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.

i just hate bad smells, if i go into a toilet and it smells it makes me sick!

dd gets really upset when she smells bad smells as well

but some of us think that strong perfume is a Bad Smell

why do we have to have smells at all?

i would rather smell a perfume i didnt like than someone who smelt of p**s and bo ( that old person smell is what my mum calls it) i was in the bank the other day and there was this old guy in there and he really honked, no one could stand near him in the queue and you could just see the poor cashiers face when he had to serve him.

after he left the bank staff were having to apologise as they were empting air fresheners around the place trying to get rid of the smell

This thread so funny!

I'm a perfume lover and proud I wear YSL Cinema everyday

I blame my mum for it. When I was little (80's) she was so glam and I used to love watching her getting ready, doing her make up, her (big!) hair and then spraying her perfume. I particularly remember Poison, I used to lie on her bed thinking what a gorgeous bottle it was and wanting to be grown up so I could own something as fab as that

I don't mind at all when my mum has held DD and and she smells of her perfume. It just makes me think of when I was little and she'd kiss us and we'd have a little bit of her smell with us

But I would object if she was still wearing poison though!

No no no!!! A lovely baby smell is the baby her/himself!!!!!!
And to get a dried outdoors smell on your bedding, why not just dry it outdoors?

I'm finding this thread really worrying. I sort of assumed that people who use fabric conditioners were just so used to it that they didn't notice how (horrid) it smells any more. I am shocked that so many people genuinely like it. I am also concerned that so many babies and children are subjected to it. Fabric conditioner is a mass of chemicals (don't be fooled by the flowery names) some of which are known to cause allergic reactions, headaches, breathing problems and even disrupt the central nervous system. Come on mums, please rebel against these horrible companies who tell you that you need their products and pocket lots of your hard-earned money as a result!

Eau Jeune - you've brought me straight back to being a youngster in a Proustian (sorry ) sort of way - I want to get some now!

the water is so nasty here if i didnt use fabric conditioner the clothes would be able to stand up on there own they are that stiff when they come out of the wash! and you cant get the outdoors smell on your washing in winter!

can't read the whole thread
but franny know what you mean. can't wear it myself as it hurts my head

Use vinegar to soften clothes and essential oils for nice smells. Better for people, environment and laboratory animals.

But do you smell of piss and BO nulnulcat? I am sure you don't, so why do you want to wear such strong perfumes?

i love how the choices are 'piss and BO' or honking chemicals... is there really no in-between stage? i actually feel a bit sad for people who think that babies smell of Johnsons products, really i do.

Morning ladies today is a clinique happy day hope u are all happy too

Babies smell like milk. And yeah, nulnulcat's post has made me a bit nauseated, too. Thank goodness I don't seem to know anyone who wears lots of scent these days.

(I do know lots of people who have vague nice smells to them, might be moisturiser, might be perfume, but certainly not in the sort of quantity that makes you feel green.)

I wear Prada or Chanel perfumes if Im going out although will occasionally spray a bit on during the day.

I used to wear Paris and Opium in my teens/early twenties although couldnt bear Paris now.

I have a light spritz of Coco on today.

There's some utter tit wank of a workman in here checking the electrical equipment and pattering on about his Tory leanings and how I as an American need to understand the having Lords and Ladies is a good thing.

Then he commented he 'must be allergic' to something in here.

I said, 'Well, then, that should hurry you along.'

I'm tempted to spray more on just to get him to get his sorry arse out of here.

expatinscotland - LOL Good Morning u crack me up

you may be a laydeee but you swear like a bloke

He's still here. He's sneezing.

gosh that was fun dont know if it worked though

no it didnt

Git face. He finally left. He kept saying, 'I'm allergic to something in here.' And I keep saying, 'Well, on you get, then.'

And off he'd launch into how Labour and SNP are clueless and Tory is the way to go and how when he worked in Parliament the Tories blah blah blah and how Lord Douglas Tosspot Wank-Stain is a top bloke and 'I didn't even realise there was a civil war in Ireland, what were they thinking?'

He said he's away for tea. NOw he is, I'm going to spritz this entire office.

Then again, I hate to waste good Chanel.

I've got some of that cheap imitation Glade air freshner the girls upstairs use when BO Man comes in.

I'll spray that instead .

why not just light some inscenced sticks expat - that'll get rid of him

It's against fire code, jam.

But cheap imitation Glade that cost 59p in Edinburgh Bargain store isn't.

Oh, he also went off on how children are brats.

I haven't read all this thread but have scanned through - it's great.
(hope I'm not repeating stuff with my post)

I love my perfume (Red Door) but there are rules with perfume - apply it once a day and no more. If a jacket for eg smells of perfume, don't wear it again (til washed) stale perfume is BAD.

Immitation perfume gives me an immediate headache - it's quite scary how instant the headache is and how sick it makes me feel.

Second in headache producers is that stuff I always call 'student perfume' - patchouli?

On the worst personal smell front I have to share a recent incident:
I was standing at the checkouts when the smell hit me. It got stronger and stronger. I couldn't at first work out where the smell was coming from. Then, quite a few feet away a 'lady' appeared, walked past me and stood at the next checkout. The smell was the worst I have ever suffered (apart from the time I worked at the vets and a PM was being performed on a dog who's insides had decomposed)
My eyes were watering and I just knew the colour in my face was draining. I tried to cover my nose/mouth but to no avail. The chackout lady was suffering too and asked me if i was ok. To be honest I didn't think I was!
This was piss smell like no other!
I looked at the woman and noted that her face was perfectly made up and her hair nicely done. her clothes though were that dull years-of-muck-colour.
It was only when she walked away that I noticed to my horror that the entire crotch of her leggings had rotted away! I mean loads of it...back front and halfway down her legs - piss-rotted away.