Repulsive perfumes

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I like natural fragrances, like the scent of lavender, some essential oils etc. But for some reason artificial scents like in washing powder and perfumes make me want to gag. They really unsettle me. What's that all about?

YABU - I smell gorgeous when I put three cups of fabric softener in the machine, and adorn myself with a bath of duty-free spoils.

YANBU - People overdo fragrances, they are tacky and make me want to gag too.

Chasing first hit high?It’s Lancôme not illicit street drugs, no one is mainlining La vie est belle in a seedy environment

It’s a metaphor…

A bad one.

Well I guess it’s subjective

re-read my post,I asked you to define cheap? I’m interested what is your definition of a cheap perfume. I queried is it high street? They’re cheap and accessible. Given you wrote a long post about cheap perfume expect to be asked.

You wrote along description of how cheap perfume impacts you. How do you know it’s cheap and not Ormonde for example. How do you know cheap from non cheap seeing you can differentiate?

you wrote I can smell cheap perfumes and aftershaves a mile off, thanks to Covid I have developed a strange ability to smell something vile in them a smell that comes at the end not sure what it is but I can. I only get it from cheaper perfumes. I couldn’t be around someone who wore cheap perfume.
Again, how do you know it’s a cheap perfume?

Have read & contributed to thread.

Lancome’s Hypnose smells like Brut to me @Myblueclematis as does a perfume by Innoxa called Gingham.

I can recognise Avon perfumes, they all have something in them that makes them obvious Avon. Not my fav.

Ahhh Gingham. The very first perfume that I bought, I was about 17. I loved it and you are right, it did have a Brut smell about it. My boyfriend at the time wore Brut so if out together we must have knocked people sideways with the smell. 😂

I used to love Far Away!

Today I’m wearing something called Pink Cutie which I purchased on a whim for $9.50 - those who dislike La Vie Est Belle for being overly sweet and cloying had better steer clear of me today, this stuff is like Lancôme on steroids!

We live in an area with really hard water so have to use fabric softener (plus I love the smell). I just do a service wash, so bio powder + 70° every six weeks or so. Machine has been happy for well over a decade.

Hope I haven't just jinxed it!

Haven’t seen this one mentioned yet - apologies if it has been!

I’ve tried many scents over the years but quite literally the only one which anyone has ever been able to detect on me is the original Agent Provocateur. I get tons of compliments and even strangers want to know what it is. It’s a very light, powdery rose scent - really soft and light.

I do think that it’s always a combination of the scent plus your own skin chemistry. Scents are definitely different on different people. I’ve bought stuff which I’ve like on others and they’ve ether disappeared’ or turned horrible.

My mum had their Apple Blossom in the 70s, which I loved then!

@CoffeeCantata Agent Provocateur smells awful on me! I bought it on a friend's recommendation, but when I tried it it's this horrid almost smokey fusty scent.

I sprayed an Amouage scent on my wrist in Selfridges, as it wasn't a brand I was familiar with. Far too heavy and overpowering for me. It made me feel ill. Some went on the cuff of my cotton jacket and and as soon as I got home that went into the wash. Does anyone here wear any Amouage scent?

Avon’s Far Away is lovely @Cattenberg

Has anyone come across the Lidl dupes? They’re actually pretty decent and I’m not normally a fan of dupes, as they’re a bit like lighter fluid. I also really like Zara perfumes.
Just in case anyone fancies a nice cheapy!

I don’t disbelieve you! I think the reaction between our individual skin and a scent is very variable.

Lots of lovely scents (White Linen, Diorissimo) absolutely stink on me, yet I like them on other people. But I get followed by strangers who want to know what I’m wearing with AP - and friends also rave about it.

I wear La Vie est Belle. no doubt that it is a thumb down on MN
A 100ml bottle lasts for the year.

I used to be repulsed by far away (the original one)

There's a reason it's so popular and one of the most duped fragrances...I actually like it but have a 10ml of bon perfumer 501 which is just like it (just like Maison micellaf glamour is just like alien but twice as expensive, and their ylang in gold is like a £200 quid bottle of vanilla fields)

Jean Paul Gaultier makes me heave, on anybody.
Most Gucci fragrances are hideous on me, ok on others.
Red Door - bleugh

Yes! I have the one that's like narciso Rodriguez. I had the amore amore dupe too. These are the ones they bring out periodically not the permenant ones ( from them try the libre dupe)
Don't get me started on Aldi perfumes...I've got/ had sooo many I could waffle on for hours. My favourite one is the oud and bergamot Jo Malone Dupe! Like autumn in a bottle. Once again, only released periodically

I love Coco, but Coco madmoiselle is the worst perfume I've ever smelled

I don't understand why they do that, why not call it something different, it's very off putting.