Why must you bathe in your perfume!

[Mr. Rager!]

I have a hard time with people who have strong scents of any kind.

I remember one time I walked out into the mall to get some water. When I came back, I walked by this lady who bathed in her perfume. I swear, the smell hit me like a wall. I almost fall backwards.

[karma_gypsy]

I wonder if those people who "bathe" in their perfume have a hard time smelling it . . .? I mean, it seems a lot of people do it . . . can they not smell themselves?

[Gypsy-Rose]

My co-worker ends up running into the back room, her eyes watering and her face flushed whenever a person that is over cologned or perfumed passes by.

As for me, I end up holding my breath and trying NOT to breath, wishing I had soap and water to throw it upon the offensive person.

There is one scent that is driving me nuts though...

Years ago, a man walked into the place I worked and I swear to you that to look at him, and smell him, one would think he walked out of an attic that contained nothing but 1960's clothes..

Years later, now I am getting that same scent, it is a musty older, reminds me of a musty old attic..and truthfully, last time a lady walked by me wearing it, I did make a comment.

I don't know what it is,..but heaven forbid, that is one scent that needs to be banned.

To use it to cover body oder...Eeewwwwwwww......musty and smelly, God, I think I'd faint.

[Mr. Crow]

Patchouli oil is not a subsitute for a bath. Though my family used to have a dog that knew how to deal with the smelly.

[chainedbarista]

this happened to me a few weeks back; some guy walks in, after he swam through a river of cheap 'it smells like a man' cologne, causing me to become ill-coughing, wheezing and the like. i could smell him everywhere except for the very back of the store.

while he was ok, the stench that accompanied him was not; my allergies don't appreciate marinades of that kind, and cheap is the worst-it's as bad as walking through the laundry soap aisle.

don't get me started on the funk-bo-cologne/perfume trifecta...*gags*

[Kusanagi]

When it's a cheap perfume and it mixes with the BO, it produces a gas that is ten times more toxic than either on their own.

I physically gag when someone comes in like that.

[Ringtail Z28]

I wonder if those people who "bathe" in their perfume have a hard time smelling it . . .? I mean, it seems a lot of people do it . . . can they not smell themselves?

I think smothering yourself in that much perfume eventually kills your sense of smell. So I think they keep splashing it on until they notice the smell.

[Sofar]

We used to have a semi-regular who didn't shower regularly and doused himself in Cool Water to try and cover up his BO.

I find it ironic that someone would use a perfume that's supposed to smell like cool water to mask an odor that could easily be eliminated by cool water.

[Lace Neil Singer]

I think smothering yourself in that much perfume eventually kills your sense of smell. So I think they keep splashing it on until they notice the smell.

I think that's it; if you go out to buy perfume, you're advised to only try 3 maximum, or else your sense of smell gets overwhelmed.