Sensitive to scents

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I’m finding at I get older scents are bothering me more. Like if I’m in the car and my daughter sprays a perfume or something I need to open a window because it’s just too much. Even at Bunnings the other day a lady sprayed a bug spray to ‘see if it was working’ before she purchased it and I had to walk away because the scent was too much.
Has anyone else found this sensitivity worsens with age?

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- - BellaB said
  - 08 Dec 2025
    7:11 pm
No, I haven’t had that experience. But it sounds similar to what a lot of women experience in pregnancy, which suggests it may actually be a hormonal thing. It depends how much it bothers you – if it’s a lot, you may want to talk to your doctor. Otherwise, my sympathies.

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