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So You Idealize Victorian England? The Reality Was Rather More… Smelly Than You Might Have Thought

ISSUES Posted: November 7, 2016 11:02 am

“To the modern sensibility, even the most carefully turned-out Victorian — male or female — reeked. Heavy perfumes covered bodily smells; onion juice was a popular hair tonic; dental hygiene was primitive and certainly not concerned with freshness of breath. Households were poorly ventilated, so various cooking smells clung to fabrics and damp walls.”

ISSUES Published: 11.06.16

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