Body soap vs body wash + favorite scent

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Since "soft soap" or liquid body wash and those wonderfull little poofs came into vogue you can probably count the number of people you know who use bar soap to wash anything but their hands with on the fingers of your hands. At first all the body wash tended toward a floral or fruity scent, then the bar soap folks got back into the game by making their own body washes trying to win back the customers with a brand loyalty still firmly implanted. Then the body washes started to tend toward a more unisex or just "fresh" scent. I guess that men liked the way that their old lady's body wash made their skin feel. Then they started putting "foo foo" in the body washes, lotion bands, moisturizers, lighter cleansers, and back to the floral and the fruit scents again. Now mind you I like to smell like tangerine and pomagranite or cucumber and watermelon as much as the next girl. I do not however want my man to smell like a strawberry kiwi, or anything similar. Problem solved. They came out with spicy manly scents that my bf and I call "man wash" and everyone was happy right? Nope what about the kids? Most people have kids in their households, and they gotta get clean right? Here is my question. When you think about the fact that back when we all used body bar soap, usually everyone in the house used the same scent. When I switched to a girlie scented moisturizing bar my old man balked like a chicken. NO way he was going on his construction jobs smelling like a Caress man. So we bought bar soap for him and bar soap for me and all was well and everything went well until the body wash wave. I always buy him larger bottles of manwash and smaller bottles normally of my foo foo scents. However I notice his wash runs out first every time and then all of the sudden all my foo foo wash vanishes down a rabbit hole. So just to see what was up I bought a multi pack of the bar soap he used to like because when I asked him about my vanishing foo foo wash he said when he runs out he goes back to using bar soap. I wonder why he thinks I am that dumb because the same bar I put in the shower 7 months ago is still in there, albeit a little smaller. Also I seem to be the only body wash buyer in the house though he does most of the household shopping. So here is another question the question. Why is my foo foo wash always vanishing, his man wash always running out, and the other soap never gets used? If he likes my moisturizing foo foo wash why can't he just admit it so that we can just buy family size containers or even gallon refills of one soap and have one soap for all with no whining or funny business, or cracks about my soap scents and how not right they are for a guy. I think even when he has his spicy man wash, he still uses my soap. However the whole thing got me to thinking; bar soap was on average between 50 cents and 3 bucks a bar. There are no national brand body washes under 3.50-5.00 and specialty body washes run even more. If you gotta buy one for the man of the house, one for the lady of the house, and one for the kids or one each for for each of the kids, aren't the soap companies making out like bandits. After all they are using more water in the product, less emusifiers, and they are selling us at least 3 times the amount of soap at 3 times the price. If scent is really the issue why can't we find a brand that we both like and can live with the moisture and the scent?It would be cheaper, easier, and there would be less interrogations and more household harmony if the body wash had never come along. Why is it that when something new comes out and you try it, everyone in the family has to try it too and once they do, they want their own, in their own flavor. Everyone has a favorite scent, but at one time not all that long ago, body soap was body soap. It wasn't a perfume or a signature it was just a wash. And it didn't run a family of 2 $12 or more a month in soap.