I’ve had quite a few, especially at work. Someone told me that i smelled like an old woman’s foyer when i wore Grand Soir and that I smelled like a sour Poo-Pouri when wearing Initio Side Effect. What are the worst reactions you’ve ever had when wearing a fragrance?
Can’t say anything about fragrance, since I do not use any. But looking from the other side: how to tell someone that theirs is bad? Like too much or Granny-like or whatever?
Politely I think
Obviously. But the question is: Should you do it at all? And then how exactly?
The same way if someone has a bad body odor for whatever reason. I have never told them about it.
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Here is what you actually do - I have done it twice.
“Oh man, did you not dry your clothes all the way? I smell a little bit of mold or something, and it’s summer, and if they weren’t in the drier and they just dried in a confined space, they sometimes get a moldy smell…”
And then they’ll kind of deny it’s them and that’s fine, and you just naturally change the topic…
They’ll think about what was said and make the connection that
It gives them an honorable exit because you provide them something that they can blame that does not indict them for poor hygiene.
Another way is to tell a story about ‘forgetting to wear deodorant on a hot day’ - this might work as well.