This post originates here I have no technical skills to get specific on how opoponax, oak moss, both types of jasmine, bergamot and other banned or restricted natural materials can really irritate the skin of some individuals. People with allergies or specific predispositions don't spray perfume on the skin but on clothes . And people who don't know if they'reallergic or not, when see a rash, generally wash up, and the next time they'll spray on fabric. One of the things I'm interested in, is the impoverishment of the artistic and cultural heritage consisting in the vintage fragrances, which are getting reformulated every 5 years. For now, oakmoss, jasmine, opoponax etc can still be used, in small amounts until 2013 . In this window of time companies have to reformulate them to conform to new standard (from the perspective of having to reformulate them again within five years and at huge cost, if I were Chanel I'd remove right now the most controversial raw...