Scents/Fragrance on Purchases

Scents/fragrance cause my system to go ?!?!!!!😡. I largely live a fragrance free life at home (except my husband has dry cleaned clothes, which has some scent).

I went to Homegoods. The scents kill me in there; the candle aisle is TERRIBLE. Anyways, I brought home some things and the clerk must have had fragrance lotion on her hands because my stuff (plates and home decor) smell like perfumed lotion. I also have this issue if I order something made in China off of Amazon—the stuff stinks of scent and I suspect it’s some fragrance disinfectant they spray on the ships coming in from China with all the goods. I used to order grocery delivery but the bags and everything in the order was touched with some kind of fragrance.

I want to buy stuff but I hate being exposed to scents/fragrance. Each time, it affects me for at least the entire day and the next. How do you manage stuff that you buy that has a scent on the package? (I’m not talking about something that is inherently scented, e.g., perfume, because I flat out will not buy it). Do I just not buy things? How do I get the fragrances out?

I’ll glove and mask up and then spray it with vinegar-based spray. There has to be a better way than cleaning everything I just bought.