Catholic girls school here. We rarely had a church event without someone fainting. Fans in huge spaces just didn’t do it. And, yes, I remember the perfume vividly. And the incense. And the fasting before communion, which didn’t help.
The fasting before Communion did in many a student.
Ah...those were the days, fainting, getting sick and the always crowd pleasing vomiting. (Had a classmate blow chunks right into my hat one time...3rd grade.)
There were often detailed discussions in Church about the coma inducing meals many felt entitled to indulge in after service even though no fasting had occurred previously. We southerners and our fried chicken, beans, greens and cornbread with just a spoonful of Banana Puddin. I think Banana puddin is an attractant for noseeums.