Time to ban perfumes from high school?

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...

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!

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.

Reading these comments regarding cologne use and the number of responses from anti-cologne users whining about almost dying due to their sensitive nature makes me wonder....if you are so damn sensitive - shouldn't you carry an inhaler or medication? Sorry folks...you are the minority and sometimes it sucks....and YOU have the responsibility to protect yourself. As for excessive colognes in the schools...HELLO...they are children and when I was in school...inappropriate clothing and even overly heavy cologne would be grounds for being sent home or at least to the locker room to shower the perfume bath off. Geez....America is becoming a bunch of whiners.

ban perfs?wht is this a joke..sry to say but majority carries the vote so if sum1 is allergic to GOOD perfs they shld xcuse theirselves frm the location.perfs cant b banned bcuz 2 out of 30kids in a class reacts to them..if perfs r banned then everyone shld get ready for the NATURAL BODY ODOR>B.O makes me wanna puke then faint n i know majority of ppl agrees with this..now which is better ladies n gents>?

How many rights are we going to lose? before people wake up. can't smoke freely anymore, trying to take a way our right to own guns,and now they tell us we can't smell good, it might be offensive to others!! they already tell us how many days our children can miss from school due to illness. it is up to them, not us parents,who knows our children better than anyone else. seems to me, everytime someone has a dislike, we american people lose another freedom.

perfumes shldnt b banned..students shld b warned to spray with care cuz sum guys guzzle axe in the hallway..sum girls just wont stop sprayin fruity sprays..so too much of everythin is bad..point is perfume shld b limited n less scented instead of banned

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

If you have to breath "colon"
I guess it would make you
sick. It isn't colon but cologne

I BELIEVE ALL PERFUMES SHOULD BE BANNED, I HAVE HAD PEOPLE WALK BIHIND ME AND ONE SNIFF WAS ALL IT TOOK TO GIVE ME A TERRIBLE HEADACHE. A NURSE IN A DR'S OFFICE WAS NEAR ME AND I TOLD HER THE NAME OF THE PERFUME, ESTE...... I ASKED HER TO GET AWAY FROM ME. I USED TO DRIVE FRIENDS TO A BINGO GAME 100 MILES FROM HOME, I HAD NO TROUBLE TELLING THEM, NO PERFUMES IN MY CAR. ONCE I STOPPED AT A SERVICE STATION AND MADE A PASSENGER WASH HERSELF OFF, SHE HAD PUT ON A PERFUME!!! WHY ARE PEOPLE SO STUPID LIKE KT AND KEVIN???

Well, I was going to write to the person who doesn't know the difference between colon and cologne but several people have done that already. Side question: what are schools teaching our children? If one person doesn't know the difference between lab-created stench and the even more noxious scent produced in a colon, there are bound to be countless other people who also do not know.

No one has mentioned an illness called Chronic Fatigue Syndrome and no, it doesn't mean "I get tired."
Only one of the heads of the many-headed human-disabling monster is scent sensitivity.

We who deal with CFS shouldn't also have to endure people who insist on 'whore-baths' in aromas that can cause asthmatic reactions, sinus headaches so bad we wish someone would shoot either the person who reeks of perfume, make-up, hair spray, fabric softener, scented body oil, noxious soaps...all at once and all of the aromas they think are so wonderful clashing with each other, or the sufferers ourselves.

Lesson to the unaware: most of that junk too many people insist on using has petroleum in it.
That's OIL, for those who can't slog through a four-syllable word without wondering what it means.

Petroleum is a component in many too many modern products. Carpet. Carpet padding. Paint. Linoleum. Laundry soap. Dishwashing soap. Pressed "wood" furniture, flooring materials, shelves, anything made from any sort of plastic, etc. Those aren't the only offensive products; were I to try to include all of them, I'd be here all day.

Want to see a CFSer get very ill very quickly? Put that person in your car and go to fill the car's tank with either gasoline or diesel. You'll return to your car and find your passenger pale, sweaty, short of breath, hand(s) pressed to a suddenly-throbbing head and, again, those are just some of the effects.

To those who insist on whore-baths: leave that junk at home! We who cannot tolerate the stuff still have to go out into Your World...it's obvious that allergic or scent-sensitive people have no rights...once in a while if only to replenish our food stashes.

If you MUST put on scents, put one dab under your own nose. You'll be able to smell it and it might not make the person standing behind you in the grocer's check-out line so ill that if they could, they'd just leave the cart of merchandise right there and take their suddenly sicker, on top of already being sick, body home.

