No matter how often Aniston issued statements to the contrary, Poor Jen, according to the agreed media narrative, was "desperate" for marriage, "desperate" for children, so "desperate" that she scared men away with her overwhelming odour of desperate desperation.
In her 1978 autobiography, By Myself, she described his dissolution with the unflinching candour he would have expected of her: the odour of decay on his kiss, the old robe from Dark Passage she wore the night he died in the bed they had long shared, the sack in which his body was taken away to Forest Lawn crematorium.
Jennifer*, a 16-year-old from the UK, says it took about five months to notice her body odour was changing.
Neither of them was particularly bothered with personal hygiene: when Sartre was a German prisoner of war, his fellow inmates poured insecticide over his lice-infested mattress as he slept, while contemporaries of de Beauvoir recall her strong body odour, trailing from her clothes like a thick intellectual mist.
But he can't help his powerfully erotic attraction to her overwhelmingly sensuous body odour, and finally, when Emma accidentallyy" flashes him "a perfect view of her creamy breasts," he succumbs.
In one of them, a girl is so intoxicated by the odour of her washing powder that she puts on all the clothes in her wardrobe - one on top of the other - in order to inhale the perfume.
The air carries a foul odour that burns her nose and makes her voice scratchy.
Anna's excessive fear of her own body odours is alarming, and one is not quite sure if it is intended to be neurotic, but at least it is named.
Although she "gave off an odour of wildness", her "quickness of mind", Elena tells us, was remarkable – like "a hiss, a dart, a lethal bite".
This prevents her from smelling the garlic odour of DMSO ointment, which is part of the conventional treatment.
