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Except that cigarette smoke is a carcinogen, literally poisoning the air, whereas body fragrance is not. I'm allergic to various plant pollen. Doesn't mean I'm going to stomp my feet and throw a hissy fit if I walk into a restaurant with fresh cut flowers on the table. If you have such severe chemical sensitivities that you can't be adjacent to people wearing fragrances, it's time to consult with medical staff about various medications and adaptive techniques in order to cope as a person making your way in the world. You can't possibly think it's reasonable to expect perfect strangers who may randomly cross your path to comply with your personal situation, or to even know that you have some sort of personal issue that you expect them to comply with.
That is not the point. The point is people that drown themselves in colgne/perfume. They ONLY reason to drown yourself in perfume is because you smell from not taking a bath.
Does anyone else have to hold their breath walking through a department store perfume counter?
If you can smell it on yourself, you have applied too much. A little goes a long way. I can always tell when I am around a perfumed woman or man because I begin to sneeze like Sneezy, one of the 7 dwarfs.
If a woman, or a man, is in a booth behind me in a restaurant, I have to move, since I won't stop sneezing which is very unheathful for everyone around me. It's like the old Brylcream commercial; "A little dab will do ya."
I think it's good practice to NOT wear scents when you know you are going to be in a confined space like an office or conference room, and when you are going to be up close and personal with someone like a Dr or Dentist. I'm in my house or outside most of the time and nobody is going to be bothered by what I wear. A little common sense goes a long way.
If a scent lingers more than a few seconds after someone has passed by, that person is wearing too much! This is also the reason I don't like allowing other people to use my phone at work; often their perfume or cologne lingers on the receiver. Yuck.
My son uses too much cologne when he goes out, and I've tried to tell him to use less but he says, "It's not that bad!" Yes, it really is; I think he has built up a tolerance to it, so he doesn't smell what the rest of us smell.
I've come up with another theory. If someone mentioned this, sorry.
The two women at work who smell up with perfume both smoke. I have heard that smoking dulls your sense of smell/taste. It could be that they pour it on until they can smell it???
I've come up with another theory. If someone mentioned this, sorry.
The two women at work who smell up with perfume both smoke. I have heard that smoking dulls your sense of smell/taste. It could be that they pour it on until they can smell it???
Maybe. Also if you have been wearing a scent for awhile you can almost become immune to it and not realize how overboard you are going.
I've come up with another theory. If someone mentioned this, sorry.
The two women at work who smell up with perfume both smoke. I have heard that smoking dulls your sense of smell/taste. It could be that they pour it on until they can smell it???
It's probably more likely that they put on overly much in an effort to cover up residual smoke from smoke breaks that gets in their clothes and hair. They probably prefer complaints about perfume to complaints about tobacco smoke.
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