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Re: how do you handle the perfume problem?
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Oh boy do I ever have an opinion on this subject! Good topic! Thanks for opening it up for discussion Starz!
I am sensitive to perfume. Probably not allergic since I don't break out in hives but I find it very hard to breathe around some scents. I have to leave the vicinity of the scent and get some clean air or I'll end up gasping for breath.
I think most people go too far with it and it is sometimes overpowering. But even the slightest poof that someone puts on, if it has that chemical in it that I'm sensitive to I will still have a hard time breathing around it.
Now, not all scents do this to me so I am assuming there is some added chemical or essential oil that I react to. My husband uses AXE body wash in the shower and I actually like the smell of that and have no problems with it. I use body wash too, mostly Avon and none of them cause me to have problems.
But when I'm out in public I run into problems. Someone passes me in a grocery store and I almost gag. Or I go to a meeting and have to make an excuse why I won't sit near a certain person or persons and move to another seat.
I can understand the doctor's office posting that sign. I would find it stifling to be stuck in a small cubicle with a person bathed in some obnoxious (to me) smell and not be able to leave the room. How could I give good care to someone in that situation when all I'm thinking about is getting out of there?
On a personal note, my husband and I have a standing breakfast on Wednesday mornings with a group of about 20 people. There is one woman there who wears some God-awful scent that is surely 30 years old and has turned. It is so bad that I have now gone out of my way to make sure I am nowhere near where she will be. And I've told my husband that if I am ever stuck next to her that I will try to tell her, in as nice a way as possible, that her perfume bothers me.
When I was younger, I used to wear perfume and I'm probably receiving a lot of bad Karma from the times I did. I apologize to the Universe and to all the people that had to endure my floral, musky, or spicy scents. Hopefully my Karma is coming to an end!
What one person thinks smells divine, to another can smell like spoiled milk.
A clean body smells sweet enough! 
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Re: how do you handle the perfume problem?
When I was younger, I used to wear perfume and I'm probably receiving a lot of bad Karma from the times I did. I apologize to the Universe and to all the people that had to endure my floral, musky, or spicy scents.
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Yeah, me too.
Health-wise, I have no problem with perfume and I like smelling some on others but I don't like the overboard ones. Alas, it might have been me in the excessive 80s.
What I can't stand to smell is cigarettes on people, gags me to high heavens. And once again I feel the need to apologize to the near earth as I used to smoke ALL the time. I quit in 2002. 
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how do you handle the perfume problem?
Welcome oMission! Nice to meet you!
Congratulations on quitting smoking, I'm sure it wasn't an easy thing to do. I used to smoke too but quit back in 1982 when I met my DH and he was a non-smoker. I think it's hardest to quit when other people around you are still smoking, especially if it's your brand. That's why I quit and started again at least 10 times. Finally it took!
How did you quit? Did you use a patch or anything else? Or just go cold turkey? That's what I did but since I smoked menthols I used to keep a Hall's Mentholyptus in my mouth all the time to breathe in the menthol. It did get me through the hard times.
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how do you handle the perfume problem?
i don't personally wear perfume..it bothers my allergies. i hate it when people smell like they took a bath in it. to me that's not necessary. i like a little bit...not a gallon.
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Yep cigarette smoke is another thing that bothers me. Not fresh smoke though, its the smell that is in someone's car or house and on their breath (oh God that has to be the worst smell of all!). Imagine someone who wears too much perfume and also smokes! Egad!
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I am gluten-intolerant and allergic to wheat, but that's it. I don't have any allergies that I know of and really not sure what it is in perfume or cologne that causes me problems. I'd be curious to know what it is that causes the problem too but even if you knew, how would you ever avoid it? Do perfume bottles and cologne bottles have ingredients labels? I have never noticed.
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