Please Don't

[rareboy]

In this case, it is please don't wear cologne if you are going to a concert hall.

My whole evening was pretty much ruined by a perfume queen I was seated next to because of their scent.

I don't want you to smell like anything at all.

I am not interested in fucking you or knowing what fragrances you mistakenly think smell heavenly on you.



And even worse if you decide that you need to douse yourself and then go to a restaurant and sit next to people.

So just don't

 

[BiBtm64]

+1.

I know that feeling when you're suffocating in their miasma, and you can't get away without being impolite.

It's as bad when I meet a guy for sex and find he's marinated in some kind of cheap tonic, like he fell into the sheep dip. Just. Don't.

 

[HoodedRat]

OMG! I hate that. I love the smell of 'clean', but I cannot stand gag-inducing fragrances.

An elderly lady got into a lift* with me the other day, and her overpowering floral perfume seemed to suck all the oxygen out of the air. I genuinely felt like I was struggling to breathe. The journey down 12 floors seemed like an absolute eternity.

* Elevator, for our foreign readers.

 

[PalacePaul]

In this case, it is please don't wear cologne if you are going to a concert hall.

Or the supermarket. Or church.
Or walking next to me in the street.
Only rarely I smell some male cologne that I like, and I'm curious to know what it may be.

 

[Kahaih]

OMG! I hate that. I love the smell of 'clean', but I cannot stand gag-inducing fragrances.

. . . .

I start choking every time you talk about burning incense. For me, smoke of any kind is the worst.

Anyway, this is life for a lot of us;

Don't Let Fragrances Trigger Your Allergy Symptoms

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I often find myself breathing very shallow almost holding my breath around foul smells. And that often causes headaches.

I have a very sensitive sniffer. Hair products, laundry products, soaps of any sort, new shoes, old shoes, . . . . I smell it all miles away. It really is best I stay away from people completely.

 

[unloadonme]

An elderly lady got into a lift* with me the other day, and her overpowering floral perfume seemed to suck all the oxygen out of the air. I genuinely felt like I was struggling to breathe. The journey down 12 floors seemed like an absolute eternity.

Think yourself lucky. Most old ladies smell of pee.

 

[Kahaih]

All oldies smell of pee and/or other equally foul body odours. And by oldies I mean every adult over 25.

I remembered as a young teen not being able to be around people who are harsh stinky food. Sausages, leeks, cabbage, garlic dairy, . . . . .

People who think they don't stink have probably just become accustomed to their own smells the way people get used to working around animals.

And for the record, booze of any kind makes people stink to high heavens. It's in their sweat.

 

[Peloso]

The one time I took my dog to the groomers for a bath, she came back smelling of doggie cologne. How ridiculous. That would be like spraying eau de fart on a human.

I ended up giving her another bath. The look on her face when I called her into the bathroom was priceless.

 

[HoodedRat]

I start choking every time you talk about burning incense. For me, smoke of any kind is the worst.

My clothes must be saturated with the smell of incense; I expect the old lady was probablly gagging and thinking that I smelled like a pagan temple.

 

[unloadonme]

My clothes must be saturated with the smell of incense; I expect the old lady was probablly gagging and thinking that I smelled like a pagan temple.

If she's a Roman Catholic she'll be used to the smell of incense. Isn't that what Catholic priests burn in their handbags?

 

[Alistair]

I actually had to threaten my workplace over plug-in air fresheners. They give me a severe headache and a sore throat, I feel like I’m coming down with the flu. I have an allergic reaction to them.

 

[Kahaih]

. . . Isn't that what Catholic priests burn in their handbags?

. . . to cover the unmistakable smell of buttsex.

 

[rareboy]

I actually had to threaten my workplace over plug-in air fresheners. They give me a severe headache and a sore throat, I feel like I’m coming down with the flu. I have an allergic reaction to them.

The cardiac clinic building we go to has a big sign in the lobby telling people that the building is scent free.

And then they put one of those fresheners in the toilet on every floor.

So every time I go there and use a bathroom, I drop it into the trash wrapped in a paper towel.

 

[Dargelos]

It is particularly inconsiderate to wear strident perfume in the presence of pets. Cats and dogs have noses far more sensitive than ours. If the smell is pungent to us, it must be like tear gas to our furry friends.

 

[Thad1527]

 

[lockeroomguy]

I never wear cologne. Even my antiperspirant is unscented. My personal hygiene is excellent. I prefer to just smell like a clean man.

 

[purina]

With some products I think unscented is just a name they give to the fragrance they use,

 

[Thad1527]

There's something called "masking fragrance."

 

[Kahaih]

There's something called "masking fragrance."

Scary, isn't it? What else are we inhaling?

 

[EddMarkStarr]

In 1979, I was at the Spencer Gifts Store in the MetroCenter Mall of Phoenix, Arizona, when a customer dropped a bottle of Patchouli oil which shattered on the floor, causing an evacuation emergency! Oh Lordy, you needed a cleanup crew in HazMat suits to handle that stuff. Eventually, the smell tock over that entire section of the mall. At that point, It was leave - if you wanted to breath.