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.

SM that happened to my when she was a baby and it gave her hives all over her face.

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hmm my mum drenches herself in paloma picasso - no other beauty stuff, just her perfume - and has done for years, to the point that it's become part of her. And if I catch a whiff of it anywhere it evokes my mum for me stronger than anything else, I think. So I bloody love it!

You stink

you all stink

probably

(I used to like CK )

I never knew air freshening was such a massive industry till I went on maternity leave, started watching daytime tv and noted that all day every day the ads are for

1. debt consolidation companies
2. air fresheners in ever more novel formats (plug in ones, hang them over the radiator ones, put them on top of a light bulb ones, stick them on the wall and squirt them ones).

Oh and you smelly candle people, you're no better. Smelly candles are to 2007 what pot pourri was to 1987.

So what the adverts are trying to tell the non-working is that we are poor and we smell?

Jean Paul Gaultier makes me want to heave. I have to run away. Fast.

It makes me heave, too, VVV, but only because I had this utter fuckwit of an ex-boyfriend who bought it for me because he saw a woman in an airport who smelled 'gorgeous' and so asked her what she was wearing.

And then bought it for me.

Bastard piss weasel.

Perfumes never last long on me.

kerrymum - LOVE it!

Oh God yes.
Have long decided that the epithet 'blowsy' is perfect for women who splash it on.

I object to the fact that my baby reeks of someone's vile unguents and potions when he comes home from nursery.

Leave it aht!

I used to lecture and always asked my class, politely of course, to refrain form wearing Angel as it give me a migraine and makes me wanna puke. Although I have been knownb to follow men wearing Jean Paul Gaultier aftershave

MIL goes for all the new fangled air freshner crap. at the moment she's loving the ones that ouff automatically. so in her living room you have an oil burning candle thing (the candle melts then turns into oil that burns away) plus a mobilair thing plus this frickin puffer thing. it is horrednous. i have told dh he will hav eto have words cos it burns my eyes and poor dd's eyes water its so bad. yak. they aren't even all the same smell IYKWIM.

Even worse is cheap shit.

Sorry, but it smells like a $20 hooker.

I work in a catering environment. Perfume is strictly banned. I put on some body lotion the other day as my skin was doing that 'suffering from winter' thing and someone commented on my smell. They said it was nice but I felt bad they had noticed, even though I don't handle food.

When one of the food reps comes in we smell his aftershave long before we see him. And long after. Mind you, that's maybe better than the ones that come in stinking of fag smoke and peppermint.

what about fabric conditioner? can i throw things at people who over-use fabric conditioner? can i?

I LOVE Obsession -it's my fav I have a very strong sense of smell (can even smell if you are menstruating - which is not so good). Must be rubbish to have no sense of smell (taste etc) although would be preferable when pregnant!

People who use those air fresheners need to be lined up at dawn and shot.

STOP BUYING SHIT YOU NEITHER WANT NOR NEED.
oPEN YER WINDOWS OCCASIONALLY-THAT'LL DO THE TRICK.

fabric conditioner is so rank. covering your clothes in petrochemicals - nice!

OH me too expat. They seem to last minutes on me.

Ditto fabric conditioner loons.

Beeswax candles are GREAT for scenting a room. Yummy!

I occassionally burn incense, too.