An update on the report earlier this week about a proposed ban on fragrance use in Ottawa:
Ottawa councillors voted Thursday to start a public education campaign to get people to voluntarily stop wearing scented products, but stopped short of calling for a scents ban.
Read more at cbc.ca.
These kind of -dare I say- totalitarian tendencies make me hopping mad, making me swear loudly at my computer screen and bang fist on the table. I can't believe this is hapening. Political over-correctness, neutrality and sterility are overtaking the world…
Sorry for the rant, I am off my soap-box now.
Rant away, my friend. I wholeheartedly agree!
Sorry to have riled you, M, LOL…
It sounds like the council did not take the complaints overly seriously, I think.
Hi Robin,
I've been a lurker on your blog for a long time, and always read with interest. You are one of my few recommended blogs in fact.
I've had some really bad perfume-in-public experiences, including once at the theatre where a woman must have poured on a gallon of L'eau D'Issey. The stench, for that's what it was in such quantaties, was so overpowering that I actually felt nauseous and had to move.
But it strikes me that when it comes to wearing scent, it's an issue of education rather than just levying an outright ban. That's such a dumb reaction. Sure, some people are allergic to perfume, but then, some people are allergic to sulphur and you don't get councils banning cars…
The sad truth is that people just don't know much about any etiquette of wearing perfume in public. Which isn't terribly surprising since so many people are lacking in any kind of manners or public awareness these days.
Thank you so much for the compliment, and glad you've come out of lurking
Movies are the worst. To overdo L'Eau d'Issey is no easy thing, so yes, it takes a real lack of awareness to wear so much that you offend others. And agree, it can't be easy to have asthma & have to deal with people drenched in fragrance, but it hardly seems like the most serious public health issue at hand.