Chemical Sensitivity!

[dreamrawalwz]

It's getting worse! Or maybe the entire world is coming into my store wearing essential oils (ylang ylang specifically), or perfumes or...something! Oh, don't forget smoke! I swear, person after person kept coming in. Soon the smells all mixed together and just lingered in the air. I got a piercing headache, watery/burning eyes, nausea, light headed and dizzy. I hope I don't offend, but don't people smell themselves!? My store is little and when 10 people fill the store with all different perfumes and or smoke it's not fun! I try to hide in the tiny back room, but it follows me some how haha.

Had to vent! I'm not sure if there's a thing I can do about it excpet try to walk away. haha, I suggested we post a sign "if you're wearing perfum or smoke, go away!" lol. Not too good for business though is it?

[Raw Vegan Mama]

I have the same issue --- it runs in my family. I have heard of churches putting in their flyers so the little ol' ladies don't drown themselves in yucky perfume.;) My grandma is upset cause her church won't do it, and she has runny eyes, nose and sneezing through the whole service.:(

There is a lady in my building who wear a nasty scent....I feel so sick when I get in the elevator after she has been inside. It lingers for hours, too. But I also feel lightheaded when I am out with my girlfriends, and they wear decent perfume. It is just with any fake scent (candles, room spray, etc.) -- the Yankee Candle Store... OMG! I can't go in there!

What can we do about this????:)

[Pierre]

I can understand being irritated by artificial scents, but not by ylang-ylang. Are you sure it's ylang that's bothering you, or is it imitation ylang, or is it the cacosphresy of all those different scents? Try smelling some pure ylang, and see if it bothers you. If it does, suspect a detox.

Ylang, by the way, shares a scent receptor with banana. When I was just starting to make scents, I ate a banana, and had the weird sensation that it smelled like ylang.

My favorite perfume is a simple mixture of ylang and patchouli, diluted with jojoba. I'm in the process of formulating another blend, including star anise, may chang, geranium, and those two.

[konmai]

oh haha. guys. i'm sorry. at times, i am immune to my own smell seriously. i'm not sure about others though. :p

[dreamrawalwz]

I can understand being irritated by artificial scents, but not by ylang-ylang. Are you sure it's ylang that's bothering you, or is it imitation ylang, or is it the cacosphresy of all those different scents? Try smelling some pure ylang, and see if it bothers you. If it does, suspect a detox.

Ylang, by the way, shares a scent receptor with banana. When I was just starting to make scents, I ate a banana, and had the weird sensation that it smelled like ylang.

My favorite perfume is a simple mixture of ylang and patchouli, diluted with jojoba. I'm in the process of formulating another blend, including star anise, may chang, geranium, and those two.

I just do not like the smell of ylang or patchouli or start anise (anything that smells like licorious. Wow, I can not spell today)! Haha. Well yesterday this lady came in and I could no figure out the smell, but it was just over the top and after all these other smells came in. After they left my manager said it was ylang and that she could tell they just came from a massage place we have in the shopping center. It may have been an imitation. I have smelled ylang pure essential oil and I do not have a phsycial reaction. I just hate that smell of the pure oil.

[ocean]

I hate strong perfume also. I think people either don't take a shower or when they smoke they actually think a spray of perfume will cover this up!..ha ha Strong perfumes, chemicals, paint, cigerate smoke give me a bad headache also!