[MikeD]

I am allergic to perfumes, both natural and unnatural. Even the smell of roses plugs up my nose within minutes. Most perfumes give me a headache within seconds. This has been true my whole life, since I was an infant. My mother was a heavy perfume user and wondered why, since birth, I wiggled and struggled when picked up until I was put back down.

My transplant drugs (immunosuppressants) seem to have lessened my allergies, both to perfume and pollen some.

We don't have anything scented in the whole house. It's getting harder and harder to find unscented products lately. The '80s were a boom time for unscented stuff with the widespread "natural" craze, but now people are of a new generation.

I live in a really rural part of northern Virginia. Someone built a house thousands of feet away from mine to the west. The winds blows here from west to east almost all of the time. When they are running their dryer with dryer sheets in it I can smell them in the wind and get a cloudy head.

Mike D.