Every office has one: the colleague whose arrival you can detect from the meeting invite. Do not be that person. A work fragrance is a detail people notice when they lean in to look at your screen, not a broadcast to the entire open-plan floor.
Think in terms of radius. At the office, your scent should live within about an arm's length. Anything that announces you across a closed, air-conditioned meeting room is too much, no matter how expensive it smells.
The spray count matters more than the perfume. Two sprays of a strong EDP, or three of something lighter, applied to the chest under your shirt, gives you a personal scent bubble rather than a public one. Skip the neck-wrists-clothes triple treatment before a 9 am meeting.
Some families are simply easier at work: fresh woody scents, soft musks, clean citrus, light iris, and gentle ambers. Heavy gourmands, dense ouds, and party-loud sweet scents fight with small rooms, long meetings, and other people's lunch.
Timing helps too. Spray 20 to 30 minutes before you arrive, so the sharp opening burns off in the car or the metro instead of in the morning stand-up. What your coworkers meet is the smoother heart of the scent, which is exactly the impression you want.
And remember that air conditioning flattens scent while corridors and car parks amplify it. If you can faintly smell yourself indoors, the people beside you can smell you clearly. That faint level is the target, not a problem to fix with more sprays.
Velmoralz note: do the elevator test. Ride an elevator alone after applying; if you can still clearly smell yourself when the doors open, tomorrow use one spray less.
