My entire house smells of lavender right now.
Which, seeing as it is widely regarded as a pleasant flowery fragrance, shouldn’t normally be too weird of a thing I guess. Unless you know me a little bit better and hence also know that my most HATED scent in the world is lavender. It’s gagworthy to me. Nosecrinkling. Eyesquinting. GAH. GROSS. YUCK to my already sensitive sense of smell. There is nothing I dislike smelling more than lavender when it comes to things-that-supposedly-smell-nice.
Why then, you might wonder, does my entire house smell of it?
Well folks. That’s because I’m a clumsy fool.
Last week I purchased one of those little glass jar thingies with the scent sticks that are supposed to make the house smell all homely. It said tropical flowers on the package, which led me to believe that I’d be getting a tropically scent. Not lavender. Now. Whether they accidentally packed the wrong thing, or my perception of the word ‘tropical’ is very different to that of the jar-thingie-makers doesn’t really matter. But as soon as I opened the packaging and got a whiff of the strong as fuck lavender, I almost barfed.
Which, obviously, led to me making my way to the kitchen to dispose of the offending product. Sadly, I didn’t make it there, as I tripped over a stray charger cable and smashed…the…jar. Over the entirety of my living room floor. That now smells SO FUCKING STRONGLY of lavender that I can barely stand to be IN the room. But seeing as it’s where my workstation is, my TV lives AND my kitchen is connected to – I’m fucked. Because I’m already pretty much freezing after opening alllll of the doors in hopes of lessening the scent. To no avail.
This. This is possibly my worst nightmare from now on. Forced to live in a house that smells like the worst thing there is. I don’t even know how I’m going to survive.
Me – the girl who is as smell-obsessed as that one bloodhound in the Disney Movie Aristocats. Who actually one time started dating a colleague at the McDonalds she worked at because he was wearing my favorite cologne. Me, who once stopped dating a guy because he had the worrrrrrst of the worst of morning breaths and wore sweaters that smelt of cigarette smoke. Me – the girl that would rather be deaf than unable to smell things. Stuck in lavender hell. FML.
I bet if I was an American I could sue the company for my suffering. Damn.
Zoewiezoe 
Oh, I feel for you! Maybe balance it out with some garlic soup or something?
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Lavender smells like someone shit flowers.
I feel for you… 😟
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Oh — and the accident was yours, so the courts wouldn’t find the company to be liable. At the most, they’d force them to replace the product with something more tropical smelling or find a suitable replacement. Litigation in the US is horribad, but not quite THAT bad.
Yet.
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If I got a good enough lawyer the incorrect package contents and easy glass-breakage could toooootally be contested in my favot imho.
Just look at the McDonalds coffee case where a woman spilt coffee, sued and got compensated for it being too hot. Which is why they now have warning labels. On everything.
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Yeah, that’s not flying quite so easy as a flurry of other lawsuits of frivolous nature along those lines started irritating judges and juries. That one was from the 80s, I think. New scams are needed to get rich. 😉
And you don’t know how many people mock that particular case these days.
However, it is why we have warning labels such as “Do not use blow drier while showering due to risk of electrical shock.” #DarwinAward
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Oh well…
Guess I’ll sit in my lavender lair and cry purple tears over my lost sense of smell
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Sometimes… a loss of smell isn’t so horrible.
I don’t blame you though. If I had to smell lavender all the time, I might decide slitting my wrists might not be such an awful thing to do to myself.
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Totally sympathize. I’m allergic to lavender – it gives me hayfever – and have to avoid certain parks when it’s in bloom.
