http://www.infogift.info/blog/the-demise-of-the-fragrance/ The gift of information and information on gift giving Sat, 22 Nov 2008 20:40:18 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.3 http://www.infogift.info/blog/the-demise-of-the-fragrance/#comment-109 Lana Wed, 20 Feb 2008 00:20:14 +0000 http://www.infogift.info/blog/the-demise-of-the-fragrance/#comment-109 Bert, thank you for commenting. I hope it helps someone, who has pets. I have cats, too, but didn't know about their aversion to these specific scents. My cats kiss, too. Also, I visited someone once, who has a very large, but kind and well trained dog. The dog liked me right away, and the owner's first comment was: "You don't use any perfume, right?". But I never made a connection to the cats...I learned something today, thank you. Bert, thank you for commenting. I hope it helps someone, who has pets. I have cats, too, but didn’t know about their aversion to these specific scents. My cats kiss, too. Also, I visited someone once, who has a very large, but kind and well trained dog. The dog liked me right away, and the owner’s first comment was: “You don’t use any perfume, right?”. But I never made a connection to the cats…I learned something today, thank you.

]]> http://www.infogift.info/blog/the-demise-of-the-fragrance/#comment-106 Bert Tue, 19 Feb 2008 11:04:05 +0000 http://www.infogift.info/blog/the-demise-of-the-fragrance/#comment-106 I used to wear a cologne, the original Paul Sebastian. Almost everyone said it smelled terrific on me -- women would walk past, turn around and stop me to ask what cologne I was wearing. Paul Sebastian and my personal body chemistry clicked...until I got my first kittens, in 1990. Cats are extremely susceptible to any scent -- they identify each other and us (their "humans") more by our smell than by our looks. That's why cats (even those who live together) seem to kiss when they first meet each morning; and why the "kiss" also is a real sign of affection between two cats, and between a cat and its human. But that also means that strong scents such as perfumes and colognes actually can be painful to the cat's extremely sensitive nasal passage. When I wore my wonderful cologne and the kittens got too close, I could see them jerk their heads away from the offensive odor. Any cologne had the same effect. Well, I certainly wasn't going to cause pain to my two little kittens; I sent Paul packing, and haven't worn cologne since (by the way, cats react the same way -- but even more negatively -- to cigarette smoke. They're smarter than we are in this.) I used to wear a cologne, the original Paul Sebastian. Almost everyone said it smelled terrific on me — women would walk past, turn around and stop me to ask what cologne I was wearing. Paul Sebastian and my personal body chemistry clicked…until I got my first kittens, in 1990. Cats are extremely susceptible to any scent — they identify each other and us (their “humans”) more by our smell than by our looks. That’s why cats (even those who live together) seem to kiss when they first meet each morning; and why the “kiss” also is a real sign of affection between two cats, and between a cat and its human. But that also means that strong scents such as perfumes and colognes actually can be painful to the cat’s extremely sensitive nasal passage. When I wore my wonderful cologne and the kittens got too close, I could see them jerk their heads away from the offensive odor. Any cologne had the same effect. Well, I certainly wasn’t going to cause pain to my two little kittens; I sent Paul packing, and haven’t worn cologne since (by the way, cats react the same way — but even more negatively — to cigarette
smoke. They’re smarter than we are in this.)

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