Perfume in the office

[Aninabertsi]

Why???!! Why do people think I would want to smell them from 30 feet away!? Or have the same taste as them? If you must use perfume, why not just use a small amount so only if I stand directly next to you I can smell it not all the way across the office (open plan office at that)...I can't think or concentrate on what I'm doing because all I can think off is this effing smell. Sorry for the rant but I think it should be banned

Another thing to go on the banned list 🙄

What other things are you talking about?

Nothing has to be banned. That only happens when people are too stupid and/or self-absorbed to make good decisions that account for the others around them.

Perfume is fine. Wearing too much is not. I have a contractor that wears an offensive amount. When I visit her in her office, it’s quite overwhelming.

I have a colleague with asthma and other people's perfume can cause her really difficulty

I've never really understood why people would willingly smother themselves in that much chemical. If those same people were told to douse themselves in actual chemicals, that they knew to be chemicals, they would be up in arms and likely refuse to do it.

Dior Poison was bad enough back in the day. Now it seems every damn perfume uses that scent as its benchmark to smell stronger. Gross.

I’d rather some nice perfume than rancid clothes that people drown in vile fabric conditioner. Lots around in this weather.

In that situation, it's perfectly reasonable to avoid wearing perfume. The OP wants it banned so she doesn't have to smell it from across the office. Which no doubt means when wearer briefly squirts at her desk.

How odd to think someone is wearing perfume because they think you want to smell them or because they have the same taste as you 😭

They’re probably not wearing it for you

Sometimes people haven't aplied that much you just don't like them or their scent and your body hates smelling them. I agree it would be best to have a no perfume policy at work but how would you enforce it is an HR nightmare.

Can we also add vapers and smokers to the list... and those who eat smelly food for lunch..

One colleague said she was wearing extra perfume because of smelly clients and colleagues so it was to drawn their smell and hopefully rub off on them.
Another one because she was paranoid about smelling bad.
I worked with a woman who was complimented on her perfume at work by our manager but i hated her scent. I thought it was too strong and lingered..it was Sol De Janiro or body shop stuff.

I didn't think they do, but surely they understand that people around them can also smell it too!

I don’t think people should be allowed to wear orange clothing. It offends my senses.

Get a grip.

😅

This sounds so outdated now but when I started my grad job in 2015(!) we had training from an etiquette lady as part of our onboarding days. She was very clear that perfume should be very minimal, ideally just a perfumed body lotion, and it should NOT be re-sprayed in the office.

She also spoke at length about jacket sleeve length.

Those are the two things that have stayed with me 🤣

OTT perfume is antisocial. My stepson wore 1 million prive to my nan in laws funeral and it waa like a stink bomb had gone off

My husband wears orange boxers

I'd much rather smell perfume fragrances than deal with musty clothes, body odour, and other unpleasant personal hygiene issues. Similarly, people who have these odour problems often don't realise how offensive it is to others!

As someone who was sat in the office yesterday and could smell nothing but someone else’s sweaty armpits- I’d absolutely rather smell perfume!

I do think people tend to wear more deodorant/body spray/perfume this time of year & in this weather, we’d all rather be accused of wearing too much perfume than stinking of sweat all day!

Ha(and I say this as a perfume wearer), try working in a secondary school. Many Girls (and boys-ours had more high end scents than Boots!) seem to believe that it’s essential to spray; after going to the loo, when entering a lesson, when leaving a lesson, coming in from lunch. And it’s always currently Baccarat Rouge,(or dupes) fecking Sol de whatisname, or something equally huge. I quite liked BR, but cannot stand it now.
I learned my lesson in the 90s after coming back from a lunch wandering around Debenhams and squirting something rancid on my wrists and half the floor of our open plan offices complained. But one of our dodgier clients came back later with a bag full of shonky perfumes lifted from various stores and said “thought of you-20 quid.” When he plonked a bottle on the counter.(I didn’t take him up)

I agree OP. I think people go a bit nose blind and keep adding more and more. I hate it. Obviously unwashed clothes and bodies are awful too but assuming people have a decent level of personal hygiene, I’d rather they kept their perfume subtle.

I work at Lush and am always worried I'm reeking up public transport on my way home and that people will think it's intentional and obnoxious... I'm completely nosebleed to it but after an eight hour shift the smell clings to you so strongly. Always get strangers asking what scent I'm wearing, but once overheard a woman near me ask her partner 'what that awful migraine inducing stench was' 😭 sat near them discussing it for it for several stops before they got off, hopefully not because of me!

100%. I am much more offended by people who smell unwashed or like they have not dried their clothes properly and often wish they’d wear some fragrance over that!

As it can cause Asthma attacks it should be banned in the workplace.

I don't wear perfume often but I sometimes do in the office. My job can mean I get hot and sweaty unexpectedly with manual tasks, I do reapply my deodorant but I do a little spray of perfume as I assume people would rather smell Chanel No. 5 rather than me getting ripe!