Perfume is Unfashionable and Inconsiderate

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To me the most offensive fragrance is fabric softener.

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Anonymous wrote:It is 2022. We know "fragrance" ingredient = chemicals. I only spritz perfume as a desperate measure maybe once a year if I don't smell good. Chemical perfumes are gross.

What do you mean by chemicals? You know water is a chemical, right?

Chemical denotes synthetic. You must know this. It's 2022

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Anonymous wrote:Why did you resurrect this topic from 2021?

You’re insane if you think perfume is as bad as cigarette smoke. And I’m no fan of overly strong perfumes.

DP but to some of us it's just as bad. But I love how anyone with a different opinion from yours is "insane".

Really? You think saying perfume is as bad as cigarette smoke is a sane statement?

I think cigarette smoke is preferable to air freshener. Air freshener penetrates everything -- hair, clothing, coats, backpacks. It's cheap and nasty. Cigarette smoke is pleasant by comparison.

I don’t use air freshener and l can’t think of anyone else l know who does. Who uses it?

Literally everyone but you and me. And literally every office and classroom and bus doctor's office etc. It's everywhere. Literally.

I keep air freshener in the bathrooms. I don’t like the smell of feces or flatulence.

Don't you have a bathroom fan?

Yes, I have a bathroom fan. The fan doesn’t magically make the odors of feces and flatulence disappear.

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Anonymous wrote:It is 2022. We know "fragrance" ingredient = chemicals. I only spritz perfume as a desperate measure maybe once a year if I don't smell good. Chemical perfumes are gross.

What do you mean by chemicals? You know water is a chemical, right?

Chemical denotes synthetic. You must know this. It's 2022

It’s 2022 and “chemical” does not mean “synthetic.” As far as I can tell, ignorant people use the word “chemical” to mean “I didn’t take chemistry but I know everything chemiculz is bad.”

And no, initial commenter in this strand, “fragrance” does not = chemicals. Everything is chemicals. Baking soda is a chemical. Essential oils are a chemical, even though some people like to pretend that they aren’t harmful because they’re natural.

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Anonymous wrote:Why did you resurrect this topic from 2021?

You’re insane if you think perfume is as bad as cigarette smoke. And I’m no fan of overly strong perfumes.

DP but to some of us it's just as bad. But I love how anyone with a different opinion from yours is "insane".

Really? You think saying perfume is as bad as cigarette smoke is a sane statement?

I think cigarette smoke is preferable to air freshener. Air freshener penetrates everything -- hair, clothing, coats, backpacks. It's cheap and nasty. Cigarette smoke is pleasant by comparison.

I don’t use air freshener and l can’t think of anyone else l know who does. Who uses it?

Literally everyone but you and me. And literally every office and classroom and bus doctor's office etc. It's everywhere. Literally.

I keep air freshener in the bathrooms. I don’t like the smell of feces or flatulence.

Don't you have a bathroom fan?

Yes, I have a bathroom fan. The fan doesn’t magically make the odors of feces and flatulence disappear.

Yes, that’s actually what it’s supposed to do. Buy one that works.

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Anonymous wrote:Why did you resurrect this topic from 2021?

You’re insane if you think perfume is as bad as cigarette smoke. And I’m no fan of overly strong perfumes.

DP but to some of us it's just as bad. But I love how anyone with a different opinion from yours is "insane".

Really? You think saying perfume is as bad as cigarette smoke is a sane statement?

I think cigarette smoke is preferable to air freshener. Air freshener penetrates everything -- hair, clothing, coats, backpacks. It's cheap and nasty. Cigarette smoke is pleasant by comparison.

I don’t use air freshener and l can’t think of anyone else l know who does. Who uses it?

Literally everyone but you and me. And literally every office and classroom and bus doctor's office etc. It's everywhere. Literally.

I keep air freshener in the bathrooms. I don’t like the smell of feces or flatulence.

Don't you have a bathroom fan?

Yes, I have a bathroom fan. The fan doesn’t magically make the odors of feces and flatulence disappear.

Yes, that’s actually what it’s supposed to do. Buy one that works.

Bathroom fans are not designed to magically make odors disappear. And definitely not instantly. Where did you get that idea?

[Anonymous]

Perfume has been in use for centuries. It isn’t going anywhere. I am using up the perfumes I have, and shopping for new scents to replace them.

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Anonymous wrote:Perfume was made to hide the stink before everyone bathed regularly and used deodorant. There is no need for it now. Whenever I smell someone with perfume, I assume they’re trying to hide some smell (smoke or BO) or have low self-confidence and don’t trust that they don’t smell without perfume.

