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A few months ago, we were at a supermarket with my mom, buying some stuff.
My mom needed an antiperspirant. When she was about to grab a black one, I heard a guy “helpfully” telling her that she was grabbing one “For Men™”, that the ones “For Women™” were the pink ones.
I immediately looked at the guy like “lol what, who asked”.
(My mom uses “men’s” antiperspirants because she doesn’t care about that, and they are usually cheaper than “women’s”)
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Wish I could smell like Hegelian dialectic or categorical imperative or something like that.
I have lavender deodorant (as a man). It’s pretty nice.
I use that nivea roll on one for women. It’s pear scented and amazing.
The male equivalent one is what I imagine hedgehogs smell like
The male equivalent one is what I imagine hedgehogs smell like
I want one!
It’s sharp and refreshing, with hints of fear.
Probably sandalwood and eucalyptus
I started using men’s antiperspirant a few years ago and it was a game changer. It works so much better for me and doesn’t bother my skin. I also love the dumb names the scents have
I recently bought a new bottle of cologne. Though i didn’t realize until i brought it home that the scent sounds more like an intersection where one might find a strip club and it smells like how one of the managers at said strip club might smell.
The scent: Cypress & Grapevine
Guys, you know you can buy shower gel in fruity / sweet versions and still be super manly, right? I am a straight dude and ALWAYS use nice smelling bath stuff, because ‘ninja carbon fighter jet black 2000 jet fuel’ just isn’t for me.
As a large bearded man who uses Coconut and Vanilla body wash and deodorant. Along with lemon/sage + tea tree oil shampoo and conditioner, I’m with you
I want to smell.like delicious fruit and sweet things, not like I just got out of Bear Night at Charlie’s. Now I did just get out of Bear Night at Charlie’s but thats not the point.
You would not like Tuscon Leather by Tom Ford. Though some say it smells like cocaine which may make it more appealing.
If we’re gonna have “guy scented” stuff, can we at least do “guy stuff” stuff smells I actually enjoy.
Campfire. Burnt gunpowder. Sawdust. Sizzling Steaks.
Why do we get locker room and sports bar?
Nobody is stopping men from smelling line vanilla or lavender.
I smell almost as fruity as I am. Not all of us smell like sandalwood.
That’s like saying “Nobody is stopping men from wearing dresses”. You probably won’t get arrested for it, but there are definitely social pressures that strongly discourage it.
Nah, you could walk around smelling like vanilla or citrus and still smell masculine.
Who says some of us don’t?
my preferred cologne has main notes of lavendar and black pepper.
I smell like Product The Supermarket Will Drop In Two Weeks.
I’m a man and don’t like most scents of the deodorants/antiperspirants “for men”, so I just use one “for women”. I smell fruity instead of some agressive chemical fragrance.
Same. I’m currently using coconut scented conditioner, and some sweety cologne, for example (chocolate scented spray kinda slaps too)
You may like Bath and Body Works Immortal. The Black Plum gives it a very distinct sweetness so it’s not your typical masculine scent. Only available in autumn though.
Femininity is nouns (due to objectification), masculinity is verbs (due to the valorisation of action)
Verbing weirds languages, but it’s apparently very masculining \s
It’s still better than nominalization.
That’s a really good way to summarise the problem actually.
Its annoying that every mans product is “whiskey barrel” or “bourbon wood” or whatever, yet smells NOTHING like whiskey. Its just a word used to describe generic “guy scents” so they dont have to call it ‘bergamot lavender neroli allspice’.
That’s a feature not a bug. The goal is to smell woodsy like the barrel, not like an alcoholic.
It doesnt even smell like the barrell…i have on my shelf right right now several fragrances with “whiskey” in the name. Granted, I like all of them, they are good smells, but they smell nothing like aged oak, scorched aged oak, or other whiskey-adjacent things.
That’s because men’s scents transcend reality
That’s not entirely true. We can also get smells named after types of wood, metal, or alcohol.
Carbon Jungle
Copper Bourbon cedar is my favorite
Yeah that’s where my head went at lol, we get “fancy wood” scent.
As a woman, woody scents are awesome. Honestly I find it really silly how we’ve managed to gender entire categories of scent like this. Like, hormonal sex absolutely does wildly change our scent, but not in a way that makes flowery scents mix poorly with man stink or woody scents with woman stink. Hell, I personally love the mix of a musky woody scent and woman stink. And a man oughta be able to feel confident smelling like a bouquet if he wants.
I hate the fact that most (but not all fragrances) are shoehorned into male/female categories Its a smell! It doesn’t have genitalia, if you love it wear it And as a fragrance nerd I have a lot of supposedly ‘masculine’ scents full of woods, spices, booze etc A (male) truck driver mentioned that he loved wearing Chanel no5 on one of the fragrance sites which I think is fantastic! A man comfortable with himself and wearing what he loves
Believe me, as a gay man, I am confident with the bouquet smell.
True or not… cant we get some outrage at the (gestures broadly) injustice?
I’d be more outraged if I used the stuff. I use scentless or when it comes to soaps I don’t buy the men’s scents. I’ll smell like vanilla after my shower if I want to!
My favorite concept is Unscented.
I’ve found a few locally made perfume of unscented. It’s kind of amazing to me. It smells like “nothing” and “existing” as a scent concept.
Then there’s a French fragrance of smelling like after sex. Reportedly it smells like, well, after sex. Sweaty, carnal.
How tf would we know if something smells like after sex. That sounds like it smells awful, unless you are well, horny.
Is there even an “after sex” smell that isn’t just regular sweaty smell?
Yeah, I gotta say, there is definitely an ‘after sex’ smell. I’ve cleaned up many a place, and it is obvious when folks have been humping. There’s a distinct difference between a gym’s sweaty smell and a bedroom/hotel room sweaty smell.
Sweat plus the scent of sexual fluids.
That reminds me of how the original Febreeze was an odor remover that didn’t smell like anything. It wasn’t very popular, so they started adding scents to them.
