I would have to agree with Sunflower, in the respect that I am self employeed individual and I set the ground rules for my business. It is up to the parents to make an informed decision during the interview process.

I wear perfume daily, if a daycare family even politely requested that I stop wearing my perfume, I would have to consider termination as an option. I love wearing my perfume.

With that being said, I am super sensitive to most perfumes and I have found only 3 perfumes that I can wear. Very few people will even notice that I am wearing my daily perfume it is so soft. I also wear this perfume to places that I know are scent free and no one has ever noticed I would never request that daycare parent stop wearing perfume/calogne because I have a sensitivity to it. It has happened and continues to happen that I will have children who come in smelling like their parents and I have to work very hard to get past the smell of the child to provide appropriate childcare.

BUT during an interview I will request that if a family is partial to Ivory snow laundry detergent and are not willing to switch that I can not accept their child, clothes washed in it will burn me.

I guess my advice to parents is to ask about smellies before making your final decision on childcare, if you are scent sensitive find a provider who doesn't wear perfumes or use perfume style air freshners in their home. Or discuss compromises prior to childcare commencing when it isn't as personal. The perfume that you may be trying to gently ask your provider to stop wearing maybe part of the caregivers morning ritual that she looks forward to the most, or she might wear that perfume becuase her husband gave it to her and he is away, or she has fond memories from the smell which brighten her morning .....