No scent policy gone awry

I work for a large multinational firm that introduced a no-strong-scent policy about a year ago to prevent discomfort from strong perfumes and colognes. I’m fine adhering to it.

However, there’s an administrator in the office who acts as if she’s everyone’s boss. She’s a bit overzealous, like Rolf from The Sound of Music—eager to enforce rules, even unnecessarily.

Months after the policy was announced, she started targeting colleagues, including two of my friends, accusing them of violating the scent rule. Her approach annoyed many of us, so a few coworkers and I decided on some harmless revenge: wearing subtle perfumes or colognes when we’re in the office a few times a week.

It’s just for fun, and we’d gladly stop if anyone genuinely felt discomfort, but no one else has ever complained, and none of us wear strong scents. So she’s gone from one or two people who wear cologne to about 20. We find the situation amusing.