# Axe Body spray works!!...as girl repellant **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [October 13, 2004, 6:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/axe-body-spray-works-as-girl-repellant/269051 "2004-10-13T18:52:14Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![msmith537](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d9b06d/32.png) [@msmith537](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/msmith537)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2004, 6:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/axe-body-spray-works-as-girl-repellant/269051/1 "2004-10-13T18:52:14Z")
For those of you not familiar, there is this product called Axe Body Spray [http://www.unilever.ca/products/index.asp?navLev=4&PCateId=9&NavId=62&type=2](http://www.unilever.ca/products/index.asp?navLev=4&PCateId=9&NavId=62&type=2) which is marketed as some kind of deoderant love juice for men. Well, I happened to get ahold of a couple sample bottles and you know what? It works!! As girl repellant. Yes…all I have to do is spray a little in the air and my girlfriend runs screaming like I just shot her in the face with pepper spray. If she thinks she heard the aerosol can spray, she makes a face like I just took a shit on the floor (don’t ask how I know what such a face would look like). So, men…there you have it. Any time that wife or girlfriend starts to nag you, just hit her with the AXE. ---
**Author:** ![Anaamika](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Anaamika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anaamika)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2004, 6:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/axe-body-spray-works-as-girl-repellant/269051/2 "2004-10-13T18:54:19Z")
Holy cow,Mr. Smith I was on the phone when I started reading this and about fell over laughing. Now my client is wondering why his auction items are so funny. I think I saw a really funny ad for this somewheres. ---
**Author:** ![AwSnappity](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a3d4f5/32.png) [@AwSnappity](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AwSnappity)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2004, 7:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/axe-body-spray-works-as-girl-repellant/269051/3 "2004-10-13T19:01:04Z")
I used to work as a “beauty advisor” at Walgreens. Adolescent boys would come in, douse themselves in the stuff, and leave. I would had the _pleasure_ of smelling the leftovers all night long. Blech. ---
**Author:** ![Neurotik](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/91b2a8/32.png) [@Neurotik](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Neurotik)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2004, 7:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/axe-body-spray-works-as-girl-repellant/269051/4 "2004-10-13T19:05:36Z")
I got a free sample once, gave it a shot. All the women that I encountered that day and evening thought I smelled pretty nice. There are some extremely repulsive scents though. ---
**Author:** ![slortar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/6bbea6/32.png) [@slortar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/slortar)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2004, 7:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/axe-body-spray-works-as-girl-repellant/269051/5 "2004-10-13T19:19:26Z")
Guys are supposed to wear it? Could’ve sworn from watching the commercials that it was some sort of alien mind control device designed to make women have hot monkey sex with mannequins. Man, I’m dissapointed. ---
**Author:** ![Tapioca\_Dextrin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Tapioca\_Dextrin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tapioca_Dextrin)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2004, 7:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/axe-body-spray-works-as-girl-repellant/269051/6 "2004-10-13T19:22:34Z")
It’s completely unrelated, but very mundane and pointless. I was travelling home through SFO last week. Having just stepped off the plane after a 12 hour flight from Korea, wearing nothing more than some day old Sure deoderant, the (male) security screener asked me in a very soft voice “Is that Gaultier you’re wearing?” I guess that’s the West Coast for you 😛 ---
**Author:** ![Amp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/6a8cbe/32.png) [@Amp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Amp)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2004, 7:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/axe-body-spray-works-as-girl-repellant/269051/7 "2004-10-13T19:28:02Z")
Why, **slortar**? Are you a mannequin? ---
**Author:** ![UrbanChic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/9dc877/32.png) [@UrbanChic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/UrbanChic)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2004, 7:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/axe-body-spray-works-as-girl-repellant/269051/8 "2004-10-13T19:41:09Z")
I thought you were supposed to spray that crap on your mannequins to cover up that, you know, mannequin smell. At least, that’s what the commercials would have you believe. ---
**Author:** ![klintypooh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/3da27b/32.png) [@klintypooh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/klintypooh)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2004, 8:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/axe-body-spray-works-as-girl-repellant/269051/9 "2004-10-13T20:06:18Z")
To add to Tapiocas experience, at a party in days of yore I proceeded to see if I could drink 4 cans of beer at once. Needless to say spillage occured and about an hour later (whilst still in my beer sodden top) a lovely young lady complimented me on my lovely fragrance. Well, if she wanted to smell me, who am I to break her heart? 😃 As an afterthought, are there any UK Dopefest thingys ever??? 😕 ---
**Author:** ![Ashes\_Ashes](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/db5fbb/32.png) [@Ashes\_Ashes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ashes_Ashes)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2004, 8:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/axe-body-spray-works-as-girl-repellant/269051/10 "2004-10-13T20:35:57Z")
It’s not that the stuff smells so bad that I resent. It’s that aerosol makes it so easy to apply lethal levels of the stink water. Some years, I go blind from the clashing cologne and perfume smell rays in first period. Seriously, I pity the poor p.e. teachers; those locker rooms smell like evil must. ---
