• @[email protected]
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    951 month ago

    I’ve heard this point a lot but given the fact that until the industrial age, most people had open flames in their kitchen and bedrooms so if i had to guess I’d guess most people smelled of woodsmoke.

    • @[email protected]
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      211 month ago

      Spend a week roughing it, or in a cabin away from running water, and you’ll realize very quickly that smoke only sorta covers how bad humans can smell

      If anything it mixes eventually and makes a whole new nasty

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      41 month ago

      A friend of mine in the military said when he was deployed and everyone starting stinking. He could be eating with a load of stinking guys. But he could smell if a woman came into the room.

      I guess we aren’t too far removed from the animals after all.

    • Ricky Rigatoni
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      21 month ago

      Back then people would stuff flowers in their shirts to cover up all the bad smells.