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Bearsac-Debra
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Joined: Nov 21, 2005
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Location: Borehamwood, Herts, UK
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I have a problem with oversensitve smell and this can be fine if the perfume is nice. I hate however, the smell of Red Door on the skin of other people. It is not quite so bad in the bottle but on the skin it takes on a smell that insults my sense of smell so much I cannot bear to be near a person wearing it. I have the same problem when some body creams mix with BO and some hair products mixed with head sweat. It makes me feel rather faint and I lose can coordination. Purfumes and sweat alone are somewhat bearable but not certain products with sweat.
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Sparrowrose
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Joined: Oct 12, 2009
Age: 42
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Location: Idaho, USA
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Once I was in the computer lab, printing out a paper I needed for class, when the lab person started going around spraying the desks with some kind of antiseptic spray. I was fine with that, even when he started cleaning the desk right next to me, but then he SPRAYED ME! To be fair, I don't think he meant to. I think it was a case of clumsy, not malicious. But I immediately started choking and grabbed one of his paper towels and started wiping it off my skin but it was also all over my shirt. I tried to take my paper to class but I was choking so bad I had to run home (literally run) and take off my clothes and wash my body. I got to class in the last five minutes and barely was able to hand my paper in on time. Just barely!
Now, when I see them coming around with that spray, I tell them "please wait to do this section because I'm allergic." I don't know if I'm actually allergic or just sensitive, but I have to keep them away in case I get sprayed again.
The stuff they spray on benches at the plasma place is even worse, though. I had an asthma attack (and I don't have asthma!) when they were cleaning a bench two benches away from the one I was on. Thankfully, I don't have to sell plasma at this point in my life.
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j0sh
Toucan
Joined: Nov 19, 2008
Age: 32
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Location: Tampa, Florida
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"Excuse me store clerk. Can you please tell me where the unbathed crackhead hooker body spray by Axe is located? You know... The one that smells like broken dreams" |
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Electric_Kite
Phoenix
Joined: Aug 21, 2008
Age: 34
Posts: 524
Location: crashing to the ground
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| Posted: Wed Nov 04, 2009 2:54 pm Post subject: |
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| flamingshorts wrote: | I have to confess to having a special interest in fragrances.
So I guess Im a perp. 
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I love them. Though I agree that most commercial 'department store' perfumes are terrible, and that AXE needs to be stopped. And you're probably right about the super-E. Or perhaps it's the cheap synthetic white musks.
I like the 'Black Phoenix Alchemy Labs' ones, which are perfume oils without the alcohol carrier, and no synthentics. They are fascinating. |
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poopylungstuffing
doh-skoh-bee-doh
Joined: Mar 09, 2007
Age: 34
Posts: 6411
Location: Super Happy Fun Land, TX
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| Posted: Wed Nov 04, 2009 3:02 pm Post subject: |
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| Sparrowrose wrote: | Once I was in the computer lab, printing out a paper I needed for class, when the lab person started going around spraying the desks with some kind of antiseptic spray. I was fine with that, even when he started cleaning the desk right next to me, but then he SPRAYED ME! To be fair, I don't think he meant to. I think it was a case of clumsy, not malicious. But I immediately started choking and grabbed one of his paper towels and started wiping it off my skin but it was also all over my shirt. I tried to take my paper to class but I was choking so bad I had to run home (literally run) and take off my clothes and wash my body. I got to class in the last five minutes and barely was able to hand my paper in on time. Just barely!
Now, when I see them coming around with that spray, I tell them "please wait to do this section because I'm allergic." I don't know if I'm actually allergic or just sensitive, but I have to keep them away in case I get sprayed again.
The stuff they spray on benches at the plasma place is even worse, though. I had an asthma attack (and I don't have asthma!) when they were cleaning a bench two benches away from the one I was on. Thankfully, I don't have to sell plasma at this point in my life. |
i had to leave the class every time they sprayed Lysol when I was a kid...It didn't help that before I figured that out, the room monitor had the habit of spraying ME with the lysol..as a form of bullying...I was a slovenly uncoordinated little kid..the implication being that I smelled bad...and maybe I did....
Anywhoo..that is beside the point.
I wear patchouli...I have been wearing patchouli for over half my life. It is the only fragrance I can stand, and part of the reason I wear it is because I do not use conventional deodorants, which contain aluminum...and I hate the way they smell and the way I feel when they are on me...(not sure whether or not it is psychosomatic)...Natural deodorants don't work very well...so i often wear the combination of patchouli and a natural deodorant...if I wear one at all...
It is to the point that I don't even smell the patchouli anymore and don't even think about it till I get comments from strangers about it.
I guess I worry about smelling like natural body odor from having been teased about it so much...
When I was younger, I worked for two years in the office at a music company. Often, they would have recitals after hours...and while I sat outside watching the ants and waiting to be picked up, these nicely dressed families would glide past me, each member reeking of a different strong perfume, and I would be catapulted instantly into a searing headache, that had the potential to last for hours.
Other smells can do that to me too..like cigar smoke...
