How to Make Your Office Smell Nice Without Annoying Your Coworkers
What are your best tips on how to make your office smell nice — without offending any of your coworkers or clients?
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Office-Appropriate Perfumes: Do They Exist?
Here’s a topic we haven’t discussed in about a thousand years: perfume at the office. DO office-appropriate perfumes exist, ladies? If so, what are the business etiquette rules for perfume? When I grew up I always loved the idea of having “a scent” that people would know me by — there’s a line in When…
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Sniff Sniff: How to Prevent Stinky Shoes
What are the best practices to prevent stinky shoes? How do you destink your shoes once they’re already funky? Reader K has a delicate question regarding stinky shoes: I need advice on how to keep my shoes from developing a bad odor. I wear hose 90% of the time with my dress work shoes, and…
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How to Tell Someone They Smell Bad
Reader R has a question about a smelly coworker that, I think, should spark a lively discussion: I have asked numerous other people (coworkers and friends) and so far no one has given a polite and appropriate response to my dilemma. I work with a lawyer who smells awful. At first I thought it might…
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Passing the Sniff Test: What to Do When You Belatedly Realize You Have B.O.
A young lawyer belatedly realized she had body odor, and worried that her colleagues might view her as less polished or professional.
