Miss Manners: Is there a polite way to tell a colleague that her perfume is too strong?

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DEAR MISS MANNERS: I started a new job as a mental health technician, and one of the therapists I work with always has a cloud of perfume around her. It is so bad that every time she walks into the same room as me, her perfume triggers my asthma and I have to leave the room.

I would just avoid this woman, but I am supposed to update her on what I have observed with the patients. Also, I can’t avoid her because I cannot see her: I have severely low vision, and cannot see that she is nearby until I smell her perfume. GENTLE READER: Next time you are discussing patients, mention apologetically that more than one has told you that her perfume causes them to have allergic reactions. This will make it a question of patient care -- and not of her potentially putting you in the hospital.

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