# Manly Smells **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [August 27, 2010, 1:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/manly-smells/551660 "2010-08-27T13:10:35Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 14\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![ratatoskK](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ratatoskk/32/2987_2.png) [@ratatoskK](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ratatoskK)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2010, 2:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/manly-smells/551660/21 "2010-08-28T14:42:22Z")
B.O. Sent from my Droid using Tapatalk ---
**Author:** ![Runs\_With\_Scissors](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/278dde/32.png) [@Runs\_With\_Scissors](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Runs_With_Scissors)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2010, 12:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/manly-smells/551660/22 "2010-08-30T00:28:03Z")
Products by Aveda and Mrs. Myer’s Clean Day. Hey…some of us can pull that off 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![velvetjones](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/5f9b8f/32.png) [@velvetjones](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/velvetjones)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2010, 12:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/manly-smells/551660/23 "2010-08-30T00:39:00Z")
beer and cigarettes ---
**Author:** ![gallows\_fodder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/8c91f0/32.png) [@gallows\_fodder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gallows_fodder)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2010, 1:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/manly-smells/551660/24 "2010-08-30T01:17:33Z")
The smell of the outdoors on a man. ---
**Author:** ![may\_be\_ignorant](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c5a1d2/32.png) [@may\_be\_ignorant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/may_be_ignorant)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2010, 2:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/manly-smells/551660/25 "2010-08-30T02:22:08Z")
Was going to be vile, and say my balls on a blistering day… but thats more of rotten fruit smell, which somewhat links to woman-li-ness. Honestly, B.O. is about as manly as it gets. Matter-o-fact, when one of my friends is smelling like BO we usually tell them they “Smell like a man.” ---
**Author:** ![Ruby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/13edae/32.png) [@Ruby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ruby)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2010, 3:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/manly-smells/551660/26 "2010-08-30T03:31:11Z")
[Vaseline MEN Lotion](http://www.vaseline.com/Product.aspx?Path=Consumer/OurProducts/MENLotion) ---
**Author:** ![thelurkinghorror](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/7c8e57/32.png) [@thelurkinghorror](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thelurkinghorror)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2010, 3:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/manly-smells/551660/27 "2010-08-30T03:41:42Z")
Beer Vomit Your blood Someone else’s blood Hickory “Musk”? Victory and/or napalm ---
**Author:** ![Autolycus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/22d042/32.png) [@Autolycus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Autolycus)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2010, 9:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/manly-smells/551660/28 "2010-08-30T09:34:05Z")
> [@Arnold\_Winkelried](#): > > How can you forget [Old Spice](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=owGykVbfgUE)? I never thought I’d live to see this day. Old Spice used to be the deodorant of choice for washed up, over-the-hill fuddyduddies. Now it’s Tre Cool. I wrote it from the beginning, as a silent protest against Axe and its ilk. Speaking of manly smells, axe is not it. The smell of real axes is though. ---
**Author:** ![pravnik](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/8edcca/32.png) [@pravnik](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pravnik)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2010, 3:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/manly-smells/551660/29 "2010-08-30T15:50:13Z")
A boxing gym. ---
**Author:** ![limegreen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/82dd89/32.png) [@limegreen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/limegreen)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2010, 4:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/manly-smells/551660/30 "2010-08-30T16:17:23Z")
My grandfather’s pipe tobacco – appley smelling, somehow Gun oil and the oily rag used to wipe down tools after use Metal Fresh-cut grass or hay ---
**Author:** ![tallcoldone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e9a140/32.png) [@tallcoldone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tallcoldone)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2010, 4:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/manly-smells/551660/31 "2010-08-30T16:40:27Z")
Leather, especially new baseball gloves. There was a Sports Illustrated article many moons ago about gloves, and the author mentioned being in a major league lockerroom when a shipment of new gloves arrived. Everyone stopped and picked up a glove, held it to his face and breathed in deeply to absorb the aroma. Wonderful stuff! ---
**Author:** ![tdn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/94ad74/32.png) [@tdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tdn)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2010, 6:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/manly-smells/551660/32 "2010-08-30T18:30:27Z")
Charred animal flesh Gasoline Canvas (as in what they made tents out of) ---
**Author:** ![Beware\_of\_Doug](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/278dde/32.png) [@Beware\_of\_Doug](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beware_of_Doug)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2010, 6:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/manly-smells/551660/33 "2010-08-30T18:33:00Z")
The most manly smell of them all is the smell of bullshit. ---
**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2010, 6:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/manly-smells/551660/34 "2010-08-30T18:47:43Z")
> [@Beware\_of\_Doug](#): > > The most manly smell of them all is the smell of bullshit. Winner! Game over. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/manly-smells/551660.md?page=1)