This article appears in Dec 6-12, 2007.
Human Stinkbombs
I work in an office tower and I can’t tell you how many times I’ve been trapped in the elevator with someone drenched in perfume. No, no light dab behind the wrists or behind the ears for these gals. They insist on being human Pepe LePews, without a tho
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You might want to address you bitch to Shopper’s Drug Mart as well. Those foul odors are the first thing that hits you when you walk into the store on Lacewood.
scents kill brain cells, they don’t know betterthe walking dead
I wear perfume, but know how to wear it, lightly. I LOVE scents and love when I can get a nice soft whiff of somebody walking by. No, not gagging on it from people who bathe in it, but if the smell is nice, it can even bring a little smile to my face. Simple pleasure of aromatherapy is all it is. I resent the fact that 25 years ago there was no such thing as an allergy to perfume, but now 90% of the public claim to have them. Ugh.
aromatherapy is one thing, keep it in a spa or your home. I’ve been with my wife when she has to leave a restaurant because her eyes start to swell as well as her throat, her breathing becomes raspy and she ends up with a migraine that stays with her ( if we can’t leave fast enough) for the next 24 hours. Complain all you want about choking and feeling groussed out by being stuck in an elevator but until you experience this newest developement – of what I can only beleive to be a result of our diminishing Ozone layer and ever more growing envirnmental sicknesses, then I suggest just being thankful that it is only annoying. I feel really bad for people like my wife and others who have it worse then her.and as for you “I resent the fact that 25 years ago there was no such thing as an allergy to perfume, but now 90% of the public claim to have them.” the world is evolving so is the human race and sometime we lose things like being able to function around scents, take antibiotics…a prime example…our bodies have become tolerant of these and now a percentage of the population can not be healed with certain antibiotics!!!what is a little scent free air if it makes someone feel normal, have a little compassion- we will never be “100% free” of anything with an attitude like yours
Just because someone doesn’t know where their allergys comes from doesn’t mean they don’t exist. As a kid my mother and I would avoid the perfume section of department stores otherwise we would end up with extreme headaches. Kids used to have severe reactions at school and no one would know why. Now we know that peanuts can cause allergys.
alot can happen in 25 years enviromentally ‘Will never be 100% scent-free’we eat and breathe and bathe in chemicals, our immune systems are weakening
what ever happen to “Scent Free”? wasn’t this suppose to become a stardard of life? While it can be a little difficult to find a decent deordorant w/ absolutly no scent, why do people even bother with these perfumes any more, and somebody may want to address the men in their lives as well. i work in an office and just had some guy pick up something – his “scent” is still permeating the office.
A comfortable medium is all I ask where scents are concerned. Nothing too harsh, and not too much applied. I don’t think that’s too much to ask.
Well, “will never be 100% scent-free” I’m so sorry that my asthma causes you resentment, how completely inconsiderate of me to expect to go to the grocery store or a restaurant without being sent into an attack of wheezing by your perfume. I can assure you I enjoy the simple pleasure of breathing far more than you enjoy catching a whiff of passersby, if you love aromatherapy so much indulge in it at home and leave my lungs out of it.
Banish AXE Body Spray! Guys! Stop carrying it around in your pockets! One spritz at home on your man chest and thats enough! Every guy in the city stinks of aerosol! Its just a commercial! You spraying that cheap stench makes me want to vomit and run far far away! Not follow you with my nose in your crotch! Moderation people!
it’s sad how easy people areaxe body spray is for suckers
Shut up already you complaining closed minded maritimers!
Some of us have allergies. Itd really not the ebst thing, to have to whip out my puffer, cause you fucking BATHED in perfume. There’s a line. Your cross it.