Yes, there is: Aqua Velva, my ex's favorite.

Those are all my favorites!

Oh ya, Yuk! When I was a teacher, I must have gotten every known men's fragrance by Avon too. They were all bad!

Body chemistry can alter the scent of almost anything. Everything my former husband used would turn funky from some kind of condition he had, but he never admitted it--just used more. Fortunately, I have had a good 27 years to forget those...aromas.

I like old spice. Reminds me of my dad. When I encounter a man wearing it I automatically assume he is strong, intelligent and fair. Good thing it went out of favor.

I like perfume, just not the really strong ones. Poison about kills me (no pun intended?). I think the makers of perfumes have scaled back the assault factor. We have had some real estate agents come to closings in our conference room and being shut in there for an hour with them was a test of perserverance!! Whew!

I like Old Spice too. My dad also wore it -- judiciously -- and it has good associations for me.

And yes -- body chemistry affects how scents work (or not) on different people. There are very few perfumes that I can wear. Some of the most expensive ones smell like Evening in Paris on me. Yuk!! And by way of comparison, Exclamation! (which is a very reasonably-priced fragrance) smells divine!! Go figure............

Many of the older perfumes used real animal gland musk as a base note for their fragrance. Since animal rights activists pretty much stopped that, extremely toxic phthalates are used in their place.

I am so sickened by today's colognes and other scented products, I can barely leave the house without getting sick. Nowhere I visit - like my dad's house, has scented product. I really know who wants me around by who has an unscented policy.

Back in the day, (1970) I had a sweetheart who used Aqua Velva and it didn't bother me a bit. The chemicals have changed.

That must make life very difficult for you, Linnea.

The worst thing about getting stuck on an elevator is when it is full of professional men and women and they are all wearing a different scent. Talk about needing air!

I hate to think about it, but I was probably one of those overly fragrant folk in my younger, more oblivious, days. Fortunately, I can be a little more subtle these days.

What most people don't realize, is the plethora of disease chemical fragrances cause. Blatantly, 1/4th of the population is allergic, migrainous or asthmatic. But the wearers are changing their endocrine/hormone systems and causing hormone related cancers like breast and prostate. Baby boys are being born with feminized "parts", linked to phthalates in plastics and personal care products their mothers were exposed to. This is increasing enough that there were a number of studies published, appearing in journals and on the web. The day after a nationwide protest asking a large drug store chain to require its suppliers to label the chemicals in fragrances, most of those research reports lost their web presence. I was shocked the chemical industry could censor the web in the blink of an eye.

Asthma is the number one reason for absenteeism from schools. It is also a huge expense medically. Asthma would be significantly reduced if chemical fragrances were illegal. I believe, fragrances will go the way of cigarettes and be unacceptable in all public places.

We also can't filter the chemicals out of our waste water. Every fragrance user contaminates our water when they bathe and wash their clothes.

I am a super loner, so I don't miss hanging out with crowds or being able to work with others. Really, the most difficult thing for me is dealing with shopping or going to the Post Office, and especially any public restrooms with all the fragrant soap and air fresheners (polluters). That being said, I am the healthier for it. If I didn't notice the poisons, I wouldn't know to avoid them.

Linnea - my sensitivity to aromas isn't as acute as yours, but I do have it. I find myself holding my breath while walking down the household products aisle in grocery stores. It's an assault!

The natural scent from flowers doesn't bother me at all - just the chemical ones.

Most natural things don't bother me either. I put Patchouli oil all over me if the mosquitoes are out. I have been using Blue Chamomile oil on clients with inflammation. I use Cedar oil on clients who need some power Chakra work. The Neroli doesn't wash out of the sheets for eternity, so I stopped using that oil. Massage clients don't get anything on their skin that they couldn't eat. Nonetheless, I don't use these things in public so I don't make someone else sick.

Flowers outside in the air are always okay. I did have to move the I. pallidas and Fabian outside. I had cut 3 flowers to ID them with the HIPS pictures and I got pretty stuffed up. Honorabile isn't so smelly.

When I ID my gazillion noIDs, I may have to use an exhaust fan. Or maybe by then I will have a laptop so I can go out to the flowers.