Jen, good for you. Lots of people are either allergic or highly sensitive to to colognes these days. It didn't develop for me until I was in my late twenties. Certain perfumes can cause both the eye watering and an immediate splitting headache. It can easily take an hour or two of fresh air for the headache to subside.
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