PORT ST. LUCIE — Which smells better: incense, pepper spray or cologne?

It’s a question left unanswered after what could be called a malodorous melee Aug. 19 in Port St. Lucie, according to an affidavit.

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A man identified as the victim told Port St. Lucie police that his wife, Denise Benson, had ignited incense in the bedroom.

He said he sprayed his cologne to improve the smell, and put the cologne back in the bathroom.

That, he said, is when Benson, 48, got incensed “and sprayed him multiple times in the face with pepper spray.”

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The husband said he left the bedroom and went in the kitchen and that Benson followed and again sprayed him with pepper spray.

Meanwhile, Benson told investigators her husband “barged in the room and grabbed his cologne spray from the bathroom and sprayed it in the room and then sprayed her,” the affidavit states.

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Benson was jailed on a battery charge.