my favorite quote, from a designer, many years ago: "perfume should NEVER announce itself. it should wait to be discovered".
i had to "re-tube" a patient once, who was about to be released from the hospital after a two-week long stay for breathing problems. she had stopped breathing again, and her airways was shutting down--all because the nurse who was releasing her was wearing too much perfume. the patient was violently allergic to it, and it almost killed her. she ended up staying another week.
and our hospital system declared a complete moratorium on any kind of perfume. period. full stop. nobody, nohow gets to wear any. and that was over 25 years ago.
and the perfume that almost did her in? "poison". how fitting!