Fragrance or Ugh!

by Grace
(UK)

Many years ago I became sensitive to light, noise, colour and fragrances. I had always been sensitive but to a tolerable level but then I just became so sensitive that I had to avoid all those things if possible. But where fragrance was concerned I could literally be knocked off my feet by someone passing me in the street wearing a strong perfume. I would literally wobble as they came near me and lose balance and the overall feeling I got from the PEOPLE wearing the perfume was that of being ATTACKED. That's how I perceived it. It felt to me like the people who covered themselves in these heavy, pungent perfumes were actually using them as a sort of weapon in a way. I know that sounds daft but I could actually tell the person's personality and how they felt about the world by the perfume they put on themselves in order to go out into that world.