Narrative:

We had begun our descent into ZZZ. Was 5 1/2 hour flight from ZZZ1. I was the a flight attendant. I noticed a smell in the forward galley. It was slight when I first noticed it. I am new to flying on the airbus and there are many new sounds; etc.; that are unfamiliar to me. So in my mind I think originally it was just a unique smell to the airbus. However; once we passed 18;000 and pilots made arrival notice to prepare cabin; the smell began to get stronger and I began to have [a] headache. At 10;000 chime I was called by pilots and asked if I could smell odor in cabin; as they could smell in flight deck; and the smell was stronger. I told them that yes I could smell odor and tried to describe. They said to get crew secured and that we would be on ground in 5 minutes. The B and C were mid cabin doing final cleanup. I walked to mid cabin and could still smell the odor; but not as strong as in forward galley. Told my B and C to get seated and informed them what pilots had stated and asked if they could smell odor; and she said yes. We all took our jump seats. As we were landing; sitting in jump seat in forward galley; I tried to see where smell [was] coming from; like air vent; etc.; but I could not diagnose. Once on the ground and deplaned; crew all debriefed with pilots of the event and what we all smelled; etc. At this point I now had tighter chest and lungs and felt unstable a bit; but I did not get sick. No passengers made any comment to me regarding smell during [deplaning]. Continue to research what is causing these events to happen on the airbus.

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Title: A320 Flight Attendant reported strong odor in cabin and experienced health issues.

Narrative: We had begun our descent into ZZZ. Was 5 1/2 hour flight from ZZZ1. I was the A Flight Attendant. I noticed a smell in the forward galley. It was slight when I first noticed it. I am new to flying on the Airbus and there are many new sounds; etc.; that are unfamiliar to me. So in my mind I think originally it was just a unique smell to the Airbus. However; once we passed 18;000 and pilots made arrival notice to prepare cabin; the smell began to get stronger and I began to have [a] headache. At 10;000 chime I was called by pilots and asked if I could smell odor in cabin; as they could smell in flight deck; and the smell was stronger. I told them that yes I could smell odor and tried to describe. They said to get crew secured and that we would be on ground in 5 minutes. The B and C were mid cabin doing final cleanup. I walked to mid cabin and could still smell the odor; but not as strong as in forward galley. Told my B and C to get seated and informed them what pilots had stated and asked if they could smell odor; and she said yes. We all took our jump seats. As we were landing; sitting in jump seat in forward galley; I tried to see where smell [was] coming from; like air vent; etc.; but I could not diagnose. Once on the ground and deplaned; crew all debriefed with pilots of the event and what we all smelled; etc. At this point I now had tighter chest and lungs and felt unstable a bit; but I did not get sick. No passengers made any comment to me regarding smell during [deplaning]. Continue to research what is causing these events to happen on the Airbus.

Data retrieved from NASA's ASRS site and automatically converted to unabbreviated mixed upper/lowercase text. This report is for informational purposes with no guarantee of accuracy. See NASA's ASRS site for official report.