I have the proof
Actually, that's not me... tho I sorta know the blokes involved.
Apparently they'd been out on the slops... bourbon the night before. Hence, even with the perfumed talc, powder puff boy was putrid and the guy pouring it on was hospitalised after being overcome by triple fermented bourbon fumes.
It didn't help, neither, that he'd had curried egg sandwiches beforehand.