BREAKING BEAUTY NEWS: Use Of Fragrances And Perfumes Banned In Certain Cities And Government Establishments
Do you ever wonder if you put too much perfume on in the morning? Well, you might have, especially if you’re visiting Tuttle, Oklahoma. According to USA Today, the city warns visitors of City Hall to stay at the front of the building if they are wearing perfume, stressing the importance of fragrance-free air for those suffering from allergies. In the article, allergist Clark Kaufman talks about how certain fragrances can trigger asthma and allergy symptoms (which can lead to respiratory infections) to those who are sensitive to certain aromas, “I equate it with cigarette smoke.”
Although the incentive to help those with allergies is acknowledged, not everyone believes in the banning of wearing fragrances in public areas. Elena Solovyov of the International Fragrance Association believes that the use of fragrance “should be guided by personal courtesy and common sense, not by policies or procedures.”
Tuttle, Oklahoma isn’t the first place to experience anti-fragrance laws. Portland, Oregon banned their city workers from wearing any type of fragrance; Harrison Medical Center in Bremerton, Washington asked visitors and employees to bring in “less fragrant” flowers; Bill Lockwood, parks director in Jefferson City, Montana, asked those who attend meetings to “remain as fragrance-free as possible”; and Windom Area Hospital in Windom, Minnesota has been fragrance-free since 1999!
So, ladies, tell us… Have you ever experienced someone commenting on your fragrant perfume? Or has a fragrance in a public place ever bothered you before? If so, let us know and comment below!
- Theresa Romano
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I “smell”
more people with beautiful perfumes/colognes than I do unpleasant ones. There is the occasional “Whoa, that dude put on the bottle today” moments. However, it really doesn’t bother me 
I like, no, I LOVE scent 
It’s so awakening. What if instead they encouraged people to use organic, natural perfumes? On second thought, there are some essential oils that have such a powerful, strong scent. So to answer your question, this ban doesn’t bother me. Probably because I don’t visit hospitals or government buildings 
I will tell you this though; I know all of my male middle eastern friends are going to be pissed about this ban!
I think it’s a GREAT idea to ban perfumes in public places. I have been in many establishments and if someone is wearing a heavy perfume, it worsens my allergies, to the point of having to move to another area where the smell is not as potent, or leave. I feel like since smoking has been baned in most establishments and even outdoors, this is NO different to the health of someone who has health problems! Just my 2cents…
I think everyone has had someone go by them that had on /way/ too much scent. But most of the time, properly applied, you only catch a whiff from someone’s hair or something, and you generally have to be pretty close. It would be one thing to ban perfumes for say, medical personnel, but altogether? No!
yes i think it should because i have issues with some of the perfumes meaning they give me terrible headaches. especially when someone puts on a whole bottle as they call it when the smell is super strong.while i have no problems with the fruity smelling ones it is the ones with the musk in them that causes my headaches.
I love the smell of a good perfume, but I can’t wear any or be around it. I get a full-blown migraine headache. Odors are one of the triggers. For me, that would include perfumes, exhaust, cigarette/cigar smells, freshly-mown grass, potpourri, some laundry detergents, etc.
Many of these smells are wonderful, like freshly-mown grass. But my mother, one of my brothers, and I become so ill when we smell these things.
My mother left church services many times at the very beginning due to someone putting on a strong perfume.
I live not far from Tuttle, Oklahoma. I’d guess that there is at least one person who works at City Hall who shares the same problem that I do.
I have Asthma, and have had to leave many places because the effect of some perfumes. It should be an individuals responsibility to be courteous of others with respect to health problems. Unfortunately on the most part, this isn’t so. [Christmas time is the worst!!!!] I have had to get a pager at medical facilities and wait outside in cold and rain because the effect of anothers perfume was so overwhelming. I instantly feel as tho someone has grabbed my throat and cut off my air supply, I get a migraine and loose my voice. I have to carry a portable nebulizer in my car for such instances. Yes, ask my children, it is scary, and an inconvenience at least. I truly believe that all perfumes should be banned at all medical facilities. And although unlikely at least posted upon entry at all grocery stores and other places that we “ALL” have to go to for people to not enter if their perfume my be too strong for others. Comm’on people have some consideration for others and recognize that “Thank God that you are healthy, some others aren’t”. PLEASE!!!
