It’s been over an hour and I can still smell it on my clothes. It feels like the smell has lined my nasal passages. I have a huge headache and feel like I am going to hurl any minute.
Two weeks ago I was on the PATH train and a woman entered the car and sat down a couple of seats away. I had to get up and move to the opposite end of the car because of her perfume. She was drenched in it. Every time the doors opened the wind blew the smell down.
How do the friends and family of these people live with them? Don’t they love them enough to tell them to tone it down?
Our offices are designated as scent free. Please use only unfragranced lotions and no perfume or cologne. Despite the large signs at every door announcing that and the fact that the policy has been in place for years there is one guy I work with who cannot resist drenching himself in cologne. I’m not really sensitive to smells but it’s thick enough that it makes my head ache.
You know how sharks can smell in the water, well people can too if it’s strong enough. There’s a woman who runs the pool I swim at, she drenches herself in perfume and then dips her hands in the pool to check the chemicals. For about 15-20 minutes you can taste it. I also hate swimming near boats and such as you can taste the fuel.
I was in a training session yesterday with a woman who apparently had just had about 20 cigarettes before she came in and sat down - I’m still on the fence which is worse, though - a smoker who is off-gassing like crazy or someone drenched in cologne.
Perhaps it’s sampling bias on my part but I’ve noticed that the most common overusers of perfume are women in their 40s and 50s. Is anybody else getting that? I remember 20 years ago when I smelled too much perfume, it was a woman in her 40s or 50s and it’s still the same today.
Now, I am not saying that most people in that demographic use too much perfume, I am saying that most of those who use too much perfume are in that demographic.
If true, why could that be? I get why it would be women mainly since men are a lot less likely to use perfume, except for that Axe stuff male teenagers use before they learn better.
The common answer to that is that as people age, their sense of smell starts to deteriorate, so women in that age group have to put on more just to be able to smell it themselves. That would suggest that women older than that have stopped wearing scents, or have learned to put on more reasonable amounts.
The demographic of men wearing too much cologne seems to be young and ethnic.
It’s a smoker who thinks that s/he can cover up the reek of the smoke with enough perfume or cologne.
As for the age of the offender, my daughter used to wear entirely too much scent. I had to tell her, repeatedly, that she should only use ONE spritz, because I could still smell the perfume several minutes after she’d left the house. My advice finally sank in, but I think that her boss also told her to ease off on the scent. It’s Pleasures Intense, and while I love the smell of it, even the best perfume shouldn’t be over-applied.
Yes, exactly. Ideally you should only be able to smell perfume/cologne if you’ve hugged the person wearing it (and then during the hug, not as a scent clinging to your clothing afterwards) or are otherwise in very, very close proximity.
I had a patient whose overdone cologne scent actually stuck to my hand after shaking hands with him! :eek: Eeeew!
The pool I swim at has changing cubicles around the sides. There used to be a real problem with people using aerosol deodorants in the cubicles and laying a fug of smell over the pool. If you are really swimming hard and gasp in a lungful of something that makes you choke, it could be actually dangerous.
They now have a no aerosols policy prominently displayed in all the cubicles, and swimming is much better.