For the throngs of people who stopped by today and noticed that the comments section doesn’t work on my brilliant Life Gives You Lemons post (just how prescient was that title?), stay tuned, the forces of good are at work on this glitch.
Here’s a great image I haven’t been able to work into a post:
Seriously, I had problems yesterday too: for me it was glitches trying to get images into my posts in a correct manner.
I think the internets got broken yesterday.
I don’t want to come off as a curmudgeon or misanthrope, but there ARE indeed smells that have a completely opposite effect to what the user (and the makers!) intended!! And it does not seem to be any particular odor that irritates…
With regards to perfumes and allergies, I was never bothered by fragrances until the last 5 or 6 years. Some perfumes make me physically ill to the point that if I encounter them in a line in a market or store while shopping, I actually have to leave—get away from the person who has bathed in the scent, so to speak!
I have learned that in many fragrance products manufacturers have switched from natural, animal-based musks and mineral based scents to plant and fruit based oils and scents. Therein seems to lay the problem. I actually live among the scents of gardenia and magnolia. Those fragrances have never bothered me until recently—since manufacturers synthesized the esters and concentrated them to the point they irritate the mucous lining of my eyes, nose and throat and those of some other people also, I have recently learned.
I do not want people to stop using fragrances, nor do I think they should be removed from any products. I just want to make people aware that some odors annoy, not please others.