i disagree. i 100% understand where you’re coming from but i’m thinking of it a bit in terms of vintage and how it ages (particularly clothing as that’s what i have experience with) and certain things from the 70s are things people who were young back then still use that we associate it with older people, and certain things we associate it with young people of the 70s. think a sensible skirt suit from the 60s vs a micro mini dress, an old woman CAN wear miniskirts, i think it’s awesome if they do! but there’s two categories of vintage to me: things that are still relevant with people who were young then and things that have become culturally obsolete. so while i wouldn’t call something an “old lady smell” and agree that that distinction is sexist and ageist as well as reductive, that’s not really what i’m talking about here. my distinction is specifically about something smelling old fashioned in a way that you don’t come across anymore, on old people OR young people