Old Spice Cologne--What IS it?

Vocabulary aid, please: “bpal”?

Half the wiseacres in this Thread are made of a mixture of spit & old mice. :dubious:

Any more info?

And the other half of the wiseacres in this thread …? :slight_smile:

The spit/mice wiseacres are the Social Set in this Thread.

You bought a bottle of Old Spice? Were they out of Aqua Velva?

I used up all my old man’s Hai Karate.

Now answer the @#$^ question! :mad: :wink: :stuck_out_tongue: :smiley:

Bhopal, where the real ingredients come from.

I think it’s mostly Panther Piss.

Dadburn young smart-alecky whippersnappers. ALL of you! I love Old Spice. There was one store in Bangkok that would sell it, but they stopped about 10 years ago. I tend to stock up on it when I’m in the US. (I’m on my last bottle now from two years ago in Hawaii.) Checked around Beijing and Shanghai earlier this year and came up with zip. But I did find it once in a small shop in Kathmandu and thought I’d found heaven.

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Thanks for answering! I’ve been in meetings all day. :stuck_out_tongue:

Sorry for resurrecting such an old thread, but since it shows up on Google searches, I thought that people re-reading the thread would want to know.

Someone in the BPAL forums had a thread asking what BPAL scents smell similar to Old Spice, and that person listed all the base/middle/top notes comprising Old Spice. I have no idea where they got that list from, but here’s the link to that thread:

http://www.bpal.org/topic/38196-the-secret-old-spice-lovers-club/

Here’s what the OP on that thread listed as the ingredients for Old Spice:

Top Notes
Orange, Lemon, Spices, Clary Sage, Aldehydes

Middle Notes
Cinnamon, Carnation, Geranium, Jasmine, Heliotrope, Pimento Berry

Base Notes
Vanilla, Musk, Cedarwood, Frankincense, Benzoin, Tonka, Ambergris

I hope that helps! But all the hilarious speculations on the Old Spice ingredients did make me chuckle, hehe. :wink:

Guess I’ll throw out my opinion of the vile stuff before this thread gets locked…

Horrible. Definitely smells like old man, more so now than way back in ought-seven.

The worst is getting a hotel room or rental car previously occupied by an old dude who bathes in the shit.

Over here it’s what people give to smelly teenage boys.

Teenage boys are convinced by the advertising that it will have gorgeous girls swooning at their feet. Actually they do, but they are fainting from the pungency of the smell.

Okay, just did a bit more Googling, and realised the ingredient list is actually available online on the Basenotes fragrance database.

Link to the Old Spice entry here:
http://www.basenotes.net/ID26121214.html

Cheers! :slight_smile:

It definitely helps cover up that dead rotting smell that most zombies have.

It’s probably the ambergris.

Surely you speak of AXE deodorant? :rolleyes:

Funny thing for me about Old Spice - a lot of Westerners (white people?) associate the smell with dads, grandpas, and old men, but A) I’m Japanese, and most Japanese men don’t tend to wear scented aftershaves and deodorants, so I don’t associate any particular smells with men in my extended family; B) Because this one guy I have a mad crush on (a guy still in his 20s) was wearing it the first time I sort of went out with him, I only associate it with him, so I’m madly in love with it - specifically the Foxcrest version! :stuck_out_tongue:

a better question is what the hell flavor is bubble gum flavor? It vaguely tastes like fruit… or something. What the hell is it?

I’m amazed that it’s popular among teenage boys. I graduated from high school in 1984 and Old Spice was really unfashionable then; it was seen as your father’s cologne, or even your grandfather’s. Congratulations to whichever geniuses in marketing managed to revive the brand.