A man on the train is wearing so much aftershave that every time I drink my coffee it tastes as if I am swigging his cologne - I don’t really understand perfumes, best just to smell clean I reckon
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I get nauseated by English leather cologne. Others seem ok. But really, most men’s cologne sucks. Though when in Italy our Uber driver smelled so good! I had to ask him to write it down for me so I could get some for my husband, who hates cologne. 🙄
This is absolutely my worst nightmare as someone whose migraines are triggered by scents *and* whose sense of smell was made more sensitive thanks to a brain haemorrhage.
I've had to move carriages and in extreme cases get off public transport and wait for the next bus etc.
Adults who wear excessive amounts of perfume are either sociopaths or trying to cover up a sworded affair. Either way, it's a sign of a personality disorder.
I once refused a $10 million wind farm investor\partner because I couldn't stand to be in the same room with his cologne and wasn't looking forward to doing so for the next five years.
I live near a school with a 6th form, and depending on the wind direction you can smell them before you see them because they are drenched in Lynx body spray.
Don't know how the teaching staff cope with the collective day long immersion.
Fortunately they aren't, although there are a lot of scare stories being spread about this at the moment, mostly by wellness influencers selling their detox programmes.
Those of us who work full time in perfumery have to know about the regulations. Naturals are the most dangerous we work with. 🙂
The regulations are pretty loose and have been for some time. Chemicals are essential to the cosmetic and perfume industry often to imitate nature. No one really knows the long term effects if you use everyday but the skin absorbs and the scents are very hard to wash off.
I'm on the UK executive committee of the International Fragrance Association (IFRA) and I can reassure you that the regulations, especially EU ones, are really strict, although no one can stop random people bunging stuff in bottles and putting it on Etsy.
The skin absorbs very few materials.
You are so right-Carcinogens, its the reason YSL withdrew the original Opium Perfume and why many perfumes have changed their formulas.
Even with formula changes its doesn't mean they are safe either.
I love Perfumes but they should never overwhelm anyone.
It was skin because of sensitisation, mostly by natural essential oils. Regulations were introduced by the EU in 2000. Bergamot now has its phototoxins removed. White cedar and wormwood are neurotoxins so they are restricted to safe levels.
There's some really irresponsible scaremongering around.
Thank you for the explanation.
its a nostalgia memory of it that had me looking some time ago to see if it was still available in an original formulation which from there took me to the info that it had been withdrawn etc.
I remember it as being very strong but I was amazed by it...back then.
I hate going through duty free, my nose is so sensitive and it is overwhelming, then you have the assault crew squirting more at you as you try to get through.
I'll never forget to my dying days the part from a program in the 90s about the dating scene in Blackpool. A bloke on there used to wear two different types of aftershave to maximise his chances as he believed a powerful scent was essential for attracting a mate. I often wonder what happened to him.
Oh I love perfumes and aftershaves.. I find they stir up so many memories and can change my mood and my headspace .. but yup.. overpowering in closed space.. and I’m with you!
I did this once. Rushing to get ready for work, i dropped my expensive bottle of aftershave. It broke and covered the sink area in expensive aftershave. Being young, i decided i should use as much of the spillage as possible.
All I say is the Glasgow underground is cramped. I was not popular.
I was once caught in the crossfire of a couple of Scentsy huns while working. It was like being waterboarded with whatever miracle oil they were hawking that week.
Try transporting the general public in a passenger vehicle for a living to get a real whiff of the story. Why some men want to smell like my great grandmother is beyond me
Unfortunately I start hacking every time I am around people wearing fragrance. I have sisters with the same problem. It is terrible, because some people seem to bathe in it.
I believe that it's often those 'xxx for Men' colognes and sprays and deodorants that are the offenders. Lacking guidance some of us poor male souls are misled by that labeling. Non perfumed deodorants are a good start.
Years ago I had a crush on an executive who looked like Angela Basset's hotter sister. She had a distinctive vanilla floral perfume. Totally unattainable for me. One day I smelled her scent, she was by my desk! She asked if I liked opera. I love opera! Here's two tickets, her husband's sick. Enjoy!
When people think they have lost their sense of taste, often it's smell. Scent makes up about 50% of flavour but we perceive that retronasally; when we chew we release aromas which travel from the throat up the back of the nose.
Inhaling the cologne before swallowing the coffee could do this to you.
100%. Came across a fella the other day who's 'perfume' you could smell 10m away in a garden! Can't stand it when my clothes get 'infected' by someone's slipstream and I get a whiff off them hours later
God yes, it’s aggressively antisocial. And don’t get me started on the whiff of washing powder on people’s clothes. I smell it everywhere and it turns my stomach.
Been saying this for years. Perfume should be banned from public places like restaurants, trains etc and offices. Why people think 'smelling nice' (you don't) is more important than spoiling meals, triggering allergic reactions etc is beyond me.
I've noticed this in Greece: men either wear no scent or you get it quite nicely at a quarter of a mile. I quite like a nice aftershave but not if it makes my eyes water!
The right amount is just enough to get a whiff of when you’re right next to him. In that case the right cologne can really enhance a man’s attractiveness imo
When my brother was a teenager he would douse himself in cologne because he wanted it to last all day. I tried to tell him he was giving everyone a headache but that made him angry.
I don't mind a hint of perfume. But many people don't use it with moderation, leading to desensitization, so they have to use even more. A vicious circle.
The worst job I had was a holiday job in an Avon factory, putting the straws in perfume bottles as they came out of the machine. Me and the other girl doing it were totally high by tea break.
After a meeting years ago I checked on my colleague who was pregnant.
She was nauseous all through the meeting, but mostly because the overwhelming pong of aftershave, not just from me but from all the blokes in the room.
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10 mins working in raisins and brandy and it almost killed me.
I've had to move carriages and in extreme cases get off public transport and wait for the next bus etc.
I feel like cologne & parfum is a relic of a bygone era when butt-wiping technology was considerably more primative.
Don't know how the teaching staff cope with the collective day long immersion.
Those of us who work full time in perfumery have to know about the regulations. Naturals are the most dangerous we work with. 🙂
The skin absorbs very few materials.
Even with formula changes its doesn't mean they are safe either.
I love Perfumes but they should never overwhelm anyone.
There's some really irresponsible scaremongering around.
its a nostalgia memory of it that had me looking some time ago to see if it was still available in an original formulation which from there took me to the info that it had been withdrawn etc.
I remember it as being very strong but I was amazed by it...back then.
You should only be able to smell someone's perfume when you get close up.
All I say is the Glasgow underground is cramped. I was not popular.
Inhaling the cologne before swallowing the coffee could do this to you.
Hate those synthetic fragrances so much. The worst are the ones meant to smell artificially clean, like in laundry detergents.
🤢🤮
And I do mean "notice", not "get blasted by"
I bet he was wearing white brogues and a voile shirt.
She was nauseous all through the meeting, but mostly because the overwhelming pong of aftershave, not just from me but from all the blokes in the room.