I really enjoy perfume and smelling the scent when someone walks buy.
The only time someone gripes about perfume is usually a individual who wears no make up and hair do that looks like she has worked out in the garden all day. Thoses who are say they sensitive are full of it and I am not tip toeing around them and their complaints cause you will see them @ Macys shopping and that place you breath nothing but colon and perfume!!!

"Macys shopping and that place you breath nothing but colon and perfume!!!"

If you smell like colon, you have muuuuch bigger problems than what you're spraying on yourself.

Right on, Alishaundra! And LOL Mweep! Perfume odors not only make me sneeze, eyes water and cause breathing difficulty, they keep me from going to places I would like to go. What is it that people are trying to cover up? Do they think their (hopefully) clean, washed bodies stink? Poor things; poor, poor, self-conscious people. There is enough pollution in the air already!

Perfumes also should not be allowed in the work place.Where i work is a lot of cotton and that is hard enough to take then all these people come in wearing all kinds of heavy scents , i'am holding my nose for most of the day because it is very overwhelming.I get very bad headaches after smelling this for about 4 hours and then there are 4 more to go.I can't hold my nose al day and still do my job.

I agree that scents of all kinds should be barred from the work place. A lot of people just overdue it and then you are held captive by the strong scent of their cologne or whatever.

Perfumes definitely should be banned from schools the workplace and I would add medical settings. I have spent many hours in the ER due to severe asthma attacks brought on by perfumes and then aggravated by perfumes worn by the patients and staff. Sad to say Americans are obsessed with scents to the point where it's hard to find soaps, detergents, fabric softeners, deoderants, shampoos and numerous other essentials products that don't overpower you with scent. The latest is aloe vera in laundry products. Why? Do they think my clothes have dry skin or a burn? How ridiculous can you get? Maybe if KT had ever had the experience of not being able to breathe he/she might be a little more tolerant. I have found smokers to be more considerate than those that feel the need to drown themselves in scented products. What are you trying to cover up? Try soap and water - it works.

Perfume and scented products contain many many chemical compounds which can compromise health. Go to www.HEAL.com for the truth about fragrance and its contents. HEAL stands for human ecology action league.

At the rate this culture is going, with political correctness, there will soon be only one smell that is legal: body odor. It will be deemed discriminatory to persecute the people with body odor, but not the people who wear pleasant scents. Eventually, they'll probably also ban fresh flowers because some hypochondriacs are allegedly allergic to them.

Most people that have allergies or asthma that is triggered by perfumes are not usually bothered by natural scents from flowers and such. Do your homework Anne, asthma and allergies are real health problems. To label those suffering from them as hypochondriacs is inaccurate and incredibly intolerant. Someday you, or someone you care about, may suffer from them. If so, I hope you can get over yourself long enough to get them medical help.

Pssssh... why should we be banned from using perfume/cologne just cuz a bunch of allergic people start whining all the time.
If you can't take the heat, stay outta the kitchen.

It still amazes me that so many people are ignorant and intolerant, in this enlightened time. Just because something is not there reality, doesn't make it so. It's not whining just because it doesn't bother you.
After someone has been exposed to a scent for apprx. five min. they can no longer smell it so they put more on and those of us with scent/chemical allergies get to be assaulted.
How shallow and sad.

Not to be an alarmist, but lots of research lately has shown health risks associated with fragrances. In "What's Toxic, What's Not" by Gary Ginsberg and Brian Toal, the authors write, "'Anything with a fragrance will have phthalate that goes with it because [phthalate] is what helps the fragrance stay on your body,' Gary says. Phthalates can lower testosterone levels in males, and Gary says that men and pregnant women should use phthalate-free products."

I don't mind perfume and cologne, but the people who feel they have to marinate in it are just inconsiderate. Try taking a shower instead. You're really not covering up your stink, you're just adding to it.

I have family members who can't be around strong odors. It will make them sick to their stomach and give them a head ache. Its not the cologne or perfume its the amount some people use. I don't know why some people have to bath in it. That is when it becomes offensive or an "air-quality issue."

It does become offensive when a person bathes in the fragrance. A light spay goes a long way. Most frangrances are used inappropriately. I will not sit next to someone who smells like the factory in a restaurant. As a smoker, I am shuned for smoking, so I feel that I can shun someone who bathes in any fragrance that is too much. Prohibit strong fragrances in schools, the work place and in medical areas and you will see less medical problems.

Good for the people who want to ban perfume! I have severe asthma, too, and that's one of my triggers. It would be nice to avoid all the things that are triggers--cigarette smoke included--and in reality, they won't be totally banned ever (otherwise, those poor perfume/cologne makers and tobacco companies would be broke!), but getting a handle on things is nice.

Ban them from everywhere and everything! I have severe reactions to even the slightest amount of the stinking junk! One idiot woman almost killed me on public transportation while I was pregnant!! If the driver hadn't pulled the bus over and told the woman to get off the thing and called an ambulance both me AND my baby would have died!
Over reacting?, I don't think so...my throat closes up, I start turning blue, and tend to lose consciousness. Not to mention the fact that my skin breaks out in disgustingly ugly hives. Over reacting??? I don't think so.
So ban the stupid junk, personally, I kinda like breathing. I think my husband and children like me breathing too. Make it a Global Wide Ban, and fine any moron who dares to make any more of it!

Talk about a bunch of snotty comments! I'm not allergic to perfume, but some people do soooo much of it on that it's nauseating. I was in a Target store and I could smell this woman 50 feet away from me. She had apparently walked down the aisle just as I was coming around. When your scent lingers THAT long, it's too much.

Oh, and to the woman that posted: "Macys shopping and that place you breath nothing but colon and perfume!!!" You MIGHT want to google "colon" and see what END of the human anatomy it's located in...

As a teacher with severe allergies to perfumes/colognes I can understand the idea of banning them. My first class is after morning athletics and the variety of products and the saturation levels of these scents gives me the worst headaches. I sneeze, sniffle, and wipe tears from my eyes for up to two hours every day.

Perfumes can be made up of over 4000 chemicals most of them toxic poisons. There is no orginizations that makes sure perfumes are safe. Anybody and anyone can put whatever in a perfume bottle and sell it. It is never tested, not even the ones made by the large corporations. One out of every 7 children has asthma. People who wear perfume to church, school, restaurants, movies and especially to the doctors office are not only rude, but ignorant and a danger to themselves and all people. Fabric softeners are one of the most toxic products in our homes. We put it on our clothes and then wear them. Don't people realize this goes into your body just like a nicotine patch. Why do you think that so many people get cancer nowadays.It used to be like 1 in 100, now it's like 1 in 10, by 2010 they say it will be 1 in 3 persons who get cancer. Due to the over 4000 man made chemicals invented and not tested since WWII. Go ahead, splash on a little arsenic and formaldehyde with a touch of jasmin and vanilla. Kill yourself, kill your children, cause birth defects so you can wear the latest status scent. You will look cool with no hair from chemo carrying around a child with a hand for an arm. Yeah, you rock on!