The legend of Napoleon’s alleged fetish for fetid, days-old body odor is bunk

Napoleon 's alleged fetish for fetid, days-old body odor is an internet meme.

A letter supposedly reads, purportedly, “Home in three days , don’t wash.” According to interviews with three experts, Napoleon never asked Joséphine to stop washing in order to enhance their chemistry in the bedroom.

Napoleon ’s nose was so good he could “detect the vicinity of a subterranean passage, a cellar, or a sewer a long way off” For Napoleon , this olfactory superiority seemed to be more of a curse than a blessing.

For whatever reason, I want to live in a world where Napoleon had a weird, messy kink.