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lt does but toilette had a different meaning during the time the term Eau de Toilette has been invented. So the funny cross reference is a random artifact of language change.
Although perfume has also been used a lot to cover the smell of unwashed bodies especially during Baroque.
So it is perhaps a fitting reference nonetheless :-)