Re: [TANGO-L] Oh No! odours

[Ilona Koren-Deutsch <ilonakd @YAHOO.COM>]

--- astrid <astrid  @RUBY.PLALA.OR.JP> wrote:

> Now, on that etiquette paragraph Ilona sent, I saw
> another point: "Go easy
> on the perfume and eau de cologne." Since I love
> perfume, the costly French
> and Italian kind, not the cheap stuff from the
> corner drugstore, I would
> like to ask the list: Is perfume, even a good one, a
> problem to many?

I'd say it depends on how much perfume, not on how
much it costs. I was always told that the correct
amount of fragrance for a woman means that a man can
smell it only when he's close enough to kiss you.  (My
grandma had a way with words.) But that's probably a
fair point - I like fragrance, in small amounts. But
if someone's wearing enough for me to smell them when
they enter a room, it'll give me an asthma attack.
Amounts in between depend on the type of fragrance -
there are some notes to which I'm allergic, but others
are great.  I believe fragrance allergies aren't
uncommon.

-Ilona