The Week's contest: Parenting perfume

This week’s question: Fashion house Dior is selling Bonne Étoile, a baby and toddler-friendly “scented water” that, at $230 a bottle, encapsulates "the tenderness of childhood." If Dior were to release a fragrance that captures the frustrations of parenthood, what name could it give the scent?
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RESULTS:
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THE WINNER: Eau-verwhelmed
Scott Ludwig, Senoia, Georgia
SECOND PLACE: Scent to Your Room
Tim Wortman, Huntington Beach, California
THIRD PLACE: N’eau Respect
John Parry, Eldersburg, Maryland
HONORABLE MENTIONS:
Chauffeur for Them
William Hohl, Cameron, Texas
Eau de Toilette Training
Kenneth Burgan, Grass Valley, California
Exasperation by Baby Dior
Norm Carrier, Flat Rock, North Carolina
Bonne Toil
Phyllis Klein, Forest Hills, New York
Eau What I’d Do for Sleep
Rick Glass, Carmel, Indiana
L’Air du Temper Tantrum
Patty Oberhausen, Fort Wayne, Indiana
Ewwwwphoria
Ken Kellam III, Dallas, Texas
Eau de Minivan
Jesse Rifkin, Arlington, Virginia
Eau de Regret
Alastair Prescott, Scottsdale, Arizona
Diordeal
Fernand Dutile, South Bend, Indiana
Chanel No. 1 and No. 2
Diane McCurdy, Santa Rosa, California
L’Enfant Terrible
Barry Heller, Rolling Hills Estates, California
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