this tinhat contains so much delusion, it might astound you

so i've been reading a lot of perfume stuff lately and it's really interesting to me that even as someone says (and presumably believes) perfumes aren't gendered, they still will say 'masculine' or 'feminine' when describing a scent. why? i thought about it for a bit and i think it's cos it's a shortcut. not everybody knows what birchwood smells like but everyone has some idea in their mind of what a 'masculine' scent is. same as when calling something a 'grandma' perfume. and actually i think it's a terribly faulty shortcut, because it relies so heavily on connotation and personal experience/memory. for example, my dad usually smells like his proraso lozione dopobarba in rinfrescante (menthol & eucalyptus). if a person was talking about the scent of birchwood, and to them they define that as 'masculine,' so instead of describing the scent as birchwood they say 'masculine'....but my scent memory of 'masculine' is menthol & eucalyptus....then it's a bad description, right? so it's a heavily cultural andor lived-experience shortcut, and probably one that will have less and less meaning as people move away from gendered products (maybe i'm being idealistic about this but i do believe that's happening albeit slowly)....anyway yes just some thoughts i'm sure someone's thought of this before and been more eloquent about it but yar