Gosh this is quite an illuminating thread. My belief is that older people are often not in the habit of bathing or showering, which is why they sometimes have a characteristic odour. Frequent showering is a very recent habit. In the 1970s soap manufacturers like Unilever would tell you that French people use less than half the soap that British and Germans use and only 30% of French people owned a toothbrush. Spain is nowadays a lead market for shower gels with good quality perfumes because the Spanish lifestyle and climate and increase in urban living means Spaniards are in the habit of showering twice or even thrice daily.
Gosh this is quite an illuminating thread. My belief is that older people are often not in the habit of bathing or showering, which is why they sometimes have a characteristic odour. Frequent showering is a very recent habit. In the 1970s soap manufacturers like Unilever would tell you that French people use less than half the soap that British and Germans use and only 30% of French people owned a toothbrush. Spain is nowadays a lead market for shower gels with good quality perfumes because the Spanish lifestyle and climate and increase in urban living means Spaniards are in the habit of showering twice or even thrice daily.
This thread reminds me...maybe 30 years ago i worked temporarily in the fish plant at work while they were short of staff. Lorry loads of fish offal and heads would come in, get put through a huge mincing machine, formed into slabs then frozen for future petfood use. It's quite a sweet smell, not a rotten one but it used to permeate every part of you. So after your shift youd have a long hot shower at work, go home all clean.
Maybe 1 or 2 hours later youd be sitting eating tea and suddenly get a faint whiff of....fish
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