As long as the perfume is subtle, I don't have a problem with it.. however, I have noticed several women wearing something very close to Raid bug spray.. makes my nose burn.. asked one woman what exterminating company she worked for.. she got very upset.. even moreso when several people near by agreed....

Not to mention protecting those who don't want to sit in a fog of some idiot's $2 per gallon "personal statement" that can wake the dead and be seen from space.

Seriously, if the perfume is condensating on the cold surfaces in the room, you may have used a little much.

If you have ever smelled real whale vomit, you have to wonder why anyone would ever use that or a synthetic version as a base for nearly every perfume out there.

Live fetid or die?

What smells like whale hork?!

There's a line between subtle fragrance and the kind of New Hampshire eye-bleeding body funk. And it's not a thin line.

People who wear a lot of perfume smell worse than smokers.

I reek, therefore I am

Show of hands: how many people recognize certain old lady perfumes as what their grandmothers/great aunts, etc. wore?

\no idea what my great Aunt Yvonne wore, but anything close to it and it totally gives me flashbacks

Please make this a federal law and make sure it explicitly outlaws the overuse of Axe spray.

All of these comments and Axe for men.
They should ban that stuff, everywhere.

If you've ever had to do a personal conference with someone for excessive fragrance, you understand.

Hard to ban all fragrances since it's in soaps, hair products and lotions, but I wish them well.

LADIES:

A light spray on the wrists and a one spray on the neck.

OR

A Bath and Body Works lotion.

NOT BOTH!!!!

Actually, skip that: don't buy shiat from Bath and Body works. Its awful.

Good. I'm tired of going somewhere and then being sick for the next three days because the perfume triggered my asthma.

AbbeySomeone: FriarReb98: Show of hands: how many people recognize certain old lady perfumes as what their grandmothers/great aunts, etc. wore?

\no idea what my great Aunt Yvonne wore, but anything close to it and it totally gives me flashbacks

You were young and just did what she told you. You were a good, obedient boy and you made her very happy.

Heeeeeeeeeell no. She was the one we all tormented and I got bit in the ass by karma because of it: She wanted to give my mom some of my uncle's shoes. Mom said no for me, and it turned out the shoebox actually had $30,000 in Uncle Johnny's Suffolk Downs winnings in it.

\interestingly, I think the same thing when someone smokes Parliaments around me, not that that happens much, but you get the point.

Has anyone else had to have this conversation with an employee?

It is honestly worse than having the "your clothes are not professional" conversation.

Can we get a law passed to force people to take showers? I work with a bunch of non bathing Indians that are always hummin.

There isn't a perfume worse than hardcore BO.

what_now: Has anyone else had to have this conversation with an employee?

It is honestly worse than having the "your clothes are not professional" conversation.

Yes. They got defensive. Real defensive.
She even used the high price of the fragrance as proof that it couldn't possibly be offensive.
If it were really that spendy, maybe she could have cut back on the amount, no?

what_now: Has anyone else had to have this conversation with an employee?

It is honestly worse than having the "your clothes are not professional" conversation.

We have a person who works with us who the office literally emails on a monthly basis to remind him to bathe. It beats the dress code arguments hands down.

Asthma is gets one of God's ways of culling the herd.

I don't mind catching a little whiff of some nice perfume but some ladies leave a scent stronger than a skunk. They must marinate in it.

I've seen this with both men and women. There are times at work I can tell you who has walked down a hallway within the last 30 minutes from the smell alone.

I don't understand how they would distinguish if someone is wearing perfume vs. showered with a scented soap, etc.

Grables'Daughter: I don't understand how they would distinguish if someone is wearing perfume vs. showered with a scented soap, etc.

Smell quantity.

GAT_00: Grables'Daughter: I don't understand how they would distinguish if someone is wearing perfume vs. showered with a scented soap, etc.

Smell quantity.

Sure, but how would you legally measure that?

Grables'Daughter: I don't understand how they would distinguish if someone is wearing perfume vs. showered with a scented soap, etc.

Sadly, I've learned to tell.

There is some type of additive in a good number of perfumes. My wife is very allergic and will go into uncontrollable sneezing fits whenever she gets a nose full of a perfume with whatever it is that's in it, and I've never seen her react that way from any type of soap. I got to the point many years ago now where I am able to tell immediately whether or not the perfume I'm smelling is going to set her off or not, so I can quickly give her a heads up and she'll know to hold her breath until we can get away from the smell. Walking anywhere near a department store's perfume area is about the worst place in the world - and FSM help you if you're one of those perfume spraying people.

Oddly enough, she has the same reaction to the smell of marijuana. And she's a teacher. Don't come stoned to class or you're pretty quickly busted.

Demetrius: Grables'Daughter: I don't understand how they would distinguish if someone is wearing perfume vs. showered with a scented soap, etc.

Sadly, I've learned to tell.

There is some type of additive in a good number of perfumes. My wife is very allergic and will go into uncontrollable sneezing fits whenever she gets a nose full of a perfume with whatever it is that's in it, and I've never seen her react that way from any type of soap

Well THAT's interesting. It sounds like it's something that's used in the base of perfume that she's allergic to, maybe?

Grables'Daughter: GAT_00: Grables'Daughter: I don't understand how they would distinguish if someone is wearing perfume vs. showered with a scented soap, etc.

Smell quantity.

Sure, but how would you legally measure that?

I'm going to fall back onto an old fallacy here: I can't define it, but I know it when I smell it.

Grables'Daughter: Demetrius: Grables'Daughter: I don't understand how they would distinguish if someone is wearing perfume vs. showered with a scented soap, etc.

Sadly, I've learned to tell.

There is some type of additive in a good number of perfumes. My wife is very allergic and will go into uncontrollable sneezing fits whenever she gets a nose full of a perfume with whatever it is that's in it, and I've never seen her react that way from any type of soap

Well THAT's interesting. It sounds like it's something that's used in the base of perfume that she's allergic to, maybe?

I think so. I've met two other people with the same problems and their spouses have similar stories to mine. Not quite sure what it is though.

She's learned to deal with it pretty well. She used to get uptight about people that would load up on the perfume (or cologne, whatever), now she just gets herself out of the situation if possible, otherwise she just has to turn into a mouth-breather.

Lsherm: How could they possibly even enforce this? What about soaps? Laundry detergent? Fabric softener? Do we all have to put up with horrendous BO because asthmatics can't take care of themselves?

Also, who in their right farking mind thinks what you smell like is something the government should have control over?

I want to smell like Anthrax spores.

Grables'Daughter: GAT_00: Grables'Daughter: I don't understand how they would distinguish if someone is wearing perfume vs. showered with a scented soap, etc.

Smell quantity.

Sure, but how would you legally measure that?

Just like the coal miners did in ages past. Use a canary, if it dies, you're wearing too much.

Will strippers and "escorts" be exempt from this rule? Because really, that's a job where you have to smell nice.

Don't know why anyone wears perfume or cologne to an office job, but if I were to do that I'd wear this. It's nice but faint

EvilEgg: What smells like whale hork?!

I am so stealing this for the next time.

It smells like Bigfoot's dick!

I'd say make it legal for employers to ban it and let each employer decide.