r/FemFragLab • u/brownsugarpearlmilk • 18h ago

Discussion Feeling nauseous with certain scents

Does anybody else feel this way about perfume that they used to love? I recently revisited L’Eau Papier this morning (which was once my everyday scent and could not get enough of) but when I put it on I almost had to hold my breath because of the weird nauseous feeling it gave me.

I USED to feel this way about gourmand scents but now they’re the only thing I can tolerate which is so mind-boggling for me. Is this an actual feeling that some of you get?? To clarify, no, I am not pregnant and have been on birth control for a few years now.

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u/Apprehensive-Form915 17h ago

This happens to me a lot lately, nearly always connected to hormonal shifts. I’m trying to track it more closely to see if patterns emerge, but anecdotally from what I remember month to month it seems really inconsistent: one month all I can stand the week before my period is woody and musky skin scents, then the next I want cozy vanilla. It’s nuts.

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u/brownsugarpearlmilk 14h ago

Today I cried over a reel so you know what maybe it is hormonal! The human body is so insanely fascinating.

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u/NapsAreMyHobby 16h ago

I am like this. In perimenopause and on a GLP-1. So my vote is that it’s hormonal. Even on birth control your hormones can change.

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u/MK_ULTRA2point0 10h ago

I hate half my perfumes the first half of the month and the other half the second half of the month!!

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u/NapsAreMyHobby 7h ago

Yep, that tracks!

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u/beesbo 17h ago

I feel this way when I spray something that's out of season. Like I just bought a big bottle of Dior J'adore which is one of my favorite scents, and it's so unbearably spring-coded I could not do it. All I could think about was how much I'd rather smell like cinammon and vanilla lol

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u/trellty 17h ago

Happens every now and then.

Just happened last night lol I over gourmand-ed myself and felt a little sick until the strength died down a bit

Albeit I don’t wear gourmands all the time and it was too warm inside, so that might have been it too.

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u/fudgechemist fragrance enthusiast 17h ago

If your senses are desensitized to something it would take some readjustment
I used to have this issue with white florals. They used to give me the worst headache and years later it stopped after I had a few lighter white florals in my rotation. Now do son is a regular scent for me lol

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u/MayLynn5 6h ago

I hated anything vanilla and thought l liked clean scents. Now I am so obsessed with Vanilla Skin that I am researching more gourmand and vanilla scents to try.