Do you wear strong perfume? Because you make my ruddy head ache and I wish you would stop. Everyone else thinks so too but they are too polite to tell you that you stink.

[FrannyandZooey]

I think that more or less covers it.

Hear hear!!

I agree sometimes they give me a tickly cough too.

Well said!
White Musk from Bodyshop makes me go into sneezing fits.

I walked through the town at 8.30 this morning and was stricken by how strong everyone's body sprays were.

It's not like that at midday!

honestly, if you don't have time for a shower, wipe your pits with whatever you wash your face with and put some antiperspirant on! don't roll in a bucket of pot pourri!

I can't stand the cloud of fabric conditioner that so many people seem to live in either.

I love you for posting this.

This is for you Opium/Poison/Obsession wearers. GRRR

I hate those plug in air freshners.

I have had to leave shops because people's perfume was so strong and horrible. Imagine having to work with them all day in an air conditioned office.

lol colditz!!

Oh btw if anyone who knows me in RL is reading this, this is not about you. All my lovely friends wear either no perfume or pleasant subtle perfume. I am talking about random strangers who seem to have spilt the contents of a duty free shop over themselves.

I used to work with someone who would go to the smoking room at work then drench herself in 'Angel'. What a combination!! Vile.

Well said Franny.

I think the wearers of said perfumes get used to the stench, much like smokers, and don't realise how they smell to others.

You overly frangrant types should be grateful to franny for pointing this out to you.

I work with a woman who wears a perfume called Karma (made by Lush - need I say more) which she insists on liberally respraying at frequent intervals. I hate it.

Can I have a view on Anais Anais please? And how much is too much? Is a single squirt on the neck OK? I feel a whole new complex coming on

Closely-shaven men wlking past you and leaving a cloud of aftershave trailing behind them. Yuck! Almost as bad as Poison.

Oh Wordgirl someone got me that LUsh karma cream for Christmas it bloody stinks so I sympathise!

I'm so pleased you said that Ledodgy cos everyone else tells her it's nice so I thought it was just me. Maybe they're just being polite. I just say nothing and grimace.

It's really pungent like lilly pollen.

My babysitter was wearing the most rank perfume I've ever smelt when she was last round on Friday - it's still lingering on the sofa today .

Franny, you are so right. TBH, I think we live in a world of sensory nightmares - TV that flashes and cuts away every 2 seconds, overpowering artificial smells (am completely with the poster who mentioned plug in air fresheners), people yakking into mobiles and leaking music from their headphones every time I set foot on a bus or train etc etc

Oh god the MEN doing it

and men smell so bloody lovely if they just wash reasonably frequently and maybe jog about a bit to get some pheromones going

Ack ack ack

people with air fresheners in their houses

ack ack ack

I remember I'd hand my babies over smelling of my milk and get them back smelling of horrible perfume because they'd been cuddled by someone wearing it. My MIL for example.

I have one word for you. Lynx.
My dsis used to wear Shalimar - boak

Is Eternity a hack inducing scent?
I have no sense of smell so am on dodgy ground.
Please tell me if i stink
thanks