Scent-free (perfume, cologne) gyms
PrimalForLife
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Should your local gym try enforce a scent-free (perfume, cologne) gym environment? If 'yes', how should they deal with offenders?
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How exactly would that be enforced? By making people shower before they go in?!2
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Who wears perfume to the gym? You're just going to sweat.0
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TavistockToad wrote: »How exactly would that be enforced? By making people shower before they go in?!
I think the more frequent problem is people taking a cologne/perfume bath post-workout in the locker room instead of a shower with soap and water. I guess the gym would have to depend on members to report other members, once they stop choking and are able to wash the cologne/perfume out of their eyes.6 -
NorthCascades wrote: »Who wears perfume to the gym? You're just going to sweat.
People who come straight from work or somewhere else where they wear perfume.8 -
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KANGOOJUMPS wrote: »no
Ditto
If they did that then they would have to ask the stinky peeps to shower too. If this position does become a reality, I think the job title for this new position should be "gym-sniffer"2 -
Should it then also be deodorant-free?5
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That's a pretty slippery slope, there.1
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Our gym doesn't have enforcers but you do get a handout when you join discussing appropriate gym attire, which says you should not wear cologne, perfume, or "strongly scented personal hygiene products" for the sake of other patrons.
I don't know if anyone reads it (I did, because I'm the sort who reads everything) and in any case it's a 24 hr gym with no staff there most of the time. I guess if someone complained during daylight hours with a staff member there, someone might say something. I've only ever seen one staff member even think about enforcing the dress code, and it was clear from her behavior that she had never had to do it before - she went around and asked three regulars for opinions on whether she should say something first. And that was a case of a very large woman working out in a thong bottom with her goodies on full display, which is definitely in violation of the dress code, and after asking people who agreed the staff member never did work up her nerve to say anything to the perpetrator. So I'm pretty sure no one is going to get bounced from our gym on account of a reeking cloud of cologne when it's her watch.7 -
Bry_Lander wrote: »TavistockToad wrote: »How exactly would that be enforced? By making people shower before they go in?!
I think the more frequent problem is people taking a cologne/perfume bath post-workout in the locker room instead of a shower with soap and water. I guess the gym would have to depend on members to report other members, once they stop choking and are able to wash the cologne/perfume out of their eyes.
Why does it matter what they do after the gym??0 -
NorthCascades wrote: »Who wears perfume to the gym? You're just going to sweat.
You'd be surprised. And men are equal opportunity offenders with the body spray.
To the topic of the post, I don't see how you'd implement/enforce such a policy.
And I'm speaking as someone who's very sensitive to scents. I can and have had migraines triggered by other people's fragrance choices.
I wish people would stop wearing perfume/cologne in general, but the world doesn't revolve around me.
Interesting anecdote: I one of my old gyms, I had to pass by the entrance to the men's locker room to get to the women's locker room. The men were FAR more liberal with their use of fragrance post-workout than the women. That whole corner of the gym (which was by the dumbbells) stank to high heaven from a soup of various men's fragrances.10 -
While I wish it could be a thing, I have no idea how a gym could enforce the rule without offending their paying clients.3
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Need2Exerc1se wrote: »NorthCascades wrote: »Who wears perfume to the gym? You're just going to sweat.
People who come straight from work or somewhere else where they wear perfume.
If someone has been at work for several hours or all day and the perfume is still that strong must work as a French prostitute.10 -
In my perfect world, gyms would be scent free, but deodorant compulsory. Alas, the world doesn't revolve around me, and I appreciate personal freedom enough to realise I have to put up with others exercising theirs.3
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Job vacancy -
People sniffer wanted to work in local gym.
Must have a sensitive nose and be built like a brick shithouse to be able to eject offenders.
