I get to smell like fruit and shit instead of “pleasant chemicals”
Now I really want to make Piperonal since it apparently smells really good. I just lack money, equipment and skill.
Also I don't know how legal that would be since it could be used as a MDMA precursor and even if it's legal I don't really want to get the house of my parents raided.
I'm a generally masculine-presenting cis guy and I've never liked cologney smells. My favorite deodorant all my adult life has been one from the women's section that has a picture of cucumbers on it. The scent is subtle, not overwhelmingly chemical or perfumey, it keeps the B.O. at bay, and nobody really notices it but me.
I'm allergic to the scents in women's deodorant. I get hives. I use a pleasant (imo) smelling old spice and it is great. Especially because I sweat a LOT.
I've seen and read enough credible evidence to suggest someone out there feels this way. Even if it is a joke, things like brushing and flossing and even washing your hands after using the bathroom are controversial for a ton of people. Marketing is real important for encouraging these people to be better.
I use goat milk soap and I've been getting honeysuckle, lavender, prairie moss, dogwood, all kinds of flowery scents. I love studying botany and smelling these soaps reminds me of some of the local flowers around me. Never had any person accuse me of smelling like a woman or smelling "gay" lol, but I totally agree with your comment. I think real, normal people just like when you smell good, regardless of the scent. The "men should only wear turpentine-and-axel-grease-scented deodorants" Monday is only held in the minds of insecure looney tunes
I hate those manly male scents for true men™ so much. I've now switched to odorless deodorant which is so much more expensive but it's worth it. And when I want to smell nice, I use a perfume.
I stopped using women's antiperspirants because the scents would make my armpits break out in hives and it wouldn't stop my ungodly sweat. I use some kind of old spice that's a gel stick. Can't remember the exact scent lol. It works great, especially for underboob sweat. The smell isn't bad either. 10/10 would recommend for women who are super sweaty like me
I like Fruity smells too! I have one now that smells kinda like a SweetTart candy but it's called Wolfthorne and is aggressively masculine in the packaging and such lol
Unsented roll on, because the smells they add to make it smells good actually make you stink more towards the end of the day. The white powder ones ruin shirts and Clough pores.
Lol, rose-scented shea butter, starch and baking soda deodorant all the way baby.
You apply it once a day, twice at most, it moisturizes and nourishes your skin, lasts all day, there's no plastic and you get to laugh in the face of fragile masculinity.
Bit off topic maybe, but I’m just reading all these comments and some of y’all are cracking me up! I just wanted to say it was a pleasure to read a bunch of random comments that boosted my mood. Thanks!
There are a few Old Spice variants that I think are a bit fruit-forward and fresh and designed for men.
I've never liked the super cologney scents - I like smelling sweet, so Fiji is a good one for me. Smells tropical and a bit fruity.
I also liked Wolfthorne, which is super fruit forward. I actually got a pack of that because some super insecure dude was complaining about it in the reviews.
Outside of that, Stone from Henry's is another fave of mine. Not fruit, but it's light and I think anyone could wear it. Fig as well, but that's more of a winter deodorant because I find myself needing to reapply, but it smells awesome.
Somewhat ironically, a "unisex" deodorant of mine with almond perfume is the best one I have at keeping my body odor away. It's local stuff that beats Nivea's 48h sports men whatever every day (and smells much nicer, too)
so the other day I saw this liquid hand soap on sale and I got one of each color. I didn't really read the scent since I'm not picky for hand soap, but after using it I got genuinely pissed it was cucumber. I'm sorry, but that's horrible. After washing my hands it felt I spent the last hour cutting cucumbers. Who smelled cucumbers and had the idea of making a soap out of it?
I once tried tar and sulfur soaps. Both of them were really weird in the beginning (who in their right mind smells some rotten eggs and thinks "we could make a soap out of this"?), but I got used to them after a few days and began to really like them. I should be on the lookout for them, so I can buy them again someday.
I use benzoyl peroxide facewash in my pits when I shower. I never smell like BO or anything else.
