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.

and i've just checked back my posts and there's nothing at all arsey there. i'm genuinely curious as to the fact that you just don't appear to care that your personal preference may be affecting others.

never smelt angel - so no comment

i work with straight talkin team - and in fact they have complimented my smells

go have a breather calm down

okay, so you haven't asked them then. [arsey]

Cheerio ladies - just popped in for a wee bit lunchtime banter and potential laugh not a bleeding discourse on my (alleged)smell and its (alleged) impact on my colleagues

probably the right thing to do - seems to me you need to calm down and go and have a breather.

I once had a colleague who really smelled of BO.

It was painful. It permeated the whole office. He had to be "spoken to". By the MD. He denied he had BO.

MD came out sweating more than he did...

Thanks for the nappy bag info. I use Nature nappies, so not sure how I missed the bags...

i once got sent Angel and JPG by someone who ended up stalking me. So I don't have very good memories of either but I wouldn't ask someone to do something about it unless I was expecting to be stuck in a room with them for a while. But then I don't see it as any different to someone smoking in my face. It's invading my space (man)!

Fortunately I don't seem to know anyone who wishes to afflict me with such scents (except Ebay ladies, and yes, a good few washes later it's OK )

I love the just out of the shower smell with Dove soap and a light spray of something nice.

I like lots of perfumes but there are some ie Chanel coco, Amarige, White Linen which I like the smell of as I pass but if I was to put it on me I can feel the pain go from my wrist, up my arm, up my nose and into a specific spot just off centre off my forehead.

And there it will stay until I wash the stuff off.

Why is this?

certainly white linen and coco chanel- have bergamot..........posssible potential culprit!

I do wear a leetle perfume to work. I remember stopping to buy petrol at a remote one-pump place near between Bath and Bristol, on the way to work. Went to pay and overalled-chap, who it has to be said looked as if his mum and dad were a little too closely related, sidled up to me much too close and sniffed me. Told me I smelt really nice and most of the women round there didn't bother... Put me off a bit...

This is coming over like a really control-freaky thread. You can t even bear the smell of other people. How dare their scent polute your majesty's space. Get yourself a Michael Jackson mask or an oxygen bubble!

Better than smelling of B.O, shit, stale fags etc etc.

Chill, DullWitch. Just a rant, that's what mn is for (partly).

Sa

i have tommy girl and ghost perfume
so, will i smell bad then?

Mm, I think you've hit it on the head dullwitch, I really do not like other people fullstop. I manage to forget this alot of the time, until they remind me.

For me, scent is the big no-no. I have no problem with people talking loudly into phones, or people wearing loud earphones, or even queue jumping me, so I think an oxygen bubble might be unnecessary; but if I could have a world without being inflicted with other people's idea of a nice smell, I'd be a very very happy Princess.

I think it's age.

As I get older, other people and the world just get more irksome.

at jackaroo the original misanthrope!

Agree this is such a precious thread...

And seriously, work colleagues aside, how often do you really smell someone else's perfume? Out on the street I reckon I'm FAR more likely to smell traffic fumes/fag smoke (and it doesn't get much worse than that imo).

probably not, cheeryface. i think the people that some of us are talking about are the constant spritzers rather than perfume owners. i myself am partial to a squizz of eau dynamisante. but there seem to be some people who can't smell themselves any more.
i'm sure i was guilty of it when i was a smoker and i was mortified when i realised. i suppose that's why i'm so mystified by the 'because i like it' attitude. fair enought if no-one's ever brought it to your attention but now that you've seen loads of people saying it's a real problem for them, wouldn't that make you pause? clearly not in some cases.

it's work colleagues who are the problem, i think, NM.

eeeeew, and Mothers in law. hairspray and poison...

God, some of the perfumes listed here don't even have a scent, they are just bland water in pretty bottles. What are you lot, sniffer dogs?

FFS, this is becoming a reactionary thread.

Where's 'leftofcentre'.

She made me crave McDonald's, which I think happily munched.

I think I'm going to have to go and buy some perfume later on today.

see what i mean, cheeryface?

get the stella, am v impressed with it. very light and pleasantly old-fashioned.