BN Hot Topic: “You smell nice” – Was this “Compliment” to a Recruiter Appropriate or Not?

This has been trending on Twitter NG for about a day. One female user wrote:

“I interviewed a guy for a job yesterday and when he was leaving he said to me: “you smell nice” and I told him that’s very rude of him, he left looking stupid. A lot of men don’t have manners!!! If telling someone after an interview is what you would say, good for you…”

This has been generating lots of comments. Some say it’s not rude, but inappropriate, adding that it’d still be inappropriate if genders were reversed.

Others say maybe it’d have been better if they were same sex.

Another group believes it’d have been better if she responded by saying “Thank you” and then going on to tell him that his comments were inappropriate.

What do you guys think?