Perfume clouds

[lph]

Lately I'm amazed, but not bothered by little kids, like under age 5, coming to school doused in 'teenage boy fragrance.'
OTOH I love it when a kid shows up smelling like maple syrup.

Heh. I'm sensitive to perfume too, but it seems the ones with the largest clouds wafting around them these days are teenage boys.
At work I used to have a really handsome co-worker, so george-clooney-gorgeous he had women swooning over him wherever he went, but with one major drawback - he wore way too much aftershave. It kept me at a safe distance at least - would've loved to get closer but my throat would just close up...

[Pedal Wench]

I recently had to give up primo seats at the movie theater because the guy next to me was choking me with the aftershave. There should be a rule against wearing that stuff if someone has to sit next to you - my throat was so closed up. I wonder if years of working in a very small, close environment did that - I worked in a sound-proof studio and if someone was wearing too much fragrance it was unbearable.

[Catrin]

I've had this happen in the locker room at my gym. While it hardly ever troubles me these days, I DO have asthma and fragrances can trigger it. Thankfully it's only happened that one time but I thought I might have to run out of there...never did figure out which woman took the perfume bath.

[skhill]

Worst I've enountered in a long time was during the first week of school, going pass a group of middle-school boys who were waiting for the bus, while I was out running. Brought on a coughing fit!

[Crankin]

I am very sensitive to smells, and I went through a phase in my 30s, where I couldn't even walk through a department store, due to the perfume smells. Now, I don't get the closing throat, just coughing and a scratchy throat.
When I was a middle school teacher, I had to constantly remind the boys that girls didn't necessarily thick dousing yourself in cologne made them attractive! And generally, I just played the asthma card at the beginning of the year, so they didn't wear it.