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Is ‘Old Person Smell’ Real?

I’ll never forget hugging my grandparents as a child and catching a whiff of something reminiscent of mothballs and musty wet leaves. Now that I’m in my early 80s, I feel like I have taken on that smell myself. Is “old person smell” really real, and can I do anything about it?

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