Mildly Interesting

I guess they're not as popular now, as trucks have become smarter and more electrified so they don't have to idle as much while still being able to power increasingly efficient devices, plus I guess people just abused the everliving fuck out of them, but it's such an interesting solution to a problem "normal" people wouldn't think about, and one with very visible infrastructure.

Smoking in public also became rare, and generally people started smelling better without the need for fragrances.

This has got to be a big part of it in two different ways: smokers wanting to cover their own stink, but also smokers having reduced sense of smell!

It feels mostly regional to me. The vibe I get is that Americans especially don’t really care for fragrances while here in the Middle East it’s a goddamn stereotype of us Lebanese men that we wear too much cologne.

(Or as I have grown up to understand it, just about enough cologne)

I can't remember the last time I used cologne or smelled it on another person.

God, I wish that was me. For whatever reason a bunch of people here (but especially people 50 and up as you noted) wear heavy perfume/cologne. I’ll admit to being moderately smell-sensitive, but sometimes even walking 15 or 20 feet behind them will leave me STILL smelling it!

I find it's very regional inside of the US. It depends on a few factors, but age, prominance, and locality to a "night-life" tends to be the primary ones I find. I live very rural in Southern US, and it's hit or miss if I ever smell a guy with cologne, but when I do it's the guy I know goes out a lot and lives in-town or much older.

I wonder what thay would smell like.