Hiding body odor
Do you use some deodorant and spray a little perfume before you leave the house? While they are great ways to make sure that we smell great nowadays, people once had to find other ways to keep smelling great. That’s where flowers came in. People would walk around with bouquets of flowers to try and hide their stench as most only bathed once a year.
This also became a widespread practice during the “Black Death” as the smell of people who had lost their lives was overwhelming. People would hide flowers in their skirts to try and cover the smell. This is also why we have flowers at funerals. People needed a way to cover the scent of the person who had passed.
Page 31 of 33
