scented candles...UGH!

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I feel your pain. I can't even stand to walk by a candle store. Thankfully, my lease prohibits the use of any artificially scented products.

Go stick your nose in any Yankee Candle (leave it to a Yankee) product with the scent CLEAN COTTON on the label - INSTANT SINUS HEADACHE. They make that nasty ammonia reek in a car air freshener! Can you imagine having to be cooped up inside a closed automobile drowning in that!? Consider yourself lucky.

I'm not crazy about most scented candles, though apple and cinnamon scents can be pleasant if they get the formula right - it works much better in a soapstone oil warmer than a candle - and I don't mean that soapy liquid potpourri stuff, I mean actual scented oil. Not petroleum, I think it's made with scented vegetable oil or something like that. Wonder what it would smell like to toss a couple fish oil vitamin supplement caplets into that thing? Mmm, sushi...

Most perfumes seem to have some sort of ammonia base underneath them that makes them unbearable - and the people who wear perfumes (or colognes, I met a cable guy today whose stink stayed in my apartment an hour after he'd left) often seem to feel like they have to BATHE in the stuff or no one will notice.

I've only known TWO people in my entire life who knew how to pick a scent that worked perfectly with their body chemistry. But, OooOooooOoOOohhh, did they smell seeexxXxxy...

OMG YES! In Walmart the other day a girl walked by and I was gagging OMG ICK!! !! !! !! !! !! !! !! !! !! !! !! (and the aisle was busy AHHHHHH!! !! !! !! !! !)

I HATE strong perfumes, but I enjoy the subtle scent of a scented candle or essential oil.

I don't mind one or two scented candles in my home. However, when I walk by a candle store I have to hold my breath because it is SO overwhelming. I would have to wait outside when my grandma would go in those places.

I hate most scented candles. Sometimes they are okay.

I like candles, though. And I buy them in big bags of from the thrift store, some partially burned. It's always a bummer to get a nasty scented one in there.

I like some perfumes a great deal. I have really liked the writing of and about Luca Turin, a perfume-obsessed aspie-like guy who figured out how the sense of smell works. It's in The Secret of Scent. Try to guess.

I'm obsessed with the BPAL perfume oils. Speaking of smelling seeexxXxxy... I've got one that smells like honeyed snatch. Not exactly wearable for me or any man, and probably something a woman would want to use sparingly if at all, but man do I like to sniff the bottle. It is really incredible. Those people can replicate things you'd never imagine an oil could smell like. Such as dust, electricity, and garden-soil.

Ditto here...or just walking past the candle/potpourri/cleaning detergent aisles at any other store

The worst thing (for me) is when incense/candles are burned to mask another odor (a "stoner" friend of mine did this). I ended up smelling not only the petroleum and the wax and the choking scent, but ALSO the underlying pot smell or "dirty apartment" smell or whatever. Gaaaaa!

There is an incense from India made by the followers of a cult leader named Satya Sai Baba that is used primarily to mask weed. You can buy it in any head shop, and it's always prominently displayed. The profits end up in the guru's pocket, which is my main problem with it. I'm told that the smell isn't very pleasant per se, but that it's chosen because it's thick and sweet and effectively covers up pot. And when you're stoned you presumably don't notice. The main goal seems to be to prevent the neighbors from smelling your Herb and calling the cops. I've heard that California weed is more pungent and more powerful than the Mexican stuff that you once could buy in dime bags on the street. The Mexican gangs are growing plenty of Cali nowadays because it fetches higher prices and because it doesn't have to be smuggled across the border. They grow it in the US, in the forests and on the reservations.

I hate scented candles, they make me aggressive

I was out at Hood River, OR this last weekend and I actually came across a candle that I liked. I looked at the label and it was made with beeswax and soy. None of those underlying horrible smells. I didn't smell it when it was lit, but I spent a good seven minutes standing there sniffing it. I must have looked rather odd

I can't bear any kind of smell like that. Most people around me seem to have noses that, were they eyes, would qualify them for a guide dog - smells only seem to register with them once they've reached a level that has me struggling to breathe or wanting to be sick.

I like scented candles but ONLY if the scent is very subtle.

It's the same issue I have with perfumes. I don't hate them, but people use WAY too much.

My mother does that, too, and I don't like it either... she also has the spray crap that makes you feel like you're breathing it in when they spray it... UCK
I feel you're pain, as for the "Why" they just don't see things like we do, or smell them rather, I guess.

~Eilidh

They don't see things, or smell things like you do because they live inside their head which functions like their brain, and they see and smell things like they do. You, most of the time, are the only one who can experience like you do.

Personally, I love scented candles. I get a high from smelling them. Well, except for the ones that smell like they are artificial, or that give me a headache, or that make me itch all over. When I find a brand that I am not allergic to, I am very happy to discover it.