Woman lost job for wearing too much perfume

alphabassettgrrl · 10-02-2007, 06:50 PM

I don't have much of a sense of smell, but my hubby is nearly allergic to about any scent I've tried. Natural oils seem to go under the radar and fall into his "simply dislike" category, but don't set off the screaming fits like regular perfumes do.

It's true that some people bathe in the stuff and yeah, that can be a problem. Customers were complaining about her perfume- that's valid. She tried to switch to a different one, but if she's using half a bottle at a time, that won't help.

Oversensitive people? Maybe. How do you draw the line between "makes me uncomfortable", "dislike the scent" and an actual physiological problem in the scent-recievers?

You get complaints, if you want to continue working with these people, you got to find a way to accomodate them.

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10-02-2007, 06:50 PM	#19
alphabassettgrrl Senior Member Join Date: Jan 2005 Posts: 4,978	I don't have much of a sense of smell, but my hubby is nearly allergic to about any scent I've tried. Natural oils seem to go under the radar and fall into his "simply dislike" category, but don't set off the screaming fits like regular perfumes do. It's true that some people bathe in the stuff and yeah, that can be a problem. Customers were complaining about her perfume- that's valid. She tried to switch to a different one, but if she's using half a bottle at a time, that won't help. Oversensitive people? Maybe. How do you draw the line between "makes me uncomfortable", "dislike the scent" and an actual physiological problem in the scent-recievers? You get complaints, if you want to continue working with these people, you got to find a way to accomodate them. __________________ Why cycling? Anything [sport] that had to do with a ball, I wasn't very good at. -Lance Armstrong
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