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Smelling strong perfume can be worse than smelling BO ! Also I wouldn't go around hugging strangers, You can get cooties from hugging a dirty person. Heck I don't like to shake hands anymore.
I carry a mini bottle of febreeze in my car for those very reasons. In fact, everyone in my office complains about this one guy who wears tons of cologne. Never mind hugging, if he walks into your space, he'll leave his scent behind. It's funny because I've had 4 people tell me (on separate occassions) that this guy reeks but no one wants to confront him about it. I asked him, what was he wearing- he replied "Cool Water". So I said "Mmmm smells great, but it's a bit strong, can you tone it down a bit?" This was 2 months ago when he first started. Has anything changed? Not at all. I really wonder if he has a nasal problem or something.
My husband's stepmother wears perfume so strong that she has turned me off to Beautiful, formerly something I have liked! She sent me a gift box with it, but all I could do was look at it and remember her smell. She'd spray it on so strong that she left a cloud of it in the bathroom. And then we have to sit with her in the car on a 4 hour trip! Ugh! I regifted it to my Mom!
I am one of those people that have a particular sensitivity to strong perfume as well. Once I was sitting in a very tight little waiting room waiting to see a dental surgeon and there were only 3 of us in the room. Me, and two other (very large) women who were wearing enough perfume to choke a horse and they wer both chewing spearmint gum on top of it. Can we just say ..."BAD combination"????
Or shake hands. That's really bad, because if it's a business situation, there's no tactful way to wipe your hands off. I head right for the bathroom and scrub. WHYYYYY do people wear such heavy perfume/cologne????
I carry a mini bottle of febreeze in my car for those very reasons. In fact, everyone in my office complains about this one guy who wears tons of cologne. Never mind hugging, if he walks into your space, he'll leave his scent behind. It's funny because I've had 4 people tell me (on separate occassions) that this guy reeks but no one wants to confront him about it. I asked him, what was he wearing- he replied "Cool Water". So I said "Mmmm smells great, but it's a bit strong, can you tone it down a bit?" This was 2 months ago when he first started. Has anything changed? Not at all. I really wonder if he has a nasal problem or something.
Perfume and cologne should be BANNED in an office building! It's simply not fair to impose your entire bottle of perfume on everyone else every day. Cubicles are not walls...we smell EVERYTHING! There is a lady in my office who's scent lingers for at LEAST 10 minutes after she's gone. I can always tell where she's been! Grosssssssssssssss...
I don't like perfume or colognes either, and it really irks me after a quick hug, of friends or family, that I have to run around the rest of the day with some offensive scent that I can't seem to get rid no matter how much I try to rub it off.
Even worse, is going into a store and 'tasting' the perfume in the air .. either from people spraying it around or wearing too much. Instant nausea.
I don't like perfume or colognes either, and it really irks me after a quick hug, of friends or family, that I have to run around the rest of the day with some offensive scent that I can't seem to get rid no matter how much I try to rub it off.
Even worse, is going into a store and 'tasting' the perfume in the air .. either from people spraying it around or wearing too much. Instant nausea.
Exactly, walking down the grocery aisle when nobody's there and still smelling some god-awful cheap cologne. Usually musk.
I wear cologne, never to work, & never over-powering. By the time I get to where I'm going, it's mostly worn off. Don't know why I even bother.
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