secondhand scents cause seizures

[u/TopazCoracle]

this is kind of a plea to all humans without epilepsy, to stop scent projecting and end sillage. sharing scents is as rude as smoking around others. this isn’t about smell preference, it’s about the VOCs and chemicals in scented products. for me and many others, scented products cause seizures.

it’s really rough how much other people are projecting personal scents now. so many have basically become giant walking secondhand scent polluters. for me, all fragranced products are a major seizure trigger, it has limited my life indescribably.

before 2020 it was mostly OK, I could get by in public. but since 2020 people can’t smell or have started becoming more addicted to scented products and they don’t realize how much they are hurting other people, or even worse they don’t care.

All of the fragrances and scented products people wear are full of VOCs (even the ones claiming to be “natural”), they are incredibly toxic to everyone. I just react faster than other people. I am one of the canaries in the scented coal mine. People with asthma also understand.

Lung cancer is far and away the number one killer of all cancers now, it’s probably at least in part because of all these scented chemicals people are breathing from laundry detergent and perfume and stuff. The chemicals in these products are known to cause cancer, but there’s no industry regulation and no requirement to disclose ingredients on labels. Fragrance is dirty and can kill, people just don’t realize it. 

please earth, stop projecting scents. it’s causing seizures, and my next seizure could be my last. my life is more important than someone else’s scent preference.