Comments on: The Sweet Smell of a Perfume Allergy http://www.hotwomenworkouts.com/18/the-sweet-smell-of-a-perfume-allergy/ Fat Blasting Women Workouts and Women Exercises for a Sleek, Sexy Body Sun, 20 Dec 2009 15:21:05 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 By: SICK of it http://www.hotwomenworkouts.com/18/the-sweet-smell-of-a-perfume-allergy/comment-page-1/#comment-707 SICK of it Tue, 21 Apr 2009 00:07:07 +0000 http://www.hotwomenworkouts.com/?p=18#comment-707 As a sufferer of perfume allergy/sensitivity I'd like to comment (or rant as the case may be). <br><br>First of all, it's been my experience that no matter how calmly and tactfully I try to discuss my problem with fragrance overloaders, they take it VERY personally, like I'm somehow attacking their taste and personality. And this is with only suggesting a compromise that they just please maybe use a bit less of the stuff. I can't even imagine how buttsore they'd be if I actually asked them to ditch a product completely. I've also gotten such insensitive and ill-informed remarks as "well, it's just allergies, big deal." Tell that "just" allergies BS to someone who suffers a severe reaction, like say, anaphylactic shock. Oh, but that's different, they tell me. Well, dears, only in degree. <br><br>As long as people keep allowing themselves to be brainwashed by big business into believing that you (and your home) aren't truly clean or "fresh" unless you've got scads of harsh synthetic stink in every damn product you use, plus products whose only purpose is to fill the air with even more indoor pollution (air "fresheners"), I suppose the madness will never end. <br><br>On the other hand, some of it is just plain narcicism. Would you believe, one woman actually started wearing MORE perfume after I talked with her, increasing the amount daily, apparently, just to spite me? Until everyone else started complaining, too, that is, and the office manager ended up getting involved. Ridiculous, childish behavior...<br><br>Oh, and I take umbrage with your implication that, oh well, it's entirely the allergic person's problem and they have to deal with it. How about balancing that with a call for more awareness and compassion on the part of scented product users, since in most cases AVOIDANCE of the triggering substance is the only thing that really helps sufferers? How about suggesting to fragrance-users that substituting a few dabs of an essential oil (the real deal, not some of the fake so-called aromatherapy products out there) may be an acceptable solution? (as it would in my case. I know of only 2 natural scents that bother me, as opposed to nearly all synthetics I've encountered.) <br><br>Ah well, never mind, I just did it for you. As a sufferer of perfume allergy/sensitivity I'd like to comment (or rant as the case may be).

First of all, it's been my experience that no matter how calmly and tactfully I try to discuss my problem with fragrance overloaders, they take it VERY personally, like I'm somehow attacking their taste and personality. And this is with only suggesting a compromise that they just please maybe use a bit less of the stuff. I can't even imagine how buttsore they'd be if I actually asked them to ditch a product completely. I've also gotten such insensitive and ill-informed remarks as “well, it's just allergies, big deal.” Tell that “just” allergies BS to someone who suffers a severe reaction, like say, anaphylactic shock. Oh, but that's different, they tell me. Well, dears, only in degree.

As long as people keep allowing themselves to be brainwashed by big business into believing that you (and your home) aren't truly clean or “fresh” unless you've got scads of harsh synthetic stink in every damn product you use, plus products whose only purpose is to fill the air with even more indoor pollution (air “fresheners”), I suppose the madness will never end.

On the other hand, some of it is just plain narcicism. Would you believe, one woman actually started wearing MORE perfume after I talked with her, increasing the amount daily, apparently, just to spite me? Until everyone else started complaining, too, that is, and the office manager ended up getting involved. Ridiculous, childish behavior…

Oh, and I take umbrage with your implication that, oh well, it's entirely the allergic person's problem and they have to deal with it. How about balancing that with a call for more awareness and compassion on the part of scented product users, since in most cases AVOIDANCE of the triggering substance is the only thing that really helps sufferers? How about suggesting to fragrance-users that substituting a few dabs of an essential oil (the real deal, not some of the fake so-called aromatherapy products out there) may be an acceptable solution? (as it would in my case. I know of only 2 natural scents that bother me, as opposed to nearly all synthetics I've encountered.)

Ah well, never mind, I just did it for you.

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