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Is anyone else out there really, really sensitive to most scented stuff? I wish I knew what caused it. Since my youth I have always felt kind of assaulted by typical perfumes, but in recent years I have found my face and/or respiratory system feeling very bothered by many scented soaps and things like fabric softener. We have a baby soap right now that we have only used a couple of times but I find its strong scent so intolerable I am ready to throw it away and buy something different. We don't use fabric softener or scented laundry detergent, but when we get hand-me-downs for our kids from people we do, I really find it uncomfortable to breathe the scent in until they have been washed again without it and the scent has gone away. Using even the Aveeno body wash we have right now leaves a scent that irritates me and I really regretted when I used Aveeno shampoo on my long hair that would fall over my face. I think I am OK with certain soap and shampoo scents, though, so it's not all of them that are a problem. I do avoid scented products when I can.
I don't know if it is my sinuses, are there allergens at issue, or might I even have something akin to asthma? (I often have to open the window for easier breathing when something is being cooked on the stove. And I have always tended to have a bronchitis-type cough for a long time after a cold.) These scents cause a similar reaction in me to what cigarette smoke does.
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I don't know Theresa, but I don't think there would be any harm in looking into simple helps for allergy/asthma symptoms. for instance increasing vit. C can be ones such help. And I've heard that nettle (tea or capsules) can help with those as well.
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Theresa, I have no idea if this is related to your problem, but I have become very sensitive to smells, especially chemically based smells, over the last few years. This is also a time that I have been diagnosed as having adrenal insufficiency. I know the adrenal problem is related to increase allergies, so maybe it is related to chemical sensitivity as well? I can only light unscented beeswax candles around here, as the scented or non-natural (petroleum) based candles really bother me. They don't stuff me up or make me sneeze, they just distress me somehow and make me feel like I can't breathe (even though I'm breathing fine). It's kind of weird, actually!
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I am right there with you. I can't stand chemical kind of perfumes. I do better with essential oils, but I can't tolerate most of those either. I feel awful if we are somewhere, like Mass, and someone is wearing perfume, it goes beyond me 'not liking it'........I truly can't breath and feel awful. It has gotten much worse as I age. I used to wear Clinique's perfumes myself!!! I feel so bad that I would wear them to work as a nurse, and couldn't understand why some patients got so angry when I walked in with my perfume, how incredibly thoughtless of me. 
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