Daphne Deckers’ favorite perfume was taken off the market because it contained all the wrong ingredients, the writer says. “Should this be the highest priority?”
It’s really a shame for Daphne Deckers: a perfume that she was extremely devoted to, and that she put on every day and applied behind her ears, has been withdrawn from the market. And that leaves her with a huge problem, because her children don’t even know her without that specific smell.
Perfume ban
This concerns the perfume Lancaster from the Lancaster brand. “Sometimes it seems like everything has to be dealt with,” she gushes in her latest Telegraph column. “My favorite perfume, which I have used for 35 years, no longer exists because according to new EU rules it could contain ingredients that could possibly be unhealthy.”
She continues: “Somehow I understand: safety comes first. But as long as alcohol and cigarettes are for sale and you can have a drug courier come to your door in every city, banning perfume ingredients might not have to be the highest priority.”
Lily scent
The EU passed a law on March 1, 2022 to ban dangerous chemicals from perfumes and other cosmetics. This concerns, for example, butylphenyl methylpropional, which smells like lilies. “This substance is reproductively toxic, therefore harmful to reproduction or offspring,” the Antidote Foundation said know at the time.
Ann Gils, director of Prevention and Early Detection of Kom op Tegen Kanker, was very happy with the ban: “Long-term exposure to hormone disrupting substances, even in low doses, can contribute to the development of some breast cancers. That is why it is crucial to minimize exposure to endocrine disruptors.”
But Daphne? He mainly sees it as an inconvenience… Should this be a priority?!