Where was all this "sensitivity" when we were growing up in the 30's, 40's and 50's?

How are the fragrances of the dish soaps, laundry detergents, bar soaps, sun tan lotion, incense in church(!!!!!), etc, etc......handle in this modern day?

btk

don't know about others, but we use fragrance free in our house. don't sit in the sun so i don't need sun screen...incense in church - i know i am in for it before i go so we sit near the rear doors and bring extra, extra kleenex - and offer it up to god until i can get outside

Maybe people who are sensitive to perfumes can get a service dog that will alert them to the strong scents before they have an adverse reaction. (Sorry. I couldn't resist.)

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I haven't had a chance to use this since the good old days in the POLITICAL forum:sigh:

btk

There are so many more chemicals in use now than there was in the '30s, '40s, and '50s. And the population has exploded, so people are constantly jammed closer and closer together. People have developed allergies that they wouldn't necessarily have had back then.

And we're more aware of the problems because we have more sophisticated means of communication.

Amen

There is a certain perfume older women wear that must be from the 1950s, and it is just plain nauseating. Most perfumes don't bother me at all but some do.....I run when a perfume tester approaches me at a department store entrance.

The one that older women wear that is nauseating is always unmistakably the same one. I don't know the name of it, but I've had to leave gatherings here because of it smelling like a combination of moth balls and maybe Eau de Funeral Parlor.

We have attended several churches here, where it seemed that all the friendly, sweet ladies at the doorway had taken a soaking bath in that godawful perfume. Several times, the services were inspiring and well led, but I had to leave early because of that awful perfume, and there was no way we'd join and attend there.

Does anybody know what it is? Somebody needs to tell women who wear it.

I honestly think the problem is that we have become a nation of whiney people who have to punish all for the issues of the few. What ever happened to majority rule.

Wouldn't have this issue there. We don't sweat the small stuff.

If you don't sweat, then no need for dousing one's self in perfume.

I don't think that wearing perfume should be banned or anything like that, but I do think the o.p.'s question is a good one: don't people realize they're wearing something that stinks?

I guess they don't notice people around them gagging, covering their nose, shaking their head, and getting up to leave the room.

One time, a long time ago, I went to work with a new perfume on. A co-worker said in the break room, "I have to leave. It smells like bug spray in here. I don't know what it is but I can't take it." I figured she was talking about my perfume and so I went home and threw it out. I didn't want to smell offensive. It wasn't a difficult change for me to make.

Exactly. Done right it should be a non issue.

For pleasure because good perfume is a delight

I think the problem is that we have become a nation of "ME"s with no consideration of others. Who says smelly perfumed people are in the majority?

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