<p>I wore the same Coty drugstore perfume (Emeraude!) for years. Various friends/boyfriends would get a whiff and think of me. Kind of sweet. Several years out of college I finally made the leap to a multi-fragrance user. I never did like Chanel #5 but do like their Allure. Have also been wearing several of the Hermes fragrances. Really like Un Jardin Sur Le Nil, but really do not like the Mediterranee one. Also really like their Eau Des Merveilles.</p>
<p>My best advice is to get several sprays on various body parts at a department store, see if there’s one you like after a few hours, then go to one of the fragrance discount web sites (fragrance.net, scentiments, . . .) It was easier for me to buy perfume once I figured out I could get it half price.</p>
<p>I’d be fine with a perfume ban, but I’m one of the ones allergic to it. I can’t imagine having to sit in a cubicle in an office building next to someone wearing certain perfumes. I’d be sick every day.</p>
<p>Before I switched departments within my company, I was sick every day for a year and a half. It was only until after I moved desks that I realized I was capable of going a day without constantly sneezing… I’d thought it was one of the cleaning products, but it was a coworker’s aftershave.</p>
<p>Our office manager’s desk is outside my door. Every so often, she wears a very heavy perfume. I end up keeping my door shut all day when that happens. Otherwise, killer headache.</p>
<p>I do wear scent. A different one for whatever mood strikes me that day. I’d be in trouble in Detroit I guess. I wear Chloe, Elizabeth Arden green tea, Aliage, Oscar de la Renta or Elizabeth Arden Red Door. For a no perfume situation I have Philosophy Amazing Grace which just smells like soap. Aliage is difficult to find, but ironically it’s the one I have the most people ask me about. Red Door is the strongest. Generally I wear that at night and not to work just because I think it’s abit strong. The other’s are light and just smell clean to me. I’ve been wearing the “same” scents for decades.</p>
<p>Some perfume ingredients can be pretty nasty. Europe now requires perfume makers to list a certain set of ingredients that can be problematic. My latest perfume purchase, a bottle of D&G L’Imperatrice, was made in the UK and has all of its ingredients listed on the box. As far as I know, there are no regulations or similar disclosure requirements for the perfumes made or sold in the US.</p>
<p>When I’m in the lab… I can pour gallons of perfume on my labcoat without any consequences for my lab mates, because the “lab scents” floating in the air mask any perfume small, and fume hoods take care of it as well. When I’m desk-bound, I usually do not use any scents so I would not bother my office mates.</p>
<p>I don’t like heavy perfume and some scents bother me, but I enjoy light scent and love different smells.
I even like pipe tobacco- my grandpa used to suck on a pipe- but I HATE cigar smoke
I like the smell of creosote, it reminds me of walking on the railroad tracks in the summer/ the old REI store.
I like when the wind shifts and I can smell the salt water from my house ( we live by the Sound).
I have tried to use the trick of studying while sniffing something like clary sage, then using it as a trigger when I have to take the test- but I haven’t done it enough to see if it made a difference.</p>
<p>I used to wear Chloe- Anais- Anais, Cashmere by Donna Karan, my D2 wears a Green Apple fragrance by Karan which is nice, Love by Yardley used to have some sort of lemony scent that I liked, I often use Weleda skin food which has a scent ( I think from lavender and other herbs), that people often remark on favorably.
Calandre by Paco Rabanne is something else that I used to wear.</p>
<p>( I also really like scent on men, I buy my H nice scented shave cream and soap, but he likes Irish Spring :rolleyes:)
aside from my high school boyfriend- teen boys smell I agree with the recent " comedic essay", that suggested that if they are going to tax things to raise funds- AXE should be taxed exorbinately )</p>
<p>I have to go to the dept store to get some foundation, ( drug stores just can’t match my skin color, I have about 3 bottles that are too pink/light & instead of spending $40 on 3 more that don’t match, I might as well spend it on one that does), so maybe I will check out the perfume counter.</p>
<p>I wear Chanel No. 5 every day. I use the Eau de Parfum spray, and apply it very lightly. Unless you’re really, really close to me, you can’t smell it.</p>
<p>I love the smell of fresh basil. A neighbor of mine puts a fresh basil leaf in her bra when she goes out in the summer. She says people ask her what the wonderful perfume is that she is wearing. Eau de basile.</p>
<p>I like the smell of Happy but it is stronger (on me) than what I normally wear to work. I have a small sample of Happy and Happy cream that came with some Clinique and I use it but not for work. I imagine there isn’t an HR manager in any of those 3 buildings in Detroit that is “happy” about this. It’s just another unenforceable prescription in my opinion, how do you enforce how people smell?</p>
<p>The basil reminds me of a scent that Occitane had several years ago that featured tomato vines. It was wonderful, very green smelling and familiar but mysterious. I think they discontinued it. A shame.</p>
<p>Sorry for all those who are sensitive to scent…but I see some big problems enforcing this policy - and very expensive and difficult for those who have to now find all unscented products. I can actually see a counter-suit in this situation, for all those that feel that they have a right to wear the scented products. </p>
<p>Imagine - washing all your clothing separately than your family members, so you can comply with the policy at work. Terribly inconvenient. </p>
<p>When someone comes to work with their “Tide” scented clothing, who just showered and smells soapy, or has washed their hair with shampoo and conditioner…even before adding a perfume or cologne, they still have a scent.</p>
<p>I don’t see how one could be completely scent free living in a modern society. </p>
<p>I agree that there are some strong perfumes out there. I have an un-favorite, myself. But I think legislating this is one thing…enforcing it, is quite another. Good luck on that.</p>
<p>Agreed… It’d be a little offensive to have the “sniff police” following you around and deeply inhaling your scent… That’s kind of a recipe for a sexual harassment lawsuit…</p>
<p>(But wouldn’t it be great to see them arrest the proverbial putz who wears too much aftershave in the elevator?)</p>
<p>I think that people today have not been taught the “ettiquette” of wearing scents/perfume.
Nowadays i think people wear perfume just to SCREAM and SHOUT for attention. Here I am. Even if they are not in the room anymore.</p>
<p>I’m not sure why people think they need to bathe in the perfume. Afterall the idea is to give the lingering hint of a scent as you pass by.
I get severly congestd and start coughing when I’m in the presence of certains types of perfume. Actually perfumes are made with an oil, which is far more offending than anything that is water based such as sprays.
If you can smell yourself, you already have too much on.</p>
<p>I do think there should be an AXE tax. Working with adolescent boys who think that “more” equals “sexier” have not figured out the scent etiquette thing yet!</p>
I agree with the recent " comedic essay", that suggested that if they are going to tax things to raise funds- AXE should be taxed exorbinately )</p>