**Author:** ![JoeSki](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/b487fb/32.png) [@JoeSki](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JoeSki)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2004, 8:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/axe-body-spray-works-as-girl-repellant/269051/11 "2004-10-13T20:39:14Z")
Not only does it not get you any chicks, it never runs out! My sister bought me a can of the stuff two years ago, and I swear, the can is at least half full even though I’ve sprayed myself dozens of times. Bah ---
**Author:** ![siberia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/siberia/32/9129_2.png) [@siberia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/siberia)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2004, 9:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/axe-body-spray-works-as-girl-repellant/269051/12 "2004-10-13T21:45:05Z")
Pity me…I have three teenaged sons that all seem to think that (maximum Axe = mega chick magnet). After a week of being poisoned in my own home, I make them go through their fumigation rituals outside. I was just telling my husband this morning that I know what I will be stuffing in their Christmas stockings…some decent cologne! ---
**Author:** ![Green\_Means\_Go](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/cc9497/32.png) [@Green\_Means\_Go](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Green_Means_Go)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2004, 9:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/axe-body-spray-works-as-girl-repellant/269051/13 "2004-10-13T21:54:12Z")
I have to admit I bought into the hype. I purchased this stuff and figured I would instantly become a man about town. Women would want me and men would want to BE me. Instead, I put it on and even _I_ didn’t want to be me. ---
**Author:** ![Francesca](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/9fc348/32.png) [@Francesca](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Francesca)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2004, 10:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/axe-body-spray-works-as-girl-repellant/269051/14 "2004-10-13T22:02:21Z")
> [@klintypooh](#): > > To add to Tapiocas experience, at a party in days of yore I proceeded to see if I could drink 4 cans of beer at once. Needless to say spillage occured and about an hour later (whilst still in my beer sodden top) a lovely young lady complimented me on my lovely fragrance. > > Well, if she wanted to smell me, who am I to break her heart? 😃 > > As an afterthought, are there any UK Dopefest thingys ever??? 😕 Plenty of UK get-together are arranged over at [NADS](http://p086.ezboard.com/bnads). ---
**Author:** ![Giraffe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/giraffe/32/129_2.png) [@Giraffe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Giraffe)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2004, 10:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/axe-body-spray-works-as-girl-repellant/269051/15 "2004-10-13T22:06:30Z")
You have to admit, though, that those mannequin commercials are pretty funny. “I _know_ you ain’t talkin to my mannequin!” “Roger! We were just talking!” Good times. ---
**Author:** ![slortar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/6bbea6/32.png) [@slortar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/slortar)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2004, 11:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/axe-body-spray-works-as-girl-repellant/269051/16 "2004-10-13T23:12:53Z")
> [@Amp](#): > > Why, **slortar**? Are you a mannequin? Nope, I’m a monkey. Ook, ook. ---
**Author:** ![Flutterby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/6f9a4e/32.png) [@Flutterby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Flutterby)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2004, 11:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/axe-body-spray-works-as-girl-repellant/269051/17 "2004-10-13T23:56:44Z")
Well it works on me… or maybe at the time it was just the guy wearing it. ---
**Author:** ![BrotherCadfael](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/977dab/32.png) [@BrotherCadfael](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrotherCadfael)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2004, 12:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/axe-body-spray-works-as-girl-repellant/269051/18 "2004-10-14T12:18:51Z")
I’ve seen a rather funny Old Spice commercial on Spike TV the last couple of nights – I don’t know if it runs anywhere else: The boss looks into an apparently empty office, and, apparently talking to no one, assigns the office’s resident some task or other. He then says, “by the way, you smell nice”. The office worker’s head pops up from under the desk. So you’re thinking he was hiding from the boss, and the boss found him out by his smell. No big deal. Then a girl pops up from under the desk, buttoning her shirt, saying, “Yes, you DO smell nice”. Kinda cute. ---
**Author:** ![Frank](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Frank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frank)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2004, 12:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/axe-body-spray-works-as-girl-repellant/269051/19 "2004-10-14T12:47:26Z")
> [@BrotherCadfael](#): > > Kinda cute. Yes, yes she is. ---
**Author:** ![BrotherCadfael](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/977dab/32.png) [@BrotherCadfael](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrotherCadfael)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2004, 1:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/axe-body-spray-works-as-girl-repellant/269051/20 "2004-10-14T13:40:34Z")
> [@This Year's Model](#): > > Yes, yes she is. Yeah, well, that too. I was talking about the entire commercial, you turkey! But then, you knew that. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/axe-body-spray-works-as-girl-repellant/269051.md?page=2)