Is there a perfume/aftershave that you can’t BEAR

[Flatwhitewhiner]

Inspired by the other thread on fragrances.

What perfumes give you the boke?

Whilst not strictly a perfume, I picked up a can of Impulse ‘hint of musk’ recently and it reminded me of mothballs and net curtains - bleurgh.

Jo Malone Lime Basil Mandarine gives me a headache and makes me feel queasy.

Issy Miyake
Angel

Anything containing Oudh or cumin notes. One of my best friends loves a niche fragrance which, frankly, smells like armpits on her. It's the cumin.

Chloe Narcisse and Lancome Tresor always made me feel headachy, and I don't like the "pink mingers" so popular with teenagers today. Sickly sweet gourmands.

Chloe Narcisse actually sticks in my throat… can’t bear it! I also second Chanel number 5 and a really old blast from the past is Lentheric Tweed… old lady perfume if ever there was one!

Angel and Armani diamonds are both migraine/vomite inducing. I also can’t stand Armani Si which everyone else seems to love but to me smells like wine breath and dirt.

I really dislike Opium and MIL wears it quite often.

Also not keen on CK Euphoria and dislike most heavy sweet perfumes.

All of them. They give me migraine.

I can’t bear any perfume now but I remember as a teen loving Eternity for men! I used to go in the shop and spray my coat sleeve every time it wore off! Seemed to last for ages

Poison, I used to have to take my asthma inhaler if I was exposed to it for long. Vile smell, it doesn’t seem as popular now thankfully.

Thierry Muglar (sp?) - Angel

I have such a visceral reaction to it; it literally turns my stomach.

@Lilye88

I honestly thought I was the only person on the planet who hated Angel as everybody I know loves it.

I also can’t stand Chanel no 5, smells cheap to me 🙈

Another vote for Chanel no5.

I’ve tried many times to like it, it being a classic and all, but it just smells … old and cheap. I don’t understand how it’s so popular.

I once went on a date with a woman who loved to go on and on about how posh she was. She started rambling on about her Chanel No 5, I assume she wanted me to think it was amazing and expensive. I didn't have the heart to tell her my perfume cost more and she smelled like my mother 🤐🤭

Poison gives me an instant headache. My ex housemate used to wear it and I had to ask her to spray it after she left the house
DH must have a funny body chemistry as he’s tried some aftershaves and they literally smell like dog shit on him…others are amazing.

Poison, because it's vile.

Eternity because it reminds me of my ex MIL

Alien absolutely awful stuff
Youth Dew
Georgio Beverly Hills
Poison
Roma from laura Biagiotti
All make me feel positively ill

White Linen sets off a sneezing fit and gives me a headache but nothing smells worse to me than Youth Dew.

Anything flowery, i hated Anais Anais when it was all the rage. I see Poison mentioned a lot on here, i never liked it but two of my workmates always wore Poison, it smelled lovely on one of them and awful on the other so it depends i guess.

Poison (the original one)
Giorgio Beverly Hills
Rive Gauche

They all give me a headache and nausea.

Eden
Chloe Narcisse

Abercrombie and Fitch's fragrance. It really turns my stomach

Coco Mademoiselle. And yet I love the original Coco Chanel - the one in the black and gold box. But Coco Mademoiselle smells so powdery and sickly to me and gets caught in my throat. I'm clearly in a minority as I smell it on a lot of women!

I know it's much sought after, but Santal 33.

I bought myself a sample of it after reading all the adoration and it smelt so foul I lasted an hour before I had to scrub it off and wash the dress I had been wearing. The only thing I can describe that comes close would be if a whole head of celery was wrapped in plastic and left to rot in a warm room, and I almost had to leave a cinema a week or so ago because somebody in the screen was wearing it 🤮

I actually came on to say Joop, but that was because I had a very unpleasant ex who always wore it. I didn't know it was generally rank as well as specifically

Angel
Clinique Aromatics Elixir
Avon Far Away.
Impulse and other cheap body sprays (although I'd pay good money for a can of Impulse O2!)

All the above are truly disgusting scents which seem to linger more than any other.

DKNY Be Delicious. Makes me feel physically sick

Eternity for men - makes me gag

Not a fan of Angel, Sunflowers, Davidoff Cool Water or Chanel 5 either