I also have experienced this problem. I can't handle going into candle stores or stores that sell bath and beauty products. I can't handle anything flowery. Spicy smells (candles) are ok. When they wax the floors at school or paint, I have to leave it makes me so nauseated and then I will have a headache. I love my 80 year old mother dearly, but when she visits I have to open the windows in my house/car due to the hairspray and flowery lotion she wears. I mainly buy nonscented products, but do like vanilla perfume (use lightly) and lotion. I hate the perfumed inserts they put into magazines. I throw them awy in the store if there is a magazine I want to buy. My cleaning lady mainly useds pine sol and glass cleaning products that I can tolderate.