To think that people shouldn’t wear large squirts of very very potent perfume?

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It’s the equivalent of listening to music and shite on loud speaker on public transport. Everyone around them has to suffer it.

I was actually wheezing and felt nauseous at the strength of someone’s perfume the other day and I couldn’t leave or move away from it.

FFS, why are people so self absorbed?

@OneRarelySeesABrazierTheseDays

would you react this way to someone who asked you not to get peanut dust on them if they have a peanut allergy?

I'd imagine they don't know about your ptsd.

Have you tried wearing a diving suit and helmet?

I find it really hard to train in the gym when people have over powering perfume or aftershave. What’s that about!

Very much agree, it's antisocial. Even worse when people do start spraying aerosols on buses. I like perfumes, but the sheer amount that some people wear is ridiculous and has a negative impact on people around them. And, judging by this thread, some of them know that but think that asthma and migraines are self-indulgent, whereas them wearing an overwhelming and unattractive amount of artificial scent is a basic human right.

I never said perfume should be banned. I commented on your low standards of decent human behaviour, I personally don't consider 'as long as they don't stab you' as the indicator of decency.

I've heard everything now. PTSD from perfume. ❄

Agree with this. Dogs stink.

My dog does stink sometimes, but she doesn’t use public transport.

I have dogs and wear whateverperfume I fancy....shoot me🤷‍♀️

And neither do I, because people stink 😁

OP wasn't moaning because of allergies, so your argument does not apply

Depends on how you define overpowering. One woman's Youth Dew is another's Poison
Jo Malone's lims, basil and mandarin is 'light' but other such light perfumes smell like cat's piss
So the person wearing it, generally doesn't think it is 'overpowering', and will not think a couple of sprays is too much

So what exactly do you call wheezing and feeling nauseous? These are literally listed as allergy symptoms:
Allergy symptoms can include:
Respiratory symptoms: Runny nose, sneezing, coughing, wheezing, chest tightness, shortness of breath
Gastrointestinal symptoms: Tummy pain, feeling sick, vomiting, or diarrhea

I have had many Compliments about my perfume at school recently

Tried the fake ones and smell nice and the same

Ans had comments of you smell nice - or is that xxxx smells lovely

Having spent many years having to smell bo or fags off people

A nice perfume smell is lovely

This year on a plane was an awful case of bo

Dh and I couildnt work it out till I swapped to the aisle seat and omfg was the bloke across the aisle. He stunk

He kept lifting arms up and stretching

Flight was delayed

Was with a female. Assume wide as both had rings. Why she didn't tell her dh he smelt is beyond me

Or maybe she is so used to it

🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮

Anyway perfume is a better smell

I used to love a strong perfume in the 80's....pretty sure i walked around reeking of Samsara...Poison or Opium🤣

But the allergy would be for all perfumes and the OP did not mention an allergy

I remember in the 80s and 90s smokers were particularly bad for this, I think they were trying to cover up the smoke smell with the strong perfumes of the day so you’d get Poison plus stale smoke, Youth Dew plus Stale Smoke, Obsession etc.

My DH has COPD and a person wearing strong perfume in the same room can affect him for days. There are so many people whose health is affected by perfume. I wish there were more perfume free zones in the same way that there are smoke free zones. It’s just not fair.
I don’t want to say it’s selfish because I genuinely don’t think people realise the impact it has on others.

I'd rather smell that than the stinky people around.

Is that supposed to be funny?

do you act that way towards other allergies?

No one is talking about a couple of sprays being too much- it’s when people absolutely douse themselves in perfume, no matter how nice it is, that’s the issue

I worked with someone until fairly recently who doused herself in JPG every morning, and I mean DOUSED. All the rest of us in the big open plan office would sit with the windows open and she’d moan and complain about how cold it was. One of the guys responded one day that we opened them because of her perfume and she literally couldn’t believe her ears, she was extremely offended and seemed to think we were making it up, and she never reduced the amount she wore. Thick as mince.

I always wear a tiny amount. If someone is within hugging distance, they can smell it, but nobody else can -I've asked.

Why would anyone want to stink up a bus? There's nothing as tacky as too much perfume.

I suggested wearing a diving suit and helmet as a practical response to a PP who declared that a whiff of strong perfume could mean that even her epi-pen and inhaler couldn't save her life!

How does she manage-unlike food allergies she cannot inform people in advance or check an ingredient list.

She could be walking down the street and suddenly, a lady wearing a blast of perfume kills her on the spot. How does she summon the courage to leave the house. I thought my suggestion was jolly practical for an allergy as severe as hers.

I have my own allergy. If I don't take some tales of woe with a pinch of salt, I am in danger of laughing. So, I carry salt everywhere I go and sometimes, ear muffs as well!