The post was three sentences long: "My girlfriend says Le Male Elixir gives her headaches. I've been asked to apply it on the balcony. Is this a red flag?" Three thousand upvotes later, frag-Reddit had turned it into a referendum on sillage etiquette.
Team Balcony argued that beast-mode fragrances are a shared-space decision, like speakers or garlic. Team Elixir countered that a fragrance you can't smell isn't a fragrance, it's a memory.
The compromise the thread eventually landed on has since become community canon: two sprays indoors, four outdoors, and never in the car.
The original poster's update, for the record: "Applying on the balcony now. Honestly the ritual is kind of nice. Also we're engaged." Fragrance brings people together.