To think applying perfume pre-plane is antisocial?

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My DM was always really sensitive to perfumes (lots of allergies), and she always said not to wear heavy perfume when you are in various places where people can't escape it (office meetings, carshares, planes, etc). It occurred to me, while a friend applied two squirts of every Britney Spears scent available in duty free, that coating yourself in perfume right before you are in a confined space is a bit antisocial. When I was pregnant I would have vomited profusely just walking through duty free, and I know some ND people who are sensitive.

Just wondering what other people think as I am a bit bored?

YABU - perfume before boarding is fine
YANBU - It is a bit anti-social.

YADNBU. I can't bear strong heavy perfume-y aromas in any format. Perfume, air fresheners, car fresheners, vapes, etc. All are horrendous, give me a headache, and make me think unkind thoughts about the person from whom they are emanating.

It isn't either or.

People with BO smell of BO. If they put perfume on, they smell of BO and perfume. One smell doesn't cancel out the other.

I can remember years ago wearing Opium to work and apparently stank the lift out. One of my colleagues complained bitterly to me, admittedly Opium is very strong smelling, and said I should walk up the stairs instead. I suggested she might like to consider doing so but she was welcome to go to HR if she had a problem. I heard nothing more about it.

This hadn't occurred to me until a recent long haul flight. I had a bit of a headache before boarding which I thought would be okay with paracetamol. The woman in front has doused herself in perfume (I think Angel) which I don't like at the best of times.

After a couple of hours that combined with food smells made me feel really nauseous and I vomited a couple of times. I suspect the perfume was marginally better than vomit, but the vomit wouldn't have happened without the perfume. I now object quite strongly to it!

Eek guilty! Me and my daughter like to try the testers.
Selfish? Maybe. Thoughtless definitely.
We shan't be doing it again!

I agree but I think the majority of people are unaffected and totally oblivious to it being an issue. Same goes for people that get on flights stinking of BO.

I am in the camp of 1 squirt fine, multiple squirts or multiple perfumes not fine.

But really, when flying you've got to expect that someone's going to overdo it. That's what duty free shops are set up for. I think your issue is really with the airport. (But we all know they don't care.)

I can honestly say, other people's perfumes has never, ever bothered me. Other people's BO and stinky feet, on the other hand, has

I'm not actually allergic but there lots of perfumes that irritate my throat and upset my sense of well being, like anything with oud in it, and smells like Obession and Poison, they make me gag.
On a recent plane journey someone a few rows away from me was wearing some of the offending scent, and it meant a horrible flight for me. Nothing I could do, but it overpowered me to the extent that it was dominant in my brain for the whole journey, I found it hard to concentrate on anything else. Hard to explain but it ruined the journey.
So yes, I think it's really selfish to get on a plane reeking of some horrible synthetic smell.

Oh yes, Angel, that's definitely an offender for me!

It’s obviously not considered antisocial by airlines because plenty of them literally sell fragrances duty-free on board, and they don’t expect people to buy them without spraying a tester.

Ultimately, wearing perfume or aftershave is a very normal and run of the mill thing to do. It’s unfortunate if you have an extreme dislike/sensitivity to something that’s a normal daily thing, but I think expecting nobody else to wear fragrance because you’re bothered by it is a bit like expecting your neighbours to pave their gardens because you have hay fever.

This..

How big an office would you count as 'not an enclosed space'?

A colleague at work came in wearing a new perfume. Smelled lovely but my lungs disagreed - instant asthma.

I've needed steroids before because someone thought a reed diffuser would be nice in their office.

So yes, being told no perfume in the office is a very reasonable adjustment for colleagues with asthma and/or migraine.

Out of all the perfumes in duty free to spritz yourself with 😂

I’m asthmatic and I can’t walk through duty free, John Lewis cosmetics area, past Lush without sneezing or catching my breath. In our John Lewis the cosmetics and scents are a long sclep from the entrance to nearly 1/2way across the ground floor. It actually makes me ill if I breathe in.

I can only wear very few perfumes. Interestingly any Jo Malone. Someone bought me some Neom that’s a rollerball thing that’s meant to calm stress. Much too scented for me. Oddly, years ago I had a tiny lavender based stress calm rollerball scent that wasn’t powerful and was calming.

YANBU.
Also - the gym.

YANBU. In the last few years I've developed a high sensitivity for perfumes. Gives me an instant headache. My OH insists on putting on after shave despite me telling him many times how it gives me a headache. It's instant and takes hours to go. So yes, I would love people not to wear strong scents.

I think a reed diffuser would set off our smoke alarms

I wouldn't go mad spaying loads of it in duty free. But I'm afraid it wouldn't even occur to me to avoid it incase people are sensitive to it.

It's awful, but not as bad as pulling out the nail varnish remover and spending the entire trip doing your nails. Now that gave me a headache.

On a recent flight someone a couple of rows behind bought some (crap) perfume from the in-flight duty free trolley and proceeded to spray themselves liberally with it several times during the flight. It stunk and made several people cough, the chemical smell was overwhelming. Rank behaviour

Omg, you are definitely, definitely NBU! It is very inconsiderate behaviour, imo.

I can't abide strong perfume, or even subtle perfume, to be honest. Sitting next to a perfume-drenched person in the theatre, cinema or on public transport is a very unpleasant experience. If I can smell it within normal sitting distance, then it's way too strong. I often come out of the venue with a splitting headache.

I don't mind smelling (actually quite like) the very faint hint of perfume of baby shampoo on my grandson's hair or the very faint whiff of aftershave on my son's cheek when I'm giving him a hug - but anything more than that is an invasion of my senses.

I liken it to music playing. If someone wants to listen to music on the bus, then that's fine if they're wearing earphones. But it's not fine if they get on the bus with a bloody great ghetto blaster and blare out their music to everyone else on the bus!

I always try to avoid venturing anywhere near the duty free shops in airports, but in some airports there is no other way in or out. I hold my breath for as long as possible and walk as briskly as possible to get out there as soon as I can!

I don't use fabric softener because the awful artificial perfume lingers in the clothes afterwards - and I always add extra rinses to the wash programme, to be sure of rinsing out all the detergent smells.

Its awful but isnt helped by duty free squirts en route

I wouldn't have given it a second thought a few years ago but now have a friend who is highly allergic to cinnamel (not sure how to spell!). It's literally in everything and it makes her tongue swell up. She's had tongue cancer since which is possibly due to the sores she got from her swollen tongue constantly rubbing on her teeth. It's horrendous for her. She has to use scent free everything.

I would never wear freshly squirted perfume anywhere enclosed now, not in the office, on a train, plane etc.

Yadnbu

It's a reed diffuser, not an incense stick! You don't burn it!