One of our members has an extreme sensitivity to fragrances, such that it triggers migraine headaches and brain fog. While wearing perfume is a personal choice, our member would greatly appreciate it if you could remember to abstain from perfume at League meetings or get togethers.
An excerpt from Fragrance Free Nation on Facebook:
It is framed as a personal preference rather than a critical issue of accessibility and health.
Meanwhile, people are quietly disappearing from public life.
They sit near the exits.
They leave early.
They decline the invitations.
They stay home.
And eventually, exhausted by a world that refuses to accommodate them, many stop explaining themselves at all. Not because they stopped caring about life, but because the environment became simply too hard to survive.
The grief is real.
The exclusion is real.
The loss is real.
The air we share determines who gets to participate in society.
Choose fragrance-free.
Cheryl Nechamen
President