The Axe Effect: Smell Good, Taste Better?

[Moonbear]

Actually, lavender might smell nice on a guy. It has that clean, woody thing going on.

Y'know, you might be right there. I like it because it's very clean and "soapy" smelling, a little spicey even. Yeah, it sounds strange to suggest it, but it does seem like a man would smell very tasty if he were bathed in lavender.

I think that's what I really like, are earthy, herbal/spicey scents, not floral, definitely not musk (I completely agree with Evo on that...musk is absolutely nauseating to me), nothing like perfume, just a very natural, clean smell...like fresh air in the woods. I also have soaps that are lemongrass scented...they're very nice in the morning for waking up. A friend used to have a shower gel that was eucalyptus scented (a product she'd bring back from Holland...maybe Monique knows what it is...you can't get it in the US) which was also fantastic for that morning shower to help wake you up with an invigorating scent. Lavender is more of the soothing, help you go to sleep at night scent.

Even some soaps and shampoos are too strongly perfumed for me. Pantene is one of them, as is Dove brand soap (they might have a less strongly scented one now, I can't recall, but the original bar soaps were cloyingly sweet). Those sorts of scents give me a headache. But then something like Herbal Essence makes me feel just like the women in their commercials.

 

[Moonbear]

There are a lot of new old spice "flavors". I actually have a stick of old spice fresh and everyone I know says I smell good

New Old Spice, huh? Okay, I guess I was out of the loop on that. I just know the old stinky stuff my step dad wears that seems to be the essence of old-man smell. I'll have to do some sniffing of the deodorants at the grocery store and report back on which are acceptable for my palette.

 

[tribdog]

But then something like Herbal Essence makes me feel just like the women in their commercials.

I'd buy you a case of the stuff for a tape recording of that!