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Scent Of A Heartless Woman
Jensen Beach (Florida), May 18: When Lynda Taylor put on perfume and lit scented candles around the house, it wasn`t romance she had on her mind. It was spite, police say.
Jensen Beach (Florida), May 18: When Lynda Taylor put on perfume and lit scented candles around the house, it wasn't romance she had on her mind. It was spite, police say.
Taylor, 36, was arrested last week on charges she tried to seriously injure her chemically sensitive husband.
In addition to using the perfume and candles, Taylor sprayed the house with bug killer and lysol disinfectant, plugged in scented air fresheners, and emptied lavender sachets around the home, her husband says.
David Taylor, 46, says the fragrances caused him to swoon -and not in the hearts-and-flowers sense, either. He says he fell into a stupor that left him too feeble even to call for help.
"This extreme exposure made me very ill with severe brain fog, headache, numbness and trembling and pain throughout my body so severe I could barely move," he wrote in his complaint.
His wife denies using fragrances to torment her husband and suggests he is faking his sensitivity to chemicals. She says she often dabbed on perfume and it never affected him before during their three-year marriage.
"He takes a little bit of the truth and twists it into full-blown lies," she says.
Taylor's husband claims to suffer from a rare disorder called multiple chemical sensitivity, an allergic reaction to perfumes and other scents that he says can be fatal.
The couple had been feuding over a $150,000 workers' compensation settlement that the husband received in March for his illness.
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Taylor, 36, was arrested last week on charges she tried to seriously injure her chemically sensitive husband.
In addition to using the perfume and candles, Taylor sprayed the house with bug killer and lysol disinfectant, plugged in scented air fresheners, and emptied lavender sachets around the home, her husband says.
David Taylor, 46, says the fragrances caused him to swoon -and not in the hearts-and-flowers sense, either. He says he fell into a stupor that left him too feeble even to call for help.
"This extreme exposure made me very ill with severe brain fog, headache, numbness and trembling and pain throughout my body so severe I could barely move," he wrote in his complaint.
His wife denies using fragrances to torment her husband and suggests he is faking his sensitivity to chemicals. She says she often dabbed on perfume and it never affected him before during their three-year marriage.
"He takes a little bit of the truth and twists it into full-blown lies," she says.
Taylor's husband claims to suffer from a rare disorder called multiple chemical sensitivity, an allergic reaction to perfumes and other scents that he says can be fatal.
The couple had been feuding over a $150,000 workers' compensation settlement that the husband received in March for his illness.
Bureau Report