Those brightly colored tubes of marketing they sell in the deodorant aisle probably don't do what you think they do. This is because the mega conglomerates that sell this shit don't care if their product works or not. What they sell you on is shame and poor body image.
Ever left the house? You'll change your opinion right quick when you're behind a random guy in the grocery store and you get a strong whiff of sour milk that has been out in the sun for a week.
Maybe the guy you're responding to lives somewhere in East Asia? A lot of people there have a gene which makes them have no body odor. I can confirm from personal experience - my friend from Taiwan doesn't even own deodorant and she never smells, even after hiking all day in hot weather.
Like Asian earwax is super dry and flaky, while European earwax looks like yellow green toxic goop.
So you have different genes and on top of that different diets (I had Indian neighbors once, you could smell the curry in the entire hallway of the building 24/7. But they obviously use a ton of spices when cooking).
As a central European Caucasian guy I personally start to smell really bad without deodorant just after a day or so. No matter how often I shower or what I eat. I also tried to switch to deodorant without aluminum and that didn't work out at all :-/
I'm Asian. If my earwax is super dry and flaky, I hate to see the sludge coming out of other people's ears.
As for deodorant, I switched to a smaller variety of Tom's in my travel kit because the travel-sized ones from big box stores suck. I think the one I bought is aimed at women since their website shows bigger, blacker packaging for their deodorant aimed at men. I'm thinking of switching over to my travel kit ones on a permanent basis because of the fresh lemongrass and lavender scents.
Throw off the shackles of Big Deodorant. Girls don't need it since our body odor is generally much lower, and it could potentially be unhealthy for us.
Secret: just buy women's deodorant for the odors, nobody is stopping you
And have my dick fall off? No thanks
Your balls will go inside you
I'll finally get to do what that kind stranger online once told me to do and go fk myself.
Golden comment
Don't let your dreams be dreams!
Wait, what?
I think you have to pay extra for that. Its only free in California.
I'll help you for a nominal fee if I can keep the tip.
Can confirm, I do this for shampoo, conditioner and body wash too.
I get to smell like fruit and shit instead of “pleasant chemicals”
Hmm should I smell like fresh ginger and lemongrass or gasoline and gunpowder.
I prefer fighter jet exhaust and 100 low-lead myself...
Jet fuel has a very nice smell actually.
Now I really want to make Piperonal since it apparently smells really good. I just lack money, equipment and skill.
Also I don't know how legal that would be since it could be used as a MDMA precursor and even if it's legal I don't really want to get the house of my parents raided.
I'm a generally masculine-presenting cis guy and I've never liked cologney smells. My favorite deodorant all my adult life has been one from the women's section that has a picture of cucumbers on it. The scent is subtle, not overwhelmingly chemical or perfumey, it keeps the B.O. at bay, and nobody really notices it but me.
The only pleasant fruit to smell like is strawberries
Durian
I buy strawberry shampoo, but I also like citrus smells.
I could smell mandarin everyday and not get bored
I want my deodorant to smell like sharks.
Just rub some fresh salmon steak under your armpits. You're welcome.
I'm allergic to the scents in women's deodorant. I get hives. I use a pleasant (imo) smelling old spice and it is great. Especially because I sweat a LOT.
Are you sure it's the scents and it's deodorant, and not antiperspirant? I have trouble with antiperspirant but deodorant is fine.
I'm a man and I'd much rather smell like vanilla and passionfruit. I don't need more help to smell like fuel.
I want the rocket fuel smell
What kind? Methane?
Methane would work, but I'm a classy guy. I would prefer the good old hydrazine
Exactly. Just go out on the ramp and check the fuel sumps and oil. There, now you'll smell like 100LL and plane engine all day.
Old Spice F-35 is my favorite scent.
Ladies love the smell of jet exhaust in the morning.
Nowhere near enough leather, whiskey and wood.
And GUN
AND HORSES
Some men are so insecure they literally think washing their butthole is gay. No surprise marketing involves 'splosions, fighter jets, dinosaurs etc.