I wear perfume, but I apply it to where only I can smell it when I sniff my wrist. I’m sorry, but there are way more impervious smells than perfume. Wet paint, gasoline, car exhaust, someone coming back to work after a smoke break. Smells exist in the world, and perfume gets a bad rap. You don’t hear people say “Lysol gives me migraines, we should ban cleaning”. Honestly, if someone’s perfume offends you, ask them to wear less of it if you have to be around them every day. Loud noises give me headaches, but I don’t tell the neighbors to quit mowing their lawns. Sometimes you just have to suck it up.
I do believe that restaurants should ban all employess from wearing fragrances. that is where I notice that it bothers me the most.
What a bunch of nonsense. Now we’re going to get government in on perfume wearing too? What a waste of our tax dollars! What…our country isn’t broke enough?
Truth is, perfume is only strong the first 20 minutes to half hour of applying it. After that, you have to be quite close to a person to smell it.
I think it’s fine to ask people to be courteous about their perfume, but how about Bad Body Odor? MUCH more hard to live with.
How about banning people who work with the public from eating garlic and onions? Want to talk about a stink fest?!?!
Let’s not forget other pollutants:
Noise pollution is horrible! And every idiot that drives a car w/ their music blasting should get a big, fat fine.
And in a hospital…..ewww….I hate that pine scent. Since pine isn’t necessary to clean & disenfect, then how about getting rid of it?
Laundry: Love the smell of fresh, clean laundry? Well perhaps the person next to you in line for their morning coffee doesn’t like it? What then?
If a private business like a restaurant asks their staff not to wear perfume when working, I think that’s fine. But let’s not make rules and regulations about it because the only ones that’ll win this one is…..wait for it…..you guessed it…..they lawyers! I can see the frivolous lawsuits now!
I knew this was coming…all that cigarette banning…what next I said, perfume? Peanut butter? Yes..I am sorry but this is ridiculous. I have had to live with allergies my whole life and so have my children. You LIVE WITH IT and learn your abilities to take this or that. And if you are around someone that bothers you…ask them to not wear it around you. Good God……
Oh my lord, there are so many folks that wear heavy perfume. One set is the elderly, who simply can’t smell as well, on average, so they wind up putting more on. I begin to feel ill if I am exposed too long to most stronger fragrances. The detergent aisle in a store is also a problem. Also, as Clark Kaufman in the article states, it’s like cigarette smoke. AND, here’s something I never see anyone mention, but is an EXTREME invasion into my personal space and NO WAY to get away from it, and something that makes me feel VERY sick for the rest of the day – to all you in-car smokers, do you never think of the folks driving just behind you or around you??? My God! I might as well have your chimney IN my vehicle spewing all that garbage. I start coughing, my eyes and throat are ruined for the rest of the day and I go around teaching, looking and sounding like hell (ie, unprofessional, not to mention long term effects over time), because of your nasty habit and you inflict it on every driver around you AND the interior of their cars. Of course, by the time I am affected by it, I turn off my vents, but it is too late as it has already contaminated my system and my “smoke-free” vehicle. Get a clue you inconsiderate smokers. That smoke coming out of your cigarette is a LOT stronger than you think! Not to mention all the children in those cars around you are contaminating. Just wonderful that you take no responsibility in handing out so much secondhand smoke to untold numbers of children and folks such as me. But, since you don’t know them and you don’t take responsibility for your actions and feel other people should suffer for your habit, you will, of course, dismiss everything I bring up here. THAT is what I truly consider unforgivable. They should make smoking in cars in traffic, illegal, or make a vent system that keeps all the smoker’s poisonous air in their own vehicle.
Breaks my heart to see some of the non caring responses. 9 months ago life changed for me – now all i need is just a whiff of perfume, shampoo, spray deodorant and my ability to speak or think greatly diminishes. Instant migraine, nausea, my skin begins to bleed, my legs go weak, my life is a nightmare.
By the sounds of it – people calling it rubbish and nonsense – my life will be a nightmare till the day i die. No relief and no hope.