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I’ve always been a perfume girl. Starting at the ripe age of 8, I had a collection of perfumes that grew and grew every year. As an adult, I probably had about 10 different bottles I would cycle through, depending on mood, event or time of year. I love the impact on emotions that your olfactory associations can have. Anyway, when I got pregnant with my daughter, I naturally researched everything I could do to be healthy and have a healthy baby. Perfrum was a big no-no, and since then, I have given up my addiction to designer scents, and traded them in for my own essential oil blends (which I have been pleasantly surprised by!). If you have asthma or allergies, this information is particularly relevant. Please read why these synthetic compounds can be harmful: