Perfume clouds

[Wasp]

I was out riding my hybrid for acouple hrs today on a mup and encountered a number of people walking there dogs. Most women (and one rather smelly man) I passed were wearing quite a lot of perfume. I could smell it 15 feet before I reached the person. Thankfully I could just ride pass them and leave the smell behind. Imagine being stuck in an elevator, or some other type of confined space with someone wearing a nasty overbearing scent? Or stuck working daily with a heavy scented co-worker?
Just a nice friendly reminder to all those that wear perfumes, less is more!
And not everyone appreciates your perfume overpowering and invading ones personal space.
I'm not anti perfume, I actually wear light scents on special occasions.
The people I'm referring to smell like they have a nasty car airfreshener hung around their necks.........and we have all encountered people like that. How is it they can't tell they stink??? Or do they know and just don't care?

[OakLeaf]

I got you beat.

I was out for my run this morning, and a car went by on the opposite side of the road - so, like 30 feet away - and the perfume was so thick it almost choked me.

It's about 55° and misting, so while I didn't notice specifically, I'd be surprised if the car windows were open. (I didn't smell any cigarette smoke, which is the usual reason people drive around with their car windows open when it's damp and chilly.)

[PamNY]

Perfume doesn't bother me, but the smell of meat makes me nauseated. People are bothered by all kinds of different things. So when you are complaining about a smell -- my advice is tone it down. Remember the person who is listening to your complaints may be quietly and politely enduring their own misery.

There was an appalling (but kinda funny) situation in my apartment bullding -- people were complaining about the smell of cigarette smoke resulting from bar patrons downstairs -- but the biggest complainers have the biggest SUVs and leave them idling while they load and unload right by the building's entrance.

[malkin]

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.

[Wasp]

I got you beat.

I was out for my run this morning, and a car went by on the opposite side of the road - so, like 30 feet away - and the perfume was so thick it almost choked me.

It's about 55° and misting, so while I didn't notice specifically, I'd be surprised if the car windows were open. (I didn't smell any cigarette smoke, which is the usual reason people drive around with their car windows open when it's damp and chilly.)

LOL....yep ur right u win!!

[nuliajuk]

Many people, after an hour or so of applying scent, will find that they don't smell it on themselves any more and assume that it's worn off. So they apply more.... and an hour or so later, some more. They don't realize that our brains are designed to not notice our own scent, only others. I suppose millions of years ago, it was a way of assuring that we'd really notice if, say, a saber tooth cat was sneaking up on us.

[missjean]

At a previous job, there was a difficult supervisor who smelled like she dumped a bottle of Obsession over her head every morning. It was awful, but the up side was that you could smell her coming and look very busy by the time she got to you.

[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.