Old person Smell

In the past it was a mixture of infrequent bathing, clothes washing, window opening and fear of draughts. But I am surprised it still exists.

When I first retired (in my 50s) I worked for a charity where I went into many elderly people's homes, and I do not ever remember going into someone's house and smelling the fusty smell, I remember so well from childhood.

I think providing you are particular about personal hygiene and clothes changing and keeping the house aired there should be no odour. Mind you DD has strict instructions to inform me if I start looking like mutton dressed as lamb or wearing clothes with stains I hadn't noticed on them.

It's not necessarily the people who smell, it's the clothes they wear IMO. The old people I know (really old that is, much older than me!) don't have the energy or even care very much about washing clothes.

Eau de teenage boys bedrooms !

Many young people don't smell like ice-cream either !!

And at what age do we start to smell?

When my son and his wife were buying a house they often commented that a house they had viewed smelled of old people.