Cologne Bomb

[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.

[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.

[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.

[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.

[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.

[Mr Hero]

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

[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...

[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!

[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.

[Tolly]

Maybe so, but they're still dicks for utterly disregarding everyone around them.

I will openly admit to being biased, I get seriously stressed out and sickened by strong perfumes/deodorants/colognes and they just completely destroy my ability to function as a semi-rational human being.

[AccountingDrone]

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.

Ditto. That is when it would become an HR issue - or a legal one. Someone needs to tell that client to bathe and not use so much scent.

Of course, I once vomited on my brother when I was pregnant because he nuked some leftover clam chowder and it absolutely reeked. Though it was my Mom who told him he was an idiot, he had just gotten done commenting on his needing to nuke it at Mom's house because his wife of the time was also pregnant and was vomiting to smells ...

[Lace Neil Singer]

There was this woman who used to come into the petrol station wearing a really strong perfume and far too much of it. Honestly, she smelled like she'd filled a bath with it, climbed in, and marinated for an hour. I used to run out the back to avoid having to serve her cuz the smell was so bad it gave me a headache.

[BlaqueKatt]

Of course, I once vomited on my brother when I was pregnant because he nuked some leftover clam chowder and it absolutely reeked.

I cannot eat clam chowder anymore because someone(possibly on this board in a previous incarnation) pointed out to me: <invisitext so I don't ruin it for anyone else inadvertently> if you smell clam chowder and don't know it's clam chowder it is indistinguishable from pee. Clam chowder smells like PEE! 0_0<end invisitext>

[DGoddessChardonnay]

I cannot eat clam chowder anymore because someone(possibly on this board in a previous incarnation) pointed out to me: <invisitext so I don't ruin it for anyone else inadvertently> if you smell clam chowder and don't know it's clam chowder it is indistinguishable from pee. Clam chowder smells like PEE! 0_0<end invisitext>

I think there's something around here about the infamous "Low Tide Clam Chowder."

Just the thoughts of that make me want to

[WishfulSpirit]

Smelled like someone was cooking bad clam chowder in our hallway. I live in Colorado, could it have been something else?