OT: What do you smell like?
Are you an aerosol or roll-on person?
For some reason, sprays give me a rash so I stick with Old Spice (usually Fiji but right now I'm using Deep Sea for that Jacques Cousteau vibe). When applying, I always use the same pattern, left underarm twice, right underarm once, sign of the cross on my chest, throat-slashing motion, right underarm once. I don't know why I do this, but it's been going on this way for 30 years now, every single morning.
What's your favorite brand/scent?
Re: cologne, what say you? I feel it's pretentious, but I'm open to arguments to the contrary.
For the ladies, perfume or no? My wife is allergic so doesn't ever wear any, and my mother-in-law uses something rank which I think is supposed to be reminiscent of cherry blossoms but misses the mark badly. But it's my understanding that there are some decent scent options out there.
Elderberries.
Better than dingleberries, amiright???
yes but is your wife a hamster?
Faintly of your mother, Trebek!
Trebek's mother? What is she, 108?
I've cut down on all that shit. Now its just Essence of Sum Yung Gai. A drop behind each ear. Irresistible.
Punctuation is important
Gasoline. Meth.
Bourbon and the sweat of a stallion.
Leather bound books and rich mahogany.
I believe they call that "teen spirit".
and candy.
currently cedar based soap, and degree antiperspirant 48-hour cool rush...ten minutes ago after moving a storage freezer from a flower shop and a 30 minute run just prior...more like a small rodent baked in the summer sun on the side of a highway.
I feel for those who have an allergy to deodorants/scents, I love the smell of deoderants especially if it's a clean scent. Not a big fan of the florals etc.. I don't bother with cologne, just never been my thing. Funny the pattern...I guess I am the same way, I have a mindless process over the last 50 years...I sweat using the word sweat...so deodorant just doesn't cut it.
Definitely roll on instead of aerosol. I don't want to breathe that shit. Currently Old Spice Wilderness.
I prefer no cologne, perfume, aftershave. We all (most?) take showers daily, so cologne and perfume seem like an odd holdover from the Middle Ages.
A meadow
Teen Spirit
well played. Wondered how long it would take for this response +1 it's all I am allowed to do.
unscented deodorant and no cologne. My wife is hyper sensitive to smell and can't stand 99% of that stuff, and apparently i smell fine without it.
What bother me are people who can’t seem to follow the simple rule of perfume/cologne. Spray it one time in the air and walk through it. That’s enough. Any more than that and you’re a psychopath wearing too much.
This reminds me of a line I remember from way back in an episode of "The Benny Hill Show":
"I know a woman who wear so much perfume, when she stands still, she leaves a puddle."
Deodorant: Whatever multi-pack solid deodorant is for sale at Costco. Typically Degree in recent years. I don't even know the scent - I really don't pay attention.
Nobody ever taught me how much deodorant to apply. I think I use too much.
I never wear cologne. My naturally musky scent, combined with light essence of Degree, is sufficiently aromatic.
My wife is also allergic to most scents. I love the smell of freshly washed clothing using a lightly scented detergent, but haven't been able to use any for over 25 years. Did I mention my innate man-musk scent makes up for it?
Vitalis and bacon.
Oud Wood. I use a charcoal oud wood scented bar soap from Agadir. Actually pretty nice stuff, not over powering at all. I'd buy it if I didn't get it for free at work.
This sounds like a job for a Capital One commercial.
"What's in your armpit?!"
Just got done cutting the grass, so....not good?
Freshly cut grass is a great smell though. Like Kramer's "the beach," an idea ahead of its time, just waiting to be bottled.
Just got done cutting the grass, so....not good?
** Turns out double not good based on what happened here.
Victory.
You mean napalm, right?
Old Spice Pure Sport / Marlboro Lights / Bacardi Blanco and Diet with limes
Downvoted for death sticks and high schooler drink choice
Downvoted in return, I’ll die when I’m god damn good and ready...you got that!?!
Burnt koala...
Desperation, fear and a lot of lingering flatulence.
Like carrots in throw-up. Like hot sick ass on a dead carcass. You know when you go into an apartment building and you smell the other people's cooking on each floor and you go "What are they cookin'?" That, plus crap.
I smell like beef...and cheese.
I also sit on a throne of lies.
YOU'RE NOT SANTA
I use Kiehl's deodorant - doesn't have the aluminum compounds in other antiperspirants that cause (or at least accelerate) underarm discoloration of shirts. Being in Houston, sweat is inevitable, so I need something that actually prevents odor, but also doesn't ruin my clothes after a couple months. Kiehl's is a lotion that squeezes out of a tube, so it feels odd the first time you apply it but I started using it three years ago or so and haven't looked back. Unlike the other natural/non-aluminum deodorants I've tried, Kiehl's actually works and doesn't have a strong scent itself, so I don't see myself switching anytime soon.
As a follow up, what’s your normal go-to spot for your mani/pedi?
It puts the lotion on its skin...
Guys who wear cologne remind me of the 19 year old I briefly dated in high school (hid that one from my parents) who drove around with KISS dolls in his back window and bought us Colt 45 Silver, which got us so drunk we might as well have been mainlining grain alcohol. Fortunately, that was a very short phase in my life. I think he wore Hai Karate.
Hai Karate?
I forgot those hilarious Hai Karate TV commercials from the late 60s and 70s until you mentioned it. No way an advertisement like that would fly today!
It was right up there with English Leather, which I wore (to excess) for a while in college. Their commercials had some hot babe purring to the camera:
"All my men wear English Leather ... or they wear nothing at all."
True story: on my mother's second date with my stepfather (who was a black belt in karate), he "showed her some moves" and flipped her into a wall. That was around 1973. They were married for 30+ years!
Stockholm Syndrome?
I miss my malt liquor days.
The funk of forty thousand years.
Wrong thread. The 80s music list is a few slots away.
I use old spice roll on deodorant. I also use a hand lotion on my arms and hands because I am ashy for a white guy. I like bourbon lotion from bath & body works.