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Stevenukd Posted 17 years ago
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Heavy smell

1. It does bother him when he stands or sits next to someone who wears perfume with heavy smell.

- Is this sentence natural to speak?

Thanks very much to Teachers,

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Here is a more idiomatic version: It bothers him when he stands or sits next to someone who's wearing heavy perfume. There's no need to explicitly mention smell, it's taken as understood since we're talking about perfume.

— RayH

  • Here is a more idiomatic version: It bothers him when he stands or sits next to someone who's wearing heavy perfume.
  • There's no need to explicitly mention smell, it's taken as understood since we're talking about perfume.
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Here is a more idiomatic version:

It bothers him when he stands or sits next to someone who's wearing heavy perfume.

There's no need to explicitly mention smell, it's taken as understood since we're talking about perfume.
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