LynneSin's rant for today: LAY OFF THE DAMN PERFUME!!!!

[LynneSin]

I was feeling great this morning until I got into the elevator. In steps this woman who've I've never seen at work - big jet black hair, heavy makeup and enough perfume to bath an army of stinking men.

Now my eyes are all watery and my nose is running.

Earth to perfume users: DON'T USE THE DAMN PERFUME WHEN YOU GO TO WORK UNLESS YOU HAPPEN TO BE WORKING AT A PERFUME COUNTER AT A DEPARTMENT STORE!!!!

To get on this freaking elevator and have to go almost 20 floors with this heavy scent of perfume next to me was a horror beyond horrors. I should have gotten out at the next floor and grabbed another one but I was running 5 minutes late for work.

Perfumes and other heavy scented stuff should be banned from the work place. Too many folks put way too much on (they think if they can't smell it then they must not have enough on - thing is our sense of smell masks out our own odors so by the time you've put enough on so you can smell it - it's probably half the bottle) and it affects too many other people in a negative way.

[matcom]

1. but then she would have to take a SHOWER!

the horror! :P

[LynneSin]

3. I'd rather smell freaking Body Odor than perfume

Believe me, any day of the week. At least with the scent of BO, my body doesn't go into allergy mode. Now I'll be freaking miserable for most of the morning until my nose dries up.

[JCMach1]

29. try some Arabic scents (natural oils) they will blow your mind

and your nose.

Different than the west... definitely. Also doesn't seem to cause as many allergic reactions.

[TXlib]

2. What you should say to such people:

"Nice perfume/cologne. Must you marinate in it?"

[slinkerwink]

4. I know what you mean---my nose hurts when I'm near someone

with really strong perfume. :-(

[TXlib]

5. Corollary rant: Cubes in cube farms do not contain your farts

Don't sit there and toot away all morning. Go to the bathroom.

:puke:

[phillybri]

50. Ooops...

Maybe that's why people don't talk to me...:evilgrin:

[OldEurope]

6. Maybe that´s just part of her profession:

to overlay the odor of an army of stinking men...

:evilgrin:

Also you can identify women with alcohol problems at once: they use too much perfume in order to overlay their boozy breath...

[LynneSin]

7. I work for a bank

we have no stinking men

And she looked boozy - she look sorta like a cross between Elizabeth Taylor (the latter years) and Kelly Osborne

[OldEurope]

11. erm...sure in a bank you don´t have stinkin´men, but

are you sure, that SHE doesn´t have an other profession?
I mean, it´s normal to have two jobs, and she might well be busy at night...

[Jivenwail]

8. I sympathize

Same thing here, too. Some of the females bathe in their fragrance of choice. Not to mention the bimbo down the hall from me who thinks it's OK to burn vanilla scented candles all day! Ugh. Then we have the women from the lawyer's office across the hall - now these ladies go into the ladies room and spray away, all day, more than once! We are the only 2 companies on this entire floor, so we are able to identify which lady has been in the wc before us - simply by the overwhelming scent.

But in all fairness, we do have our fair share of men's cologne that's over the top, as well. Get both of these factors in our closed door Monday meetings, and it's more than overwhelming.

But how do you get around it???

[LynneSin]

9. There are places that are starting to ban colognes & perfumes

because of the allergy factor.

[blondeatlast]

20. Mind, I'm the daughter of a southern WASP, but when did cologne

become acceptable for work?

YEEECCCCHHHH!

[BiggJawn]

24. Oh, lord, no...NOT the "Vanilla Candles"!

I worked in a furniture shop a long time ago. We did a lot of insurance work, which translated to the english, meant fire restoration.
Had a job once where this woman must have been the sex kitten of the southside or something, because all her bedroom furniture had 1/2" of melted vanilla candle wax on the top of it.

I scraped it off best I could, and figured the stripper would take care of the rest. When the solvent hit that wax, it released the vanilla scent more powerfully than just burning the candles could have.
That was 20 years ago. to this day vanilla candles make me wanna puke. Friends and family all know that youy do not buy Jawn vanilla candles for a gift (I give 'em to Goodwill when I get one by accident)

what a stench!
I support "Aroma-Free Workplaces"

[trotsky]

10. I totally agree.

There is a woman in our office who must bathe in the stuff.

[matcom]

12. ITS NOT HER DAMN FAULT YOUR ALERGIC TO EVERYTHING!!!

*ducking*

:D :loveya:

[LynneSin]

13. I'll drive up to Boston and KICK YOUR DAMN HAIRY ASS

And I'm not allergic to everything, in fact there are few things I'm allergic too AND it usually has to be pretty bad to kick off my nose running.

[TXlib]

14. I think he just wants a LynnSin asskicking.

[Mistress Quickly]

15. hate strong perfume users

If I feel the need to wear any fragrance, I spray some into the air, wait a sec and then walk through it.

I never spray it directly on myself.