Your assumption is incorrect. Most people wear fragrance because they like wearing fragrance.

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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.

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Imagine someone being so wrong and yet so confident.

+2. Most of the fragrance channels on YouTube are run by millennials.

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It’s clearly not unfashionable. Walk in any high end shopping district around the world. Fashionable people are spending ungodly sums on fragrance.

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Sorry, I will keep wearing a minuscule dab of J'Adore, or Poison, my two favorite perfumes. I have a very sensitive sense of smell and a tiny dab goes a very long way. Feel free to tell me that you can't stand the way I smell. I won't be offended, but I will keep doing something non-lethal that makes me happy.

Also, my son has anaphylactic allergies to peanuts and tree nuts, and I do not appreciate that people like you demand that others cater to their sensitivities when others need to carry Epipens for their lethal allergies and navigate potentially deadly situations, often daily, without making a big deal out of it. As a general rule, I've noticed that the people with the biggest burdens in life don't make the most noise.

I have literally never been able to send a peanut butter sandwich to school the entire time my kids have been at school and instead I’ve bought expensive as hell Sunbutter. That’s a way bigger PITA than not wearing perfume to work.

You are selfish.

-NP

You must not have children in FCPS, which sells PB&J.

Laughing that you think not being able to send peanut butter is a terrible burden. Good one. I’m guessing that both being allergic to peanuts (not ever getting to eat peanut butter and having to carry freaking expensive epi pens) and:or being allergic to perfume or asthmatic is more burdensome than your kids being denied a PB&J sandwich for a 30 min lunch 5 days a week. Get some perspective.

For real? That is really surprising. Aren't schools nut free now?

PBJ is the meal MCPS gives kids with no money in their accounts or if there’s a field trip and a child is entitled to a sack lunch under FARMs. It’s basically an uncrustable.

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Anonymous wrote:Look, perfume wearers. The point of threads like this is to tell you that a significant portion of people are either allergic or just hate the smell of perfrume. Maybe you were already aware of that and have made a personal decision that your individual desire to smell a specific way outweighs the needs/desires of others in the community.
People that have made that decision are not going to be swayed by threads like this.
I do wonder if there was a secret poll of their coworkers, how many would say they were irritated by the smell.
I also wonder if places like the K center did a perfume free section, like they used to have smoking and non smoking sections, how it would impact behavior. I bet a lot of perfume wearers would leave the perfume off because they don’t want to sit around all the other stinky people. They only like their own perfume smell.

I can’t control other people’s behavior. If I had to sit next to people I thought smelled bad, I would definitely want my own preferred scent as a buffer zone.

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Anonymous wrote:Perfume is not unfashionable. You need to get out of DC more.

It’s true that many American women do not know how to apply scent properly. It is also true that people have allergies and asthma (I do!). But there are millions of people who enjoy fragrance without overdoing it or asphyxiating.

*Obligatory "International Women Do Everything Better" Poster has entered the chat.*

I know. As if none of us have ever traveled and/or lived elsewhere and seen, well, pretty much everything under the sun that is critiqued here, all done by non-Americans.

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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.

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Imagine someone being so wrong and yet so confident.

+2. Most of the fragrance channels on YouTube are run by millennials.

My Generation Z DD and all her friends are completely into fragrances, way beyond any Millenials or Generation X’ers that I know.

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Anonymous wrote:Why did you resurrect this topic from 2021?

You’re insane if you think perfume is as bad as cigarette smoke. And I’m no fan of overly strong perfumes.

DP but to some of us it's just as bad. But I love how anyone with a different opinion from yours is "insane".

Really? You think saying perfume is as bad as cigarette smoke is a sane statement?

I think cigarette smoke is preferable to air freshener. Air freshener penetrates everything -- hair, clothing, coats, backpacks. It's cheap and nasty. Cigarette smoke is pleasant by comparison.

I don’t use air freshener and l can’t think of anyone else l know who does. Who uses it?

Literally everyone but you and me. And literally every office and classroom and bus doctor's office etc. It's everywhere. Literally.

I keep air freshener in the bathrooms. I don’t like the smell of feces or flatulence.

Don't you have a bathroom fan?

Yes, I have a bathroom fan. The fan doesn’t magically make the odors of feces and flatulence disappear.

Yes, that’s actually what it’s supposed to do. Buy one that works.

Bathroom fans are not designed to magically make odors disappear. And definitely not instantly. Where did you get that idea?

Nothing makes the smell of sh** disappear instantly. Why does it need to disappear instantly? Just don't stand in the bathroom sniffing right after someone takes a dump!