Perfume allergy testing

[telophase]

Just making a place to put notes about which perfumes are affecting me, as I'm going to try to put a different one on each day and see what it does. If I get 2 or 3 that affect me the same way, I can ask the Lab what, if anything, they have in common.

Reaction	Notes	No reaction	Notes
BPAL Phantom Time Hypothesis	balm, benzoin, damask rose, gumdragon, lignum aloes, orange water, ambergris, and vegetal musk. - Violent allergy, almost like a bad cold. (Lab also says it has Peru balsam in it.)	BPAL Gypsy Queen	Bourbon vanilla, Egyptian musk, tonka, white sugar, and cardamom - I think it's no reaction. Admittedly my nose is going a bit stuffy, but it hasn't bee the same since the weekend and I think it would go a bit stuffy to *anything* at this point.
		BPAL Victoriana.Goth	English rose, lilac, frankincense, violet leaf, French lavender, and wisteria encased in amber and splashed lightly with a ghastly garden herb tincture. Some nose stuffiness and a wee bit of sniffling right after I put it on, but the symptoms faded quickly and my nose cleared right up.
		BPAL - THE AURORA SPACESHIP TAKES A DIVE	Texas thistle, bluebell, red corn poppy, magnolia, sunflower, cedar sage, and smashed, flaming windmill. - Maybe mild stuffiness, but nothing on the order of Phantom Time Hypothesis.
		BPAL - Punkie Night 2006	This is a light-hearted scent: apple orchards, bright cranberries, and a touch of warm cider. No symptoms.
		BPAL - Skytyping with Chemtrails	spun sugar, white amber, white musk, citron, and lemongrass masking a sinister, almost chemical undernote of elemi, zdravetz, and ravintsara. Very mild symptoms which might be due more to cold weather (cold walks to work always make my nose runny and provoke coughing).
		BPAL Tanuki	A scent of hedonistic, uninhibited joy: bamboo reed, plum blossom, persimmon, magnolia, black pine, sweet osmanthus, flowering cherry, mandarin orange, wisteria, and yuzu. - Maaaybe minor symptoms when first put on, but nothing spectacular.
		TRAIPSING THROUGH THE CROP CIRCLES	Miles and miles of flattened wheat, barley, and maize. - Nose tickling, but no giant symptoms.
		Bakeneko	Warm amber musk, Satsuma tangerine, black tea leaf, cardamom, cherry blossom and cinnamon. Ah, my beloved Bakeneko has not survived the ravages of time. The ambery, cinnamony scent has gone and leaves behind generic, ugh-y cologne. However, I am not allergic to it.
		Jacob's Ladder 2006	golden amber, galbanum, benzoin, ambrette, rockrose, costus and tonka. Still warm and amber-y. No allergies.
		Versailles	Gilded red and gold citrus with amber, ruby roses, jasmine and orris. No bad effects.

Comments

[readsalot.livejournal.com]

For me, allergic reactions are way different from a cold. A cold involves lots of sneezing and congestion, and allergic reaction involves my airway swelling and sometimes my eyelids swelling too. The first indication is either extreme eye itchiness or a feeling like my throat has something in it.

[telophase.livejournal.com]

My respiratory allergies are mostly stuffy-nose with the occasional sneeze. This was the first one that exploded into full-on cold-mimicking, to the point where I thought I might actually have one. Until I got home, took a shower, and slept, whereupon it went mostly away.