Thank you for the suggestion. I'm beginning to think, though, that my original hunch that there aren't any real options out there wasn't too far off. It turns out humans have an enzyme named ALDH2 that helps us break down alcohol so it's less poisonous. There is a gene that codes for this enzyme and we each have two copies of this gene. If one of your copies is shoddy, some of your ALDH2 won't work too well and you'll have a worse reaction to alcohol than other folks do. If both of your copies are faulty, you have an even worse problem.
In my case, I don't have a reaction to the scents right away. They are actually rather pleasant at the moment-- or at least I used to think so until I finally put two and two together and realized that it is approximately four hours later that my symptoms kick in, feeling like what I've read of descriptions of a migraine , a hangover, and/or a very bad case of the flu. (Horrible head pain, nausea to the point of losing anything in my stomach, no tolerance of light, sound, movement, etc.)
I've never had a genetic test, and I couldn't afford one, but I suspect my problem comes down to
genes, and there's nothing I can do about that . . .
https://my.clevelandclinic.org/health/diseases/17659-alcohol-intolerance
https://www.acsh.org/news/2018/03/01/antabuse-very-good-pill-stop-drinking-dont-cheat-12631
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33150930/
https://www.livescience.com/hand-sanitizer-alcohol-reaction-disulfiram.html