Diane Von Furstenberg’s new perfume D Eau de Parfum is something women would not like to wear since it makes people around feel unwell.
The scent problem appeared when the designer decided to make everyone know about her new scent by pumping the fragrance from the air vents at her store in the city’s fashion-forward Meatpacking District.
The reaction was far from what had been expected. People claimed they started feeling bad after walking past the store.
One woman told the New York Post newspaper:
I literally got dizzy from this. It is putrid, awful, something you’d find on a 60-year-old matron.
“She has got some nerve wafting this out of her store. There is a point at which these peoples’ egos and chutzpah absolutely begin to take over any sense of reality or consideration for other people.”
Another woman said the scent is so overpowering outside the exclusive West 14th Street boutique that she thinks someone might fall ill.
She added:
It’s just a matter of time before someone’s going to get sick and keel over from it or has an allergic reaction to it.”
It is interesting to note that the designer’s website describes the new fragrance as an “exotic mix of Mandarin flower, violet leaves and lychee. Jasmine absolute, ylang ylang and Lily of the Valley, with an edge of pepper and nutmeg. Ultimately, D wanders off to the wild, mysterious forests of cedar, patchouli and sandalwood.”
Trying to calm down the public Emese Szenasy, a spokesperson for the designer label, said:
This is the first we’ve heart of it. We’ll absolutely look into it.”
I hope they will take necessary measures until someone really doesn’t get sick.
