7 June 2017
Causing a stink: The truth about fragrances and your health
By Clare Pain
KATE Grenville realised in her early 30s that wearing perfume gave her a headache. She could manage that. Then it was other people’s perfumes too. But things really got out of hand on a recent trip when she was forced to ask her taxi driver to remove the air freshener in his cab, and later caught herself sealing her hotel room door with tape to keep out the smell from corridor fragrance diffusers.
“I had a nasty feeling that I’d just crossed one of life’s little boundaries,” she writes in her new book The Case Against Fragrance. “It was possible I’d joined the section of humanity that thinks the moon landings were faked by the CIA.”
https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg23431290-600-causing-a-stink-the-truth-about-fragrances-and-your-health/
