According to Statista.com, in 2023 around 42 percent of surveyed respondents in the U.S. say they use perfumes and fragrances regularly. In 2022, nearly 500 million U.S. dollars of women’s perfumes, colognes, and body sprays were sold. Whew!
Whatever your gender, do you wear cologne or perfume? If so, do you wear it every day? Just sometimes? Only for special occasions? Or never? Curious minds are, well, curious…
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I quit wearing perfume many years ago when I became a nurse. Many people cannot tolerate the smell.
My wife gets headaches with most perfume smells, even in soaps and other cleaning products.
It’s an allergy, I have suffered for years. I found during the pandemic that a mask helps so I wear one in public and it really helps.
From a 2022 Journal of Environmental Health review of 37 studies, perfumes can contain organic compounds like phthalates, aldehydes, and parabens which have side effects such as allergies, breast cancer, reproductive disorders, especially in males, skin allergies, nervous system damage and migraine headaches. Just saying.
But boy….they smell great …NOT
Ok so everything will kill us anyway I’m having a good time with having fun and by the exhaust fumes sell terrible and will kill.
Never. One of my biggest peeves are people that think they need to drown themselves with perfumes and colognes and scented body washes.
I am very sensitive to these odors as is my wife. If seated in a restaurant or any enclosed area, I ask to be moved to another area.
The problem is that the people who overindulge in smelly stuff, do not even notice it. They become immune to the odor.
It’s especially bad on cruises in the elevators when all the old women try to outdo each other on how many quarts they can put on! That’s why we take the stairs. 😄
Maybe they are after a few “grumpy old men”.
Can’t stand patchouli oil. Reminds me of the 60’s hippies.
No, I smell fine without added ‘flavors’.
I quit wearing perfume when I started teaching. I had a child in my class who was allergic to it. That’s when I realized that other people could be affected too, so I gave it up.
I think I quit after Hai Karate – ha.
Any truth to the rumor that Canoe was a men’s cologne and the same fragrance was marketed to women as Ambush?
Hey if you want to draw every mosquito in the swamp over for a bite or two, just splash some perfume on yourself. The Louisiana state insects always swarm after my wife while I seldom get a bite. I have told her on numerous occasions, but she always smells good … even on a short hike … and the mosquitos all agree!
Same in Alaska and BC.
Thank you, RV Travel! 🙂 As my body ages and decays (if body odor late in the day is any indication), I have switched to clinical deoderant and from time to time supplement it with a cologne that I favored as a young man (Royal Copenhagen) or one Dw bought on one of her international trips (no recollection of the name). Thanks again and safe travels! 🙂
Under arm deodorant, but no colognes or aftershave.
Nope, DW and I both gave them up. My asthma just about brings me to my knees when around perfume and cigarette smoke. Always carry my inhaler.
People who do wear cologne should use it sparingly. No one should be able to smell you approaching from 15 feet. I have had to get off elevators at the next floor because I was choking from someone’s perfume. Please be considerate of others – especially those with lung issues like asthma.
Here’s my rant some don’t wanna smell cologne or perfume but cigars and cancer sticks are always good for some people just saying.
When I was 15 years old, I discovered Shalimar cologne and it remains my favorite. At 73 I often change what I wear according to my mood or the season. I don’t slather it on being conscious of others’ sensitivities, but I enjoy wearing it.
Apparently people who douse themselves with smelly junk are either on the make or they afraid of soap and water.
Isn’t that why it was invented in the first place?
Not necessarily so but to each they own
I use Bluegrass-a lavender cologne as aromatherapy very occasionally in the house, but not when going out. Lavender is anti stress.