I'm from Guangdong, and I feel fine, especially when there are many mosquitoes in summer, I start to miss citronella …
In Singapore and Thailand, some restaurants even put citronella in the bathroom to repel mosquitoes and improve the smell. Once they took a few friends from Northeast China (Changchun and Heilongjiang), they thought the taste was strange at first, but they got used to it after a little breathing …
Also, it is quite common to put citronella in curry, so if you can accept that curry, you should also accept the taste of citronella …
Personally, I feel that northerners seem to be more unaccustomed to citronella, saying that there are more areas in Beijing …
I wonder if the landlord said it was unacceptable to smell it, or it was unacceptable to have the smell of citronella in the food ...?