Tanken Hakken Boku no Isekai Elf-san - Ch. 2

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It is! There's even a Wikipedia article on it.
Wow that's very interesting. Cool that Japanese people already know and have a word for it too.
And apparently old people smell nicer than young people so honestly Elf-san should be taking it as a compliment ¯\(ツ)
 
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Is people smelling "old" a thing? Or is it more about the kind of place they live in, what they keep around the house etc.?
Yeah, it is. A lot of that has to do with older people tending to use medical creams, wearing sanitary items, etc. that do give off a certain smell. You can easily get "nose blind" to it, but it's recognizable.
 
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Offhand, I know the microbiome that is human skin changes as you age. The oils and etc. themselves don't really have a smell, but they're consumed by bacteria and those byproducts have a distinct smell. It carries that the bacteria that causes teenage "underarm stank" is different than the ones causing the "old person smell", although they're feeding on the same stuff.
 

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