Perfume, do you wear it.
08-11-2011, 08:20 PM
#151
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I don't smoke and don't allow anyone to do in my home or vehicles.
The people that love to wear perfume just need to have one allergy or asthma attach. There is nothing worse than not being able to breath and are coughing from your toes up trying to get some air.
Yes they smell pretty but they make people sick. They may not make you sick but to you pay attention to the people around you???
I think they should band smoking and perfume. Sorry but I like to breath.
Quilterfay
The people that love to wear perfume just need to have one allergy or asthma attach. There is nothing worse than not being able to breath and are coughing from your toes up trying to get some air.
Yes they smell pretty but they make people sick. They may not make you sick but to you pay attention to the people around you???
I think they should band smoking and perfume. Sorry but I like to breath.
Quilterfay
08-11-2011, 08:39 PM
#152
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[quote=Quilterfay]I don't smoke and don't allow anyone to do in my home or vehicles.
The people that love to wear perfume just need to have one allergy or asthma attach. There is nothing worse than not being able to breath and are coughing from your toes up trying to get some air.
Yes they smell pretty but they make people sick. They may not make you sick but to you pay attention to the people around you???
It is not the scent that causes the reaction, it is the chemicals put in by the manufacture of the scent. Natural florals fade fast, so they put in a chemical fixer to make it last and last. You think you smell like a pretty flower, I smell a chemical stew. Very few perfumes are made with essence oils, and non of the cheaper ones for sure. The same with scented products like fabric softeners and such. Essential oils are very expensive, some over a hundred dollars an ounce. Do you think that box of dryer sheets you got at the Dollar Tree is any thing but a product of chemistry, or that $10 perfume from the drug store?
I am a non smoker, and try to live with out any fake perfumes. I love the natural scent of flowers or spices.
Please think of others when you "lightly spritz" that chemical stew on your body or clothing, do you really think we can't smell it? or that it won't make an allergic person ill? Your light spritz might send me to the medicine cabinet.
It is a matter of common curtesy, we all have to live on this increasingly smaller planet. If you must wear some thing to feel pretty could you please keep it to your time at home, I promise I won't come to your place and tell you what to wear.
The people that love to wear perfume just need to have one allergy or asthma attach. There is nothing worse than not being able to breath and are coughing from your toes up trying to get some air.
Yes they smell pretty but they make people sick. They may not make you sick but to you pay attention to the people around you???
It is not the scent that causes the reaction, it is the chemicals put in by the manufacture of the scent. Natural florals fade fast, so they put in a chemical fixer to make it last and last. You think you smell like a pretty flower, I smell a chemical stew. Very few perfumes are made with essence oils, and non of the cheaper ones for sure. The same with scented products like fabric softeners and such. Essential oils are very expensive, some over a hundred dollars an ounce. Do you think that box of dryer sheets you got at the Dollar Tree is any thing but a product of chemistry, or that $10 perfume from the drug store?
I am a non smoker, and try to live with out any fake perfumes. I love the natural scent of flowers or spices.
Please think of others when you "lightly spritz" that chemical stew on your body or clothing, do you really think we can't smell it? or that it won't make an allergic person ill? Your light spritz might send me to the medicine cabinet.
It is a matter of common curtesy, we all have to live on this increasingly smaller planet. If you must wear some thing to feel pretty could you please keep it to your time at home, I promise I won't come to your place and tell you what to wear.
08-11-2011, 08:40 PM
#153
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I am kind of like Quilterfay. I get a headache when I have to breathe someone else's perfume/cologne/body spray, etc., etc. or cigarette smoke. I really do not want to be rude or offensive but I really have lots of problems with it.
One time someone told me they took a shower and sprayed on perfume/cologne, layed their clothes out on the bed and sprayed their clothes, dressed and then sprayed themselves again. Needless to say, I stayed far, far away from them.
Oh my! Please help me. Do not hug me if you have on cologne or anything that has a fragrance, or you reek of cigarette smoke, and please do not come within three to six feet of me. I love you and please love me enough not to make me breathe in your cologne/perfume, cigarette smoke, etc.
I really apologize for being so intense about this subject. I know I am not the only one who is bothered by or is allergic to these things.
One time someone told me they took a shower and sprayed on perfume/cologne, layed their clothes out on the bed and sprayed their clothes, dressed and then sprayed themselves again. Needless to say, I stayed far, far away from them.
Oh my! Please help me. Do not hug me if you have on cologne or anything that has a fragrance, or you reek of cigarette smoke, and please do not come within three to six feet of me. I love you and please love me enough not to make me breathe in your cologne/perfume, cigarette smoke, etc.
I really apologize for being so intense about this subject. I know I am not the only one who is bothered by or is allergic to these things.
08-11-2011, 09:21 PM
#154
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I have a blend that I wear that I found on my own, but the only people who can smell it are the people who hug me. A little goes a long way. When my DD's hug me, they always say "Mmmm...mom smell". I dab on touches of two perfumes. My own unique scent. I have worn them since high school. DH says 'never change it". Works for me. Others have never mentioned it. For the record, my two scents are essential oils.
08-11-2011, 09:40 PM
#156
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Originally Posted by Olivia's Grammy
A couple of things I've noticed about people wearing perfume and I do wear a little, I mean a LITTLE.
You know when a car passes you driving 50 mph and you can smell their perfume through closed windows, they might have on to much.
When you have to wash your clothes after hugging someone, they might have on to much.
When you sit next to some one and have to fan to breathe, they might have on to much.
So what are your thoughts?
You know when a car passes you driving 50 mph and you can smell their perfume through closed windows, they might have on to much.
When you have to wash your clothes after hugging someone, they might have on to much.
When you sit next to some one and have to fan to breathe, they might have on to much.
So what are your thoughts?
08-12-2011, 05:25 AM
#157
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Originally Posted by 3incollege
Originally Posted by kellen46
Originally perfumes were designed to mask some pretty potent body odors. People bathed irregularly, other than an occasional dunking in the river, it was considered unhealthy to bath for reasons other than, bred, wed and dead. Later they became a fashion accessory. I think if we bath often and are clean it is enough. If you need something to cover up you body odor, then please increase you bathing, not your perfume. Perfume will not cover BO, it just makes it more.....hmmm......unique.
How many of you that can't stand the smell of perfume, smoke?
08-12-2011, 08:19 AM
#159
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Originally Posted by quiltmagnet
when I was working we had a patient that had severe asthma attacks because one of the nurses wore perfume ...Musk was the worse for her. Bless her soul if you were the nurse assigned to her she would ask what kind of perfume you were wearing. I could understand it is her health
08-12-2011, 08:31 AM
#160
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I like perfume but living in the country get very few chances to wear any. Don;t want to attract bees etc. When I do wear it, it is a little.
I used to work in a place where one lady wore so much scent, it left a trail in the halls and stairwells after she had gone by, no kidding. And she was a scientist with a doctoral degree too. You would think she would know better.
I used to work in a place where one lady wore so much scent, it left a trail in the halls and stairwells after she had gone by, no kidding. And she was a scientist with a doctoral degree too. You would think she would know better.
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