It's a moot point anyway, by the time I get to work I only smell of Camel Lights!

And to think people think that smells worse than strong perfume! The nerve of some people!

[mcar]

16. I'm with you LS

I'm allergic to perfume. We used to have a volunteer in our office once a week who doused herself in the stuff. Even after her supervisor (my employee) asked her to not wear perfume, she still did. This was a hospital and, while we didn't prohibit perfume, we strongly advised people to not wear strong scents for the patients' sakes.

When this woman was in our department, I'd stay in my office with my door closed. If I had to go out for anything, I'd hold my breathe and practically run by her. Otherwise, I'd wheeze for 20 minutes after contact with her.

Some people have no class.

[SheWhoMustBeObeyed]

17. And leave your freakin' nail polish at home, too!!!!

I hate idiots who do their nails on the train or bus, or in their cubes. That shit stinks! If you can't paint your claws at home, skip it!

[Bertha Venation]

18. "Nice perfume. Must you marinate in it?"

Every morning, and sometimes in the afternoon, my cell (wall-less cubicle) mate takes off her shoes and socks and sprays either body deodorant -- that heavily-scented crap -- or Febreze (no shit) -- on the soles of her feet and into her shoes. Sometimes the body deodorant goes under her blouse for a few squirts, too.

:puke:

[blondeatlast]

19. My mom's rule: start at the ankles, when you get the subtlest whiff

of scent; stop.

I always get to my knees, then wrists.

I also don't see how perfume is really acceptable for work, myself, but my mom is a Southern WASP and would never dream of us calling attention to ourselves by calling attention to ourselves.

[catmandu57]

21. Remember that If You Love crap

back in the late eighties, someone started selling knockoff versions of exspensive perfumes. They sold it in gallon jugs I believe. I could smell that stuff from 100 yards away, women must have doused themselves with it.
My head would hurt all day after coming in contact with that stuff, thankfully it must have been a passing craze.

[Bridget Burke]

25. "imitation" fragrances are still used....

Although I don't care for strong scents at the office, the knockoffs are even worse. They have a chemical note that just gets stronger as the day goes on.

[DS1]

22. I agree, even if it's my girl I'll still gag over too much perfume

and while I'm on the topic, Secret deodorant makes my nose turn

[LynneSin]

I only use unscented deoderant

scented stuff can be too harsh on my nose - especially during the pollen season

[Liberal Veteran]

23. Especially that one that smells like Raid.

There is one perfume that smells just like Raid Ant and Roach killer to me and I swear to god some women bath in it.

We had a guy in the workplace that used to put on patchouli oil and it would literally be this radius of 20 cubicles where the patchouli would force the oxygen from the air so that all you could smell was that damn oil.

[qb]

26. Church was painful for me as a child

It was the perfume. It caused real pain in my nose. Some perfumes are quite pleasant, but what's with the ones that hurt?

[slappypan]

27. perfume at the gym

The most inconsiderate of all must be those who insist on wearing perfume at the gym, forcing others to breath in that crap while we are trying to work out.

[JCMach1]

28. Don't come to the middle-east then... it's a necessity here

because of the heat...


that was a reason why Shakespeare said "all the perfumes of Arabia"...

I understand what he meant now.

[bicentennial_baby]

48. That's funny

I went to an Int'l boarding school here in MA, and all the Middle Eastern boys were drenched in cologne!

[proud patriot]

30. I deeply concur

Perfume stinks x(

[SOteric]

31. Nah. Too black and white for my tastes.

It's not a matter of either you use an entire bottle or you don't use it at all, people need to learn how to use a scent with restraint. There should be public classes on nose pollution in high schools or instruction booklets that come with various types of scent so that no one is under the mistaken impression that they can dispense a parfum with the same liberal dousing they could a toilet water or cologne.

I'm extremely sensitive to scent. Not as sensitive as was my mum, but still, quite sensitive. It can literally make me ill for several hours to be trapped in an elevator with a person (men do this too) who's overused the cologne. What has happened in our society that we call for the outright banning of a perfectly harmless practice because it can be misused? Grow a pair and speak (in a non-confrontational manner) to the offender. They likely don't know they're reeking and a gentle, informative conversation paired with your watering eyes and an unwillingness to breathe in their presence can make quite an impressive corroboration.

[Skittles]

33. grow a pair? of what?

breasts?

[SOteric]

35. Figurative

cojones. ;-)

[Skittles]

36. find another expression, por favor

it is outdated and so f***ing false.

[SOteric]

37. No. I find it useful to water down the expression

by extending it's application. In the same fashion that I allow as how men should have equal access to epithets sociologically reserved for women.

[Skittles]

40. it needs to be retired

period

[SOteric]

41. I disagree.

I think if we forbid it, we give it power it shouldn't have.

[Skittles]

44. I didn't say anything about forbidding anything

simply use a different expression. To imply that testicles are needed for courage is laughable.