Jackboots and armband will be supplied.11 -
I absolutely gag on people's cologne and perfume. Nothing wrong with a subtle scent, but the strong stuff actually hits me in the mouth, the throat and the eyes. I am going to say that people should simply just know better. No one should go out among people smelling like a fragrance counter. IN the gym where all that sweat and body heat are swirling I can only imagine how bad it would get.
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I don't know how you could possibly enforce it, honestly.
However, If there was a gym that managed, they'd increase patronage from certain groups - like a lot of folks with asthma, with chemical sensitivities, with severe reactions to sulfites (which are in the top 10 sensitivities in Canada, for example, but are a preservatives in most perfumed products).
I don't know if it would make up for people they'd lose who feel like what they do to their bodies should not be dictated to....even if, technically, it is something that spreads beyond their bodies and affects the people around them, you know?1 -
it would be a dream come true but it is unrealistic3
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You know, most churches and many other public places already have the policy. I think mostly it works on honor code, and people generally respect the request.2
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I couldn't care less about perfume in gyms but in my perfect world no one would be able to eat fish in a public place or work lunchroom.5
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I couldn't care less about perfume in gyms but in my perfect world no one would be able to eat fish in a public place or work lunchroom.
I think you'd feel differently if you had allergies and the excessive use of perfume/cologne triggered a reaction for an hour or two afterward.10 -
i think it honor code enforced but my gym locker room has big signs proclaiming it to be a scent-free facility and banning scented product. Most people seem to abide except one or two who I suspect wear the scent into the gym.
I'm very grateful for the policy.3 -
Axe body spray needs to be banned from society in general, not just the gym.18
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No. If people are coming right from work there's supposed to stop and shower off before going to the gym? No one is allowed to put lotion on after a shower? If there is a particular person who put on an excessive amount of perfume/cologne, then talk to the gym manager about it.3
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You know, most churches and many other public places already have the policy. I think mostly it works on honor code, and people generally respect the request.
Really? Do you mean wearing or applying them? I think there is a difference - there is much more likely to be overspill whilst applying. Not being able to wear perfume in a random, typically ventilated public space can't be that common surely?
FWIW I do like to wear perfume. Especially on a "day" trip to London that sees me leave home at 350am and back by 1030pm if I'm lucky. Perfume definitely smells better than me by that point! I don't go to the gym though, and if I have to put it on in a public bathroom it's just one spray directly on me so it doesn't spread. Actually I only ever use one spray. Hopefully that's little enough to not impact on those with allergies (whilst still having the desired effect for me).
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Rosemary7391 wrote: »You know, most churches and many other public places already have the policy. I think mostly it works on honor code, and people generally respect the request.
Really? Do you mean wearing or applying them? I think there is a difference - there is much more likely to be overspill whilst applying. Not being able to wear perfume in a random, typically ventilated public space can't be that common surely?
FWIW I do like to wear perfume. Especially on a "day" trip to London that sees me leave home at 350am and back by 1030pm if I'm lucky. Perfume definitely smells better than me by that point! I don't go to the gym though, and if I have to put it on in a public bathroom it's just one spray directly on me so it doesn't spread. Actually I only ever use one spray. Hopefully that's little enough to not impact on those with allergies (whilst still having the desired effect for me).
I think these places maybe have a "no excessive perfume/cologne" rule, and that reasonable fragrance is allowed? I could be wrong.0 -
Bry_Lander wrote: »
True. But I can avoid gyms. I'm allergic to fish and seafood and have violent vomiting fir 2-4 hours after smelling it - and it's instant. I seldom have time to get to a bathroom to vomit.
I can't avoid lunchrooms, planes etc as easily as I can avoid gyms.2 -
No. If people are coming right from work there's supposed to stop and shower off before going to the gym? No one is allowed to put lotion on after a shower? If there is a particular person who put on an excessive amount of perfume/cologne, then talk to the gym manager about it.
We'll let the French prostitute come in after work smelling like perfume. For the rest of the world, the smell has long dissipated. If not, think how strong it was at 8 AM. Their co-workers would have killed them5
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