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?

Oh and the red Clarins scent.

LOVE the green radox. It smells like comfort feels.

I love Clinique Happy and anything orangey. I have a cheap shower gel that I bought on holiday recently - orange and pomegranate - and it's so scrummy I could eat it.

I secretly like Old Spice.

dreamy teenage boyfriend memories

Zoflora
Love Elnett - reminds me of my mum's massive elvira hair do

Bio-oil - developed an aversion to it during pregnancy #1, must have vomited straight after putting it on once too often.

Lou Lou (and pretty much all Cacherel perfumes TBH).

Soap and Glory stuff just smells sickly sweet to me.

Nivea lip balm, ditto Lipsyl .

Love old spice! My dad wears it.

Love pine toilet cleaner too.

And I do like body shop white musk, but I am going to have to sniff it again to make sure.

Yes to green radix too, like the strap line!

Radox, why does it keep changing to radix??

Smells that make me feel physically ill -
Gucci Rush
Aveda Shampure
Vaseline deodorant -I do use it but gag at the smell!

Products that smell lovely -
YSL false lash mascara
Lenor in the yellow cap
Loved smell Nivea body cream - bought in big jars years ago,not used it for ages
Original source shower gel
Chloe perfume

I love the smell of freshly cut roses (my mum used to grow them and would cut them for me when they bloomed)
I also love the smell of freshly cut grass even though it makes me sneeze

I hate elnett, smells like old lady hairdressers, still use it mind!

Love burts bees lip balms ALL OF THEM SMELL AMAZING

I love the smell of Vosene and Johnson's Talcum powder.

I love the smell of cat that has rolled in clean linen; lovely old ladies powdered cheeks (not evil old bags) and dusty books. Not products but lovely to me.
I hate faggy-breathed old harridens on make -up counters, bleach and Angel perfume. I hate all Elemis perfume as I stated up thread.

I think the Queen probably smells cuddly.

I hate the smell of moth balls.

I'm not a moth.

I love this thread, it just shows how different we all are.

The only smells I really dislike are YSL Paris and chlorine. The aquatic melon-cucumber perfume chemical (Calone) is pretty vile too. I accidentally bought a deodorant that is spiked with Calone.

A lot of cosmetics and household products are perfumed because their basic ingredients smell vile. Soap has that odd whiff you get in castile soap, tensides (active ingredients of detergents) smell greasy and stale. Certain pairings are nearly universally used because they fairly effectively cancel out the smelly base - for example, lemony scents cut through the greasiness of tensides, sun creams use coconut and salicylates because they cancel out the base, and washing powders megadose musks because very few other perfume chemicals can withstand a warm, soapy wash.

If you want to deconstruct some of the smells you dislike, here is a brief guide. Often just one aromachemical can be responsible for a fairly complex smell, like cut grass.

Anyone out there using Bulgari's Jasmin Noir products, to lots of us they smell hyper-indolic, like a bathroom after a hearty dump.

Jil Sander Sun makes me feel physically sick
Cilit Bang, very aggressive smell
Any electrically distributed air freshener, open a window!

Anything from Lush is vile.

Cat smell in owners' houses makes me heave but they don't seem to notice.

Stale smoke anywhere.

I hate the smell of REN rose otto bath oil which so many seem to love.
I dislike DKNY golden apple, j'adore and Ralph Lauren romance because they smell of boredom. I keep getting bought boring, bland perfumes and having to use them up.

Dd1 has just recieved a large white musk giftset from her incense-loving Dad so that'll have me heaving for years to come
At least it's not Angel. I don't know if they've reformulated it butit makes me heave even more than it used to now.

I love the smell of imperial leather soap, head and shoulders and ponds soap. I can still remember the delicious apple-y scent of salon selectives products - anyone remember them?

Just walking past a Lush shop makes me want to be sick. I cant imagine bathing with those over powering, soapy products. Makes me itch and retch.

I actually find the unperfumed smellof E45 / aqueous cream etc really sickly, although I do use for dry skin.

Despite the fact that I am sensitive to smell and have listed further up most air fresheners, all fabric conditioners, etc, I love the smell of a Lush shop and take deep breaths as I walk past. A lot of the products are fabulous, but there are one or two that are too strong for me (hair ones mainly, as they are close to your face and not rinsed off)

Interesting link Frugal

Leonard: I hate the smell of moth balls. I'm not a moth.

Boots Protect and Perfect - all the rage while I was pregnant and morning-sickness-y. Gave mine to my Mum and still can't bear it almost 3 years later.

And I really don't like dill

The Finns like dill too. I always check when using coriander. Same thing

Soap and glory smells synthetic and horrible.

Some sanctuary face products are quite nice but their body and bathing range smells rank.

I also cannot bear anything that smells of cucumber. I do not eat cucumber, it's vile and I've hated it and the smell since I was a child.

I don't like strawberry scented bath and body products either.

Who remembers The Body shop perfume oils in the 1980s/90s? Maybe they still do them, I don't know, but back then their was a fad for the white musk and it was vile, just vile.

Every year an old work colleague sends me a Next Perfume, it's always a different one and they all smell like insipid bath water!

Frugal thanks for that link! What an amazing site. I've spent ages looking up all the perfumes I have loved.
Is anyone like me? I love a perfume for a few years, then I move on. When I smell the old ones it takes me back in time.
The only perfume I have consistently liked or used is Chanel. no 5. When I was very young it was my mother's scent but she stopped using it and a few years later I started.
Sorry - this was supposed to be about smells you hate. I hate the smell of all cheap hair products! The expensive ones always smell nice. I cant bear the smell of Pantene on my hair.