Whoever said this said it as a joke
I've seen and read enough credible evidence to suggest someone out there feels this way. Even if it is a joke, things like brushing and flossing and even washing your hands after using the bathroom are controversial for a ton of people. Marketing is real important for encouraging these people to be better.
I literally know a guy at college who definitely was serious about the "washing ass is gay" thing.
He didn't keep a lot of friends. Or relationships...
I use goat milk soap and I've been getting honeysuckle, lavender, prairie moss, dogwood, all kinds of flowery scents. I love studying botany and smelling these soaps reminds me of some of the local flowers around me. Never had any person accuse me of smelling like a woman or smelling "gay" lol, but I totally agree with your comment. I think real, normal people just like when you smell good, regardless of the scent. The "men should only wear turpentine-and-axel-grease-scented deodorants" Monday is only held in the minds of insecure looney tunes
Bruh, bruh, liss'n, it's only gay if you touch your BAAWWLS!!
I hate those manly male scents for true men™ so much. I've now switched to odorless deodorant which is so much more expensive but it's worth it. And when I want to smell nice, I use a perfume.
I stopped using women's antiperspirants because the scents would make my armpits break out in hives and it wouldn't stop my ungodly sweat. I use some kind of old spice that's a gel stick. Can't remember the exact scent lol. It works great, especially for underboob sweat. The smell isn't bad either. 10/10 would recommend for women who are super sweaty like me
I don't mind Oldspice's BEARGUN BEER THRASHER. Reminds me of my childhood abuse.
I like Fruity smells too! I have one now that smells kinda like a SweetTart candy but it's called Wolfthorne and is aggressively masculine in the packaging and such lol
Lol I've tried that one, was not expecting the fragrance it has
Unsented roll on, because the smells they add to make it smells good actually make you stink more towards the end of the day. The white powder ones ruin shirts and Clough pores.
Clog *?
Lol, rose-scented shea butter, starch and baking soda deodorant all the way baby. You apply it once a day, twice at most, it moisturizes and nourishes your skin, lasts all day, there's no plastic and you get to laugh in the face of fragile masculinity.
Look at that guy! He uses the F-16 deodorant, not the SR-71 one.
I just bought a bathbomb called black rose frome Lush. My girlfriend approved but she wasn't the one using it.
A bathtub, chocolate, and wine. Guys listen, ladies have it all figured out. Treat yourself.
Incorrect
Guys get deodorant in such high quantities at Christmas it lasts till next Christmas
If that's your experience, my friend, then your family members are trying to tell you something.
It'd not just my experience it's a Scottish tradition at this point
I wonder how much of my preference was advertising and upbringing, but as a man I do prefer to use the male scents almost every time.
Change "men" into "boys" and it's accurate.
I don't understand the soap for men that smells like hunting or leather or Busch Beer.
Pine tar soap feels really nice.
I don't know how they got naval diplomacy into a soap bar, but it sure smells nice
"then you just don't understand me Susan!"
They just wanna support Harvick or Chastain
I don't buy deodorant for it's smell, I buy it so I don't smell like a locker room by noon....
Can I have some Tu-144 perfume, please?
tankie detected. The xb70 shall dedetect you
Bit off topic maybe, but I’m just reading all these comments and some of y’all are cracking me up! I just wanted to say it was a pleasure to read a bunch of random comments that boosted my mood. Thanks!
There are a few Old Spice variants that I think are a bit fruit-forward and fresh and designed for men.
I've never liked the super cologney scents - I like smelling sweet, so Fiji is a good one for me. Smells tropical and a bit fruity.
I also liked Wolfthorne, which is super fruit forward. I actually got a pack of that because some super insecure dude was complaining about it in the reviews.
Outside of that, Stone from Henry's is another fave of mine. Not fruit, but it's light and I think anyone could wear it. Fig as well, but that's more of a winter deodorant because I find myself needing to reapply, but it smells awesome.
Shark breath deodorant is superior.
I require all my deodorant to be breeze scented. Either mountain or ocean. There are no acceptable alternatives.