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bhetti
Phoenix
Joined: May 18, 2009
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| Posted: Wed Nov 04, 2009 4:15 pm Post subject: |
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| Sparrowrose wrote: | | I once got stopped by a police officer when I was walking home at night and stopped to smell some petunias that were growing in a big cement container on the street. He told me that smelling flowers was "suspicious behavior." |
that made me laugh.
I do like lilacs and lavender and other flowers, but I can't bring them in the house because my husband can't handle the smell.
I wore patchouli until someone complained that it made me stink... I wish I hadn't let her influence me. another guy in the group wore stetson (or whatever it was) and it made me choke, but she never complained about him. next time I have to be where people wear stuff like that I'm going to douse myself with patchouli.
also, Axe is from the devil.
my local state voc rehab building is fragrance-free. all public buildings and places of employment should be. I got really tired of the hate when I had to ask perfumed people not to walk down my aisle so I wouldn't get a migraine, and having to go to the doctor for a note to give to HR to prove that environmental toxins were interfering with my ability to do my job. |
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TadAuty
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Joined: Nov 03, 2009
Posts: 22
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| Posted: Wed Nov 04, 2009 5:50 pm Post subject: OK, here's a question for all of you who object to perfumes |
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ED: Yes.....I also get overpowered by the smells from nature at times!! The question was about perfumes though....BUT now that you've asked  ...well councils seems to plant flowery trees EVERWHERE!! Photonias are my pet hate....and unfortunately grow into hedges well, so people have long rows of them everywhere! I have to cross the road 5 times to walk down to the shops....back and forth to avoid them. (and the derrrrr brain, nausea and migraine that follows)I also get affected by a bit of hayfever, so im guessing asthmatics and effected by this silliness in public planting too. If nothing else, its not economically rational to plant allergens for the community....more people will need days off work/school, etc.
SO, yes,
*My brain senses most smells strongly. Chemical ones I find more abhorent because i feel they are also poisonous...AND being "created"! Natural, I can accept. (and cross roads to avoid)
Can I also add, the EMOTIONAL reaction to this overwhelming sense of smell is very strong. As an aspygal, I have often thought that the world/people were telling me too "&^%$ off! You dont fit in. We dont want you here." When the smells come in too, its like "You dont even have a right to air!". Its like being rejected on another level. I can be walking along feeling fine with the world, and suddenly im getting the message "NO YOU DONT belong here!" from a tree, or a nice old lady wearing avon perfume. |
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Ishtara
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Joined: Oct 26, 2009
Posts: 28
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| Posted: Wed Nov 04, 2009 6:56 pm Post subject: |
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| bhetti wrote: | a lot of perfumes and cleaners give me a headache and/or send me into an asthma attack.
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I'm okay with most perfumes, but the cheap artifical stuff in cleaning products gives me asthma attacks too.
I realised I smelled things differently to others in high school chemistry, studying aldehydes. The teacher passed around a bottle and asked each person to say what it smelled like. Everyone else smelled pineapple -- to me it smelled like nail polish remover. |
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Electric_Kite
Phoenix
Joined: Aug 21, 2008
Age: 34
Posts: 524
Location: crashing to the ground
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| Posted: Wed Nov 04, 2009 9:46 pm Post subject: |
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| You should smell both. |
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shadfly
Raven
Joined: Sep 24, 2009
Posts: 122
Location: Canada
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| Posted: Wed Nov 04, 2009 11:01 pm Post subject: |
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| j0sh wrote: |
"Excuse me store clerk. Can you please tell me where the unbathed crackhead hooker body spray by Axe is located? You know... The one that smells like broken dreams" |
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Starr
Phoenix
Joined: Sep 18, 2006
Posts: 4562
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| Yes...and I thought those perfume industry guys just stirred chemicals all day, trying to induce asthma-inducing pongs...that's a great alibi 'I just needed to know what an unwashed crackhead hooker smelled like, purely research you know' It's a tough job! |
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shadfly
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Joined: Sep 24, 2009
Posts: 122
Location: Canada
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| Posted: Thu Nov 05, 2009 9:06 am Post subject: |
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| It's gotten to the point that the beautiful people and all their wannabee friends want to smell like society's underbelly. I guess that's where they're headed. |
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gramirez
Phoenix
Joined: Nov 10, 2008
Posts: 1019
Location: Illinois
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| Posted: Thu Nov 05, 2009 9:31 am Post subject: |
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It seems like everyone is wearing perfume or cologne these days. Which is fine as long as it smells nice. 
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Nightsun
Deinonychus
Joined: Sep 24, 2009
Age: 27
Posts: 376
Location: Rome - Italy
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| Posted: Thu Nov 05, 2009 10:11 am Post subject: |
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I hate perfumes, also I like "normal" humans odours. Expecially on womens, I like their natural smell.
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TiredGeek
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Age: 38
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| Posted: Thu Nov 05, 2009 1:17 pm Post subject: |
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I like flowers and natural smelling perfumes. I gag at bad body odor, cigarette smoke, and those Yankee Candle stores! I hate going to my mom's house because she smokes *and* uses those awful candles to try to mask the smoke smell.  |
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