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Re:'Old Person Smell' by kurthr on Sunday September 06, 2026 @10:12AM (#49586725)
The Japanese have been obsessed with it since the study came out and have a variety of treatments (tannins in persimmons and greentea) though none have passed large scale clinical trials :)

I was fed a YT video about it recently so it must be part of the "moment". Also a topic on menopause blogs from searching.

https://asayujapan.com/blogs/asayu-blog/persimmon-soap-answe...

https://miraiclinical.com/pages/why-this-ucla-trained-anti-a...

Re:'Old Person Smell' by bookofjoe on Sunday September 06, 2026 @10:42AM (#49586965)
2001 paper's authors and affiliations:

Shinichiro Haze Send email to [email protected] ∙ Yoko Gozu ∙ Shoji Nakamura ∙ … ∙ Kiyohito Sawano† ∙ Hideaki Ohta† ∙ Kazuo Yamazaki† Affiliations & Notes 1 Shiseido Co. Ltd., Product Development Center, Yokohama, Japan * Shiseido Co. Ltd., Basic Research Center, Yokohama, Japan † Takasago International Corporation, Central Research Laboratory, Hiratsuka, Japan

You'd think Shiseido would've put this on the front burner what with Japan's aging population but no sign of a product — lotion/spray etc. — after 25 years!

Re:'Old Person Smell' by EyeEmOe on Sunday September 06, 2026 @02:52PM (#49589605)
You seem to assume they didn't consider it

Perhaps there is no counter acting agent and they're not as eager as Americans to sell snake oil

Perhaps they decided "existing scented lotions suffice and that market is already packed with options"

Re:'Old Person Smell' by dang on Sunday September 06, 2026 @03:06PM (#49589725)
Could you please stop creating accounts for every few comments you post? We ban accounts that do that. This is in the site guidelines: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html.

You needn't use your real name, of course, but for HN to be a community, users need some identity for other users to relate to. Otherwise we may as well have no usernames and no community, and that would be a different kind of forum. https://hn.algolia.com/?sort=byDate&dateRange=all&type=comme...