light.

Chanel No5 makes me feel really sick & gives me a migraine.

Anias Anias
4711
Tweed
Anything by Jenny Glow . It is beyond vile

That's lovely @TheVanguardSix! It reminds me of my honeymoon in Köln.

It really is a lovely scent. My only quarrel with it is that it doesn't seem to have much "staying power." It fades very quickly.