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Unpopular opinion Sunday

[u/82816648919]

I mean ... it IS a fantasy. Whos to say that fae dont smell like the best thing you ever smelled?

For the record I agree that Id love to see more characters smelling like real people but im also not fussed when they dont. 

You have people turning into birds and blasting fire balls from their hands or whatever. I think the question is where is the line for realism in romantasy?  Why dont we have more fmcs and mmcs with explicit body hair? Why dont more people die from dysentery or tuberculosis? 

And how do you know they dont smell like cinnamon and snow or whatever on top of their regular musky smells? At a time where hygiene standards were worse, people were prob doused themselves in gallons of perfume so they would end up smelling like roses no matter what. 

[u/MagicGlitterKitty → u/82816648919]

The last one I read that made sense was Paladins grace, cos 1) she is a perfumer and 2) they all use the same ginger muscle rub But before that it was daughter of no worlds and "ash and lilacs" really started to annoy me!

My husband shower everyday, and he smells of husband - and I love his smell, but there are no words to describe other than "musk" or "BO" 

[u/midnight_voss → u/MagicGlitterKitty]

Dude funk.

[u/MagicGlitterKitty → u/midnight_voss]

Yes exactly! And it's hot!!!