# Old Spice **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [December 21, 2007, 5:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-spice/430842 "2007-12-21T17:16:53Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2007, 5:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-spice/430842/1 "2007-12-21T17:16:53Z")
When I was a kid I liked the smell of Old Spice. Of course I was too young to be wearing cologne. I still like the smell, but there’s no way in hell I’d wear it. Generally I don’t care what people think. But smelling like someone’s great-grandfather is going too far. But it’s still being sold. Who’s buying it? And what about Old Bay, for that matter? ---
**Author:** ![Missy2U](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/3bc359/32.png) [@Missy2U](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Missy2U)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2007, 5:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-spice/430842/2 "2007-12-21T17:20:33Z")
My husband used to wear it but we both stopped buying it a long time ago - we just kind of stopped for no reason. Now he smells like himself. Or AquaNet depending on whether he has just finished his ponytail. ---
**Author:** ![Colophon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f05b48/32.png) [@Colophon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colophon)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2007, 5:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-spice/430842/3 "2007-12-21T17:31:45Z")
In a statistic I just made up, I heard that as much as 93.1% of annual Old Spice sales are accounted for by kids buying gifts for grandpa. ---
**Author:** ![Sunspace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunspace/32/1250_2.png) [@Sunspace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunspace)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2007, 5:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-spice/430842/4 "2007-12-21T17:32:40Z")
[QUOTE=Johnny L.A.] But it’s still being sold. Who’s buying it? [/QUOTE] Old people? For me, it’s permanently-intertwined with memories of my father. I don’t think that I’ll ever buy it. ---
**Author:** ![Musicat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/musicat/32/20189_2.png) [@Musicat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Musicat)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2007, 5:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-spice/430842/5 "2007-12-21T17:50:38Z")
How about _Old Ironsides, Old Fogey,_ and _Old Fart?_ ---
**Author:** ![Autolycus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/22d042/32.png) [@Autolycus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Autolycus)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2007, 5:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-spice/430842/6 "2007-12-21T17:56:18Z")
I like Old Spice, and I wear it occassionally. Now that Bruce Campbell advertises it, I cant not wear it! ---
**Author:** ![Cluricaun](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/bb73d2/32.png) [@Cluricaun](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cluricaun)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2007, 6:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-spice/430842/7 "2007-12-21T18:00:09Z")
I’ll admit to having a bottle because I like the way it smells, sort of. I don’t like the fact that it has cheap ingrediants and gets that cheap perfume smell going after a while. But if it’s a cold day where I’m apt to be around a fire or chopping wood or something I might splash some on just to maximize my tough old man feeling. ---
**Author:** ![Gala\_Matrix\_Fire](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/4da419/32.png) [@Gala\_Matrix\_Fire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gala_Matrix_Fire)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2007, 9:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-spice/430842/8 "2007-12-21T21:36:09Z")
I love the smell of Old Spice. Love it. I can’t account for the sales, though, as I’ve bought one bottle in, say, twenty years. ---
**Author:** ![Auntbeast](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Auntbeast](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Auntbeast)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2007, 9:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-spice/430842/9 "2007-12-21T21:50:46Z")
I love it too. My Grandfather never wore it. It does smell great on my husband, who does wear it on occasion. Count me in the minority. ---
**Author:** ![Daithi\_Lacha](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/daithi_lacha/32/5430_2.png) [@Daithi\_Lacha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Daithi_Lacha)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2007, 9:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-spice/430842/10 "2007-12-21T21:58:42Z")
I like it and my wife likes it. She buys it for me; I wear it. People at work have remarked that they like it without knowing what it is. When I tell them, they wrinkle their noses and say “ohhhh” in that funny, nasal way, as if knowing made it smell differently. :rolleyes: ---
**Author:** ![jsc1953](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/5daacb/32.png) [@jsc1953](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jsc1953)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2007, 10:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-spice/430842/11 "2007-12-21T22:26:54Z")
I wear it every day…I had no idea I was committing such a faux pas. I’ll go slink away silently (and hopefully odorlessly). ---
