Unforgettable Airline Travel Horror Stories

The Horrible Perfume

It was between 10 and 11 years ago. I was in the middle seat on a 9-hour flight. A woman in an older age group sat at the window and wore a perfume that was so bad it gave me a headache within 10 minutes. Oh, and every few hours she would go to the bathroom and reapply her perfume, just in case I didn’t find it bad enough.

I vomited for the entire flight because of the smell and the turbulence. After years of being scared, I would take motion sickness pills on every flight. But I soon realized that it wasn’t motion sickness that was causing me to feel sick, but the smell from that old woman.