One can wear too much perfume?

I feel for ya B. That is one of the worst things, especially when one is eating. :sick: A once popular fragrance was Jean Nate. I don't know what variety it was but to me it smelled like urine and it seems so many women wore it. Thank God I never smelled it while I was eating.
 

hollydolly said:
I absolutely agree. I wear perfume..good quality perfume, not sweet sickly cheap stuff, and I always am afraid I might have put too much on... I hope I don't... but just the other day a woman walked past me holding hands with her O/H... and she absolutely reeked of cheap perfume, sickly sweet made me gag... and I just though right then and there ..how is HE not telling her this is absolutely over the top.....I felt sick after just a few seconds, god help the people who had to be in her company for hours or days..
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Let's hope that it wasn't the guy that she was with that gave her that perfume for her birthday and doesn't know how to tell him she doesn't like it but she really likes him and doesn't want to take a chance on him feeling really bad about it.
 

too much perfume/cologne is difficult for me to be around when others are wearing
it. My nose/allergies, don't well tolerate it. First comes the sneezing, then watery eyes,
then having to move away from anyone who is loading it on too strong. Even if not
too strong, I have reactions to it. For me scents have to be subtle, and so when I wear
them myself, I dab on my wrists only.
 
Even though we think our own perfume/cologne is tasteful, is it really for others? Price isn’t the deciding factor.

I’ve experienced some inexpensive scents that were reasonable and some very expensive that were unreasonable. Scent is in the nose of others.

When I wore anything, and it’s been many years, I put one tiny drop on my wrists. I finally decided that if I wanted to experience my colognes, it would be kept for at home. None now.

Adding that I absolutely detest any scented products (laundry detergent, fabric softener, house deodorizers, etc) now. I think my awareness of them is even more acute.
 
It’s unfortunate that some feel that if a little of something is good, more is better! I knew a guy, an administrator, infamous for wearing too much Polo cologne. You could smell his Polo for some time after he left a room. I also knew a woman who did the same thing, must have bathed in her scent, but I don’t know what it was. It’s hard to escape excessive perfume or cologne in an office setting if the offender works there.

Anyone remember this old 1960’s commercial for men‘s English Leather cologne and aftershave? Not sure if it’s even made anymore…🤔

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It was in the late eighties they had the If you like you'll love perfume out cheap versions of expensive perfume. They must have sold it in gallon jugs because I swear women bathed in it, it was nauseating sickly sweet, I'm glad I haven't smelled it in a long time.
 
Olivia said:
Let's hope that it wasn't the guy that she was with that gave her that perfume for her birthday and doesn't know how to tell him she doesn't like it but she really likes him and doesn't want to take a chance on him feeling really bad about it.
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yes maybe but why take a bath in the stuff ?
 
There are women ..and mostly tend to be older women who just keep layering perfume on top of the last lot...

They will often not bathe enough, instead using Perfumes and hairspray to mask any suspect odours... and *ugh*.. it doesn't matter whether they're using cheap or expensive..it's usually expensive perfume... it smells horrible....
 
I worked as an hotel receptionist for a while and the men all would come down to check out in the morning, freshly shaved and generously splashed. It made me a little dizzy -- at the same time I kind of liked it.
 
All fragrance products as well as household cleaning products are the same to me. I once had to be taken out of a store due to the smell of someone wearing some kind of perfume. I could not make it out on my own and felt like I was going to pass out. The first sign is when my tongue gets numb and then nausea. Then feel sick the whole day. And I don't even have it as bad as a lot of people. Some cannot even live in normal houses or apartments or even drive vehicles unless they can get the smell out of them. We live in a smelly world these days.
 
I know people can use too much, but have you ever been in a house where the owner had in every room a Glade plug-in? Talk about scent that was so strong it could have covered up something dead ... OMG.

We bought a house from a couple in their early 90s a few years ago for my SIL to live in. They had those in every room & took those with them when they moved. The problem was the odor had permeated the painted walls & it was as if the plug-ins were still there. We aired out the house leaving all the windows/doors open, but nothing helped.

We still had to paint all of those walls to get rid of existing wall colors (charcoal gray, chocolate brown & deep maroon). After painting with two coats of primer & two coats of paint, the odor was sealed in the drywall & it smelled so much better.

Needless to say, my SIL is one of those people who used scent beads in her laundry, perfumed soaps, burned Patchouli incense & all kinds of scented candles. My husband told her none of that was allowed in the new house ... no if, and or buts, period! We got the odor out of there & she wasn't going to replace it with something else.
 
Lilac said:
I know people can use too much, but have you ever been in a house where the owner had in every room a Glade plug-in? Talk about scent that was so strong it could have covered up something dead ... OMG.

We bought a house from a couple in their early 90s a few years ago for my SIL to live in. They had those in every room & took those with them when they moved. The problem was the odor had permeated the painted walls & it was as if the plug-ins were still there. We aired out the house leaving all the windows/doors open, but nothing helped.

We still had to paint all of those walls to get rid of existing wall colors (charcoal gray, chocolate brown & deep maroon). After painting with two coats of primer & two coats of paint, the odor was sealed in the drywall & it smelled so much better.

Needless to say, my SIL is one of those people who used scent beads in her laundry, perfumed soaps, burned Patchouli incense & all kinds of scented candles. My husband told her none of that was allowed in the new house ... no if, and or buts, period! We got the odor out of there & she wasn't going to replace it with something else.
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:sick::sick: I don't know why people use those plug in things, it's been said a million times by firefighters that they are one of the biggest causes of House fires...


Patchouli..... I swear to God, if I ever met the person who invented horrible stink..I will make them take a bath in Bleach... I absolutely hate that smell.. In the early 70's.. all the hippies that didn't wash very often wore Patchouli oil.. it makes me gag even to this day
 
@hollydolly, neither my husband & I both can stand that smell either. I swear my SILs nose is dead from that & all of the other scents she has used over the years. She's one of those people who puts on more perfume because when she can no longer smell it, she puts on more.

Quite a while ago, she needed transporation to doctors appoints so I would drive her. My car would stink so bad I had to leave the windows down for it to air out. I finally told her she needed to start calling a cab because I wasn't going to have my car smell like her scent beads & cheap perfume. I'm one of those people who will get headaches from strong odors.

Hubby told me when they were kids that she burnt patchouli in her room & stunk up the house. My FIL had asthma & that was the last thing he needed to smell.

She didn't like the "no scent/stink" rules at the house & decided to move. Now she can burn whatever she likes in her apartment. She is & will always be a hippy.
 
What some people eat can linger on their breath, and be as bad as any perfumes or colognes that they can wear. I saw my now-deceased barber over lunch hour one time when he had just polished off a sandwich heavy on onions and God-only-knows what else. Barbers and stylists get close to your head as they work on you, and I swear that this guy’s breath could have melted glass… 🙀

Any “bad breath” stories out there? 🤔
 
I admit that as a young man I used cologne that was popular at the time. I'm not sure when that changed but I haven't used cologne for many years. I now wonder what may have encouraged that change for me.
 
I always spray some Old Spice after-shave on my face and dab some on my clothing just before going out. I have only received compliments on the aroma. So I guess the amount that I am using is OK.
 

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