Comments on: "Old people smell" is real

By: Culturedropout

Culturedropout — Fri, 01 Jun 2012 03:46:00 +0000

Wake me when they need someone to study the smell of attractive young people…

By: pjcamp

pjcamp — Fri, 01 Jun 2012 03:07:00 +0000

Old Spice, mothballs and athlete’s foot . . . what’s new about that?

See, actual knowledge would have prevented me from making that joke.

By: Cooper DiBiase

Cooper DiBiase — Thu, 31 May 2012 23:08:00 +0000

Are you saying no one eats Bit-O-Honey any more? Take it back!

By: David Pescovitz

David Pescovitz — Thu, 31 May 2012 22:01:00 +0000

Jon, I thought you switched to Axe?

By: saint_al

saint_al — Thu, 31 May 2012 21:26:00 +0000

Smelling underarm pads for a living… some people get the best jobs!

/always associated old people smell as candies no one else eats anymore like Circus Peanuts and Bit-O-Honey

By: joeposts

joeposts — Thu, 31 May 2012 21:14:00 +0000

I don’t click links, personally. I set bb as my homepage and that’s all I need.

By: Antinous / Moderator

Antinous / Moderator — Thu, 31 May 2012 21:06:00 +0000

It’s fairly obvious that hardly anybody actually followed the link.

In addition – contrary to the stereotype of the old person smell – the volunteers generally rated the samples from the oldest group as being less intense and less unpleasant than those from the younger groups.

By: jonlebkowsky

jonlebkowsky — Thu, 31 May 2012 19:38:00 +0000

Hey, David, you know I’m getting pretty old – and I smell great! Like Teen Spirit!

By: s2redux

s2redux — Thu, 31 May 2012 19:24:00 +0000

I’ll p’bly lose my AARP card for revealing this…. That smell is the linger-scent of old person sex. Its ubiquitous among us seniors ‘cuz we’re all doin’ it, all the time. “I’m going upstairs for a napsex”; “Some friends are coming over for teasex”; “I’ll be at the doctor’s office all morning for a blood sugar workupsex”; “Everythingsex these days costs more and takes longer.”; etc.

By: Sigmund_Jung

Sigmund_Jung — Thu, 31 May 2012 19:16:00 +0000

Alright, nobody said it, so here I go…
That’s obviously the smell of death.There, I said it.

By: Ramone

Ramone — Thu, 31 May 2012 18:15:00 +0000

And don’t forget that with age comes dampening of the senses, like loss of smell (a sign of Alzheimer’s BTW). So it would seem the elderly haven’t a clue (or a care!) about the odor.

By: Diogenes

Diogenes — Thu, 31 May 2012 18:11:00 +0000

Ya, old people have a distinctive smell.

Whereas babies don’t, toddlers don’t, teens don’t, college students don’t, and all those 20-30-40-50-somethings in the subways and elevators don’t.

Bottom line, people smell; mostly like their bottoms.

By: Andreas

Andreas — Thu, 31 May 2012 17:54:00 +0000

Interesting. I just read about the study in a german newspaper (Süddeutsche Zeitung) but acording to them one of the findings was that the older the group the less unpleasant the odour was perceived by the persons smelling it. The article you link to suggests the same thing, that old peaple smell better than younger…

By: blueelm

blueelm — Thu, 31 May 2012 17:48:00 +0000

Uremia I think, but I think that there are other things that are usually going on as people age that also change the way the smell. Gallstones can cause bad breath too and are more common as people age. The illness argument is sounding pretty plausible.

By: Aaron Gilliland

Aaron Gilliland — Thu, 31 May 2012 17:44:00 +0000

Now you’re just taking the piss.

By: Rosin Ffield

Rosin Ffield — Thu, 31 May 2012 17:33:00 +0000

It’s a common knowledge that when people age their skin start to evacuate ‘pee’ for some reason (i think it was compensating for slowness of the normal system rersponsible for that).

By: Rob

Rob — Thu, 31 May 2012 17:30:00 +0000

ROFL!

By: Aaron Gilliland

Aaron Gilliland — Thu, 31 May 2012 17:27:00 +0000

I’ve isolated the chemical responsible for the smell. I’ll be concentrating it into small spheres and selling it under the generic name, “Moth balls.”

Nobel plz.

By: joeposts

joeposts — Thu, 31 May 2012 17:06:00 +0000

Don’t listen to them. You have an enchanting musk.