I’m allergic to perfumes also. I only use Ivory Soap (bring it with me on trips) and we buy no-scent products, which may be hard to find.
While there are not enough women in tech, one advantage for me is that I seldom had a problem at work. There was one meeting I had to attend from the doorway, though, but that was rare.
Big advantage - I’ve saved thousands of dollars over 40 years of marriage because my wife does not buy perfume. (Not that she wants to.)
I have turned away upon opening the door to more than one business because of the whatever the fuck that is. Most of those places have stuff I might want but can very easily do without, and it is just not worth getting a headache over kitsch.
Oddly, there is one woman I used to work with who wears a lot of a 5&dime type perfume, such that we could tell when she stepped in the door across the room, but I have developed a tolerance for it due to being very fond of her.
People who wear strong scents don’t think they’re strong. I’m not sure they can smell them at all.
I’m also an Ivory soap / unscented detergent person. I’m not allergic but I think I have a sensitive sense of smell. Of the handful of people in the office that wear colonge/perfume, I can generally pick them out if they’re less than ~20 feet away. And none of them are really wearing in the large amounts that I pick up on some people.
Agree with the OP. If some specifically identifiable person smells like perfume, etc., that’s a stink as bad as cigarette smoke. Knock that crap off you selfish jerk.
If there’s a vague, barely detectable something in the air that you can’t figure out who is spreading, that’s perfectly OK.
If somebody can’t tell which kind they are, they’re almost certainly doing it wrong.
This. They get totally used to the smell of their favorite brand and get desensitized to the point they could pour a quart in their hair and still not smell it. The rest of us uninitiates have a different reaction.
I’m pretty sure “French” isn’t the deleted word.
When I was in my 20s, I had a GF tell me she shouldn’t be able to smell it unless she was hugging me. I’ve followed that bit of advice ever since and it seems to have served me well.
That said, I typically only wear it on date nights.
It isn’t French and I saw no point in needlessly (potentially) offending persons of the actual ethnicity. Just being nice. It’s what I do.
Babylonian?
To me those who wear a strong sent usually are trying to hide the rotting of (usually) their (spiritual) soul (which stinks to high heaven). It is a spiritual stench which they can not avoid but try to mask it with a strong physical scents. There is a exception, those who have been sexually violated, as they are trying to hide the scent of the person who violated them.
What the everloving fuck did I just read?
Not daily and not terribly strong but for some occasions I break out the old bottles of Russian Leather. Considering these are the same bottles I bought in 1978 or so says something about how often, and how much, I use.
You must be a lot of fun at department store perfume counters.
Dude, it’s kanicbird.
Absolutely not, never. Haven’t touched deodorant in decades. Never heard a complaint from intimates. Put nothing on your body, there will be nothing stinky to try to scrub off.
Don’t try it cold turkey. It’ll take months, maybe years, to get your body back down to its original finish.
I wasn’t aware our bodies were made of wood. :dubious:
What does a soul bond between rapist and victim smell like, anyway?
I’m thinking wet, rotten wood. Am i close?
I really, really hate the way I smell, and always have. I have worked in a couple of places that had scent free policies (restaurant, hospital) and it was a trial for me. I was so happy when my office, a non-care office of the hospital, moved to a satellite location so I could smell something besides me on myself.
Now, I myself have had strong reactions to other peoples’ fragrances, and it was not pleasant (a jazz concert ruined because the woman in the next seat had on way too much of a really disgusting scent, and even though I switched seats with my husband, It got me. It was in my hair and on my coat and I made the mistake of not washing my hair when I got home, so it was on my pillow. It wasn’t just in my head. My husband could smell it, too. Then I broke out in hives on the side next to the cubicle wall of a coworker who wore Opium, and I even like the scent of Opium. We eventually made a deal that she could wear it as long as she didn’t apply it in her cubicle, which seemed to be the problem). So I have tried to modulate this so that only I, and people who get very close to me, can smell it, and I generally don’t want anyone that close to me anyway. But I want to smell it. The next seat? I hope I can get it right so that nobody smells me from the next seat.
I want to smell only the scent I choose on me, though. I love Clinique cosmetics because they are about as unscented as you can get. Other lines have great products, and I’m not saying the scents are unpleasant, but they might go to war with whatever I am choosing as a scent, so I don’t want them. And it’s true that a lot of things that say they are unscented are not. If there’s a truly unscented hair conditioner that actually works, I haven’t found it, and god knows I’ve looked.
I do think there were times in the past when I wore too much, and I think I nearly asphyxiated a coworker in a meeting once, but nobody ever told me, “You’re wearing too much fragrance,” or “You stink.” Of course nobody ever told me that when I wasn’t wearing it either, and had my normal smell.
If it’s covering up the stink of my rotting soul, oh well. But I do try not to offend. There’s the “spray it and walk through it after shower” method and the cotton ball sprayed and tucked into my bra. These keep it pretty close, it seems to me.
Holy fuck.
Perhaps I’m being whooshed here, but in general no-one can smell any odor continuously, because our noses can’t do that.
If you put on perfume in the morning, whether it’s a good scent or a bad one, strong or weak, you the wearer are unlikely to be aware of it at all.
In answer to the OP; I used to wear aftershave in my teens to early twenties. Way too much probably. Now my target is just to smell lightly of soap.
I sometimes use moisturizers than have a scent, so that’s the maximum strength odor I would ever have.
French? What?
FWIW, I assumed Croatian.