Asim bin Ubaidullah Umari narrates: Sayyiduna Abu Hurairah (may Allah be pleased with him) met a woman who was scented with perfume, so he asked: O slave-woman of Allah! Where are you going? She replied: To the mosque. Sayyiduna Abu Hurairah (may Allah be pleased with him) asked: Have you applied perfume for the mosque? She replied: Yes. So Sayyiduna Abu Hurairah (may Allah be pleased with him) said: Go back and wash it off! For I heard the Noble Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) say: "Any woman who applies perfume and then goes out intending to go to the mosque, her prayer is not accepted. And this does not happen, and that does not happen, until she returns and bathes as she would bathe after sexual impurity (i.e., she washes off all traces of the perfume completely)."