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Micron’s ‘industrial levels’ of fragrance overpowering aides, book claims
(www.independent.co.uk)
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I know you are joking but french nobles really used to urinated out of the windows in Versailles and defecated behind doors and in the gardens some times. Fun fact but Louis 14 basically never washed himself and used a great amount of perfume as well.
Louis XIV should have gotten the guillotine just like his grandson. But he probably didn't smell that bad.
Experimental historians have shown that changing your clothes multiple times a day, like the dozens of times Louis XIV would, soaks up the sweat and smells quite effectively.
It's a form of conspicuous consumption as only the King and high noble can afford to go from a sleeping outfit to breakfast outfit to early morning outfit to morning tea outfit and so on etc.
Fun fact: Louis XIV ruled for so long that Louis XVI was very far from being his grandson. Louis XV, Louis XIV's successor, was in fact his third great-grandson (he was 5 years old in 1715 when he became king); and Louis XVI was again Louis XV's grandson. So Louis XVI is actually 5 generations removed from Louis XIV.
Also Louis XV should have been guillotined too, so I wasn't completely wrong.
Thanks, Yeah, I thought I was screwing that up. It's the unbroken Louis XIV to XV to XVI that got me.
They also wore underclothes which prevented the more expansive outer clothes from being stinky. As it is known that sweat stinks due to bacteria reproducing themselves and producing the gases as a side effect.
Definitely, though importantly the King was often changing those frequently too.
It's like how if you are not able to have a shower you still feel fresher if you change shirt, underwear etc.