It started, as all great fragrance stories do, with overconfidence. A r/fragrance user reported spraying Parfums de Marly Layton twelve times before work — "four neck, four chest, two per wrist, I was feeling myself" — and then stepping into a small office elevator.
By lunchtime, a coworker had filed an HR complaint citing "chemical warfare." By dinner, the thread had 9,400 upvotes and 842 comments ranging from sincere sympathy to detailed spray-count intervention plans.
The community consensus, for the record: Layton is a beast mode fragrance. Two to four sprays. Not twelve. Never twelve.
The original poster's final update: "Wearing 2 sprays of Cloud now. The compliments are back and HR has closed the case." Growth.