I am very sensitive to smells, and I went through a phase in my 30s, where I couldn't even walk through a department store, due to the perfume smells. Now, I don't get the closing throat, just coughing and a scratchy throat.
When I was a middle school teacher, I had to constantly remind the boys that girls didn't necessarily thick dousing yourself in cologne made them attractive! And generally, I just played the asthma card at the beginning of the year, so they didn't wear it.