...In keeping with the theme of our gossipy salon and the signed testimonies on the state of Fritz's penis, I have now read an article on various vagina smells and what can cause them. Aside from the usual suspects, there was this one I hadn't predicted:
When you are stressed or anxious, the apocrine glands produce a milky fluid. On its own this fluid is odorless. But when this fluid contacts the abundance of vaginal bacteria on your vulva, it can produce a pungent aroma.
Maybe she's unhappy in her marriage, FW!
No kidding, and go you for being so thorough as to unearth that fact. I can't think of a time when SD most likely wasn't anxious in her marriage, not even the early years when F1 was still reigning King, because at that point the pressure to deliver a male heir on her was highest.
This biological fact probably also explains Philippe d'Orleans, who made that comment about his first wife, because his marriage to Henriette "Minette" was a catastrophe from start to finish.
Re: He's just a soul whose intentions were good: Morgenstern on FW - A
You're welcome. Because Philippe is a very sympathetic character in Versailles, a lot of younger people got interested in him and promptly exploded into indignation of how he was presented in a great many work of fiction and non fiction before Versailles. As, for example, in the (mostly very good) tv series about Charles II, "C2: The Power and the Passion". And there were cries of homophobia galore. Which, yes, always a factor that can't be discounted, but within the context of his first marriage he did often behave terrible, and Minette had an increasing awful life because of it. Was she herself also at fault? In that she at the very least flirted with her brother-in-law early in the marriage and then with one of Philippe's boyfriends, the Comte de Guiche, yes. But as her husband, he had the greater power, and he did use it in every way a husband hating his wife at that time could. That's not something homophobic scriptwriters or novelists made up, it's something well documented via plenty of letters both from everyone involved and from French and visiting nobles at Versailles.
In conclusion, as we've said about many a royal woman: would not have wanted to be one for love or money, not ever.
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Re: He's just a soul whose intentions were good: Morgenstern on FW - A
When you are stressed or anxious, the apocrine glands produce a milky fluid. On its own this fluid is odorless. But when this fluid contacts the abundance of vaginal bacteria on your vulva, it can produce a pungent aroma.
Maybe she's unhappy in her marriage, FW!
No kidding, and go you for being so thorough as to unearth that fact. I can't think of a time when SD most likely wasn't anxious in her marriage, not even the early years when F1 was still reigning King, because at that point the pressure to deliver a male heir on her was highest.
This biological fact probably also explains Philippe d'Orleans, who made that comment about his first wife, because his marriage to Henriette "Minette" was a catastrophe from start to finish.
Re: He's just a soul whose intentions were good: Morgenstern on FW - A
Your write-up on Minette was interesting and horrifying. Thank you!
Re: He's just a soul whose intentions were good: Morgenstern on FW - A
In conclusion, as we've said about many a royal woman: would not have wanted to be one for love or money, not ever.