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tritsofme

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7. Funny, I usually take those fragrances as a warning that the store was not meant for me.

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Hey, You Know Those Fragrances Stores Use to Lure You Inside? [View all] Newsjock Nov 2014 OP

I hope everyone checks out KT2000 Nov 2014 #1

I don't know how nail salon workers manage to live more than a few months. NYC_SKP Nov 2014 #2

aren't they awful!? KT2000 Nov 2014 #12

I've designed a half dozen nail salons as an engineer reflection Nov 2014 #28

Good for you. I went to one once when my daughter pnwmom Dec 2014 #40

Twice a year we get our heater and AC maintenanced yeoman6987 Nov 2014 #6

And just think of it! If it doesn't truedelphi Nov 2014 #8

be an informed consumer KT2000 Nov 2014 #13

That suggestion would be helpful except... Bette R. Daize Nov 2014 #25

Yes - I am aware KT2000 Nov 2014 #33

AGREED!!!!! Bette R. Daize Nov 2014 #35

Nicely done.. Fumesucker Nov 2014 #19

Way back when I remember Mad magazine malaise Nov 2014 #3

I've read that if you make your home smell more like baking cookies Fawke Em Nov 2014 #4

Or you could just bake some cookies..... llmart Nov 2014 #9

Easier, simmer some apple cider with a spice bag or cinnamon stick csziggy Nov 2014 #17

When we had our open house, I baked a big pan of homemade cinnamon rolls SoCalDem Nov 2014 #22

yep NJCher Dec 2014 #39

Thanks for yr article. Marin County Calif's Environmental Health Network truedelphi Nov 2014 #5

Funny, I usually take those fragrances as a warning that the store was not meant for me. tritsofme Nov 2014 #7

It makes me run the other way. brer cat Nov 2014 #11

I cannot bear going into fabric stores.. SoCalDem Nov 2014 #23

When I took zoology in college, brer cat Nov 2014 #24

No way! MissB Dec 2014 #38

There was a thread on cinnamon earlier this weekend. Wella Nov 2014 #10

Maybe they can come up with a new car smell Jackpine Radical Nov 2014 #14

They could name it "Inevitable" Fumesucker Nov 2014 #21

or the "fresh bread" fragrances used to drive the olfacted out of Subway MisterP Nov 2014 #15

"To me, it smells like fecal matter mixed with cologne," said no teenager, ever. DRoseDARs Nov 2014 #16

Those smells do a good job at keeping me AWAY from Abercrombie & Fitch. Odin2005 Nov 2014 #18

I used to work at such a store tabbycat31 Nov 2014 #20

The application of toxic chemicals in public places.... Bette R. Daize Nov 2014 #27

You honestly think a college age low level employee has control over this? tabbycat31 Nov 2014 #31

Tabby, of course I am not referring to the peons Bette R. Daize Nov 2014 #34

Scented candles will drive me out of a store faster than anything. The Velveteen Ocelot Nov 2014 #26

i have to stay out of malls and cleaning products aisles demigoddess Nov 2014 #29

I'm not allergic to any of that stuff; I just think it stinks. The Velveteen Ocelot Nov 2014 #30

I spray the perimeter of my store with deer urine Renew Deal Nov 2014 #32

I gag every time I walk past an Abercrombie & Fitch store. Initech Dec 2014 #36

and this is why I don't shop in malls. hollysmom Dec 2014 #37