To the Working women of the world

[baronessekat]

Please, please, please... when putting on perfume in the morning stop at one dab on each side of the ear and one on the inside of your wrists.

You do not need to bathe in it for the smell to hold. Just because your nose has become desensitized to your fragrence does not mean others have not.

Please remember that some people out in the world are actually allergic to perfume and will have nasty reactions to it (say, for example... a not so pleasent asthma attack).

Remember.. a little dab will do ya.

Same goes for you gentlemen out there who wear cologne.

Signed,

One of the ones allergic and now fighting to keep breathing.

Comments

[sparkymonster.livejournal.com]

Yeah. I love subtle perfume but I live in fear of wearing it because I do not want to be On Of Those Perfumed Women. The ones you can smell 20 ft away. Oy.


I am wheezing in not quite breathing solidarity, though it is due to pollen not perfume.

[unique_name_123]

I spray it in the air and walk through it. Reduces the chance of waiving a wrist by your nose and almost passing out. You get just a little bit everywhere that way.

[breisyn.livejournal.com]

Less is more!

[tacut.livejournal.com]

These people you speak of are not understanding the aromatics are to *enhance* natural pheromones, not club them to death like a baby seal.

People are supposed to smell like people, hopefully clean people, but still. A bit of fragrance is nice, the musk of man with a bit of leather...works for me! The faux leather smell eminating from something that looks like a guy, but smells like nothing but a fake tannery? um, no thanks.

Its to enhance, not replace. If you need to replace your natural scent, you need to check your diet/hygeine habits.

[tattycat.livejournal.com]

My personal rule is that my perfume should be gently noticeable from hugging distance and no further. That's a lot of the reason I use oils instead of sprays or perfumes-- a little dab'll do ya ;)