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gemfyre ([personal profile] gemfyre) wrote2009-09-22 10:06 am
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Old lady smell

What IS that? I find 90% of women over the age of 70 will have this scent about them.

It's not a bad smell. But it's certainly distinctive.

Is it too much foundation? Old perfume? Cheap soap? Some special potion women recieve when they turn 70?
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[identity profile] stawberi.livejournal.com 2009-09-22 02:34 am (UTC)(link)
Using talc instead of deo?

[identity profile] gemfyre.livejournal.com 2009-09-22 03:03 am (UTC)(link)
Talc!

That might be it.

Nasty stuff. Bad for skin. Baking soda so much better.

[identity profile] stawberi.livejournal.com 2009-09-22 03:12 am (UTC)(link)
I always think old people smell like talc, and it's probably not that they're cutting their drugs with it.

[identity profile] jet-ski.livejournal.com 2009-09-22 03:14 am (UTC)(link)
I vote cheap soap/perfume. But at the moment I cant smell anything so I cant go otu and test the theory.

[identity profile] pixidance.livejournal.com 2009-09-22 05:15 am (UTC)(link)
Jean Nate! It's a scented powder that old ladies put on for some reason :P

[identity profile] thelastdon.livejournal.com 2009-09-22 09:29 am (UTC)(link)
It's the scent of death. Maybe decay too.

[identity profile] redmalice.livejournal.com 2009-09-22 12:29 pm (UTC)(link)
its a musty smell.. you go into their houses and it smells the same too. not sure what it is though

[identity profile] sunrise-raver.livejournal.com 2009-09-22 08:57 pm (UTC)(link)
No idea, but you are right! I used to work in an old folks home and there was this scent... not anything bad, just this distinctive smell. Don't think it was a product or anything as they all had it.

Perhaps it is a change in pheromones or sweat glands or something to be really smart ass?
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