Perfumes!! What are Your Favorites..

My absolute favorite perfume is ANGEL INNOCENT by THIERRY MUGLER. It is soo amazingly wonderful!!!! It's a light, very elegant scent- but it lasts for ages....i adore it!

My other favorites are:

ANGEL by THIERRY MUGLER
Be Deliscious -DKNY
Beyond Paradise - Estee Lauder
Chanel #5
Dream Angels Heavenly & also Divine - Victorias Secret

I wear lolita lempicka, but I would love a jo malone

WARNING: fragrances are toxic to people and the environment. As some posters said, it gives them headache's etc. It causes respiratory problems, and is polluting our water, because you wash it down the drain everyday. Not just your perfume, but fragrance in cleaning products etc. Here is one link, there are hundreds of them. http://www.heall.com/medicalfreedom/toxicfragrance.html
Fragrance companies don't have to list what is in their product, because they say it is "trade secret". PLEASE, those of you who wear this, realize you are offensive, and hurting many of us around you. Can't you save it for your intimate moments with your SO? We don't really care if you smell like cookies.
You don't have to stink. There are many natural, herbal products out there, and you can make your own by purchasing 100% essential oils and mixing them with Epsom salts.
Please, please, please consider other herbal stuff, and give us and the environment, and yourself! a break. Just because it isn't making you cough, or your eyes water, or give you a headache, doesn't mean it isn't damaging your health. The effects may come out years later. Search for alternatives, here is one http://www.indigowild.com/shopping/n...-milk-soap.cfm, there are many.
Public perfume, is just like public smoking IMO. It should be banned, and I bet one day it will.

Originally Posted by gailuvscats

WARNING: fragrances are toxic to people and the environment. As some posters said, it gives them headache's etc. It causes respiratory problems, and is polluting our water, because you wash it down the drain everyday. Not just your perfume, but fragrance in cleaning products etc. Here is one link, there are hundreds of them. http://www.heall.com/medicalfreedom/toxicfragrance.html
Fragrance companies don't have to list what is in their product, because they say it is "trade secret". PLEASE, those of you who wear this, realize you are offensive, and hurting many of us around you. Can't you save it for your intimate moments with your SO? We don't really care if you smell like cookies.

You don't have to stink. There are many natural, herbal products out there, and you can make your own by purchasing 100% essential oils and mixing them with Epsom salts.
Please, please, please consider other herbal stuff, and give us and the environment, and yourself! a break. Just because it isn't making you cough, or your eyes water, or give you a headache, doesn't mean it isn't damaging your health. The effects may come out years later. Search for alternatives, here is one http://www.indigowild.com/shopping/n...-milk-soap.cfm, there are many.
Public perfume, is just like public smoking IMO. It should be banned, and I bet one day it will.

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I understand your point, but don't you think this post is a bit aggressive? :/

Originally Posted by emrldsky

I understand your point, but don't you think this post is a bit aggressive? :/

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uhhhhhhhhh, no.

Originally Posted by gailuvscats

PLEASE, those of you who wear this, realize you are offensive, and hurting many of us around you

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I think this line is a little harsh to be honest?. I don't wear perfume to offend anyone, and i only know of one person that is affected by it, and that's if theres several people in the same room wearing perfume.

Originally Posted by gailuvscats

It should be banned, and I bet one day it will.

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I really can't see that happening?. Unlike passive smoking that used to be on the news and in the newspapers, i've never seen perfume being blasted.

Originally Posted by gailuvscats

There are many natural, herbal products out there, and you can make your own by purchasing 100% essential oils and mixing them with Epsom salts.
Please, please, please consider other herbal stuff, and give us and the environment, and yourself! a break.

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The stuff I mentioned that I use is natural/herbal (Weleda) using essential oils, and they list all their ingredients on the bottle.

Originally Posted by Rosiemac

I think this line is a little harsh to be honest?. I don't wear perfume to offend anyone, and i only know of one person that is affected by it, and that's if theres several people in the same room wearing perfume.

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I sometimes get nasty headaches if I'm for example standing in line and someone nearby is wearing a strong perfume... Unfortunately your sense of smell becomes desensitized to things if you smell them constantly so a lot of people don't realize when they are using too much perfume because they can't smell it!
The worst is when someone walks past and a cloud of perfume scent follows them for several feet...ugh, that almost always gives me a headache!

I think that's extreme, too, even though I won't even walk through the men's fragrance department at Macy's because I can't stand the smells. When I used to wear perfume, I only wore enough so that someone very close to me could detect it -- not someone at a normal social distance. In my observation, most (though not all, unfortunately) people do the same.

I do agree with you, Gail, that smoking should be banned entirely, because smoking forces poisons on everyone within several yards of the smoker, and it permeates fabrics and other surfaces as well. And I would also agree that perfume ingredients should be listed like those on any other product intended for skin contact.

But perfume is not necessarily "offensive" to any but those rare few who have an abnormally high chemical sensitivity. If, heaven forbid, that extreme level of sensitivity becomes more widespread... then I could come to support your view.

