Svaneti-Samegrelo

Almost all Mingrelians, both men and women, even the most noble and wealthy, never have but one shirt, and one pair of breeches at a time; which lasts ‘em a year… Which is the reason that the Mingrelian lands carry a very bad scent about ‘em. I always accosted em’, extremely taken with their beauty; but I had not been a minute in their company, but the rank whiffs from their skins quite stifl’d all my amorous thoughts. Sir John Chardin, a great swashbuckling adventurer: Travels into Persia and the East Indies through the countrey of Colchis, London 1686.