[SOteric]

45. I disagree with your assessment,

I'm not implying that testicals are needed for courage, and I didn't suggest you were forbidding anything. You do seem to be tersely trying to dictate my behaviour though.

I disagree with you. You and I can discuss this rationally, if you like. I'm certainly open to hearing your point of view, but I refuse to give this or any words more power than they deserve and I feel that by removing them from usage that is exactly what I'd accomplish. And I don't let other people demand behaviour from me without discussion and agreement.

[Skittles]

54. if you cannot understand why that expression is demeaning

*gives up* never mind

[fudge stripe cookays]

43. Well Said SO!

I love perfume, and will wear it whenever and wherever I please.

It's a gift that some of us have, and some of us do not. It's called subtlety.

I spray only my pulse points, and have found colognes that smell good on me.

I have people all the time tell me how good I smell, what scent am I wearing, "Wow, that perfume smells wonderful!" etc. I have my own office at work, and rarely have to worry about being in confined spaces with others anyway.

I am also offended by people who bathe in the stuff. We used to have a woman in my department who BATHED in Estee Lauder's "Beautiful." Not only was it not a good scent for her, but she wore TONS of the stuff. Plus, she was always late for meetings, so everyone would cluster in the chairs far away from the door, so when she came in she wouldn't sit next to one of us. Woe betide the person stuck next to her for the next hour.

It's ridiculous to get angry at all of us because a few people are "scent morans."

For what it's worth, I also love vanilla candles, and I ain't afraid to use em (but I don't burn them at work).

[SiobhanClancy]

51. I agree...

subtlety is the key. I enjoy scent and wear it daily,and I also like vanilla candles(especially Yankee Buttercream,which is in the vanilla family).
Consideration and tolerance are usually effective remedies for this sort of problem,I think:)

[Skittles]

32. I never can figure these women out

do they do one heavy solid spray? Or do they spray their neck then both wrists? And like with B.O. - can't they smell themselves???

[Sequoia]

34. Men too with the heavy colonge

just a suttle whiff is all you need. I had a boss once who wore Boss and thought he was a big shot; a big stink is more like it. Men, women do NOT like it heavy. That's why they turn away and shrink back when you try to get close.

[tsakshaug]

38. too much

A woman who is in the next cubical baths in the crap. She will retire in 3 months. I have control of the window however. I will open it on any day if I have to. The bathrooms are also near us, some days that smell is better than her.

I used to hustle basketball in parts of Boston(Eastie, C-town, north end), some of the kids would have too much colone on, it was difficult to breath, then if they get some of their sweat on you..you smell.

[FireHeart]

42. A little humor on this topic.

When I was about 16, I spent the night at a friend's house in Columbus. We were getting ready for a night on the town, and my friend was really hoping for some "action". He showed me two brand new bottles of cologne he bought and asked which he should use. I selected one (can't recall the name) and he retired to the bathroom. Apparently this guy never really used the stuff before.

He wanted to smell good all over--so he rubbed some on his testicles and penis.

I can still hear the screams from the bathroom as he ran into the shower (fully clothed) for relief.

:evilgrin:

[MissMillie]

39. My son got into the habit of wearing a lot of cologne

So I told him that if he used it more sparingly, the girls would get just a little whiff of the fragrance and then move closer to him to get a better smell.

He liked that idea.

[blindpig]

46. you think that was bad............

A few years ago I was trapped on a flight in a puddle jumper (6 person) on a trip from Guatamala to Belize with 3 Greek buisnessmen.
In addition to the fact that this was my first time on such a small plane those guys really stank! The stench from their od on colonge(with bo creeping through) combined with fear was enough to manifest a sincere deathwish. The icing on the cake came when the ground crew in Belize fogged our luggage with some oil based poison. Otherwise I had a good time.

[Catherine Vincent]

47. There is a friend of mine that

wears heavy perfume on our Park and Ride. I wasn't assertive enough to tell her how I felt. I just basically avoided her. But someone must have said something to her because she doesn't smell as loud. Thank goodness!

[Marius]

49. This is my rant...everyday.

I hate perfume. Ugh!

[Missy Vixen]

52. I like perfume

but as other posters have said, I don't care for those who marinate in it. The biggest offenders all seemed to be wearing either Giorgio (thank GOD that stuff has been more or less eliminated,) Oscar de la Renta, or Carolina Herrera. (I used to like the last fragrance till I worked with a saleswoman who was intent on using an entire bottle of it daily.)

I met a fragrance saleswoman once that told me women shouldn't wear fragrance above the waist; the best places to use it are the backs of the knees and the crook of the elbows. My husband likes me to wear perfume for him :loveya:, if I follow the above advice, I don't get a headache, and neither does anyone else.

Julie

[shanti]

53. i don't mind the perfumes so much

it's the friggin dryer sheet (bounce, etc.) scents that linger on practically EVERYONE!! it makes me want to :puke: