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.

It's the cheap perfume and the dupes. Expensive perfume smells lovely.

Absolutely with you OP - some washing liquid fragrances make me feel really sick! And for example I love the scent of lavender in the fields but can’t bear it in air fresheners etc. An ex colleague used to wear an absolutely revolting FCUK copy body spray - I don’t think I’ve ever smelt a worse perfume! In the end I had to pretend I was allergic so that she’d stop wearing it!

Smell of Coty LAmaint .Poison and really heavy perfumes .I spray a little of my favourite now and can still smell it on my clothes .So use less. goes further too!

This is among my migraine triggers.

In the 70's, I worked with someone who must have bathed in the stuff. As soon as I started the job, the frequency of my migraine attacks increased massively.

At first, I thought it might be the lighting, the chairs etc, but could never figure it out. Then the Youth Dew wearer was off sick for 6 weeks, and I didn't have a single migraine.

When I was about 8-9 my nan sent me one Christmas, Coty L'Aimant, talcum powder, bath cubes and soap.

No idea why she thought that was a suitable present for a child but as we were living in the Far East at the time, it probably cost her a fair bit to send it.

A lot of the perfumes mentioned above I have liked over the years, just the mention of the names brings back some really happy memories of being a teenager, getting older and changing tastes in what I wore.

Enjoying this thread. 😃

I thought I liked Chloe Eau de Parfum Intense so bought a bottle and now hate it. It dries to a horrible, stale smell.

I work in a school and a classroom of year 9s and year 10s is quite a revolting mix of BO, Lynx Africa and a cheap vanilla scent that the girls use!

My mother loves her estee lauder. Beautiful and can't remember the one one.(Not youth dew at least these days(. It's so strong it triggers my asthma and I rarely have asthma these days. She knows this but she's won't let up. She'll put tons on and then get iny car and get huffy when I open a window 😁

I think it's selfish to spray so much on you inflict the smell on others. I like some perfume but find it increasingly an issue and an unpleasant distraction.

I'm a lecturer and the ground floor of my building reeks some days. Assuming young women dousing themselves in the same sickly scent but could be staff. I think if you can still smell it when you have left the area for a considerable time, you are overdoing it!

I had a colleague who had terrible personal hygiene (back in industry days) and he also doused himself in Joop. We had to throw his chair out when he left. 🤢

I'm 50/50, I think some really strong perfumes can smell nice. My mum used to wear J LO Glow which I know some people have described as diesely, but I've got fond memories of it, and I really enjoy smelling it, so sometimes I will spray it. I used to wear it when I was pregnant so I could smell myself more than I could smell other people around me because that truly did make me vomit. Think my nose got turned up to 11, and I didn't realise just how stinky people could get until then. When my little boy started walking, he used to pick up the empty bottle and sniff it and it calmed him down when he was upset.

I do get migraines from some really strong smells though, and I can tell when people are wearing a knock-off version of Baccarat Rouge 540 instead of the real stuff, because there's an after-smell that is absolutely vile.

My cousin loves to spray Penhaligon perfume like she's manufacturing a worldwide shortage and it has given me the vision-loss, throwing up relentlessly sort of migraine that takes days in a dark room to subside.

Cigarette smoke also makes me have these sort of migraines, but not vapes (sorry to all the vape haters, cigarette smoke is just pure disgusting).

My nan gets dry skin that only the blue tub nivea cream seems to help, and it's so strong it puts me off my food, but thankfully isn't a long lasting smell, yet I love a strong smelling bubble bath or shower gel, the stronger the better. May be strange, but I love it when somebody else in the house is using bubble bath and you can smell it throughout the house.

I once bought my partner some perfume oil, with an oud smell. I really like the Tom Ford Oud Wood spray, so I thought the perfume oil couldn't be much different. The store owner even tried to warn me that it's a different sort of smell and it's not everybodies cup of tea, and I didn't listen, so I bought it for him, he wore it, and the smell would not come off after half an hour of scrubbing at the sink at 2 showers, and smelt very fecal. Started vomiting again.

What I'll never be able to wrap my head around people liking is air fresheners. I've never come across one that doesn't smell like it wasn't the byproduct of a lab experiment gone wrong.

Angel

Cheap doesn’t mean bad, there’s some amazing cheap perfumes

Me too. It was absolutely foul. Some perfumes really are too strident.

I love perfume and am a collector. Especially if they are tuberose or gourmand based scents.

Unfortunately peri-meno has kicked in and one of the delightful side effects is some perfumes either give me a headache or a rather fetching neck rash. I have a whole shelf of ones I’m patiently waiting to be able to wear again hopefully.

Ive love the Miller Harris scents as they seem to be less synthetic and headache inducing. I’ve got a boozy strawberry one called Blousy on the go right now. My all time fave is Fracas though, which is a real marmite fragrance.

I used to love Tom Ford Tobacco Vanille but it just makes me feel hung over if I wear it now, goddam peri-meno!

Oh and I loved about 7 years ago when Sol de Janeiro bum bum cream came out as it smelt so delicious. But sadly now TikTok has discovered it, it just smells like teenagers. Even my 10 year old daughter has discovered it.

Please do! I love discovering new ones!

Ther was a guy at school who wore Paco Rabanne and it smelled absolutely gorgeous on him. t did help that he was very gorgeous himself and we all used to pretend to need to smell his neck when actually it was to get within kissing distance!

I have thought of another that I instantly recoil from - all the Sol de Janeiro Cheriosa 62 dupes. That smell is everywhere at the moment and its so sweet and cloying. I like the smell of the Bum Bum Cream but the spray is too much.

I have a beautiful perfume that smells like heaven on everyone else (Timbuktu by L'Artisan Parfumeur). But on me it is as if I haven't washed in days. I also had a friend who wore Angel and smelled delicious yet I really didn't like it on me. I find it fascinating that perfume does this.

Did anyone go to the perfume exhibition at Somerset House? I did back away from the bed with Secretions Magnifiques on it. I think I would gag if I ever smelled that on an actual person!

Thought of another-Spicebomb. I got dh a little decanted bottle. He likes to be "generous" with scent when he wears it. The bottle "got lost" as it was eye-watering.

@FilterBubble , fabric conditioner is vile. Horrible smelly slimy stuff that doesn't wash out. Perfumes are OK if used very discreetly.

I was in a shop a few days ago and the men stank of body spray or something. They reeked of it.

Lilies - they smell like damp mops.

Arabian Fragrances - you need to get yourself to Perfume Parlour. Tons on there, very affordable.

Oh, I love tuberose in a candle- my very favourite- so I might like it in a perfume. Which ones would you recommend?

I've been lost at sea for 2 years as my signature scent was discontinued. I'm still bereft. It was the original Stella McCartney parfum. I had so many compliments all the time - strangers too. It had an unusual blue rose in it, yet didn't smell of rose. I have the eau de toilette that's still available, but it's a different formula & not really the same.

Scent is essential to me, so it's upsetting, especially as DH & DCs all knew it as my smell.

I like la vie est Belle

Urghhhh my idea of hell , i have hated this 'stink' with a passion from childhood,i cannot believe a company as huge as E.L and with a good reputation continue to market it , if i smell it on someone i will move away from them to avoid it.
My worst experience was when my friend's lovely mom cuddled my new baby whilst wearing it , i had to wash the baby and clothes as soon as home, and i could still smell it slightly the next day despite the wash ! 😊
It is my number one most hated smell and i work in a sometimes dirty job and nothing offends me as much as youth dew !

Miller Harris used to do one just called Tuberosa - it is quite powdery but absolutely soft and lovely. I think they might have discontinued it but you can still find it online.

Fracas by Robert Piguet is the famous one that’s powdery vanilla tuberose - I find it totally intoxicating and amazing but I’ve seen it mentioned on here as something others dislike. It’s not a wet heavy spray when you use it so easier to gently layer it on rather than be overbearing.

Dyptique Do Son is a slightly greener fresher tuberose if you don’t like that baby powder vibe that some of the more classic ones are known for

You can get a 2ml tester here if you haven’t tried the dupe. Sometimes they do need to sit for a few weeks

https://perfume-parlour.co.uk/products/star-lady-for-women-0390

Gucci Rush.. The asphyxiating scent of patchouli and hot PVC.