| Canada ban on Perfumes
Posted: 3/1/2007 4:55:09 PM |
But I would prefer that people don't bathe in scents which leaves behind them a trail similar to that of a skunk ... lingering in the air for a long while after it has spayed & passed by.
I have sensitivity to smell myself, but not as some of you describe for yourselves. Still, I cannot stand it when someone reeks of their perfume. It's an instant headache for me too.
My problem with the "banning" of scents is that it is a little too big brother-ish for me. I am all for forcing people who wear way too much in the office to tone it down, but I begin to have big problems with the idea that my employer has the right to tell me which shampoo scent I may or may not use.
I am not anti-authority - but this is where I draw the line.
Truthfully, overly noticeable scents are inappropriate for an office environment anyway. A little spray is okay, but when people know you had walked by 5 minutes after the fact because your perfume/cologne is still lingering is over the top. | |
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| Canada ban on Perfumes
Posted: 3/1/2007 5:32:25 PM | Control, control, and more control.
I have to agree with serenitycw on this. She stole the words right out of my mouth:
perhaps an alternative would be to identify the toxic chemicals used by "some" manufacturers and then ban the ingredients. also it would be good to have perfume bottles "labeled". i have some deadly reactions to certain perfumes and not to others. however, this means changing the scents in bath soap, laundry products, etc. and i imagine it would be an easier path to id and eliminate the toxins.
I sympathize with those who have this "disability" in which scents make them sick.
I get migraines sometimes triggered from many things--sometimes perfume depending on what it is and how strong it is--gasoline is a kicker.
I do sympathize, however I don't feel a ban is necessary. Can't you wear nose-plugs or a doctor's mask? Are there any allergy medications you could take? (Could it be allergies and not a "disability"?)
I'm sorry you have this problem. (Especially because I LOVE the smell of perfumes and flowers, scented detergent and so on. I wouldn't like not being able to enjoy these beautiful smells.) But I disagree with this ban enitrely--especially the ones that ban ALL scented ANYTHING.
I don't like the smell of meat cooking... makes me nauseas as well as many others in the world. let's just ban meat production, too? Hey! And if you don't like the smell of coffee? POOF! No more coffee at work for you! And that Chai certainly has a strong smell... none of that either!
I don't like things either, but we can't just ban something because a lot of people don't like it.
Peanuts kill people, but they're still around.
Get my drift?
Rules. Laws. Rules. Just bend-over. It makes fvcking you over a lot easier. | |
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| Canada ban on Perfumes
Posted: 3/1/2007 5:43:30 PM | | I use perfume. I intend to continue using perfume. I don't use it excessively, but I do like smelling nice. | |
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| Canada ban on Perfumes
Posted: 3/1/2007 6:04:24 PM | The reasoning behind this has more to do with the fact that some of the chemicals in fragrances can trigger respiratory distress in some people. So while these chemicals can cause a headache in some individuals it can seriously endanger the lives of people who suffer from asthma and other respiratory disorders. Even though it may seem like it's a waste of money, do a comparison between campaigning to make people aware of this situation and the money that's spent on heath care because someone was exposed to a trigger that made it necessary for them to seek medical attention and perhaps end up being hospitalized.
As for the City of Ottawa trying to impose a ban on scents in public places, I don't believe that is a feasible goal. I think they should just stick to educating the public about the dangers of chemicals in fragrances and let the public make up their own minds. Also, the government should implement a policy of using non-scented soaps and cleaning supplies in government buildings.
Having said that, my work place has a policy of "no spraying perfumes in the facility" due to the fact that the mist could trigger an attack in some individuals. The irony of this is, many of the individuals that will belly ache about spraying of perfumes because they suffer from respiratory disorders are the same individuals that will go outside to have a cigarette or 2 then come back inside and assault my sense of smell with the remnants of their cigarette. | |
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Posted: 3/1/2007 6:15:46 PM | I know the word for this, its BOHICA.
Seems like there are other more important issues around that they can be working on.
There always seems to be at least one stinky person in every office. And the dreaded sign, "Scent free workplace". I never understood that sign because there is a scent there allright, a very bad one. The signs should read "Good scent free workplace".
People seem to be born weaker and weaker these days. Its not their fault though but I am sure that the rest of us will have to go through all the hoops for them if not we will be living on the street and smell real bad anyway.
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e-wok
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Joined: 9/25/2006
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| Canada ban on Perfumes
Posted: 3/1/2007 6:41:38 PM |
First they came for the addicts.
But I was not an addict.
Bad people. Dangerous people.
Better off our streets.
Then they came for the drunkards.
But I was not a drunkard.
Bad people. Dangerous people.
Better off our streets.
Then they came for the smokers.
But I was not a smoker.
Bad people. Dangerous people.
Better off our streets.
Then they came for the perfume wearers...things majig....then I said HA! HA!