Somewhat ironically, a "unisex" deodorant of mine with almond perfume is the best one I have at keeping my body odor away. It's local stuff that beats Nivea's 48h sports men whatever every day (and smells much nicer, too)
Au naturel.
Wash regularly. Wear clean clothes.
I want to smell like me. Not wood, coal, fuel, fruit, smoke, pine, or flowers.
Just watch out for heavy garlic & onion days 😆
Nobody else wants you to smell like you.
I use those hypoallergenic deodorizer crystal sticks, cost a couple of bucks last forever, no smells no scents.
But there's nothing like the smell of Jet A and F-16 exhaust in the morning...
My man just use unscented deodorant then
I do want to smell like pine
I like oats and alps. Duke cannon thick is nice too, and has names like “naval supremacy”, which is cheesy, but I don’t get too hung up on it.
Old spice is off the rails though.
Coffee & Whiskey is the goat
I'll have one that smells like a mix of diesel, burnt gunpowder (and the prettiest flowers out there) please.
Cucumber scent is the shit. I'd take that over Mountain Spring any day
so the other day I saw this liquid hand soap on sale and I got one of each color. I didn't really read the scent since I'm not picky for hand soap, but after using it I got genuinely pissed it was cucumber. I'm sorry, but that's horrible. After washing my hands it felt I spent the last hour cutting cucumbers. Who smelled cucumbers and had the idea of making a soap out of it?
So you bought something without reading the label, then got mad about it, and it's their fault for making a scent you don't like? 🤣
oh absolutely, it's their fault for making something that should not exist in the first place.
I once tried tar and sulfur soaps. Both of them were really weird in the beginning (who in their right mind smells some rotten eggs and thinks "we could make a soap out of this"?), but I got used to them after a few days and began to really like them. I should be on the lookout for them, so I can buy them again someday.
Smells like jet fuel? Splendid!
shark scent? eh... like, chum? pass
Hákarl deodorant
I use benzoyl peroxide facewash in my pits when I shower. I never smell like BO or anything else.
Those brightly colored tubes of marketing they sell in the deodorant aisle probably don't do what you think they do. This is because the mega conglomerates that sell this shit don't care if their product works or not. What they sell you on is shame and poor body image.
Deodorant smells gross. People smell fine. Fkn state of the world, convincing humans that smelling like a human is bad.
Ever left the house? You'll change your opinion right quick when you're behind a random guy in the grocery store and you get a strong whiff of sour milk that has been out in the sun for a week.
Thank god for deodorant (and regular showers).
Maybe the guy you're responding to lives somewhere in East Asia? A lot of people there have a gene which makes them have no body odor. I can confirm from personal experience - my friend from Taiwan doesn't even own deodorant and she never smells, even after hiking all day in hot weather.
That's an interesting thought!
Like Asian earwax is super dry and flaky, while European earwax looks like yellow green toxic goop.
So you have different genes and on top of that different diets (I had Indian neighbors once, you could smell the curry in the entire hallway of the building 24/7. But they obviously use a ton of spices when cooking).
As a central European Caucasian guy I personally start to smell really bad without deodorant just after a day or so. No matter how often I shower or what I eat. I also tried to switch to deodorant without aluminum and that didn't work out at all :-/
I'm Asian. If my earwax is super dry and flaky, I hate to see the sludge coming out of other people's ears.
As for deodorant, I switched to a smaller variety of Tom's in my travel kit because the travel-sized ones from big box stores suck. I think the one I bought is aimed at women since their website shows bigger, blacker packaging for their deodorant aimed at men. I'm thinking of switching over to my travel kit ones on a permanent basis because of the fresh lemongrass and lavender scents.
I don’t get it
Throw off the shackles of Big Deodorant. Girls don't need it since our body odor is generally much lower, and it could potentially be unhealthy for us.
Also, girl smell 🤤
Public transportation users and gym goers please ignore this person's comment. No one wants your stank.
I go to the gym 4x/week. I just... Shower every day. 🤨
If you shave your armpits, you should look into aluminum accumulation in your breasts.