I have allergies and asthma. Some particularly poisonous perfumes give me instant asthma attacks. Others just make it hard for me to breathe and leave a taste in my mouth that I might get from licking something metallic and corrosive. Other people have asthma and allergies, too, and this happens to them. On behalf of all of us, I beg you to consider the following advice.
Please don't bathe in your perfume.
If it hangs around longer than you or follows you around in a nearly visible cloud and basically smells as strongly as if you had bathed in it, then this is basically the same thing. In a society that encourages regular bathing, I thought perfume was supposed to be an accent mark, a light touch of individuality, not something that makes people around you gag and be physically ill.
I wish I were exaggerating more than I am. I have seen people walking in our store and can tell when they cut across a perfume trail because they get this horrible, disgusted, twisted up look on their face that tells me they are not enjoying themselves at all and could really use a mint.
I can't really smell most of the time because my allergies and about nine broken noses have resulted in my inability to appreciate many of the finer scents in life, so maybe these poison perfumes actually smell nice (even if they leave a nasty aftertaste in my mouth and lungs). However, the above paragraph indicates that maybe they don't.
This situation brings up the question: why do people wear perfume that smells nasty? Do you have any ideas?
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I think to some extent it's a bit generational, in terms of which scents are considered pleasant. But I expect age plays a role generally: in the same way my grandfather used way too much salt in his old age because otherwise he couldn't taste anything, many people use way too much perfume, probably without realizing it.
ReplyDeleteAfter outgrowing my allergies to some degree, I finally (as a young adult) was able to smell really well, and HELLO world, sometimes it reeks out there.