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11 checked out at hospital after perfume sickens students

34 hospitalized when they're overcome by perfume

AAOHN: Synthetic Fragrances Pose Health Risk to 20 Percent of Workers

A link between skin and airways regarding sensitivity to fragrance products?

A hairdresser developed rhinitis and asthma following occupational exposure to eugenol-containing perfumes, confirmed by specific inhalation challenge."

A hospital using perfume?  Obviously first do no harm is not practiced there!

A twin study of perfume-related respiratory symptoms

Air oxidation increases skin irritation from fragrance terpenes

Air pollution One person's perfume can be another person's poison

Allergen of the Year: Fragrance

Another STUPID marketing product!   Crayon Cologne - Smell like a (Clean) Child.

Assault on the senses

Assessment of the risk of fragrance allergy in the general population: challenges and methodological issues.

Association between positive patch tests to epoxy resin and fragrance mix I ingredients 

Alternatives for fragrance-allergic children

Atopic dermatitis and allergic reactions to individual fragrance chemicals

Autonomic responses during inhalation of natural fragrance of Cedrol in humans

Bias Suit Involves Other Employees' Fragrances 

Bow Valley taking leave of their scents. High school will become scent-free environment by March 31

CTFA Annual Report 2005

Changes in levels of nerve growth factor in nasal secretions after capsaicin inhalation in patients with airway symptoms from scents and chemicals.

Check out Celebrity Scents: Cold Hard Cash With A Top Note Of Shamelessness

Chemical In Angel Perfume Common Cause of contact allergy in dermatitis patients in Europe

Chemical Sensitivities and Perfume

Chemicals causing fragrance can be dangerous.

Chemicals, Fragrances, and Sensitivity

Clarins and their "honest and truthful" answer to a consumers question regarding an ingredient as listed on their packaging.

Considerations for testing irritancy, allergy,and photoreactivity in fragrance safety valuations.

Contact allergy to fragrances

Contact sensitization to fragrances in the general population: a Koch's approach may reveal the burden of disease.

Could your perfume be hurting you?

Cytochrome P450-mediated activation of the fragrance compound geraniol forms potent contact allergens 

Does what you smell determine what you buy?

Eau d’Holy Night: Jingle Bells, Christmas Smells

Eau du Hotel

Eco-labeling of shampoos, shower gels and foam baths

Encapsulated fragrance chemicals

Environmental Working Group's Show us your secrets

Evaluation of phototoxic properties of fragrances

Even natural perfumes may cause allergies

EWG: What is "fragrance"? Video

Excessive perfume triggered adverse reaction

Facts You Should Know About Perfume

Fast gas chromatography-full scan quadrupole mass spectrometry for the determination of allergens in fragrances.

Fight Perfume Pollution

Flexitral developing alternatives to allergy fragrance ingredients?

FOOD INTOLERANCE NETWORK FACTSHEET -Fumes & Perfumes

For a clear-headed flight, go easy on the perfume

Formation of Skin Sensitizers from Fragrance Terpenes via Oxidative Activation Routes:  Chemical Analysis, Structure Elucidation and Experimental Sensitization Studies 

FPIN List of Places with Fragrance Policies

Fragrance Allergies: A Sensory Assault

Fragrance alters mood and brain chemistry - Health Risks and Environmental Issues

Fragrance contact allergic patients: strategies for use of cosmetic products and perceived impact on life situation

Fragrance Chemicals Found in Infant Cord Blood

Fragrance chemical allergy:  a major environmental and consumer health problem in Europe.

Fragrance Compound Geraniol Forms Contact Allergens on Air Exposure

Fragrance contact allergic patients: strategies for use of cosmetic products and perceived impact on life situation.

Fragrance Free Meeting Places

Fragrance Industry Group Will Disclose Most Fragrance Chemicals Used in Commercial Products

Fragrance ingredient labeling in products on sale in the U.K.

Fragrance Ingredient List

Fragrance Notification Pilot Program

Fragrance—A Growing Health and Environmental Hazard

Fragranced consumer products and undisclosed ingredients

Fragrances as a cause of food allergy

Fragrances foul for many

Fragrances in hotels = bad business

Fragrances in the Environment: Pleasant odours for nature?

Fragrances interfere with wine testing

Frequency of and trends in fragrance allergy over a 15-year period

GOD IS NOT A MARKETING TOOL FOR FRAGRANCE

Greenwashing in the fragrance industry

Heavy perfumes bother airplane passengers

Height of Stupidity:  Joint Promotion Adds Stickers to Sweet Smell of Marketing

Higher blood concentrations of synthetic musks in women above fifty years than in younger women.

Highly toxic chemicals are found in laundry detergents, dryer sheets, deodorants, perfumes, soaps and other household products

IFRA Allowable levels for Essential Oils

Immune effects of respiratory exposure to fragrance chemicals-A pilot study of Isoeugenol and Cinnamal

Increased release of histamine in patients with respiratory symptoms related to perfume.

In-vitro human skin penetration of the fragrance material geranyl nitrile.

It's Easy Being Green: Mystery Fragrances

Lavender oil lacks natural protection against autoxidation, forming strong contact allergens on air exposure.