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I do agree with you, Gail, that smoking should be banned entirely, because smoking forces poisons on everyone within several yards of the smoker, and it permeates fabrics and other surfaces as well. And I would also agree that perfume ingredients should be listed like those on any other product intended for skin contact.

But perfume is not necessarily "offensive" to any but those rare few who have an abnormally high chemical sensitivity. If, heaven forbid, that extreme level of sensitivity becomes more widespread... then I could come to support your view.[/quote]

It is not a rare few, respiratory problems are rapidly increasing due to many factors, fragrances being one of them. "smoking forces poisons on everyone within several yards of the smoker, and it permeates fabrics and other surfaces as well". Perfume and fragrance does exactly the same thing. You avoid men's cologne due to your repulsion by it. If that same cologne is on a man that you have to stand next to for a length of time, does it not bother you? The level of sensitivity is wide spread, it is just the ones who want to wear it that refuse to acknowledge not everyone finds their smell delightful. Just as smokers resisted smoking being banned, so go the fragrance wearers. One day it will be banned because it is bad for everyone exposed to it and the enviornment. There are "green" alternatives. Give them a try. You can smell good and be healthy at the same time.

I like Britney Spears Curious, but I rarely wear it anymore. I'm a full time student and one of my teachers last semester had scent sensitivities (my Mom does too). So usually I wear a light body spray for school, like Bath & Bodyworks Rice Flower & Shea or Avon Banana Coconut (it's lighter than most coconut sprays tend to be). Right now, I'm not working/summer break so I've been using fruitier sprays.

My DH wears Hugo and Calvin Klein. He has another one that smells but I can't remember what it's called.

But people aren't sensitive to the same chemicals. One person may be sensitive to chanel no 5, while another can't be in the same room as someone who wears J'adore. The fragrance industry is so huge, and uses so many chemicals (natural or otherwise) for so many things that the idea of banning fragranced products is unrealistic.

Originally Posted by gailuvscats

...Perfume and fragrance does exactly the same thing...

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Well, not really -- smoke is much more aggressive, being propelled into the atmosphere by burning, and the particles that make up smoke are relatively huge. Also, we know for a fact that cigarettes contain carcinogens and other outright poisons, whereas many fragrances contain nothing more than alcohol and essential oils. So I really don't think you can equate the two.

Originally Posted by gailuvscats

You avoid men's cologne due to your repulsion by it. If that same cologne is on a man that you have to stand next to for a length of time, does it not bother you?

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Sure it does! But that doesn't give me the right to make it illegal for him to use it. It just means I should avoid getting on the elevator with him!

I still remember the smell of the cold, pristine breeze coming down from the Cairngorm mountains in the highlands of Scotland when we were there in 2001. It was the sweetest air I've ever tasted, and I felt healthier just taking a deep breath.

So I do get your point, Gail, and I agree that our air is overloaded with chemicals, especially in cities. And when buying household products, I choose Unscented every time. But I'm more concerned about the exhaust of millions of automobiles, the fumes of thousands of factories, and the effects of second-hand smoke than about the use of fragrance.

"Also, we know for a fact that cigarettes contain carcinogens and other outright poisons, whereas many fragrances contain nothing more than alcohol and essential oils. So I really don't think you can equate the two."

You can equate the two. Fragrance contains carcinogens and other outright poison. Fragrances that are natural are not the problem. Don't take my word for it. Look it up.Chemical Fragrance is carcinogenic. It is worse than cigarette smoke.

my mom has about 10 bottles of perfume on her dresser, I think that's the only thing my dad knows how to buy for her

I'm not big on wearing perfume, I'm more of a body spray person, but a woman at work wears Pleasures and it is divine!

my favorite men's cologne is Obsession, a little old fashioned, but that stuff makes me it's like a Pavlov's dog reaction

There are also some natural aromatic compounds that are carcinogenic. And most synthesized aromatic chemicals are not carcinogenic.

Carcinogenic compounds are found in many products including paint, cat litter, toilet cleaner, adhesives, flea powder, moth repellent, correction fluid and shoe polish. By now they are almost certainly in the air we breathe and the water we drink.

Natural compounds are not automatically better than synthetic ones.

Here are just a few reports.


http://www.ei-resource.org/columns/m...ed-by-the-epa/
http://www.americanchronicle.com/articles/69797
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/local/...agrance23.html


http://www.legalworkplace.com/bannin...ation-pla.aspx
http://www.immuneweb.org/articles/perfume.html

*sheepish look* I'll stay on topic from now on

Does anyone wear gourmand perfumes? Someone mentioned Thierry Mugler's Angel as having a dessert like quality to it. I love perfumes/shampoos/body creams that smell like dessert, which is why I frequently shop at Lush.
I use their soft coeur and Each Peach massage bars, and frequently use them as solid perfumes.

I love Sand & Sable, and have used nothing else for years now. As soon as I finish combing my hair in the morning I spritz some on.