Products you can't stand the smell of.

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Hi,

I was thinking the other day about how important scent is in a product. I particularly hate the smell of palmers but I use it anyway because it really helps my scaly legs.

What products do you hate the smell of?

Gucci rush perfume- vom.

Johnsons baby shampoo, you can practically taste it from the smell.

Never smelt a scented fabric softener that wasn't horrible and just smelt of chemicals.

Any Dove products - they smell completely artificial.

Anything that has a lavender smell, my Mum always used a lavender-scented air freshener in our bathroom, and now I associate the artificial lavender smell with toilets. Real (growing as a plant) Lavender is OK though.

Dove stuff smells horrid, gives me a headache too.

Most expensive perfumes do that too!

Elemis, I was gutted about this one. It smells yuk!

Aussie conditioner makes me heave - really sickly & cloying, I can smell if someone is using it 2 shower cubicles away from me at the gym.
Apart from the smell, the 3-minute conditioner is a great product & makes my hair really soft, but I can't use it as the smell lingers for days.

Angel is another scent that really makes me feel ill if I have to stand too close to it.

OTOH I really adore the smell of 8-hour cream, Carmex, camphory & aromatic smells in general so I'm sure I manage to offend some other people's nasal passages!

Flexitol - well I certainly wouldn't choose it as a perfume, but I just find it a bit offputtingly medicinal rather than actually unpleasant.

Most Lancôme skin care. Too sweet

Perfumes by practically all the brands found in an ordinary 'perfume hall'. Too cloying and sickly.

Particularly Angel -really yucky!

Particularly Angel -really yucky!

I agree that angel is 'orrible and palmers coco butter too. Joop makes me heave too, reminds me of my misspent teens.

I too hate Joop. Makes me feel sick and headachey.

Elemis tri enzyme facial wash looks and smells like spunk

Nappy sacks.

I was once given a Lush giftset and there was a bar of soap in it that I couldn't even throw in the kitchen bin, it had to go straight out into the wheelie bin. I think it was called Coconutty? Maybe it had gone off, but I could have thrown up at the smell of it.

I also hate those suffocating 'white floral' scents - Fracas, Madonna's Truth or Dare perfume, etc. I think it's the tuberose.

Oh, and Body Shop White Musk. It has an underlying B.O smell. It makes me think someone has doused themselves in cheap cloying perfume to hide the fact that they haven't washed in ages.

I used to drench myself in it when I was a teenager, I feel so sorry for my first Saturday job employers and colleagues.

Angel perfume. One of my migraine triggers

Most perfumes give me a headache and make me feel sick, unfortunately. All Lush products; I can't even walk past the shop without feeling ill. Liz Earle's Superskin range = stewed grass and cat's pee. Dove products - very artificial. Aussie shampoos and conditioners. Cheap air fresheners and room sprays, especially lavender scented (but love real lavender). Many of the Yankee Candles, especially the fruits and heavy floral ones.

Flexitol smells of old people in hospital.

Right about White Musk. Had a sniff in Bodyshop the other day and couldn't believe how rank it was.

The pink Mitchum deodorant actually smells of BO.

Anything that contains cucumber or is cucumber scented

Makes me gip

White Musk
Carmex
Most perfumes, but especially the 80s style strong ones, Poison, Obsession etc
All fabric conditioners and scented washing powders
Most toilet cleaning products
Most hair styling products
Most deodorants, especially spray ones

Anything from Lush.

Coffee. Tea also. Which means that I can now not go into our local Thorntons, the upstairs level of Waterstones, any of the other Waterstones branch as it's right next door to a Costa and Nottingham station....and that's just the list off the top of my head.

They seem to pump the smell out to tempt people in but it just drives me further away!

We bought some tea for visitors over the Christmas break (DH doesn;t drink either either so we don't usually have it) and I've had to move the box out of the cupboard otherwise every time I open it, I'm heaving at the dead, mulchy smell

Lipstick , reminds me of long car journeys as a child, my mum wearing lipsick and me feeling carsick in the back

Bacon-makes me want to heave

Ariel /Bold

Johnsons baby powder

Toilet ducks

Whatever industrial cleaner they use in public loos

I love the smell of Elemis Tri-enzyme.
Angel makes me actually vom and have a 2 day migraine. I remember when Poison came out and my friend wore it - I was literally seeing stars due to the vomness - she called it Poisson so the comedy kind of made up for it.

Nivea gradual fake tanning lotion. Used once, had to give the whole bottle away. Undescribable smell.

Veet/Nair hair removing cream, obvs.

The orange Persil washing up liquid. Had a bottle of that on the go when I was in early pg for the first time. Now I just associate that smell with non-stop nausea.