Linalool--a significant contact sensitizer after air exposure.

Losing the scent of danger

LOST JOB OVER MY PERFUME

Lush scents incur allergy group wrath

Magic Romance: on Perfume, Language and the Environment

Making Scents of Fragrances.

Meadowbrook School Goes Fragrance Free

Minnesota - pilot project to see the effectiveness of a fragrance-free school

Minn. lawmaker wants scent-free schools

More marketing lies, falsehoods and deceptive claims...your health is not their concern.

MUN says there's no sense in wearing scents

Nebraskan women ‘overjoyed’ with campus attention to scent allergy

Nice Perfume, must you bathe in it?

Not just a pretty face:  The side effects of cosmetic chemicals

NSLC hooked on scents to sell suds

Occupational asthma and rhinitis caused by eugenol in a hairdresser.

Occupational contact dermatitis due to essential oils.

One Person's "Scent" is Another One's Stink

Ontario radio show to discuss fragrance-free policy in churches

OSH: Scent  Free Policy for the Workplace

Parents say Regina school isn't providing scent-free environment for kids

Patch test results with patients' own perfumes, deodorants and shaving lotions: results of the IVDK 1998-2002

Pepsi Centre urging patrons to be scent- and idle-free

Perfume & Sensitivities

Perfume finds herself perfuma non grata on bus

Perfume lawsuit could affect exterminators 

PERFUME PERILS IN SEASONAL GIFTS

Perfume pumped in to stinking British pubs

Perfume takes command of bus driver's senses

Perfume, Perfume everywhere

Perfumed mother’s milk

Petroleum Distillate in Your Lip Gloss and Furniture Polish Shown to Cause Tissue Disease!

Placebo-controlled Challenges with Perfume in Patients with Asthma-like Symptoms.

Polyvalent type IV sensitizations to multiple fragrances and a skin  protection cream in a metalworker

Portland Call Center

Portland Police Records Center

Posh hotels creating suite fragrances

Prevalence of fragrance sensitivity in the American population.  

Quantitative structure-activity relationship modelling of oral acute toxicity and cytotoxic activity of fragrance materials in rodents

Reactions to everyday chemicals can make work unbearable

Real Estate and Fragrances

Reckless Self-Interest of the Fragrance Industry

Safety fears over nano cosmetics.

ScentAir Adds Scented Paper by Cascades to Product Line-U

Scented Ceiling Solution™ II - Simple Innovations - Dutch Boy

Scent-free Ontario by 2010?

Scents on a plane? Eau no!

Schools, theatre now scent-free

Selected important fragrance sensitizers in perfumes - current exposures

Sensitization to 26 fragrances to be labelled according to current European regulation. Results of the IVDK and review of the literature.

Should EPA institute a workplace fragrance ban as part of its endocrine disruptor initiative?  

Sickened by the Office (Really)

Simultaneous sensitivity to Fragrances

Skin contact transfer of three fragrance residues from candles to human hands.

Skin patch tests may miss patients allergic to common fragrance

Sniffing Out The Dangers In Fragrance 

SOMETHING really smells outside the DVF store in the Meatpacking District of NYC.

Sperm perfume is to make irresistible

Stress relieving scent has ‘enormous’ potential for fragrances and cosmetics 

Strong perfume spurs Hazmat response

Student Suspended Over Perfume

Students want scent-free campus

Study: Top Perfumes Have Hazardous Chemicals

Study Finds Cologne Causes Acute Neurotoxicity and Air Flow Reduction

Study finds fragrance allergen testing needs to be more effective

Subliminal smell

Supervisors tweak ordinance banning 'toxic' child products. City will test up to 100 items a year, list those illegal to sell.

Sweet Smelling Danger

Synthetic Fragrances Perfume Lake Sediments

Synthetic musk fragrances in human milk from the United States

Teen sprayed in face with cologne on school bus

TEP:  Fragrance ingredient labeling in products on sale in the U.K.

Temporal Trends of Synthetic Musk Compounds in Mother′s Milk and Associations with Personal Use of Perfumed Products

The concentrations and distribution of polycyclic musks in a typical cosmetic plant.

The presence of fragrance allergens in scented consumer products

The smell of perfume

The Sweet Smell of ... Nothing

The Use of Scents to Influence Consumers: The Sense of Using Scents to Make Cents

There’s Something Fishy With Fragrances

Too much perfume? Could be a zinc deficiency

UK Multicentre Study: Reacting to sunscreen chemicals

US concern over fragrance use hits Europe

Vanilla Scented baby Pacifiers

Wake up and smell the chemicals.

Warning: Habits May Be Good for You

Wearing Too Much Perfume May Indicate Depression

We are enamoured of fragrances, and virtually every aspect of our lives is touched by a fragranced product. But is it a touch too much?

What Dangers Can Perfumes & Other Fragrances Pose to Your Health?

What is a 'Fragrance Free' Zone ?

What is the short term effect of perfumes on olfactory thresholds?

When perfume becomes a nuisance (or a health issue)

Why Isn't a Little Enough?

Why Scented Products (Fakegrances) Are Not Safe

Women warned not to wear perfume during pregnancy