Hmmm. Intersting line. As you get older, you perspire less and tend to go longer without showering. I can last a couple of days, and only because my showers have become chemical washes to treat ezcema and psoriosis (I'm 50) ... in the winter. Plus I need glasses, so cannot read in the tub. But I'm old enough to remember that once-upon-a-time baths were a weekly event. We (I have three little sisters) would line up and climb into the bath, and would wash each other's hair. At one point in my life, I would wash my pregnant mother after (she bathed daily, but sometimes needed help reaching places ... we lived overseas, and didn't have the modern facilities we're used to now). As for going, on purpose, without bathing ... ugh! The only reason I go a day without bathing is because my skin cannot take the abuse. I'm willing to agree that we as Americans over-deoderize. But trying to say that BO is a good smell? I've lived places where people don't shave, use deodorant, or regularly bathe. It isn't a lovely way to live. PS -- You don't start smelling less, your own nose stops smelling. YOU think you don't stink, but believe me the rest of the world knows you do.