Perfume is Unfashionable and Inconsiderate

[Anonymous]

Most of the people who wear perfume are also people who still wear pantyhose. It's not only out of fashion, but current perfumes on the market are embarrassing.

Seriously, stop using your fancy axe body spray and just shower.

[Anonymous]

Opening this thread resulted in ads for ... scented candles.hahaha

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Most of the people who wear perfume are also people who still wear pantyhose. It's not only out of fashion, but current perfumes on the market are embarrassing.

Seriously, stop using your fancy axe body spray and just shower.

No way, it's a growing market primarily driven by Millennials and Gen Z. Check out any Into The Gloss Top Shelf with the young fashionistas- they're all in on the niche perfumes.

[Anonymous]

Perfumes are so unfashionable that the current industry is worth $52+ BILLION and growing.

https://www.statista.com/statistics/259221/global-fragrance-market-size/#:~:text=This%20statistic%20depicts%20the%20estimated,about%2052.4%20billion%20U.S.%20dollars.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Most of the people who wear perfume are also people who still wear pantyhose. It's not only out of fashion, but current perfumes on the market are embarrassing.

Seriously, stop using your fancy axe body spray and just shower.

No way, it's a growing market primarily driven by Millennials and Gen Z. Check out any Into The Gloss Top Shelf with the young fashionistas- they're all in on the niche perfumes.

+1

Imagine someone being so wrong and yet so confident.

[Anonymous]

Can't you perfume fans smell the metal-scent in perfumes, even high end ones? Why do you want that on you?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Most of the people who wear perfume are also people who still wear pantyhose. It's not only out of fashion, but current perfumes on the market are embarrassing.

Seriously, stop using your fancy axe body spray and just shower.

No way, it's a growing market primarily driven by Millennials and Gen Z. Check out any Into The Gloss Top Shelf with the young fashionistas- they're all in on the niche perfumes.

+1

Imagine someone being so wrong and yet so confident.

+1

Welcome to the DC area!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Can't you perfume fans smell the metal-scent in perfumes, even high end ones? Why do you want that on you?

I guess I can't. What is a metal-scent? Copper? Aluminum?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:These threads are so weird to me because I am definitely "scent sensitive" in that I notice smells very easily and more than others do. But I have no allergies or medical issue that make the smells affect me. I just notice them, even subtle smells, good and bad.

But I don't view that as a reason to demand other people stop wearing perfume. That's bizarre to me. I get if you have an allergy or similar and therefore can't work near someone wearing strong perfume. In that case, ask for an accommodation -- makes perfect sense (scents, ha!).

But to demand that all the old ladies at the Kennedy Center stop wearing their perfumes? To get angry about smelling someone else's perfume in a waiting room or standing on line at the post office? This just seems so controlling to me. Sometimes other people's perfume bothers me, but it's a temporary annoyance, something I notice and then forget about. I don't go home fuming about some woman on the bus and her heavy perfume.

These complaints are like eavesdropping on people and then complaining that their conversation is dull. Just move along. It doesn't concern you.

If I’m standing in line behind someone who’s wearing perfume, it can trigger a migraine the last four days. It does concern me.

You can move to the back of the line.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Can't you perfume fans smell the metal-scent in perfumes, even high end ones? Why do you want that on you?

I guess I can't. What is a metal-scent? Copper? Aluminum?

There is a metallic undertone to most commercial perfumes, almost like a vague scent of iron.

I have an excellent sense of smell and I smell things that my husband can't, so maybe I am more sensitive.

[Anonymous]

I'm with OP on this - strong smells really offend me. Imagine spending a lot of money on tickets to a show and have the experience ruined by someone sitting next to you wearing a distracting amount of fragrance. Not to mention all the people who've mentioned becoming physically ill from other people's perfume.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Can't you perfume fans smell the metal-scent in perfumes, even high end ones? Why do you want that on you?

I guess I can't. What is a metal-scent? Copper? Aluminum?

There is a metallic undertone to most commercial perfumes, almost like a vague scent of iron.

I have an excellent sense of smell and I smell things that my husband can't, so maybe I am more sensitive.

It’s not metal. Your nose may be sensitive, but it’s way off base (pun totally intended). There are several mainstream perfumes with really nasty base notes, but metal is a supremely uncommon note. The last one I can think of is Estée Lauder Dazzling Silver, which Turin and Sanchez says had a “sucked spoon quality” from the helionol. I had it, I loved it, it’s been discontinued for about 10 years. Metal is not a common note.
- I also have a very sensitive nose

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I have a theory that perfume made sense when everybody smoked, because of overwhelming smoke smell and because everyone's noses were kind of dead. Maybe that was the cocaine? Anyway, I do think people by and large are more sensitive to it now.

I think a lot of you are hypersensitive, yes, but only in your minds. Clearly people are wearing it. You just can’t smell except the people who over do it and you’re imagining that that’s how we all wear it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Most of the people who wear perfume are also people who still wear pantyhose. It's not only out of fashion, but current perfumes on the market are embarrassing.

Seriously, stop using your fancy axe body spray and just shower.

Oh, honey.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Can't you perfume fans smell the metal-scent in perfumes, even high end ones? Why do you want that on you?

I guess I can't. What is a metal-scent? Copper? Aluminum?

There is a metallic undertone to most commercial perfumes, almost like a vague scent of iron.

I have an excellent sense of smell and I smell things that my husband can't, so maybe I am more sensitive.

It’s not metal. Your nose may be sensitive, but it’s way off base (pun totally intended). There are several mainstream perfumes with really nasty base notes, but metal is a supremely uncommon note. The last one I can think of is Estée Lauder Dazzling Silver, which Turin and Sanchez says had a “sucked spoon quality” from the helionol. I had it, I loved it, it’s been discontinued for about 10 years. Metal is not a common note.
- I also have a very sensitive nose

Shrug. I don't know what else to tell you. There is an artificial metallic scent I detect with most (but not all) perfumes. It's noticeable to me. Maybe it is the underlying chemicals, I don't know. But I smell it for sure.