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Dec. 23rd, 2015 12:43 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
buer I don't like to rain on ppls parades/subtweet (and ppl can TOTES like things i don't, but it does make ppl self-conscious so i try to be courteous) so me drag an item here
its so hard for me to believe incense is anything but utter hell to people!! I accept it as fact but I'm like.... how?! it's like, worse than anything else for me, it's an insta-headache, it's PAINFUL and is like being stabbed right up the nose straight into my brain! piieeercing! then wrapping around my brain and filling all the space in my skull with pressure! the feeling of sinus pain but ON MY WHOLE BRAIN?? it feels like. Incense to me just = pain and absolutely nothing else so I can't envision what other people must be experiencing
perfumes, odorizers, sprays and scented soaps and such are bad, but boyyoass incense is just death
I feel bad bc at least one of my roommates has always been into incense no matter what house I'm in and I have to be the ultimate party poop because it hurts too bad to tolerate even peeking out from under a shut room door :'l hell even places that just SELL incense ain't fun to be around more than 2 seconds... that shit is strong just in the package (I don't really understand how they can package it in a way that doesn't protect against the smell leaking out, aren't allergens a thing??)
its so hard for me to believe incense is anything but utter hell to people!! I accept it as fact but I'm like.... how?! it's like, worse than anything else for me, it's an insta-headache, it's PAINFUL and is like being stabbed right up the nose straight into my brain! piieeercing! then wrapping around my brain and filling all the space in my skull with pressure! the feeling of sinus pain but ON MY WHOLE BRAIN?? it feels like. Incense to me just = pain and absolutely nothing else so I can't envision what other people must be experiencing
perfumes, odorizers, sprays and scented soaps and such are bad, but boyyoass incense is just death
I feel bad bc at least one of my roommates has always been into incense no matter what house I'm in and I have to be the ultimate party poop because it hurts too bad to tolerate even peeking out from under a shut room door :'l hell even places that just SELL incense ain't fun to be around more than 2 seconds... that shit is strong just in the package (I don't really understand how they can package it in a way that doesn't protect against the smell leaking out, aren't allergens a thing??)
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Date: 2015-12-23 01:12 pm (UTC)Our sinus nightmares are most scented oils (if they're a known irritant then it will burn our eyes, nose, sinuses, skin, mouth… it's terrible), baby powder is especially bad, odorizing "deodorants" and perfumes can also be pretty bad if people use anything other than the barest amounts.
Incense will only get us if it uses things on those scales. We don't actually have any clue why burning plant materials or resins aren't a bother for us when so many other things are?
We like it but it wouldn't be hard to give up.
As for the allergens thing, we think that most people and places assume that as long as you're not eating it or burning it and inhaling it then it shouldn't effect you… and while labeling is strict for allergens the packaging isn't very… people are just really crap about allergies and sensitivities.