Elderly men had an unusual "aroma" about them. It was neither pleasant nor unpleasant. Mentioned this once back-in-the-day to my BFF and he agreed. I wonder if all young kids experienced this sensation.
If so, I wonder if the kiddos today think that I emanate the same
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And I suspect that every guy recalls the aroma of a perfume from his 1st crush. Not a crush in my case but rather an experience with a girl who asked me to dance several times, lady's choice, big, shy, stumbling me who never asked anyone to dance and who couldn't even do a decent slow dance.
The guys were taken with this girl, thought she was belle-of-the-ball but in actuality she was merely different or exotic with hair down to the middle of her back when the prevailing style was bangs (early 1960). Recall from 1950's grade school days, she was rather snotty as a child.
But because of all the hype about her, my heart went slightly aflutter, and the aroma (later learned to be "My Sin" perfume) or thoughts of same caused that flutter for a number of years afterward.
(Silly male.)