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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...