Excuse me while a complain about something today.
Perfume. Particularly White Diamond or something equally grandma-ish. Particularly a White Diamond bath. Particularly a White Diamond bath in a small confined space.
Yuck!
Yesterday, I attend a small musical production in our historic downtown theater. Historic=small. In this small theater, I had great (FREE) seats, but my experience was ruined when the woman in front of me was drenched head to toe in perfume. It was disgusting. I spent two hours trying not to breathe. Luck for me I am fighting a cough so keeping a cough drop in my mouth the entire time seemed to help the smell.
(Sorry if you were sitting near me and had to smell menthol the entire time. I believe that was an improvement so you are welcome.)
I guess it was my fault for not coming prepared to the musical. I saw Always Patsy Cline. I should have been prepared for the over 65 crowd. Blue hairs as far as the eye could see. Normally I would think that was adorable, all the blue hairs attending a Sunday matinee singalong, but not when all the blue hairs are dressed in their Sunday best, including their Sunday best perfume.
I swear I draw perfume lovers to me like moth to a flame. I know I am sensitive to smell, but I am not overly sensitive. It doesn’t bother me when B wears cologne, or when friends are wearing perfume. I think that is because my friends and family know their limits (my father excluded). It never fails when I am attending some public event that requires sitting close to strangers, the person next to me or in front of me will be wearing some hideous perfume.
My nose hairs are still burning from yesterday.
Do me a favor world. Take it easy on the eau de toilette. What is that saying? A little dab will do ya.
oh my that is the worst. I have a very sensitive nose and that “bathed in cheap cologne/perfume” kills me. I especially hate it when I on the elliptical at the gym and then someone comes up and gets on the machine next to me half way through my time and is drenched in cologne (or perfume there are women that are guilty of this at the gym) IT kills me, it takes everything in me to not puke while working out.
seriously I agree with you “a little dab will do ya”
hope you are feeling better soon and that this cough goes away quickly.
That’s the worst. Gotta love the blinding headache that comes along with such a ridiculous amount of perfume. I haven’t heard much about the sense of smell going for older people as much as sight and hearing, but maybe she couldn’t smell herself so she just kept applying and applying…
Hey, I happen to wear White Diamond.
Bwahahahahaha! I kid you! You know, you might not like me today because I did TWO WHOLE SQUIRTS of eau de toilette this morning. I apologize on behalf of perfume addicts everywhere. (But, it was Stella which is not very strong smelling and it does have a delightful scent IMHO.)
I hear ya! I have students in that pre-pubescent phase who BATHE in Axe because they don’t really know better yet, and my entire classroom smells like the cosmetics department of a department store. ICK!