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Posted: 3/1/2007 6:43:19 PM | Used to have this one customer come in...and I'd start sneezing my head off...you try serving someone while having a sneezing fit. Not pleasant for either of us...and being on alone at the time, there isn't any choice about letting someone else do the job.
Same goes with peanut butter...to how many of us was that a staple in our lunches when we went to school? Outlawed in many schools now, because of a few
I wouldn't want scents outlawed...I like the smell of perfume on women....sure...some will make me go into a sneeze attack...but not all them!
Perhaps the idea of "natural scent"....with a shower a day to scrap off excess odour is the wave of the future.
Many of us use soaps that kill off bacteria...which, in turn, lessens our immune systems. But, not bathing often enough also produces its problems too. | |
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Posted: 3/1/2007 8:16:49 PM | Get a life! Next thing you know they will want to ban eating cheeseburgers on Friday!!
You can pry my Chanel No.5 from my dead cold hands!! | |
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Posted: 3/1/2007 8:57:53 PM | Oh, Canada! From sea to smelly sea.
We too can change the message on the unperfumed Statue of Liberty: Send me your tired, your hungry and smelly....
I'm sure we will have "smell rights" nosing its way into the US before too long. ' ' | |
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Posted: 3/1/2007 9:32:22 PM | Ottawa's a little different. I'm from Montreal and this city is dirty, the people are dirty, we drive fast, we don't signal, we litter, we have whores and junkies, we drink beer in the park
you drive 1.5 hours to Ottawa it's a different world, nice gardens, nobody pollutes, no cigarette butts anywhere... some health nut on a bicycle even yelled at me cuz I didn't signal... bunch of wierdos | |
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Posted: 3/1/2007 10:18:26 PM | ^^^^ hahahahahhahahahahahahhahahhahhahahahaha
Yeah, it's pretty weird to not want to be run over by an inconsiderate driver.
And gardens?!!! Cleanliness?!!!
Weird, weird people, I tell you. I hope they don't find their way around my town, cleaning up and making it look nice, expecting people to behave decently towards each other. What IS this world coming to?
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Posted: 3/2/2007 1:57:51 AM | | I wasn't being inconsiderate at all. I was looking for a street I could turn right cuz it's all one way streets down there. I saw the one I wanted, but there's was a bike coming up behind me on the right, so I was going to wait for him to pass cuz with the mirrors and the topper I had on my truck you never know how close they are. But the guy just had to cop an attitude anyway like a grown man riding a bicycle in traffic makes him the road police. See what you get for trying to be nice. That's one thing Montreal and Ottawa have in common. | |
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Posted: 3/2/2007 8:14:15 AM | My workplace already has scent bans (but it's a hospital). Flowers for sick people? Furrget
it. Now you have to bring plastic flowers. Which is fairly appropriate, especially if you are on a cancer ward where half the folks are nauseous anyway.
But I like to scent up for my man sometimes.
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Posted: 3/2/2007 6:20:35 PM | This has been an interesting thread. I developed Meniers syndrome (disease) several years ago.
For a long time I was very ill and it was a long process working out what triggered off the attacks....
Nicotine was one but I also found it was triggered off by strong perfume and some flowers, in particular lilies.
This was discovered when I went to visit my daughter in hospital after the birth of my first grandchild. Something which should have been such a happy moment in my life was marred by my having to be admitted into the casualty ward...
One learns to deal with something like this but I do sometimes wonder if people knew how much 'suffering' they caused someone else ..... would they really still do the things they do. | |
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Posted: 3/4/2007 7:48:59 PM | I don't think that it is possible to completely ban purfumes. I definitely think that some people need to be informed that it is not necessary to cover every inch of their body with scents. The "scent-free" policy is in place at my place of employment. There are co-workers of mine that get migraine's when they have a scent of any cologne or purfume.
Just because a policy, or even a law for that matter is in place does not necessarily mean that it will work. Policy or not - co-workers of mine still wear purfume and cologne. The discipline they receive? None. What do we expect to happen? For a law to work there needs to be some sort of punishment for violating it. I just do not see imprisonment or even a fine being considered for "Use of fragerance". The whole idea seems ridiculous. | |
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Joined: 9/25/2006
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| Canada ban on Perfumes
Posted: 3/4/2007 8:39:17 PM | Nicotine was one but I also found it was triggered off by strong perfume and some flowers, in particular lilies.
There needs to be some class action launched against the perfume-cartel. They
have known the affects of second hand perfume for a very long time and
it's all over the news yet ya still see them churning these bottle 24/7.
