Is perfume the new body odour?

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"Excuse me store clerk. Can you please tell me where the unbathed crackhead hooker body spray by Axe is located? You know... The one that smells like broken dreams"

I love them. Though I agree that most commercial 'department store' perfumes are terrible, and that AXE needs to be stopped. And you're probably right about the super-E. Or perhaps it's the cheap synthetic white musks.

I like the 'Black Phoenix Alchemy Labs' ones, which are perfume oils without the alcohol carrier, and no synthentics. They are fascinating.

i had to leave the class every time they sprayed Lysol when I was a kid...It didn't help that before I figured that out, the room monitor had the habit of spraying ME with the lysol..as a form of bullying...I was a slovenly uncoordinated little kid..the implication being that I smelled bad...and maybe I did....

Anywhoo..that is beside the point.

I wear patchouli...I have been wearing patchouli for over half my life. It is the only fragrance I can stand, and part of the reason I wear it is because I do not use conventional deodorants, which contain aluminum...and I hate the way they smell and the way I feel when they are on me...(not sure whether or not it is psychosomatic)...Natural deodorants don't work very well...so i often wear the combination of patchouli and a natural deodorant...if I wear one at all...

It is to the point that I don't even smell the patchouli anymore and don't even think about it till I get comments from strangers about it.

I guess I worry about smelling like natural body odor from having been teased about it so much...

When I was younger, I worked for two years in the office at a music company. Often, they would have recitals after hours...and while I sat outside watching the ants and waiting to be picked up, these nicely dressed families would glide past me, each member reeking of a different strong perfume, and I would be catapulted instantly into a searing headache, that had the potential to last for hours.
Other smells can do that to me too..like cigar smoke...

that made me laugh.

I do like lilacs and lavender and other flowers, but I can't bring them in the house because my husband can't handle the smell.

I wore patchouli until someone complained that it made me stink... I wish I hadn't let her influence me. another guy in the group wore stetson (or whatever it was) and it made me choke, but she never complained about him. next time I have to be where people wear stuff like that I'm going to douse myself with patchouli.

also, Axe is from the devil.

my local state voc rehab building is fragrance-free. all public buildings and places of employment should be. I got really tired of the hate when I had to ask perfumed people not to walk down my aisle so I wouldn't get a migraine, and having to go to the doctor for a note to give to HR to prove that environmental toxins were interfering with my ability to do my job.

ED: Yes.....I also get overpowered by the smells from nature at times!! The question was about perfumes though....BUT now that you've asked ...well councils seems to plant flowery trees EVERWHERE!! Photonias are my pet hate....and unfortunately grow into hedges well, so people have long rows of them everywhere! I have to cross the road 5 times to walk down to the shops....back and forth to avoid them. (and the derrrrr brain, nausea and migraine that follows)I also get affected by a bit of hayfever, so im guessing asthmatics and effected by this silliness in public planting too. If nothing else, its not economically rational to plant allergens for the community....more people will need days off work/school, etc.
SO, yes,
*My brain senses most smells strongly. Chemical ones I find more abhorent because i feel they are also poisonous...AND being "created"! Natural, I can accept. (and cross roads to avoid)

Can I also add, the EMOTIONAL reaction to this overwhelming sense of smell is very strong. As an aspygal, I have often thought that the world/people were telling me too "&^%$ off! You dont fit in. We dont want you here." When the smells come in too, its like "You dont even have a right to air!". Its like being rejected on another level. I can be walking along feeling fine with the world, and suddenly im getting the message "NO YOU DONT belong here!" from a tree, or a nice old lady wearing avon perfume.

I'm okay with most perfumes, but the cheap artifical stuff in cleaning products gives me asthma attacks too.

I realised I smelled things differently to others in high school chemistry, studying aldehydes. The teacher passed around a bottle and asked each person to say what it smelled like. Everyone else smelled pineapple -- to me it smelled like nail polish remover.

You should smell both.

Yes...and I thought those perfume industry guys just stirred chemicals all day, trying to induce asthma-inducing pongs...that's a great alibi 'I just needed to know what an unwashed crackhead hooker smelled like, purely research you know' It's a tough job!

It's gotten to the point that the beautiful people and all their wannabee friends want to smell like society's underbelly. I guess that's where they're headed.

It seems like everyone is wearing perfume or cologne these days. Which is fine as long as it smells nice.

I hate perfumes, also I like "normal" humans odours. Expecially on womens, I like their natural smell.

I like flowers and natural smelling perfumes. I gag at bad body odor, cigarette smoke, and those Yankee Candle stores! I hate going to my mom's house because she smokes *and* uses those awful candles to try to mask the smoke smell.

I know what you mean by that you like normal human odours. Though I only like mine. I also have no problem with stuff like cleaning up hairballs, if my cat has an 'accident', or anything like that. I don't exactly like it, but I'm not sensitive to those.

I hate cigarrette smoke. It's not just that it causes cancer, I don't know how they can smell that stuff.

I hear you there, I'm a boy and I can't Stand axe.
I'd rather wear just a hint of Sure deodouriser
I don't like even wearing cologne or perfume
or anything beyond just deodouriser and not
strong deod either.

Its hard to find something with just a mild scent
that does not make me cough and hech.

These guys at wal mart got into the axe and
were spraying it everywhere, it was GROSS,
I had to put on my respirator to keep from heching
and coughing.

Does anyone else besides me carry a painter's
respirator?