banning perfume/cologne

GQgeek · Feb 18, 2009

I'm so tired of all these people that put way too much of the stuff on. Wherever I go, I cannot escape the oppressive smell of people that have no sense of the appropriate amount to wear.
Having said that, i love women that choose nice fragrances and understand how to properly apply them, so I'm conflicted over banning the stuff outright. What say you?

indesertum · Feb 18, 2009

ban outrageous usage of perfume.

yeah and i never understood this either. can't they smell themselves?

JLibourel · Feb 18, 2009

Of all the many cranky movements of our time, I don't think there is any that I loathe more than the anti-fragrance movement. I would infinitely rather smell cheap perfume applied in excessively profuse quantities than the vile stench of human body odor!

LabelKing · Feb 18, 2009

Speaking of bodily odors, I was recently at a party in San Francisco and many of the people were not wearing deodorant. It was quite vile, especially heightened by the fact that these people were not young destitute types.

Dane · Feb 18, 2009

Over-applying fragrance does't bother me nearly as much as having to smell people eating ****** junkfood in confined spaces.

If someone doused it on though...I just tell them. Most people don't realize, so if you ask them what they're wearing, and then say "wow, it's really strong huh?", they get the point.

HORNS · Feb 18, 2009

What pisses me off the most is someone wearing a shitload in a restaurant or at a wine tasting. Total absence of consideration and taste.

yachtie · Feb 18, 2009

Originally Posted by HORNS

What pisses me off the most is someone wearing a shitload in a restaurant or at a wine tasting. Total absence of consideration and taste.

+1 Or an office. I'm allergic to some of that **** and it gives me a migraine.

Ladies- ever consider SOAP AND WATER?

suited · Feb 18, 2009

Originally Posted by GQgeek

I'm so tired of all these people that put way too much of the stuff on. Wherever I go, I cannot escape the oppressive smell of people that have no sense of the appropriate amount to wear.
Having said that, i love women that choose nice fragrances and understand how to properly apply them, so I'm conflicted over banning the stuff outright. What say you?

I agree about it being annoying, but I would never be for an actual legal ban on anything like this, that's far too much.

Thomas · Feb 18, 2009

oh, this again. Yeah. I hear you - there are a few folks out there who think that more = better. And there are those who insist of refreshing every two hours, because they can no longer smell themselves. I don't hate those people but I do take the opportunity to tell him/her that they should lay off already.

More effective if you mention (Enough Already) as a group. Totally squashes the denial mechanisms.

LabelKing · Feb 18, 2009

I spray copious amounts of Bandit.

MrG · Feb 18, 2009

Originally Posted by yachtie

I'm allergic to some of that **** and it gives me a migraine.

I've always wondered how it doesn't give the wearer a migraine. If it's bad enough to give someone in the room a migraine, I can't imagine how dead someone's sense of smell must be to be able to withstand wearing such a quantity.

GQgeek · Feb 18, 2009

Originally Posted by JLibourel

Of all the many cranky movements of our time, I don't think there is any that I loathe more than the anti-fragrance movement. I would infinitely rather smell cheap perfume applied in excessively profuse quantities than the vile stench of human body odor!

No body odor (unless someone hasn't washed in weeks) is as strong as some of the stuff these people wear.

Originally Posted by yachtie

+1 Or an office. I'm allergic to some of that **** and it gives me a migraine.

Ladies- ever consider SOAP AND WATER?

This is what annoys the hell out of me. A woman was recently moved in to the office next to mine, and I can smell her perfume just by having my door open. So now I keep my door shut all the time, but whenever someone enters, the smell saturates my office, it gets in my mouth, and it gives me headaches a couple times a week. I sent an email to my boss asking him to deal with it or I will. The woman in question is really sensitive and over-emotional, so I'd rather not bother with it myself if I can help it, but I doubt my boss will do anything so I'll probably have to. I'm trying to think of the least confrontational way to tell her that she stinks so bad that I get headaches and can't taste my food.

IUtoSLU · Feb 18, 2009

The worst male culprits are high school boys. A few ounces of AXE/Aqua Di Gio are terrible. I am a high school wrestling coach and at a tournament a week ago I had some bad 'smell-moments' where sweat combined with some terrible cologne.

Nantucket Red · Feb 18, 2009

No public humiliation option? These people should be ganged up on and publicly humiliated just to drive home the point that they are, in fact, publicly humiliating themselves and doing so at others' expense.

Fuuma · Feb 18, 2009

Originally Posted by Nantucket Red

No public humiliation option? These people should be ganged up on and publicly humiliated just to drive home the point that they are, in fact, publicly humiliating themselves and doing so at others' expense.

Time for bukkake?

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