dude you stink of cockroaches!

I'm sure everyone has encountered this. someone announcing their presence with their overpowering perfume/cologne. If you walk past me and I get a whiff of your chosen scent, that's fine. I'll just make sure I don't walk to close to you if I don't like your perfume. Or I can just hold my breath the next time you walk by. But just stepping over the threshold of the door, and your smell wafts to all the corners of the room is just wrong. what is the deal? is it because you have such overpowering b.o. that you need to smother yourself and everyone else with your perfume? I used to sit next to this girl who douses herself with some givenchy perfume. ugh! and her s.o. as well. you could smell them coming in the room. fortunately their perfumes were not too offensive.

my choice for the everyday scent would be something grassy. like pleasures. or something fresh like the citrusy calyx. I like flowery scents too, like tuberose and jasmine. but too much becomes cloying. especially rose. we were not allowed to use strong scents in the choir because of our close proximity and no one actually wants to inhale a mouthful of someone else's perfume. that should be the rule at the workplace too. a little misting is fine but no dowsing please! sensous and musky scents like vetiver should be reserved for social occasions. it's unfair to subject your co-workers to day-long sensory overload.

but I've been lucky so far since most of the scents I've had to deal with were palatable. even poison doesn't bother me much. I meant the perfume. but this new dude's cologne is seriously disgusting. I can't pinpoint what the scent is because I'm usually too busy suppressing the urge to puke or holding my breath. it reminds me of cockroaches and almonds. that's because it smells like the almond drink my mom used to make us drink when we were kids. it came in powder form in a green tin with some chinese dude's face on it. blargh! my mom gave up eventually after the ruckus we made. we called it the kachuak drink! kakakaka. and now I have to put up with it in stinky cologne form. earlier I got into the elevator when he got off. boy was that a mistake! he managed to saturate the elevator with the kachuak smell in less than a minute, since the building we work in is pretty short. he was no longer in the elevator but he left a mist of his dastardly stink. made the unappetizing lunch I just got from the cafeteria even more so. ugh! one of these days, I may have to dip him in clorox.