Funny this topic should come up. I smell better now than I did when I was young. I'm disabled. I didn't realize this till I was in my forties because I believed all the doctors who told me it was psychological and toughed it out, thereby ruining my bad leg and my back far worse than if I'd gotten Social Security on getting out of high school.
When I didn't have a job I only showered or bathed if I was going out. Grunge could last up to a month sometimes, along with not cleaning my room. My only strategy for putting off the point of no return when cleaning up was more than I could do on my own was to reduce clutter and avoid putting trash anywhere but a bag. Result was that I moved less often the better I got at organizing, because cleaning house came after "Work" and "Eating Food" as a priority.
I could never understand why people thought of having a bath or shower as relaxing and feel better afterward. I never did. I was usually in a lot of pain and so exhausted I didn't want to do anything. This got gradually worse until the mid 90s when I hit a point of having to couch surf while applying for Social Security.
I've got home care now three days a week. Those ladies pamper me. It was a shock the first time I took a bath without having to bend over to run and test the water - that was how I was wrecking my back. So now I'm bathing three days a week when they come over and I only smell like Ivory soap and cat pheromones.
Of course I always pet my cat again to get new cat hairs and paw-gland and cheek-gland pheromones on me. Other cats and any dogs need to know I belong to a 12 year old colorpoint longhair who eats high protein super quality beyond premium cat food and lives a happy, energetic life.
I love his scent. It was very strong when he was a baby kitten - the New Kitten Smell startled me because he was only six weeks old. Because I indulged sniffing him and paying attention to it at that age, occasionally now I will be snuggling him, rub my face on his face or something and catch a slight faint whiff of it. This is not the unpleasant odor of the litter box. It's a pleasant, very faint slightly musky odor like an unfamiliar perfume that's barely on the edge of detection. It's the face and paw glands scent, which cat lovers might be aware of.
I love him so naturally that faint scent fills me with delight. It's there in humans too -when you're happily married your spouse's laundry doesn't smell as bad as other people's, your own kids don't smell bad compared to others. I'm loved by a cat and I suppose a perfumer would notice it.