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You made an honest mistake. I also would not have considered lavender to be a tropical flower. Your only option is to movem
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Trust me it Could
Be More Challenging
Long Before COVID-19
Another Corona
Virus That
Wasn’t Famous
Took My Smell Away
For Months In Spring
Of 2017 And Yep i Remember
The Day A Solar Eclipse Came
On 8.21.2017 As my Smell
Came Back
Yet Not The Same
For You See the Nerve
Receptors in The Nose
Don’t Make The
Smell of Course
Our Minds Create
All Of Our Reality
That We Think is
Objective Yet Neuroscience
Shows We Basically Create
An Hallucination Of
Reality
Always Changing
Now Yeah Everything
Smelled Like ‘Doomsday’
Other Folks Describe it
As Rotting Flesh
With No
Escape took About
A Year For it to Go Away
It’s All About Perspective
This Life Thingie I Had
Already Experienced
Loss of Effective
Use of my Eyes And
Ears With The Worst Pain
Known To Humankind
Type Two Trigeminal
Neuralgia For 66 Months
From WakeTo Sleep Like
A Dentist Drill in
My Right Eye And
Ear No Drug Would
Touch And Of Course on
The Autism Spectrum for me
Never Been Able to Bear
The Touch Of Human Made
Stuff With Empathy
That Feels The Whole
World’s Pain And
Pleasure
Yes Been
Told More Than
Once i Have A ‘Special
Touch’ too it’s Not All Bad
Anyway it’s Hard To Describe
How Horrible Everything Tasted
When A Doomsday Smell Came
On The Solar Eclipse Day
Apocalyptic
Enough For me
Yet You See There is
A Worse Pain than All
Of That And It
Is Losing All
Emotions As Emotions
Are Memories And Memories
Are Emotions All Is Time
A Second is A Thousand
Years
In Hell
With No
Reference Point
Back If You’ve Ever
Felt A Smile At All
It’s True There Is
Both Heaven
And
Hell Within
And When You’ve
Been To Hell When
All Tastes And
Smells Like
Rotting
Flesh
Heaven Still
Doesn’t Care
As Heaven
Comes From Hell
Every Now And Then
Folks Try to F With
Me since i Got
Out Of Hell
Part of The
Reason i Wear
Shades is Just By
Looking in Someone’s
Eyes i Will Show
Them
What
It’s Like
To ‘Dance With
The Devil in The Pale
Moonlight’ Other Than
That i Wore Shades
In The Dance Hall
Even Approaching
60 As A Natural
Means of
Birth Control
As i’ve Also
Been Told
More Than once
That my Eyes Touch
In An Opposite
Part
Of Heaven
Indeed Life
Is All
About
Perspective
In ‘Lavender in
Lace’ in ‘Purple
Rain’ And ‘Black
Velvet Nights’
Inviting
SMiles
Satin
White
That
Never End In Red…
So Yeah An All Natural
Remedy For
An
Aversion
To A Smell
Of Lavender
Is to Pass Through
Hell First And It’s True
Like ‘21 Pilots’ Sing
About ‘Heathens’
In ‘Suicide
Squad’ Ways
You Never
Know What
The Person Sitting
Next To You Yes Us
On ‘The Forest Gump
Bus Stops Of Life’ Has
Been Through
Indeed
They
Might
Be one Of ‘Us’
Sympathy Now
For Devils Got that
Too You Earn
It
It’s
Never Free…
What Hell
Breathes into
Heaven Never
Ending Now Eternal
Bliss Not many
‘People’
‘See’
‘The Other Side’
Of ‘The Pale Moon Light’…
-Batman’s
‘Other FRiEnD’
OBTW
Thanks For
The Inspiration
Of Your ‘Lavender’
Sweet
Perfume
In Pale Moonlight…
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Your last sentence… haha 🙂
Seriously, though, that must be miserable… I hope the scent goes away soon…
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My sincerest condolences … ,😉
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Sounds horrid! And not easily remedied.
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awe, so sorry about that. I actually love lavender, but it’s definitely not tropical in my opinion. Nothing worse than being stuck in a house with a sent you loathe. My worst scent is Pine Sol. I might write about that hilarious experience.
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Yes, sadly, in the USA you probably could sue, maybe over the issue of what’s tropical. Ironically, I think I heard that lavender is supposed to be calming (maybe only to look at). I don’t know because a smell of any strength, even good, becomes cloying to me. We all trip. But I’m sorry.
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Febreeze works pretty well with unwanted smells. I think the fault in your lawsuit would lie with the person who left the charger cord in the middle of the walkway.
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Lavender is the worst, I thought I was the only one who disliked it. Lavender is not tropical. Tropical is coconut (one of my favourites), pineapple, the smell of sand and sun. Lavender smells like death to me. lol
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Too comical! (not that you’re actually suffering from the awful smell of lavender, BUT how it all happened!) Stuff like this always, ALWAYS happens to me! I hope it clears up soon for you!
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Dude I hate lavender too! Wow that sounds awful. Can you dump a bunch of something on the spot to soak up the smell? Maybe a whole box of baking soda and leave it overnight a d then vacuum the Christ out of it…? Hope you work it out.
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I avoid lavender too, but mostly because it makes me sleepy! It’s not the nicest fragrance either and I also wouldn’t consider it tropical. Hope it dissipates soon!
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This made me chuckle. But I’m sorry to hear about your lavender hell, although it is entertaining 🙂
All the best, Michelle (michellesclutterbox.com)
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Reblogged this on The Reluctant Poet.
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Lol that is too funny! But something I’d do too I think! I’m partial to accidents!
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A nightmare indeed… Irritating smell is the worst hell! Go bake an apple pie….!
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OH!
Great idea – the smell of burning will definitely override the lavender XD
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😂Hahaha well just buy one (you know the Lidl bakery has astonishingly delicious fresh apple pie once in a while? don’t know how they do that) and keep the oven on 50 degrees, that’ll do the trick… and set an alarm, of course 🤪…
Or maybe just order a different smell and smash it as well, and keep doing that until it smells bearable. Well, at least you know you don’t have the virus.
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