Ick - I agree that only teenagers buy axe. Get him an adult scent you like and tell him it turns you on…he’ll wear it. (in moderation!!)
and I am firmly of the opinion that NO SCENT is required in an office.
This. I knew guys in high school who would spray it on themselves in the locker room after gym class in place of soap and deodorant. In all fairness, we didn’t really have working showers, but still–you REALLY don’t need to spray that much on. That “double pits to chesty” crap is overkill, in my opinion. One quick spray across the chest is more than enough.
The amount matters a lot. Just try to get him to cut down on it, see if that helps you any.
For what it’s worth, my sweetie got a little sprayer of the Axe chocolate as a joke, but…I really like it! And he wears it a lot now. Yum! Quite mellow. I haven’t smelled any other Axe stuff, but it sounds obnoxious.
As a male, I’ve never liked the axe smell, all of them. I just randomly picked up on body spray, Dark Desires or something silly like that, and the smell is intoxicating, and gave me a headache. So now, I just use a odorless deodorant, with a little bit of cologne. It works pretty well. 
I guess I had a bit of a sleep deficit, and I’m not long out of bed right now. My eyes are just a little blurry.
When I scanned the title, for half a second I thought it said Arse body spray.
We men generally work on the principle that if a little bit is good, a lot must be better.
This does not generally work in the real world outside our own heads.
We are also vulnerable to the ads which show body spray being used by being sprayed on toned male bodies for seemingly 20 minutes at a time. This is an appalling trick by advertisers designed to increase sales by creating a false sense of normal behaviour.
Advertisers also rely on the phenomenon of olfactory fatigue to help them out here - your sense of smell rapidly adjusts to strong perfumy smells, so the wearer is no longer aware how potent they smell, and thinks it might be wearing off, so either loads up some more, or puts on tons in the first place “just to be sure”. Meanwhile, all the other people around are not as close to the smell as the wearer, do not have olfactory fatigue, and are gagging on the cologny pong.
Politely point out that the rules of reality are not those of advertising. I am sure you can do this with good humour.
You had it right. Axe smells like ass.
God, I miss the good old days, when men smelled like whiskey and cigarettes and morning-shower-faint Ivory soap.
I’m not kidding.
My granddad smelled of pipe tobacco and peppermints. Wonderful.
I haven’t had the misfortune of smelling Axe; I came in here to say that Old Spice smells like drains to me.
You’ve got to tell him about this. If he is using too much, he will hurt his office reputation. Congrats to him on the new job.
A buddy of mine started wearing it. I had to take him aside and explain that if it smells like stale farts to me (and it does), it probably smells like that to some other people too. Just a word to the wise.
(bolding mine) Hear hear! I am totally in agreement there… In general I despise all strong ‘Aftermarket’ scents, but especially around work. I wish men and women both would leave off all of those obnoxious scents at the office.
Get the men in your life a nice bottle of 4711, the original eau de cologne. It has a very clean and pleasant citrus/herbal scentthat is not overpowering. A bottle of 4711 and a bottle of bay rum should meet all the fragrance needs any man has.
Why anybody would use Asse products is a mystery to me.
As eldest has reached that magical age of 13, evidently he has talked my wife into buying him his own shampoo. Sadly, the bottle looks like the one I use. Sadder still, it is something called Axe Freeze.
Imagine my surprize the other morning when, in the midst of my nice warm shower, the lather on my head suddenly felt like liquified Tic-Tacs…! :eek:
Worse, after the shower, I smelled like I’d just shacked up with the Candy Cane Whore of the North Pole. His shampoo bottle is now on the far far far end of the shower…
Look, I like the tiniest amounts some colognes that other people aren’t all that thrilled about. I like ‘Red for Men’, ‘Lagerfeld’, and even on rare occasions, ‘Gray Flannel’ (a scent most find hideously offensive).
But Axe…? That’s just … Foul.
Band Name! You also owe me a new keyboard. I should know better that to read the Dope while I’m drinking anything.
Back to the OP, most any cologne/perfume gives both my husband and I horrible headaches. I can only wear one kind that we both can handle, and my husband hasn’t found any that I can tolerate. So I sympathize and join the “chuck it” chorus.
This.
That was perfect. If I didn’t know better, I’d’ve thought you were spam.
I agree that Axe smells like ass.
I actually like most men’s scents because they generally smell deep and spicy.
I HATE most women’s scents because they smell like overripe flowers which have soaked in cheap vodka.
When I worked in an office, there was a woman who worked 5 cubes down from me. In spite of the distance, I could still smell her perfume. She felt the need to reapply it at least once every 2 hours.
Now, for me, I generally use shampoo and conditioner and body wash. I don’t care about body wash so I usually just use what my fiance uses. He knows better than to use Axe. My deodorant smells like baby powder.
I frequently have people tell me how good I smell, even hours after I have showered.
I have NEVER used perfume.
BODY WASH IS SUFFICIENT PEOPLE!!!
Most scents of Axe give me a headache, also. And for some reason, my 16 year old daughter thinks it is awesome stuff and prefers it over “girly” stuff. I’ve managed to convince her that I can tolerate the deodorant, but not anything else. But it was a close call…
The smell of Axe is so offensive to me that when my husband sprays it I almost puke