What do you do when you smell someone before you actually seem him/her?

The people who do this really don't know they have too much perfume on
as their senses get dulled down by it, recently my daughter tried a perfume,
she only said she used one mist and well it make me ill and sneezing for the rest
of the day...some perfumes are just made tooo and I mean toooo strong...
maybe reply by saying, "Wow that's just a lil strong today, maybe try using a little less
perfume tomorrow" and then compliment this persons clothes, might work...as long
as you stay nice with it...
Hope this helps
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I will say that my sense of smell is pretty much gone so I have to depend on others to tell me.

I was running on the elliptical machine at my gym a couple days ago, when this very nice looking and obviously hygienic woman stepped up on the machine next to me. about a second later I was overcome by her perfume. I don't have asthma, and it did not really harm me, but trying to breathe that heavily scented air while working out became impossible. Being the passive person I am, I simply stopped my workout and moved on down to the bikes to finish my 30 minutes of cardio.

I found it almost as bad as the time a guy jumped up next to me after coming right in from having a smoke. I remember hoping he would cough up a lung and die as I was walking away.

If it's bad, then I have to run for my life as you put it.

I would also try to educate the person, probably by phone. But some people just don't think even when they should know better.

I was at the pulmonologist's office last year when a woman walked in reeking of cologne. I started to cough as well as the nurse practitioner. (She also has asthma). We both wound up taking a breathing treatment. Here's the kicker, the lady was a rep for a pharmaceutical company. I can't believe she was visiting a pulmonologist's office with such a heavy fragrance on. Maybe she was new.