Help me Girls, what’s your favourite aftershave or men’s fragrance you love smelling on your boyfriend or husband, I want to impress the Girls but have no idea what to buy, have been using Joop but getting sick of it,
Not Axe.
She will like it if you ask her to buy one together with you.
And whatever you decide to wear, use about a third of what you think is the minimal amount. Overdoing aftershave is a typical rookie mistake.
Grey Flannel!! It smells good on everyone!! Love-love-love it!!
P.S. Yes. NOT AXE!
I wish I knew. I had a male friend who wore some cologne that made me weak in the knees (in a good way) whenever I smelled it. By the time I thought to ask him what it was he had used it all up and didn’t know which one I was talking about. It was something deeply exotic and kind of musky (but not nauseatingly sweet-musky like Jovan) and woodsy, smelled sort of Middle Eastern or like it came from India.
As a rule, I don’t like colognes on men. They should smell sort of like a combination of leather and motor oil, with just a hint of sweat :D.
There is very good science to say that there is no one such product. It there was you would probably hear about it - or at least the entire industry would be trying to copy it.
You are up against a few things.
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Different scents smell different on different people. You can’t get rid of your intrinsic odour (and just trying to drown it out isn’t going to end well, nor do antiperspirants make any useful difference.) Some scents will smell good on your skin and some will smell anything from boring, to actually bad. And it is different for different people.
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There is some very good evidence that people are attracted to members of the appropriate sex by body odours that are, in a simplistic sense, different to their own. This seems to be a built in mechanism to push people towards maintaining a genetic diversity - and is apparent right across the animal kingdom. Different women like different smells on guys, and there is no way of predicting what they will be.
The upshot. Buy a scent that you like the smell of when you try it on your own skin. Don’t let yourself be swayed by any form of branding, advertising. But don’t buy cheap. Or you smell cheap. You will have zero control over what other people make of your chosen scent, but those women that are going to like your intrinsic odour are going to love your enhanced one. So you are doing the best you can actually do. The change from using a mass marketed scent that may or may not be in anyway usefully correlated with your intrinsic odour should be a big step up.
One in 20 people will love your scent. The rest will be anything from ambivalent to repulsed. If you find that 1 in 20 person, and they are a good match personality wise, you may as well book the church.
But there is no scent that will make you God’s gift to women.
Ain’t that the truth, because my guy smells AMAZING when he uses Axe. 
He’s on a Bath and Body Works “Oak” kick now, which both he and I love, but they’ve discontinued it (BOOOOOO!!!). He can stop me in my tracks just by holding his hand in front of my face after he puts it on. Prrrowrrrr.
I suggest the dark musky woodsy scents… nothing sweet-smelling.
I’m not a girl but excessive perfume/cologne whatever you call it smells terrible no matter how individually perfect the scent
This wouldn’t be so much of a problem if people knew what excessive means and didn’t try to poison their SO’s/friends/everyone around them with smell of deer butt and burnt wood, I think more often than not I’ve noticed someone wearing a smell and been pretty repulsed, so I very very very rarely wear any (and only then for a few seconds after the clrek sprays me so I can ‘delight’ in their new fart scent)
[sub][sub]maybe I just have an easily-overwhelmed nose? [/sub][/sub]
D&G Light Blue is liquid sex.
I recommend finding a soap and shampoo that you like the scent of and then using nothing else with a scent. Use unscented laundry detergent, unscented deodorant, etc. Smelling clean with just the slightest hint of something pleasant is your best bet. I hate when I can actually identify a smell on a man. Well, on anyone really.
Polo. I used to love it so much that I would spray it on myself every time I went into a department store.
None. I don’t think we should cover up our natural scents.
Every now and then I would catch the scent on some man and it would be amazing… inevitably it would be Polo. So I bought Polo for my husband… didn’t smell the same on him.
Over time we came to find that colognes and perfumes weren’t important to us and they could be a nuisance… it taste awful when I lick his neck. Also as we’ve gotten older we (especially me) have become sensitive to scents, whether they be in lotions or detergents, or air fresheners…and candle stores are the worst.
Quorum by Puig is my go-to fragrance but you’d only know I was wearing it if you were very close. I have to laugh at the flowery descriptions though:
At the top notes, this Antonio perfume has leather, patchouli and tobacco leaves, giving it a confident start. With sandalwood, castoreum and musk forming the heart notes, this Antonio men’s fragrance ooze out a luxurious perfume. The spices nutmeg, clove, coriander and thyme contribute to create a rugged drydown of this Antonio perfume, making you an epitome of masculine elegance.
I like Polo Black and CK Euphoria for guys.
Of the two, I like Euphoria better.
Mary Kay has (or had) a cologne called Domain. I loved that stuff. But my SO can’t really wear scents; they mess with his sinuses.
What Francis Vaughan wrote is right.
I knew 2 men who smelled wonderful in Eau Sauvage, and another who stank.
Take note of Maastricht’s advice : nobody should smell you unless they get really close to you, as if to give you a kiss.
Go to a place where they sell men’s fragrances and ask for samples. You can try these and gauge women’s reactions. Wait for a bit before judging the results, or having people judge them. Your body chemistry will alter the scents. It means that you have to kiss a few women on the cheeks to be sure, but I’m sure you can manage.
I’ve always liked Aramis. It’s been around for years.
I can’t stand fragrances on men. A very faint lingering soap & shampoo aroma on clean and healthy skin is all I need.
Yep. There are a few that aren’t objectional, but none I like enough more than soap and shampoo to ever bother taking note of. Full disclosure: I don’t like perfumes on myself or other women either, just faint smelling body spays at most.
I have nag champa as a soap in the bathroom right now [hand soap, in the shower we use Dr Bronners hemp and tea tree oil. I like the way it doesn’t trash out my hair, I haven’t cut it in 3 years and I still don’t have a split end, and breakage has pretty much stopped.]
Villainess has some soaps you might be interested in, they have one that is leather and tobacco based.
True that! My mother loves Emeraude, but can’t wear it because it makes her smell like soured laundry. She wears Chanel 5. Me? Chanel 5 makes me reek like a whorehouse in a heat wave and not in a good way but I loved Calandre but haven’t been able to find it in decades.
Sounds nice, may see if it works on mrAru.
An old classic.
mrAru liked 2, one called Bacchus [an Aramis knock off, it didn’t have something in it that gave him a sour smell that Aramis had. Probably some oil that was expensive and didn’t have a cheap version] which is discontinued and Halston 101 which is also discontinued. I think he wears Aztek and Drakkar Noir. I am thinking of seeing if Bulgari works for him, my brother uses it and I like the smell.