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This ol' lady (I'm 64) can no longer wear perfume or cologne--I get a wicked headache from most scents--I can't even tolerate scented candles.
My "go to" fragrance these days is baby powder or sometimes Jean Nate spray but I've had that bottle for so long it's probably time to pitch it.
OTOH, daughter #2 l (22 yrs old) literally BATHES in Axe spray ("strong enough for a woman but made for a man..." ) I think she does it just to tick me off....
Perhaps.. I do notice that, I think. I will say though that since I have quit smoking a year ago the sheer number of women I can literally smell half a block away on their period is out of control. I have never noticed it before when I was a smoker. I actually, up until pretty recently actually, thought that smell was totally something else (moth balls.. really!) Worst.smell.EVER. And before anyone calls me a misogynist, men with smelly balls is just as gross, but it's not as pungent and you have to be pretty dirty to actually have smelly balls. You don't have to be a dirty person to smell from menstruation, but it's the worst smell in the world and I feel like such a horrible person even thinking/saying that. Seriously question for straight men though, is that smell a turn on? I'd imagine it is for mating purposes!? yuck.
Not really. I do notice the sweet smells most often worn by young women (HATE Pink Sugar!!) but you may notice the scents on older women because they are they are often stronger, older scents that have been around for ages and those were naturally strong. Plus the modern nose of most people aren't used to those, yet they barely notice the "cupcake and candy" scents they have grown up with.
I remember watching my mother (who was born in 1926) picking up that bottle and just spraying it everywhere! She liked "Emeraude," "Toujours Moi," and "Ciara." I'm afraid I took a heavy hand to it in my teens and 20s, but after that, I slowed down and gradually stopped using it altogether.
I remember being in my teens when I read "how to put on perfume" in a fashion magazine. They said to spray it into the air in front of yourself and then walk through it. I took this to heart and in about a week my mother was screaming, "What on earth smells in this house?!"
I agree with those who say that many older people over-do fragrances because their own sense of smell is no longer acute. I used to work in a Caswell-Massey store and our fragrances most popular with older women were the strongest. Their single-note fragrance Gardenia was a best seller, but I never sold it to anyone under 60, unless it was a gift for their mother or grandma.
I am 55 and no not me. I had a young nurse long ago, who had a very sweet powdery sultry heavy perfume sort of gag odour I am sure it was real nice for a night about town but not at hospital beds it was cloyingly sweet chemical scent.
Maybe it's just me, but it seems as if whenever I am out and I am standing behind or some older woman - and by older I am talking 60+ - I can seemingly always smell a strong perfume. Some in their 50s but definitely women in the 60+ range seem to really put on the perfume, anyone else notice this?
Nope. Most of the time the offender is a woman in her late thirties or forties, not an older woman. I have attributed it to the fact that some women get desperate about being "over the hill" as they approach mid life and start trying do things to fend off the inevitable and turn into complete nutters.
From what I experience, I would no. I have noticed the younger ones seem to overuse and I suspect, by looking at them, that they use it to cover up for their lack of personal hygiene. It doesn't work. I am guessing that not washing themselves and their clothing adds to the buildup.
but I've noticed this for years. I think it's because the sense of smell diminishes with age so they don't realize how much they put on.
not for this old dear it hasnt.. I hate the bloody stuff... used it up until the early 80s but was making me so ill I had to stop using all perfumes and scented cleaners...what I have noticed though is the amount of people wearing perfume during the day, even men are howling..... money is more available for these things as years ago it was a tiny bottle of Dior for your handbag not a big monstrosity of a spray... and people are being taken to the cleaners with the prices , they should check that their paying through the nose for petro chemicals.
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) I think she does it just to tick me off.... 
