Finally !
Justification to wear a mask …
Back in 1990 I went Zurich from Boston on Swiss Air, economy class. A pair of older German speaking people sat down in the seat right next to me before departing Boston. The lady stank like she had not showered in a week. It was mid July. She pulled out a bottle of perfume and sprayed herself, thankfully.
Later on in the same trip we were in Innsbruck Austria. We took a bus up to the Stubai glacier to go skiing. The guy in front of us on the bus smelled so bad my wife thought she was going to throw up.
Even when we stayed in Zurich, a worldwide center for banking and international commerce, the hotel room did NOT have a shower. It had a tub with a hand held shower nozzle.
Bathing regularly in Europe at least back then(1990) was not that popular.