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Originally Posted by MargaretR
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Incidentally, I can smell deodorants on either sex if they get within six feet of me.
When you stop bombarding your respiratory system with toxins, you gain a better sense of smell.
I have some carbon fliter masks to wear when I venture out (rare). |
Margaret, I absolutely detest being near people wearing heavily scented perfume or deodorant and like you I can smell them from afar To me it's a form of assault if you are in the street and get that whiff. Sometimes my other half comes home from the pub and I just know he's been sitting with someone who wears a lot of perfume and perhaps given her (or him?) a quick cuddle (he's like that).
Years ago I used to do a lot of sewing alterations and I hated it when I was given clothes that had been freshly washed in overpowering detergents or were covered in perfume/deodorant.
The latest one - I like Windolene to clean my windows and had a bottle which had lasted me for years. It smelt of the cleaning ingredients, including white spirit. I just bought a new bottle (very hard to find, incidentally) and it now has the most horrible cloying perfume added to mask the ingredients smell - which I much prefer.
Fortunately I don't suffer any longterm effects from all these but I don't have perfumed cleansers or cosmetics etc in the house if I can do without - might have to get rid of the Windolene.