After Months of research, I have come to the conclusion that the “old lady smell” is made up of at least 70% Channel no. 5. Now I shared this theory with Ed Zotti and he was dubious. Tubadiva said I was full of it, and that in fact old lady smell is: " it’s old lady with weak bladders, mostly. Old urine at that. " We have reached an impasse.
So I bring this to you, the Teeming Millions to settle. Remember, all those who agree with me have the added benefit of being less likely to be ground under my jack booted heel when the revolution comes, and a mostly painless death from my 1920’s style death ray.
So please, chime in with your opinions lets get to the bottom of this, the most perplexing of odors.
A someone who spends a lot of time visiting her aging, frail mother in an assisted-living facility and meets a lot of dying old ladies, I can only address you if we take this to the Pit.
Well Eve I’m not trying to offend anyone. I wasn’t really refering to dying old women. Mostly my contact with the old lady smell would be hanging around old ladies at church, my grand mother and her circle of friends and old ladies on the bus. No need to get nasty.
Wait till your grandmother is old and had a stroke and you’re sitting by her bedside all night so you can help her to the bathroom and back and get her some tea when she starts choking.
Then you’ll know what “old lady smell” is, and it’s not Chanel, it’s fear and depression and impending death.
Eve, I’m not trying to start a fight her. I’m just trying to have a light heart talk about a particular odor I’ve noticed from HEATHY older women. I’m really sorry you’ve had to see what You’ve seen. Truely. And yes, when I have to go vist my dying grand mother, I’m not going to enyoy it. Much like I didn’t enjoy watching my god mother, god father, father, and grand father die in the hospital. But at the same time, knowing all 4 of them they would find a talk abut funny smelling old people to be really funny. And in fact I had a bunch of funny conversations with all of them while they had reather awful tubes runing into their bodies. So again, please Im sorry if its an unpleast topic, and its jsut a bit of innocent fun.
Right on. Neither did I. If anything, I’d have to say that all of the Old Ladies in my life smelled of Shalimar, if anything at all. And Eve, I’m sorry about your grandmother. That must have been very hard to bear.
Sorry I snapped at you. As you may have noticed, my temper is stetched to the breaking point these days, I think it’s best if I just do my work and take care of things that have to be taklen care of, and stay away from message boards.