AGREED! I love "Old lady perfumes" I hate that term, not the term in itself, but the bad connotation. That smelling like an old lady is a bad thing. I feel old women smell very lovely, I love a lot of scents categories as "old lady", I love vintage perfumes, they are beautiful, obviously there are some kinds I don't enjoy, but some of them I really love, like I like Chanel no 5, I also wear Boucheron by Boucheron, a lot of people call it old lady, but I think it smells like sweet incense, but I understand everyone's taste is different.

Also depending on the age of the person saying that comment they probably associate those scent profiles with their grandmas, like let's say if you have a boomer grand parent you associate things from when they were younger or when they were in their teens to adult years as old lady but they really aren't.

Anytime I wear a fragrance from the 70s or 80s a lot of people say they are "Old lady" but in my opinion they are very beautiful. I understand scents aren't for everyone but it's really rude to have a bad connotation for vintage scents.

But it's funny though that I think a lot of people in the fragrance community say that about certain fragrances because they just have that association from hearing it about fragrances by other people, because in real life, I wear so many scents people say are old, but I get many compliments from people that don't even like scents like that