BTW; ladies, the floral perfumes...umm...DAMN!...DISGUSTING! But it seems
it's always the older ladies that wear 'em so most of you I'm sure
have good taste. | |
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Posted: 3/5/2007 6:48:25 PM | | I'm sure there a solution to this problem right under our noses!The women of Canada are very beautiful and the loss of perfume would have no effect on that what so ever!!! | |
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Posted: 3/7/2007 2:52:09 PM | I think its good that Canada is at least brining to light the fact that chemicals in perfumes can be harmful to people, many women use alot of perfume every day and have no idea they could be harming their health. I know some women could care less if perfume and other fragrances they use are possibly harming their health, but many women would care if they found out about it.
Myself I try to stick to only natural deodorants and fragrances and avoid the artificial stuff most people use. | |
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Posted: 3/7/2007 6:52:09 PM | I think it is a bit "big-brotherish" to have scent free legislated (and yes I understand that they are not legislating it right now)
However, I also hate walking down a hallway, not a person in sight, yet being able to smell their cologne/perfume.
Or walking into a training session and it smells like a whore convention - 10 or 15 different perfumes stinking it up.
A scent free world wouldn't be a bad thing in my mind, but I don't like to think of my tax dollars going to enforce it.
I have been known to mutter at strangers "got a bit of perfume on today eh?"  | |
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Posted: 3/7/2007 11:23:55 PM | First of all, I think they should worry about enforcing the laws that are already on the books instead of wasting money on things that make no sense.
For example, our local transit system has been spending megabucks to install elevators in the subways as a result of a lawsuit over being "accessible" (as I understand it) instead of increasing funding to the special transit buses designed to accommodate mobility devices like wheelchairs and such. The elevators are used for baby carriages more than anything else - and fat old broads like me with bad knees.
Back to the issue of scents - to suggest that the only choices are smelling of perfume or smelling of body odour is rather extreme, don't you think?
I had a very good friend from Germany who complained that because of the constant use of perfumed soaps women in North America did not smell (or taste) as good as women in Europe. A bidet is a much healthier way to cleanse one's nether regions than scented soap!
I have not used antiperspirant for many years because of reported links between aluminum and Alzheimer's. I do use a natural deodorant (I think it's called Ombra); again a lot of people don't get the difference between trying to stop sweating and trying to stop smelling bad! And I use carbolic soap, which is a natural antibacterial antifungal with no lingering scent.
I used to work on a tenant hotline and one of our callers was a woman with severe environmental allergies. She had no recourse under Ontario law to force her landlord to make the necessary repairs to the place she was renting (changing the flooring material for example) and it was going to be a b!tch for her to move as this was a rural property and there were farms animals involved!
I actually have a very different problem; because of chronic allergic rhinitis I can't smell anything (if my sinuses every clear up completely so will my sense of smell). This means I have to rely on other people to choose scents for me, as I only feel really "dressed up" for an evening if wearing cologne or perfume.
Many people had told me that the Body Shop's Vanilla scent was really nice on me but I stopped using it a few years ago when this guy I was crazy about told me I smelled like a donut!  | |
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Posted: 3/8/2007 9:29:31 AM | | whatever happened to freedom of choice? there should be special designated bars who smokers can go and others where smellers can splash on cologne and go sniff each other. | |
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Joined: 9/30/2005
Msg: 48 | |
| Canada ban on Perfumes
Posted: 3/8/2007 8:54:33 PM | | I'm allergic to Avon perfume; makes me sneeze my head off. I agree that they should work with the manufacturers on what ingredients to substitute for something else. They make hypo allergetic makeup; why not perfume? As for people wearing too much; just have a little talk,,,,,,,,, | |
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Posted: 3/8/2007 9:23:31 PM | So one city makes an action to 'educate' people on the perils of scent in a single city in Canada and will 'look' at the possibility of a ban in 3 years.
It is this kind of passivity and couldn't-care-less attitude that has allowed that social poison called political correctness to reach the stage it has. Here in New Zealand (the country they call 'Godzone'), on a per-capita basis, we have more people behind bars than any other country, one of the highest rape levels in the world, and shocking child abuse. In fact, our rate of child abuse is so high we got a special mention from that interesting organisation called the United Nations. Meanwhile, cars are belching out fumes here at an alarming rate. One child in three lives without his father, and one child in three lives below the poverty line. The amount of rape here is astonishing. And the divorce levels continue to rocket. What we need now, more than anything, is for the New Zealand government to follow suit with politically correct Canada and declare perfume a social threat. Forget the smoking in public, forget all the -isms, like racism, ageism, sexism; let's roll the sleeves up and get down to the real issue - perfume! | |
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Posted: 3/10/2007 8:37:20 PM | All this whining and complaining but its ok for them to drive their SUVs to the public buildings that perfumes will be banned. So the fresh sent of diesel exhaust from the big dirty bus is ok? but being on it and smelling better is against the law.
Our country has turned into a nanny police state, who are the control freaks that come up with this?
I agree that some people put on too much perfume and it seems to be the cheap stuff that burns the back of your throught when you are 20 feet away but really, come on already! | |
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