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.

slight diversion I know, but I was very ill last week from inhaling cigarette smoke!

No other explanation for it. I was in Cafe Rouge and they have a smoking area. I avoided it but the fumes still find you.

I had a searing headache and spent the whole afternoon on the sofa with bucket in case I chucked. By early evening I was feeling a lot better.

I dont go out to places in general where there are cigarette smokers but was meeting someone and was left with little choice.

I just have to keep out of Cafe Rouge now.

Answer to original post. I seem to be one of those people that the perfume never lingers on.

I cant abide beautiful, Estee Lauder, Obsession, Calvin Klein.

well i like my strong perfume and im sticking to it, things i have to wear everyday include mascara eyeliner lip gloss and perfume.

think i will have to continue liberally dousing myself in the stuff and pushing dd in her buggy eating sausage rolls and drinking her fruit shoot!

is it me or does anyone else feel that sometimes they cant do anything right on this site!

im not particularly fond of fat slobby people who dont take any pride in there appearance but i would never start a thread to rant about it

cricitised for what you feed your kids, how you bring up your kids what you wear how much slap you wear and now how much perfume you wear! i think i am definately heading for the title of worst mum of the year!!! i get it all wrong!!

I can sort of agree with you there, nul.

I mean, it's PERFUME, not smoke from a crack pipe.

NNC people can't offend you if you don't take offense. Who gives a flying as to what a load of strangers think??? Don't worry about it. Be yourself.

perhaps smoke from a crack pipe would be more acceptable?

Well, someone would find a reason to complain about it on here, nul, you can bet on that.

i dont actually take offence i think its funny that some people get such a bee in there bonnets about perfume and car parking spaces when there are so much more bigger things going on in the world. Personally im more concerned with dp staying safe in afghanistan than whether my perfume gives someone a headache!

but would organic crack be ok then?

Only if it's also fairly traded

I don't get headaches easily, either.

I do think some folks have a more sensitive 'nose', but I can't relate b/c I don't notice much and I've also got a dodgy memory.

I think I've been happier for it.

grr my neighbours had a bbq last night that smell really gives me a headache

It has to be better than BO tho

LOL - our neighbour spends the whole summer having smelly barbecues and my DS1 stands in the garden making loud (he's always loud) remarks about how it smells like the runway at Stansted!

OMG Going into people's houses with air freshners litrally made me vomit when I was newly pregnant.

I think if you can smell it on yourself throughout day it is too strong.

Id go with just opening windows for a nice smell or at a push some insense.

I hate it when the sewage plant at Seafield pongs on a hot day.

It makes my ruddy head ache and I wish it would stop.

well expat, that's the effect that strong smells of other kinds have on other people. it's like loud music, kind of. just another loud thing i could live without. i do like perfume, though, just not piles of it.

yes, our neighbours on the ground floor don't find their music loud. but those of us on the 2nd floor who can feel it thudding through the cheap plasterboard do.

you make your home sound so inviting, expat...

You're not missing much, Aitch, as I'm sure you already knew.

Besides, people are known to use perfume around here, I mean, it's not called Auld Reekie for nothing.

i used to live near viewforth, loved the hops smell around the breweries, oddly enough.

HotXmum,
Wow
That sounds pretty awful

The funniest thing, however, is the number of very expensive flat developments that are going in up far, far closer to Seafield than we are .

This is a very trendy, up and coming area full of 'Exciting apartment home opportunities from the low 200's' and chi chi wine bars.

Even the historic, 16th century Lamb's House was granted permission last week to be redeveloped into 'a development of exclusive apartment homes of historical significance.'

To live a half a mile from a major sewage plant.

YEAH!

I am an out and proud fabric conditioner addict. It seriously upsets me if I have run out and I have to wash a load without it, or horror of horrors the shop has sold out of my favourite and I have to use a different fragrance. I'm going to go and lie down now....probably the fumes coming off my clothes

WITCO quote
"Our Memphis manufacturing facility will mainly focus on oleochemicals for the lubricants markets," said Georg Urban, group vice president - Oleochemicals & Derivatives. "At our Mapleton, Illinois, site, we will concentrate on competencies in fatty nitriles, fatty amines and quats used primarily as fabric conditioner ingredients and in mining, asphalt and paper manufacturing. A multi-million dollar expansion project at Mapleton is expected to come on line within the next few weeks, and, with our new distillation unit, will provide a substantial increase in capacity for a broad range of fatty acids. We are committed to serving our customers in all these markets."
Mmmm, smell those fatty acids!

muminbrum what is that in english?