05.24.05
Smelly
I can totally relate to this post on Life’s A Stitch. I have a very sensitive sense of smell. Unfortunately, Americans are obsessed with everything having super strong fragrance, even when it really isn’t necessary. I can’t go into Bath and Body Works, and I can’t go into The Body Shop any more since they apparently changed their product philosophy. First my nose starts to burn, and then I feel nauseous. Candle stores are the same way. A few candles at once are okay, but hundreds of chemically produced smells all at once make me want to puke.
I can tell when the heat goes on in our office building by mistake, because I can smell it. I know when certain people have been in a room because I can smell their perfume/cologne for quite a while after they’ve left the room. I can tell when the oven is on, even if there hasn’t been anything in it.
While sometimes having an acute sense of smell is a curse, it can also be a blessing. I can smell the rain, way before it actually comes. My favorite smell.
Heather said,
May 24, 2005 at 12:51 pm
I have that same sense of smell and I hate it. I can smell someone sticking their cigarette outside their window with my windows shut! Ugh. And don’t get me started on magazines with perfume ads.
Kimpossible9802 said,
May 25, 2005 at 12:06 pm
On a related note, did you see this news? http://www.cnn.com/2005/LAW/05/24/perfume.lawsuit.ap/index.html
Michelle said,
May 27, 2005 at 5:30 am
I remember being like this when I was pregnant. I also have asthma that is triggered by some perfumes. Some days I felt like I could follow a person and find them just by following the trail of perfume smell. I work in the theatre and inevitably opening night is an olfactory nightmare. Imagine a giant room, packed with 500 or more freshly laundered and perfumed/cologned people. The combined smell is often vomit-like. I think they should discourage perfume from the theatre.