Why did the post-wall THOT wear so much perfume?

In France people with highly developed sense of smell are called "Noses", and many of them work in the perfume industry or related trades.

Other people are born with a really poor sense of smell, and they can use 5x the amount of perfume to be able to detect it on themselves.

In one company I worked, at I could tell who had been walking in the hallways outside our IT offices just by the stink of cheap perfume