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Originally Posted by lady_express_44
"One of the biggest offenders is PERFUME and other scented products. Did you know that many of the ingredients in your perfume are the exact same ingredients found in GASOLINE??!! I didn't either! The scary thing is that the perfume industry is NOT REGULATED at all - they can put any number of chemicals in fragrance without revealing what those chemicals are - or how they affect humans. We humans are all participating in a giant "lab experiment" against our knowledge and against our will, and it's making some of us VERY sick."
I am very sensitive to fragrances too, and have been for many years. I have lots of allergies (I guess that's what they are), but my worst reactions are to perfume and mold. I can smell mold from about 20 ft away from the source!!
Even as a teenager, at my first "real job", I had to ask one of the managers if he would please not cut through my area of the shop because I would have a headache for hours from his cologne. It's not all fragrances, but some are particularly bad for me.
Some kids got into my convertible car with their AXE a few years ago, and I couldn't even drive it for a week. I had to have it detailed and leave the lid off for that long before I could even get back into it.
I know some people hate the smell of smoke, and kick up quite a stink about it . . . but it doesn't bother me. It's the people with perfume and cologne that I get irritated about. 
Cherie |
I got my hair cut a few weeks ago. There was an old lady at the salon getting her "do" redone for the week. I had to sit outside while she was in there because her perfume was so horrible. After she wafted away, went back inside the salon. Thought it would be ok.
Well, on the way home, I about froze my dad to death because apparently she was OOZING perfume. Everywhere she'd sat or touched or was near was just greasy with the stench. I think it made it's way into my pores like Venom did to Spider-Man and wouldnt let go. (opps...my inner nerd is escaping...)
I went home, changed my clothes, took a shower and I could still smell it! My mom washed my clothes, and the stink must have been stuck in my nose, because I swear I could smell it for days, and my car still had it for a few days after that.
I hate perfumes.
They dont do this anymore in the stores here, but does anyone remember walking into department stores and getting "maced" by the women trying to sell perfumes. The ones here never asked before spraying, they'd say "dont you just
Looooooooove this
wonderful scent???"
*SPRAAAAAAAAAAY!!!* and everyone within a 20 mile radius collapsed to the ground like someone released a canister of V2 nerve gas.
I think some of those perfume commandos are directly responsible for some of my scent allergies.