Major confession: I actually don't feel it's necessary to leave my garden chores (that comment earlier is still making steam roll out of my ears), go inside, slather on pore-clogging makeup and then go anywhere. I do, however, applaud the idea of taking a shower...gee, what a concept...putting on fresh clothing and then going out into the public.

To those nauseatingly-scented people who claim we who cannot stand the way THEY smell are lying hypochondriacs, I can only hope they never have to deal with the hydra-headed illness or "I'm right and everybody else is wrong and stupid" comments from people like themselves.

And: just because a scented product is expensive, that does not mean it's any more tolerable than less costly products. I've heard "But I paid ____ dollars for this!" too many times.

People who have Chronic Fatigue Syndrome are often very easy to spot. They will be the people brave enough to enter the soaps aisle in any store, where they will have to open the container of soap to see if they can stand it. All too often, they can't.

So please: if you see a person take a deep breath, dash into the soap aisle to grab a bottle of laundry soap, bath soap, whatever, and try to hurry out of range of all those combined odors which don't even include the junk people pour on themselves, get out of the way. We deserve hazardous duty compensation for daring to attempt to do our own shopping.

Do I live in America? Last time I checked we were free to be stupid, stink, smoke, drink whatever. If you don't want to be in the land of the free, leave. No guy I know likes to go in the perfume section of Macy's so don't bleeping go. Or we could change are national ad from the home of the free to lets say home of the wimps who can't get a life.

If perfumes lower a mans testosterone level and women have been wearing perfumes oh lets say, Since we walked out the caves. How come there are so many of us walking around? maybe men like women to smell good, just maybe when it matters testosterone levels rise all by itself. It could be because the study is full of horse pucky. Maybe we should ban flowers or Aunty Bertha's triple berry pie. They all have lingering sents too. Why not just say to heck with it we all all just too dumb and let you overly sensative panty wipes run our lives for us. If you want to give up all your rights fine. Go some where they don't have any. When you vote to give up your rights you're giving up mine too. You might upset our friends at the NRA and we know how they feel about people messing with their rights.

hahaha keep whining allergens. something about the degree of your suffering makes me wonder if your making it up.

seriously, like the guy said. if your that sensitive... your weak. do you know what natural selection is?

i wear cologne, I like girls wearing perfume, and I don't like complainers. take a whiff of inhaler, or better yet the chill pill

Sorry about some who are allergic to scents, but do not wish to stop enjoying beautiful smells myself. I plant flowers for the same reason they're beautiful and wonderful essences that god gave us to enjoy. I wear perfume as a gift to others much the same as i give floral arrangements as a gift. I have had nothing but compliments on smelling so good. It is almost my personal signature. I agree that it can be overdone and inappropriate at maybe a hospital but I beleive I have a right to wear it just as you don't have to if you don't want to! If someone has a disease (allergy)then it is inherent that they will suffer from it not me. I am sympathetic but I have no need to suffer with you as if I was sick. I have a rare disease and it hurts to sit for very long on hard seats does everyone sit on cushions for me or pad everything so i won't hurt no...no..no! enough said.

Many people are allergic to perfumes and fragrances. And some people are really overwhelming with their fragrances. It's annoying and nauseating. People, just spray your fragrance into the air and walk into it. No need to bathe in it, is there?

Add to smoke and perfume, fabric softener.

One of the hardest for me in the workplace or out is the use of the so-called potpourri burning. Coughing and choking every time, not by me who has no asthma, but other co-workers who do.

And while we're on the subject of polluting the air, why don't we address noise pollution? My hard-of-hearing co-worker's cell phone is so loud and so frequent, it's hard to hear anyone on the phone or to concentrate.

Cat wrote...
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.

So in this statement you're also saying that people with sensitivities to the scents will no longer be affected by them after 5minutes?

Cat wrote:
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.

So in this statement you're also saying that people with sensitivities to the scents will no longer be affected by them after 5minutes?

I grew up with asthma, my dad has Emphysema. I love fragrances, but I have to use something very light, and lightly. This should apply to all fragrance usage. Use two drops, not a full ounce when you wear it. and to those who think wearing makeup is for those who are "insecure" then you don't fully understand what makeup was designed for in the first place. It's to hide imperfections and flaws, not to hide yourself behind. If anyone more than a foot from you can smell your fragrance, you just put too much on

mmorton wrote:
And while we're on the subject of polluting the air, why don't we address noise pollution? My hard-of-hearing co-worker's cell phone is so loud and so frequent, it's hard to hear anyone on the phone or to concentrate.

Now you are discriminating against the hard of hearing! WOW! Whiners!