About 6 months ago I eliminated all yeast based products, sugar & most dairy products out of my diet. I also cut back on coffee & introduced green tea & various fruit teas into my daily routine, cut back on processed food that is high in sodium.

Since implementing these changes, I've noticed a change in how my perfumes change once on my skin. Now, sweet perfumes that smelt way too sickly sweet vary from slightly sweet to moderately sweet depending on which scent I'm wearing. Royal Secret II used to have a slight sharpness to it for the first 10-15 minutes, now it's extremely sharp for about 40 minutes but it still smells gorgeous after that (maybe even better)...Yah! Wore Roma yesterday & it went straight to B.O. (no mint or citrus), at the 3/12 hour mark, I scrubbed it, there was still scent left which smelt like the usual drydown but much softer due to the scrubbing. Byblos (original) was a screaming mess, couldn't detect any individual notes at all! I'm start to think that eating sugar created a sweetness in my body chemistry that used to counteract the sharpness?

Do you think the dietary changes are to blame? Any other ideas what could be causing this?

Possibly. Or maybe your sense of smell is heightened.

Or maybe your tastes have just changed in 6 months--I know that sometimes perfumes that I *adored* 6 months previously can turn to just "meh," and vice versa. Could be change in weather, or just my pure fickleness.

My sense of smell has always been very sensitive.

I've sprayed some perfumes into the air & they smell really good & exactly how I expect them to smell, ditto on paper. It's only when the scent hits my skin that the aroma totally changes from what I'm used to smelling. DH arrived home for lunch yesterday & asked 'what stinks', I said it was my Roma perfume, he said 'no way is that your Roma perfume' it reeks of B.O., Roma smells beautiful on you that doesn't! Unfortunately it was my perfume that stank

Lavender Blue, Do you mind if I ask why you cut back on yeast based products?

It was effecting my health & immune system. Every week I was getting sicker until I got to the point where I was vomiting daily & I was picking up flus, colds, viruses, etc. all the time. The vomiting stopped immediately when I cut the yeast based products & within a week or two the extreme bloating in my body was mostly gone, it took several months for my immune system to strengthen.

Thank you, Lavender Blue. I had heard these products could be harmful for some people, but I forgot how.

I think it is two fold. Your sense of smell is better because your whole body is better including your sinus cavities. Also, you skin may have a different smell due to the change in the foods you are eating changing the oils in your skin. You are what you eat, so if you eat a lot of onions, some of it will come out in your body oils, and your perfumes will be sitting on top of those oils. I think coffee and black tea makes body oils smell musky. So, if you have eliminated those ingredients, then things might smell sweeter.

There is a BBC America program called You are What You Eat! And a book to go with it. One of the most common things this nutritionist eliminates from peoples diets is boat loads of yeast laden white breads. Horrible stuff. It seems that if bread is needed, it should be a whole grain, preferably spelt or something non-wheat and it should be a flat bread without any yeast.

I just couldn't give up yeast breads, love them too much. Fortunately they don't seem to bother me!

I went through a period last year when for about 6 months I could not wear any of my favorite heavy oriental perfumes. For that time, all I could bear were light green and marine scents (not my usual thing). Now I'm back to my regular favorites. Not sure what changed, but it was very strange.

Yes, your diet affects your body chemistry. Eliminating a common element of a diet can alter your body's scent and, presumably, how it would interact with fragrance.

As mentioned above, your changes could also affect how you are perceiving scents and how they're being processed in the olfactory/limbic systems.

I eat no sugar no potatoes, no rice and no cereals but more fat than earlier. I ate like this when I started to wear perfume in 2007 so I can't say what that has caused to my body chemistry related to fragrance. But the taste of food has changed. I use much less of salt (of course fat in food carries taste so that might be one resaon, but I think that my taste sense has changed.) Last Christmas I tested to eat a peace of Ice chocolate and I had to spit it out because it was so disgusting sweet. Earlier I could eat loads of smeet chocolate.

Well I don't know if taste and body chemistry related to fragrance are the same, but I can also tell that my daughter suddenly couldn't wear Allure Sensuelle, Coco Mademoiselle and not even Sicily because she felt they smelled dirty after some hours. She has worn Allure Sensuelle for a couple of years and loved it. I wonder if her diet change from vegetarian to meat eater could have caused this? But the funny thing is that her boy friend an her mum thoght that she smelled good all the time. But now I'm getting Coco Mademoiselle and Sicily back, I had given them to her, and she got Love in Paris instead and she thinks it smells good.

Well I don't know.