What was the last perfume that was so bad you had to scrub it straight off?

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Maison Margiela Replica Beach Walk for me.

Was hoping for something salty and coconutty and beachy in a fresh way. Got cloying ylang-ylang with a hunt of synthetic suncream and very little else. Really dated and old lady ish, like it could be by Yardley. Awful awful awful.

Glad I only bought a sample.

I don't use perfume much but years ago, found that Dior Poison was a very effective fly spray. 😁

Santal 33, which I had bought on the basis that a friend of wore it and smelled amazing.

On me it smelled like a rotting head of celery and made me feel so ill I had to go home and scrub it off which took forever - the Tshirt I had on needed two washes - and I sold it on eBay.

I quite like Angel (in very small amounts)😀

Miss Dior, even after I washed it off I could still smell it. Horrible!

Santal 33 is alright up pickle juice on me. Not good.

THIS^. It's truly awful stuff.

Tom Ford Black Orchid. I don't care what anyone else says, it is sickening.

Chanel no 19 🤢

Romilly Wilde Idle.
I normally love it, but my nose is broken due to Covid. So all I can smell at the moment is a synthetic woody sludgy green mess. Rather than the Jasmine tinged dewy scent I usually smell.

Another vote for La Vie est Belle.
Sickly and almost impossible to wash off.

Lancome La nuit Tresor. I know loads of people love it but it smells straight up palma violets on me and the rose in the background is too much for me!! Way too sweet.

i have wasted a lot of money buying perfumes online based on their descriptions. Have also bought ‘discovery sets’ and been very disappointed. Paul smith ‘portrait’ promised much but is very strange. I have tried Floral Street perfumes and only like Electric Rhubarb, the others smell musty to me. I don’t like anything that smells ‘pongy ’ such as monotheme Monoi which is really overpowering

Came here to say Angel as well!

It was a diptique sample that came with purchase. Horrendous.

Charlotte tilbury - scent of a dream.

So heavy and honestly something my gran would wear! It reminded me of Elizabeth Arden - Blue Grass

Oh yes forgot that one! Truly horrendous.

You can buy Gucci Envy from Perfume Parlour.

Angel 🤢
Portrait of a Lady 🤢

SJP Lovely. Gets raved about on here when someone wants recommendations for a cheap perfume that doesn't smell awful but to me it smells like cat's piss!
Also Samsara. Thought they'd stopped making it because I haven't smelt it on anyone in a long time but came across a bottle in a dept store last week and it still smells like vomit!

I loved the original opium - but I used it sparingly!! But I hated Poison. A relative used to wear it and the smell arrived several minutes before she did and stayed long after she left.

I bought a bottle of Jo Malone Blush peony and blush suede after loving it in store. By the time I'd got back to the car, I was almost being sick and had to take headache tablets. It was an hours drive home and I had to keep the windows open on the bloody motorway as the smell was making me feel so ill.

Thank god I hadn't taken the wrapper off and had just sprayed the sample so I was able to return it. Never had a reaction to perfume like it in my life.

It's awful stuff!

I quite like Beach Walk, but didn't love it. I gave it to my daughter who liked it more.

I don't want you to name mine as it was from an independent perfume house, but it had a whiff of surgical spirit.

Jo Malone London Red Roses. An acquaintance wears it and it smells divine on her, so light and subtle. On me, it makes my eyes water and gives me a raging headache and nausea. The only note I can pick out is cat piss. I only use the tiniest bit, too. Same effect.

I used to love Paloma Picasso and still use Alien in the winter months, so it’s not just a Heavy Perfume thing.

Angel was definitely one I couldn't wear. It makes me nauseous. It put me off trying other gourmands for a long time.

Costa Azzura by Tom Ford, its meant to be unisex but I found it really cloying & like cheap aftershave. I couldn't get away from it & it really lingered when usually I can't smell perfume on myself.