Cologne Bomb

[EvilEmpryss]

I get that some people really are clueless about how bad they smell because the stink has dulled their own senses. They wear a strong scent for a while, then can't smell it anymore, so they start putting on more and more to keep up with the fact that they've acclimatized to it.

It's not fair to anyone around them, but they just don't get it.

[DGoddessChardonnay]

Too much perfume or cologne and I literally start to choke and my nose will get very dry. And the customer in front of me starts getting offended...

I'm not one of those sensitive to smells and even that much cologne will send me running to the back room and out the back door!

Have a older guy who comes in w/his wife and they are BOTH obnoxious. She's always asking such simple questions that she could answer herself if only she'd open her eyes and read a damn price tag, while he is simply NOXIOUS to the point where you can smell him coming when you're on the back aisle of the store and he's just walking in the front door!

I've even ran from them, coughing, eyes watering behind my glasses and waving my hands to get the smell away from me and they are utterly clueless as to the fact they are simply offensive. One of my coworkers is sensitive to those kinds of strong smells (she'll get a migraine from HELL) and she'll try to hide in the meat room (or the cooler or even come back to my back area) just to get away . . .

I'm all for wearing a spray or two . . . but this guy I swear drinks this crap daily!

[prjkt]

Too much perfume or cologne and I literally start to choke and my nose will get very dry. And the customer in front of me starts getting offended...

[Mr Hero]

Today we salute you, Mr. Way Too Much Cologne Wearer

[Kanalah]

Sorry you ran into my dad.

Seriously, the guy bathes yearly and soaks himself in enough cologne to stop a rhino. He also smokes like a chimney - which requires more cologne if he's trying to impress someone.

[notalwaysright]

*shudder* The other day at the coffee shop some guy had so much cologne on that it overpowered the coffee smell, and when I left I could smell the trail outside. Today someone put on a bunch of body spray (vanilla berry- I could see the bottle) in the break room, which is a tiny box with terrible ventilation.

I guess I feel like when someone wears a lot of scent they are saying "I like this, and I don't care how anyone else feels." I know many think that they are somehow doing other people a favor because they honestly think everyone will enjoy that smell. Or it's so normal they don't even smell it anymore. Bleck.

[Kittish]

I am sensitive to perfumes and colognes (artificial fragrance of apparently any kind, really). That would have sent me RUNNING out of the building, barfing as I went. Then I would probably have spent the rest of the day with a killer migraine. Ugh.

[Tolly]

Jaysus Chroist. That's really nice, what happens if another client comes in who has serious issues with strong smells? You really should be able to tell people like that that they can't come in wearing so much crap, sheesh.

[EvilEmpryss]

Somebody save me.

BG: I'm in an office with two levels and multiple doors, sharing only a stairwell in the foyer between the two levels; we even have our own HVAC system up here for zone control.

A client came in for an appointment downstairs two hours ago, and I can STILL smell the reek of the cologne he must have bathed in before walking through the door! He's been gone for over an hour and he never even came upstairs! I can't even go downstairs right now without my eyes watering and my breath catching in my throat, and I am not one of those people who's sensitive to smells.

This is the problem with working with people with mental/emotional issues. No one dares tell him that he's an assault on the olfactory senses of everyone he comes within fifty feet of without having to worry about it hurting his precious little psyche. On top of that, the one person who should be able to tell him -- his counselor -- probably won't for fear of losing his business. How anyone could sit in a 10x10 office with that biohazard and not say something about it is beyond me.