Outline:
Circulating messages claim that criminals lurking in parking areas are using drugs disguised as perfume to debilitate and rob victims.
Brief Analysis:
The warnings are untrue and should not be taken seriously. They are just incarnations of a long-running urban legend that has been passed around since at least the year 2000. The stories are derived from a 1999 case in which a woman in Alabama claimed to have been assaulted and robbed by assailants who used a debilitating substance disguised as perfume. The original story remains unsubstantiated and may well be untrue. And no credible police or news reports about such robbery methods have been published in the years since. Moreover, it would normally take more than one or two sniffs of a substance – even ether – to render a victim instantly unconscious. Versions of the “warning” have been set in several countries.
[Note: Clicking opens a website article with a LIDL version of the same hoax] Original Source : https://www.hoax-slayer.com/perfume-bogus-warning.html