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?

I haven't found it to be mature women but I have noticed a pattern to the heavily perfumed offenders where I work and I meet hundreds of people a day. at my workplace.

Men in their twenties or thirties, well groomed but in an Essex or Dubai kind of way. So basically chavs with a bit of spare cash.

You're quite right, I shouldn't. Sorry.

I also smoke and eat garlic (not necessarily at the same time). Having weighed up my putative responsibility to fellow commuters and people in queues, I concluded that at least half of them do really annoying things so are undeserving of my personal restraint. As to the less annoying remainder, I almost regretfully decided to prioritise my own enjoyment over their olfactory convenience.

Like I said: sorry. I don't play media on my phone, though. Small mercies and that.

Not just public transport, but I work indoors with not alot of great ventilation and occasionally a colleague or two come in to work frome time to time wearing excessive amounts of very strong perfume/cologne - to the point my eyes have ended up stinging, needing me to rinse them and it's triggered coughing fits (no known history of asthma, but I am sensitive in terms of allergies etc). There really is no need to wear that much smelly stuff!

I don't like this either. Perfume is something that you should smell when you're up close and personal, not from across the room. One spray is usually enough.

Unfortunately the ones who go overboard are almost always the ones with dreadful taste in perfume too.

It's rare for anyone's perfume or aftershave to be that strong, plus I love strong ones.

Dh always smells nice, even naturally. I've been complemented many times on my perfume, by colleagues, in shops, people always say I smell nice.

I also rarely come across people doused as is being touted on here, and generally can only smell someone’s perfume or aftershave if I’m standing close in conversation,

so I’m surprised by some of the comments, where people come across this so regularly they feel sick for days or get ptsd.

What are these perfumes that are so strong they fill an entire shop, or can be smelt over chlorine in a swimming pool???

A woman at work who smokes and sprays every time she goes for a fag, it makes you choke.

Woman in an auditorium sitting behind me. Doors behind us so every time the doors were opened I got a blast of it but could smell it constantly.

bloke on the train sitting across from me.

They are everywhere, every day.

Become a hermit
But not in a cave near where herbs are growing. Smelly bastards

Was going to ask this too but was afraid and wondered if I were anosmic, I do use public transport :)

My nose picks up lot of Baccarat Rouge or its dupe equivalents /something leather from air. I had quick spray of Zara temptation and my sleeve still reeks of it months later. Otherwise it is either my nose easily tuning out florals - or Muglers and Black Orchid aren't as prevalent these days. Chanels are more diluted too.

To escape flurry of mumsnet posts talking about you, just don't buy Matiere Premier Vanilla Powder - this thing is truly 1000x nuclear and makes everything else a mere rosewater (which is a rarity)

From what I know of mumsnet there are an unlucky amount of people who seem to not be able to do anything normally. They are scared if someone tries to ring their phones or knock on their doors, sending them in to a blinding shake and panic. They go into meltdown because family members try to hug or kiss their newborn, so they must shut themselves off with their ‘little family’. When they open their front doors to eventually go out there is a hoard of dogs jumping up at them at every turn and like a World War One soldier they go into shell shock because the whole world is ‘doused’ in perfume, blows smoke or vapes directly in their faces or just dares to exist, mumsnetters must be the unluckiest. People I’m sure were more tolerant of one another years ago, from opinions on here, and I’ve only offered a few, everyone is turning into whining main characters who think everything revolves around what only they like, we have to share, so just get on with it!

I really can't stand strong perfume! I've had to move train carriages before now due to the overpowering smell, I'd rather suffer someone's BO as that, while unpleasant, doesn't trigger my migraines or my daughter's asthma.

There was a thread on here last month about which perfumes to wear that have a lasting scent.

It seemed some people actively want to be smellable from a distance.

I think it's rude and a bit uncouth, just like playing music out loud in public, if you wear perfume it should be subtle and only smellable up close if you lean in for a hug, not from several feet away.

This
Completely
But you will be hung, drawn and 0.25%ed for comment!

Ban perfume now!!!
Start a petition
A few are affected, not necessarily allergic you understand, but punish the whole world because that's what it has become

I don't really mind perfume, even with a sensitive nose, but I can't bear stale perfume. You know the ones that spray perfume all over themselves, don't shower and then repeat for several days. Even worse is when they spray it on coats and carves, so the smell build up in layers and it smells really stale.

I understand my sensitives are my problem, I'm not ranting and saying people shouldn't wear perfume, but they should definitely think twice before layering it

You are right, I probably will 😂, but I appreciate your approval, it means a lot. After reading this thread and so many other similar ones, I’ve realised that mumsnet is a toxic addiction that I need to break, some people are just absolute weirdos. I’m going to break this and go back to real life, where I read books, draw, paint and just do anything that doesn’t involve doomscrolling through completely mental opinions, I want my mind to be at peace again. I like to maybe know that we all have opinions, like arseholes, but we keep them to ourselves and live and let live, so to coin a mumsnet sentiment ‘off I fuck!’

Nope. I think people should be able to live their life how they see fit, and if they want to be dripping in perfume, so be it.

You do realise that you will be making people gag and triggering both migraines and asthma attacks all because you like the smell and never learned how to use perfume properly ie 2 sprays to your wrists rub your wrists together and then rub them on your neck that's all you need anything else is excessive.
Also you don't have to stay in just don't drown yourself in sent

Seriously. If we really had to think about that sort of thing every time we left the house, life would be bloody impossible. It's ridiculous.

@Hoardasurass that depends on the scent if you're being that fussy
You don't rub your wrists together after applying, it affects the scent and burns off top notes faster
Some scents will need 1 spray, others can take 6 depending on the atomiser and the projection of the scent

Shalimar - 1 spray
Clean reserve skin - 6 sprays will have the same effect as 1 spray of shalimar

It's usually in restaurants that I notice it - when you can smell the person on the next table.

It's not always women, some men go overboard with the aftershave, but it tends to bevyounger men who haven't learnt to apply an appropriate amount. Usually I find that it's the same sort of woman who does this. Over a certain age with a gaudy blouse.

I like to wear perfume sometimes too, but I think it's antisocial to apply loads of it. Makeup is different because that doesn't affect anyone else - so layer on as much as you please.

I got on a plane once where a lady in the row behind opened the perfume she had bought in duty free and did a few sprays on her neck and wrists. I didn't say anything but it really annoyed me, it smelt so much stronger in that space. She got a lot of tuts and the man next to her just said "really?" 😂

As it triggers my migraines I couldn't agree more! Very selfish!

I like my perfumes to wear close to the skin so they don't intrude on others' spaces. It's quite hard now most perfumes come in atomisers, because you can't control the dose you get with one squirt. Some atomisers give you a tiny little pixie breath of perfume; others a massive hose-like dousing. If the scent is powerful, this can mean even one squirt is a squirt too many.

The old-fashioned non-atomiser bottles were better... you could put one little dab of perfume on a pulse point so only you and anyone close enough to hug would know it was there.

The ones who don't like the smell don't say anything.