Olfactory sensitivity question

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Perfume = not just perfume/cologne that people wear just for the scent, but also the scents added to most hand and body soap, shampoo, conditioner, deodorant, aftershave, shaving lotion, hair spray/gel, laundry detergent, fabric softener, dish soap, household cleaners, hand sanitizer, moisturizing lotion, and air freshener. (Basically all the "fragrance" and "parfum" that's put in personal care, beauty, hygeine, and cleaning products.)

Body odor = armpit stink or how people smell after a lot of physical exertion or when they haven't washed for a good while (rather than just the unique-to-the-person smell that someone has all the time, even right after a shower).

I find it easier to tolerate body odor. There are exceptions (mostly ... maybe entirely ... because of the odd perfume-y scent that I actually like or find neutral), but generally I would rather everyone smelled like body odor than perfume. I don't like the smell of body odor, I just don't find it as horrible as the majority of perfumes.

I find that perfume doesn't even cover up body odor, so people will just smell like a combination of their body odor mixed with whatever perfume(s) they're wearing; Which, depending on the particular body odor and the particular perfume, can be far worse than even a really awful perfume alone.

I don't mind perfume at all but body odor is awful. When I was in middle school and had to ride the bus, there was always that one kid every so often who would start spraying perfume/cologne and everyone, including the bus driver, would get all riled up about it. I never understood why it bothered everyone so much.

I don't mind perfume for the most part, I just hate it when it's particularly strong, or an unpleasant scent. I can't stand body odour; it makes me nauseated. I used to have to deal with it frequently when I rode public buses, and I'd spend the whole trip breathing through my mouth. Humans smell terrible.

Depends on how strong each one is. I find deodorant/body spray/hair spray (anything of that nature, the spray can things) the worst personally. In the PE changing rooms it was just full of girls always spraying themselves, I don't know how anyone could actually breathe.

They can be both uniquely bad but generally perfume or other smells like food are worse. I find that so long as people bath they don't smell. Breath however is a problem if I get too close and they talk.

I find certain food smells nauseating. I hate it when someone's breath smells like onion or garlic.
However, I tolerate my own body smell. Also, I tolerate the smell of perfume.

I hate most perfume but I dislike body odor as well, especially from the people who wash every a few days (a few hours long sweat is fine but later bacterias make it stink).

I wish everyone could just use antiperspirants. They stop the sweat and prevent bacterias from taking over but they have no strong smell themselves unlike deodorants and perfume.

Depends; I could tolerate either of it most at the time.

Being intolerant is the least of my worries; I'm rather worried about end up sneezing all the sudden and will still go on for hours afterwards. (Whether it's pleasant or not, it happens)
I can handle nausea, irritation, or both at the same time. But sneezing is better off worse in my opinion.

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I don't really have olfactory sensitivities. I rarely notice body odor, unless it's extreme "BBO". Perfumes generally don't bother me unless they're being sprayed around me, or I go into a specialty store permeated with them (But I'd imagine that bothers everyone, as it's physically difficult to breathe in such places.).

I hate both. I don't mind subtle citrus scents (grapefruit, lemon, lime and orange). I don't mind my own body odor but I hate other people's because I hate the idea of breathing in their bodily secretion particles.

my olfactory sensitivity is the only one that's lower than that of NTs; i don't really smell anything unless i actively try to