**Author:** ![Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bosda_di_chi_of_tricor/32/16845_2.png) [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2007, 10:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-spice/430842/12 "2007-12-21T22:30:57Z")
I wear it. I like the smell, & it’s cheap. Good combo. ---
**Author:** ![Intelligently\_Designed](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/intelligently_designed/32/20957_2.png) [@Intelligently\_Designed](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Intelligently_Designed)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2007, 10:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-spice/430842/13 "2007-12-21T22:40:38Z")
I know a man so old that when he started wearing cologne it was called New Spice. ---
**Author:** ![stucco](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e56c9b/32.png) [@stucco](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/stucco)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2007, 10:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-spice/430842/14 "2007-12-21T22:46:53Z")
My male roommate (21, not old) wears Old Spice and I think it smells really good – at least in the bathroom after he’s used it. ---
**Author:** ![Merneith](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/57b2e6/32.png) [@Merneith](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Merneith)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2007, 11:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-spice/430842/15 "2007-12-21T23:44:44Z")
Female here - I’ve always like Old Spice on guys. Bay rum and lime is another oldie I like. But I’ve always liked old fashioned scents for men and women both. My favorite scent for all genders is still sandalwood. ---
**Author:** ![AskNott](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/asknott/32/5790_2.png) [@AskNott](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AskNott)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2007, 11:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-spice/430842/16 "2007-12-21T23:45:50Z")
There are a couple of solid reasons why people still use Old Spice. First, it smells like food, and who doesn’t like that? Second, deep in the primitive parts of the brain, a woman “knows” that a real man smells like Daddy and Grandpa smelled when she was a girl. Before you come back to joke that old Grandpa smells like urine, remember that male urine is a male smell. Does Old Spice have a faint note of urine? I have no idea, but many men’s cologne have a hint of musk, an equally funky male smell. ---
**Author:** ![Happy\_Lendervedder](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/happy_lendervedder/32/8488_2.png) [@Happy\_Lendervedder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Happy_Lendervedder)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2007, 12:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-spice/430842/17 "2007-12-22T00:05:08Z")
I just bought my dad a bottle of Old Spice after shave for Christmas (he’s 61, fyi). I’d probably wear it if somebody bought it for me (32, fyi). After shave and cologne are things I like to wear if I have them on hand, but I never seem to spend the money to buy them. So gifts are my only way of getting them. ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2007, 12:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-spice/430842/18 "2007-12-22T00:30:37Z")
[QUOTE=Merneith] Bay rum [/QUOTE] Bay Rum! Not Old Bay. :smack: > [@AskNott](#): > > Second, deep in the primitive parts of the brain, a woman “knows” that a real man smells like Daddy and Grandpa smelled when she was a girl. On the other hand, that seems just the tiniest bit creepy… I’m surprised so many here wear Old Spice. I can’t even remember the last time I smelled it. (Another fragrance thread reminded me of it.) I’m not much of a scent-wearer. I still have a nearly full bottle of Old Navy from four years ago, and some Claiborne for Men older than that. And somewhere, in a box, I have a little bit of my dad’s Hai Karate from the '70s. > [@stucco](#): > > My male roommate (21, not old) wears Old Spice Why? Is Old Spice making a comeback? Or is he being ironic? To those of you who wear it: How old are you, when do you wear it, and what are the demographics of your circle of friends? ---
**Author:** ![stucco](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e56c9b/32.png) [@stucco](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/stucco)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2007, 12:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-spice/430842/19 "2007-12-22T00:35:23Z")
[QUOTE=Johnny L.A.] Why? Is Old Spice making a comeback? Or is he being ironic? [/QUOTE] I don’t think he’s being ironic – it’s just what he wears. I know his girlfriend really likes old spice so maybe that’s why 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Cluricaun](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/bb73d2/32.png) [@Cluricaun](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cluricaun)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2007, 12:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-spice/430842/20 "2007-12-22T00:50:24Z")
[QUOTE=Johnny L.A.] To those of you who wear it: How old are you, when do you wear it, and what are the demographics of your circle of friends? [/QUOTE] I don’t know that it’s making a comeback, but they are advertising it more lately (with the tag line “If you grandfather hadn’t worn it you wouldn’t be here”) I’m going to be 30 right quickly, I wear it when I want to but not every day, however I am an every day cologne guy and demographics? White aging hipsters I guess. 😉 [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-spice/430842.md?page=2)