tampons just in general aren’t accepted widespread use in Asia i think. The supermarket under 101 sells Tampax when I swung by and i believe in two kinds of absorbency, or you’ll have to use the reg O.B w/ applicators at Watson’s, Cosmead. I checked in Costco a month ago for those big ass boxes of tampons and did not find them (end up buying my bulk in America Costco).
Yes there is a BOOTS store in Taipei not sure about their brands of deodorant though.
As for why no deodorant… i don’t think people in Taiwan for the mass crowds smell as bad as a mass sweaty crowd smells in America. The stinky smells is not usually really the “kill me B.O” but just nasty sweaty sweat humid clothes smell. You don’t usually smell one individual that’s just super stinky, it’s often just the overwhelming sweat of the masses (a.k.a just too many friggin’ sweaty people in horrid humid) that produces stench.