[ SECRET POST 3889 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #3889 ⌋

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Comments

Re: Things you've wondered but can't ask without sounding like a jerk or an idiot

[(Anonymous)]

I have a very sensitive sense of smell (not a fun thing, believe me) and I've noticed that sometimes what I eat tends to affect the smell of my sweat. Which seems rather odd. I'd say there was a good chance that before people slathered on perfumes and deodorants that people could smell things like that a bit more--what you'd eaten recently, or regularly, etc.

I know the Native Americans were said to be able to track early white settlers by their smell...but they may have just had really bad hygiene, too. I'm pretty sure bathing wasn't particularly common back then among the white settlers.

Re: Things you've wondered but can't ask without sounding like a jerk or an idiot

[forgottenjester]

From what I remember of my history classes hygiene, particularly bathing, was really, really fucking bad among white settlers at the time and one way to tell that one of the whites was adopting the Native American's way of life (Much to the consternation and racist views of their fellow whites) was that the person was a lot cleaner suddenly.

"I can't smell you from 40 paces! You heathen!"

Apparently not bathing was a societal reaction to the bubonic plague.

But take what I know with a grain of salt because American School History classes are phenomenally bad.