I could smell you as soon as I paid for my fare. The smell was so great that I had a thought of a half of a second that maybe someone broke a bottle of perfume. As I queued up for the doors, I realized the smell was coming from a person: you.
Do you realize that the ferry is a scent-free area? It might have been your first day on it and you didn’t realize for the past 9 years that it was scent free…. or do you just not care?
If you had the kind of allergies that I do, you would. That 12 minute ferry ride has left me with a headache because, unfortunately for me, I didn’t have a proper jacket for escaping to the outside. But why should I? You were the one who stank, you should have been made to sit upstairs in open air. I also thought by sitting on the other side of the ferry, your scent would not claim me a victim, but it did.
I was going to yell at you in person but I realized after seeing your reaction from teenage girls that you smelled “delicious” that you probably have extremely low self-esteem and may have become suicidal after I made you cry because, believe me, I would have.
Instead, I want to know what are MY rights as a scent sensitive person. Do I have to actually approach each person breaking this policy myself? Or do I have to run off like a tattletail to someone official in the area and tell them? There is no way that I know of to ticket them or arrest them or better yet, make them take the scent off.
I know you want to smell pretty to make yourself feel pretty, but you shouldn’t make innocent people suffer.
—Not a Fan of your Stinky Britches
This article appears in Apr 16-22, 2009.
I don’t really understand people who just slather the perfume on…before I even know their name I already know that they REALLY LIKE PERFUME. Is that what they want people’s first impression to be?
I like tasteful perfume. I have a couple bottles of pretty smelling Fragonard, but you basically have to be up close and necking with me to smell it. Haha – the start and finish of this comment are kind of contradictory. I normally wouldnt use tasteful and necking to support the same idea.
a little scent is ok — but just because YOU like the scent doesn’t mean anyone else is going to…and to acquire such a strong scent these people srsly SLATHER that shit on.
I’m not gonna lie: I like scented body washes and I will occasionally put a scented cream on my legs after I shave them, but a) I don’t use shitty scents, I only use essential-oil based fruit like scents (so I smell like….an actual grapefruit for example) and b) I’m mindful of when I use them (like, if I’m going to the doctor/hospital or in an environment that requests a scent free presence I just don’t use them). A lot of people aren’t.
I don’t know if this makes me any better than the rest, but at least I don’t bathe in perfume (ladiez, gents, spray the fucking shit into the air and walk into it — that’s IT you don’t need anymore than that. Just because you can’t smell it eventually doesn’t mean we can’t. YOUR nose will adjust to it and get used to it — we’re rarely aware of how we smell, personally, which could explain all the stank asses on metro transit, especially in the summer, but that’s a whole other bitch in itself).
I would love to see a cop beat down and arrest someone for having a “strong scent”
Do they even have anything posted about the scent policy on MT vehicles? God half the reason I avoid the bus is the dipshit young guys slathered in AXE crap. I can’t decide if it’s worse than when they were all obsessed with Calvin Klein.
I think yes, you should confront them.
Let them know…. every person you come across that offends/sickens you with their scents. It’s going to be something you’re going to have to deal with daily so friggin’ well start.
Personally,I’d certainly rather being cold for 12 mins than have a headache for the rest of the day.
Yeah I agree with you zzz, Im one of the people that, one smell of some overpowering old lady perfume and I feel like heading to a bathroom to throw my guts up, followed by a wonderful headache. People that usually wear too much perfume are the idiots that think you have to apply perfume on until they smell it, forgetting that unlike the innocent victims around these people, the one wearing it adjusts to the dam smell…however…there are way too many wankers out there that will sit in a room for an hour straight not mentioning anything about a smell, then someone makes a comment to someone else regarding their smell and all of a sudden the wanker that’s been sitting there for an hour with no complaints has to leave the room in a dramatic frenzy because they are sick from this overwhelming smell that they hadn’t previously noticed. That pisses me off
get a bottle of that febreeze ordor eatting spray and next time you smell someone like that go up to them, tell them that you are so sorry they broke their bottle of purfume all over themselves this morning, show the bottle of fabreeze and ask if you could help eliminate some of the rancid odor that must be embarassing her. she might get the hint nextime.
LOL…that would be awesome except fabreeze is one of the smells that kills me…maybe just sneak up behind them and dumb a bucket of water over their head…
Luckily, I work in a scents-less place – but the smell of co-workers dining at their desks is as bad as perfume!
It isn’t the smell of the perfumes that makes people sick, it’s the toxic chemicals in them.
…and the monkeys spraying it all over themselves.