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Boy, you have to wonder if that would make her change to something else and/or tone it down. I mean take the hint, already. Public humiliation has got to be the worst, especially when you think you're really smelling great. It's frag hounds like that that give the rest of us a bad name.
I'm sure if it was plain old BO no one would have the nerve to escort someone out. Once I was in a theater 20 rows back from an unwashed student. I knew who it was because I had classes with her. The whole room was poisoned but no one did anything. that's one reason I started carrying decants with me. They can come in handy!

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Like makeup, perfume is meant to enhance, not to overwhelm. I too ride a train to work every day and some teenager had surrounded himself with a cloud of something that was so overwhelming sweet that I almost tossed my cookies.

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Originally Posted by FufuLaRue Like makeup, perfume is meant to enhance, not to overwhelm. I too ride a train to work every day and some teenager had surrounded himself with a cloud of something that was so overwhelming sweet that I almost tossed my cookies. Sorry for my strictly off-topic post, but good to see you, Blue!

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It sounds to me like this perfume-poisoner was being terribly selfish. As much as I love fragrance, if someone wears too much it can make me nauseauted, get a headache, sneeze, etc. As previously said, that behavior gives us fragrance-lovers a bad name, and makes us look like we don't care about others. That pisses me off.The stinky woman was irresponsible, and the busdriver did the right thing, in my opinion. Personally, I'd be horrified to know I'd caused such an unpleasant experience for people. I love it when others enjoy my scents!

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for godsake strong perfume sillage is not second hand smoking!
I was raised with women and men wearing heady perfumes and colognes for the best and the worst, morning rush hours in France LOL
I m sure I ve felt nauseated at times, so many people don 't how to wear fragrances (specially men!), but none of it killed me!
there 's such a scary wave of dangerous puritanism and neo-reborn freaks going on, one day it 's going to be like the Middle-ages when after the fall of the Roman Empire only the arab world had perfumes and spices.

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I have to wonder if she'd have been kicked off the bus had the smell been B.O instead of perfume.
Still, I do find that too many people drench themselves in scent with what appears to be some bizarre territorial power trip on their surroundings.
A sort of a passive aggressive attention whoring or a compulsion to somehow exercise some kind of control over others.
(assuming their nose works normally)
As has been said before, fragrance is supposed to be an enhancement, not a WMD.
I wear some pretty strong stuff but never have I been faced with that kind of reaction from anyone. I sampled Very Irresistible, which is the offending fragrance this woman was wearing, I believe,l and it is not strong, so the only question I have is just HOW MUCH did she have on?
Either that or the bus driver has a screw loose but surely she wasn't the only woman on the bus wearing scent?

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OK she could be told to tone it down next time or she may not be admitted onto the bus but to be kicked off wtf,maybe anyone in this part of the world who stinks of unwashed armpits or ass crack will be frogmarched off the bus forced to their knees and shot throught the back of the head .I'm telling you the UK,USA AND CANADA it's George Orwell 23 years later than he thought .

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On the one hand I do think there are some scents which are overpowering. In a confined space it can be unbearable. However we put up with stink all the time:bad breath, stinky armpits, old vegetable fat, car fumes, dirty foul tube air and so on. 'Scent free zones' I don't believe it. Soon from now we'll have no fart zones.

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Originally Posted by mochachoc On the one hand I do think there are some scents which are overpowering. In a confined space it can be unbearable. However we put up with stink all the time:bad breath, stinky armpits, old vegetable fat, car fumes, dirty foul tube air and so on. 'Scent free zones' I don't believe it. Soon from now we'll have no fart zones.
the car fumes polution in New York is at its worst than ever and believe it or not guys, the mayor has denied a large group of bikers a permit to ride in the city or they faced arrest, because they would disturb the traffic (totally at the opposite of what european cities are encouraging people to do!)
you can and should own big polluting cars but wear heady perfumes in public transportation or ride environmental friendly bikes is a terrible crime!

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Originally Posted by Jasmin de Grasse for godsake strong perfume sillage is not second hand smoking!
I was raised with women and men wearing heady perfumes and colognes for the best and the worst, morning rush hours in France LOL
I m sure I ve felt nauseated at times, so many people don 't how to wear fragrances (specially men!), but none of it killed me!
there 's such a scary wave of dangerous puritanism and neo-reborn freaks going on, one day it 's going to be like the Middle-ages when after the fall of the Roman Empire only the arab world had perfumes and spices.
Unfortunately, while I agree with your assessment of the situation as "Puritanical," and while you personally have never been "killed" by scent, there are people I know, members of my family, whose throats close up from contact with various air-borne allergans, such as can be found in overpowering doses of fragrance. I personally have had asthma attacks from excesses in the air, such as perfume and cigarette smoke. I would love it if my downstairs neighbors did not smoke in their condo, allowing the poisonous air to eek into mine. I would also love it if people who wore heavy gardenia and tuberose fragrances wouldn't OD on them, since I am allergic to them. I LOVE perfume. I HATE when people try to restrict individual freedoms. However, I try to be sensitive. In essence, while nausea (particularly when you're pregnant) is no laughing matter, it's not just a matter of nausea.