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Do scented soaps, tissues, and creams that a woman uses and finds difficult to avoid fall under the prohibited, and must she perform ghusl if she appears before men while using them, and is the intention to tempt men a prerequisite for ghusl here?

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The ruling on a woman leaving her home after using scented soap and cream has been previously explained. The difficulty of avoiding these things does not permit their use, because unscented alternatives are available. A woman is commanded to wash off perfume if she has applied it and passes by a place where men are present. The intention to entice men is not a condition, as the Ahadith are general and do not stipulate the intention of enticement. Perfume is prohibited because it arouses the lust of men, and perhaps even women. Thus, anything that leads to this meaning falls under the same ruling.

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