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Hey guys, I was driving around this morning and for some reason I started thinking about all the places that are banning fragrances. It sucks. But maybe some people are ruining it for the rest of us.
Last night at work, this woman came into the bar reeking of this heavy oriental perfume. It wouldn't have been too bad if she had only worn a tiny bit, but it was loud as all f*ck--and it was annoying to several people. That's when it hit me-- it's obnoxious people like this that are going to ruin it for the rest of us.
I've noticed that almost any time someone comes into the bar wearing a fragrance with what anybody on here would deem "desirable sillage", most of my coworkers scrunch up their faces and quietly say things like "Oh, that perfume/cologne is too strong." And not that my coworkers don't wear fragrances. All of the women I work with wear stuff like Escada, SJP's Lovely, Chanels, and other stuff-- but they put on just the proper amount so that you only smell it when they're right up close to you. And it's pleasant and attractive.
And I do recall the time I put too much Aramis Surface on and made my coworkers gag. And I never did it again. I still wear fragrances everyday, but I do it in a way that subtly enhances my presence--not in a way that screams.
I mean, if you like a nice Armani suit, do you buy it three sizes too big so that it drapes off of you and flaps around in your wake, because more is better? No, you buy it so that it sleekly skirts your frame and gives you a crisp look.
But I really, really don't want businesses and government institutions to ban fragrances-- it would be the end of the world. Reckless spritzers like that woman in the bar need to think of the consequences their narcissistic actions may have on the rest of us who enjoy in moderation. They're giving everyone else a black eye.
Just something I was thinking about.

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Yeah, I swear some people have just burned out their own sense of smell. I had a patient fairly recently, baby of two-three months old (I don't specifically remember, but it was a little tyke) in with reactive airway disease/bronchiolitis. Came in the ER wheezing and squeaking with inflammed airways.
I get to the patient room and it takes me less than a second to figure out what the baby's problem is. Dad has just gotten out of the shower and apparently splashed around in some sort of fragrance... too strong to even take a guess or figure out what it smelled -like- there in the little closed-ventilation (Isolation for potential RSV pending some labs) room. Dear GAWD, it basically just burned down the back of my throat... that kind of application that you can literally TASTE the crap halfway across the room. It's shutting down MY airways, and this dude's there with a teeny baby that can't breathe with zero clue why that might be.
We're talking 'chemical pneumonitis' levels of corrosive fragrance clogging up the ole lungs. I flat-out TELL the guy what's what and the response is more of an irritated 'I can do what I want, what I wear is not any of your business, blah blah' response than concern for his own kid.
In light of THAT, it's pretty easy to see how these sorts of people don't give a damn about random strangers in the public venue if you can't get 'em to back off a bit to keep their own offspring from choking out.
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"...narcissistic actions may have on the rest of us who enjoy in moderation..."
Oh, and by the way, THIS little bit of phrase covers a -lot- of ground outside the realm of fragrances. Primo point in general.

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seems to be part of the "time" we are living in....
# no eating certain foods
# no wearing certain clothes/fragrances
# no support for certain social issues
# no making more income than you need
# no ingesting/ smoking substances in designated places
# no driving certain vehicles
the list goes on ...a bit too close to 1984

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well,.. dont worry at all, in future everybody will wear fragance in a right way, and we wont have any problem...or wear it so loud, and we ll be in jail haha

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It's too bad, but many people do have a legitimate allergy to certain fragrance components. It's mostly an allergy to heavily synthetic colognes/perfumes (Calvin Klein, Boss, etc... mostly American mainstream perfume brands)
Unfortunately, most people associate the word "cologne" with those more ubiquitous fragrances, and then everyone who wears fragrance has to bear the blow, like you said.
I know some people who get an instant migraine from almost any mainstream American designer perfume, but they're completely fine with European fragrances. It probably has something to do with the amount of synthetics used in American perfume, or the chemical stabilizers. Strange, eh?

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I learned that I'm really sensitive to the synthetic Calone which is in most "Aquatics" like Aqua di Gio etc. I have a bottle of calone in my perfumers' organ, and every time I've put in on testing strips, It makes my nose runny/stuffy. It's really the only chemical that I know of that bothers me like this. Even if I go away for a few days and come back to a room that has testing strips still sitting there, it causes my nose to go crazy.
I've been able to use calone but only at trace levels without it bothering me.
Probably one reason why I really HATE Aqua di Gio. Not only is it annoyingly popular, but it makes me a mouthbreather if I don't have nasal spray handy.

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One thing we have to keep in mind: the "oversprayers" are a minority. That's why some of us really feel bothered when we met someone with tons of annoying (subjective perception)stuff. It's not that usual...
So, the question is: Why ban fragrances just because of a few? Better off inviting them to go out of the establishment (in this particular case).

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Quote: Originally Posted by Indie_Guy ...Probably one reason why I really HATE Aqua di Gio. Not only is it annoyingly popular, but it makes me a mouthbreather if I don't have nasal spray handy. rofl about the mouth breather comment. I can't stand mouth breathers. So annoying!

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The only people I've come across that make me gag aren't wearing any scent - they just have that unwashed-for-four-days-underarm smell which is overpowering from three paces.
I wish some government would ban them.
Renato

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"So, the question is: Why ban fragrances just because of a few? Better off inviting them to go out of the establishment (in this particular case)."
See, that would be the voice of reason. In the modern USA system, at least, the way it works is that laws banning things are immediately passed the moment there's a whiny-a$$ed minority. The $$ part probably being key.
Lately, it seems that in a room of 1000 people:
1 person plays with his toys.
2 people become offended and gripe about it.
997 people pretty much don't care.
Congress swooops in, banning all toys remotely similar to the original Horribly Offensive models.