Eau de torment: living with scent intolerance

One sniff and Orange prize-winning novelist Kate Grenville’s head would start to throb. Could she really be intolerant to... perfume?One night in 2015, travelling around Australia on a book tour, I lay on my bed in the room of a posh hotel admiring the job I’d done on the door. Wide packaging tape sealed the crack where the door met the jamb, and a damp towel was wedged against the bottom.If a person from housekeeping had knocked and then heard the sound of ripping tape before the do