Honestly if I'm not in fairly close proximity to someone I don't want to smell them. If someone just quickly walks by where I'm sitting like 5+ feet away and I get a strong whiff of scent from just that, they've way overdone it, in my opinion. And if my memory serves axe smells kinda nasty and the people that wear it often really overspray it. Strong scents have been known to give me a headache (axe and febreeze were the biggest culprits) but I also just don't like them even if that doesn't happen, even if it's a "pleasant" smell.
Maybe it's because I don't want to be expected to always douse myself in something to smell like sunshine and rainbows, idk. I am just a human, I wear lightly scented deodorant/antiperspirant at most, I do my best to stay clean and not smell, but I have no interest in smelling like orange blossoms or "musk" or whatever, I'd rather just smell like myself, or nothing.
smelling scents on myself drives me nuts ngl. I usually use something mild that I don't smell, but I used a sample size of some new deodorant brand recently and it gave me this nasty sour smell that really stuck around and I never went nose-blind to it. Just disgusting.
Also personally if I were to make a comment about you smelling nice it would be a compliment, if it was overpowering I probably just wouldn't comment at all