# 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:** 2
**Author:** ![Siam\_Sam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d78d45/32.png) [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2007, 1:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-spice/430842/21 "2007-12-22T01:01:01Z")
I love Old Spice. Can’t find it in Thailand anymore. I hoped to find some in China earlier this year but saw none in the stores. I found Nirvana in Kathmandu once when I stumbled onto some in a small store there. I’m down to my last bottle from our last trip to the US 2 1/2 years ago. Guess it’s time to for another visit to Hawaii! ---
**Author:** ![Siam\_Sam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d78d45/32.png) [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2007, 1:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-spice/430842/22 "2007-12-22T01:03:12Z")
[QUOTE=AskNott] Does Old Spice have a faint note of urine? [/QUOTE] Old Spice does NOT smell like urine. :mad: ---
**Author:** ![Thudlow\_Boink](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thudlow_boink/32/320_2.png) [@Thudlow\_Boink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thudlow_Boink)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2007, 1:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-spice/430842/23 "2007-12-22T01:12:44Z")
I assume you’re all talking about the cologne. But I’m convinced that Old Spice makes the best anti-perspirant/deodorant (especially their Red Zone line). ---
**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 22, 2007, 2:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-spice/430842/24 "2007-12-22T02:27:45Z")
[QUOTE=AskNott] 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. [/QUOTE] It occurs to me: you can tell the difference between male and female urine (out of the container)? How do you…never mind. I don’t want to know how you know. ---
**Author:** ![Ms.Pumpkin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a87d85/32.png) [@Ms.Pumpkin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ms.Pumpkin)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2007, 2:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-spice/430842/25 "2007-12-22T02:45:53Z")
As far as I know, my father never wore Old Spice. That said, I am a 26 year old female who thinks it smells great on men of any age. Much better than all that nasty Axe stuff. ---
**Author:** ![gravitycrash](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/977dab/32.png) [@gravitycrash](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gravitycrash)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2007, 3:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-spice/430842/26 "2007-12-22T03:06:27Z")
Actually as a somewhat cologne snob, Old spice isn’t bad, it is inexpensive and not offensive at all. Dry down is fast which is good. The downside is you smell like every other third or fourth person in the office. If anyone mentions AXE in this thread in a good way I will have to hunt you down and smack you. ---
**Author:** ![Labelless](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/f19dbf/32.png) [@Labelless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Labelless)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2007, 3:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-spice/430842/27 "2007-12-22T03:11:35Z")
My father and grandfather both wore Old Spice. My husband (age 35) wears it on occasion. He had a bottle before we got married, and I have bought him another or two since then. I don’t find it erotic or anything, but I do find it to be a good man smell. Very comforting. I don’t think of my dad and grandfather when he wears it consciously, but I’m sure it lies underneath somehow. I’m okay with that. They are good men. ---
**Author:** ![wonky](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wonky/32/393_2.png) [@wonky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wonky)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2007, 3:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-spice/430842/28 "2007-12-22T03:50:34Z")
I like the smell. My father wore it very occasionally. My husband also very occasionally. It’s a very comforting smell, like someone said. Sexy only that it’s masculine. ---
**Author:** ![MissGypsy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/8491ac/32.png) [@MissGypsy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MissGypsy)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2007, 3:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-spice/430842/29 "2007-12-22T03:53:11Z")
[QUOTE=AskNott] 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. [/QUOTE] So true. My Grandpa wore it, mostly because all of his grand-daughters bought it for him every Christmas, and it smells like comfort to me. My Dad wore it sometimes, and I notice that my husband uses their brand of body wash. It’s a very comforting scent to us women of a certain age who grew up smelling it all the time (back when the other options were Aqua Velva or Electra-Sol). ---
**Author:** ![PunditLisa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/4af34b/32.png) [@PunditLisa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PunditLisa)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2007, 4:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-spice/430842/30 "2007-12-22T04:22:35Z")
I don’t dislike it. I work for the company that makes it, so I smell it a lot. It’s kind of a clean smell to me. While we’re defending cheap perfumes, I redicovered Love’s Baby Soft a year back. I love it. 🙂 ---
**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 22, 2007, 4:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-spice/430842/31 "2007-12-22T04:25:08Z")
[QUOTE=Musicat] It occurs to me: you can tell the difference between male and female urine (out of the container)? How do you…never mind. I don’t want to know how you know. [/QUOTE] I was a janitor for several years. Really, though, it’s not that complicated. If you spent 15 or 20 minutes in a quiet room with samples of both, you could tell the difference. It’s one of those smells our parents taught us to pretend we didn’t notice. You can overcome your anti-sensual programming. ---
**Author:** ![Snarky\_Kong](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a183cd/32.png) [@Snarky\_Kong](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snarky_Kong)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2007, 4:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-spice/430842/32 "2007-12-22T04:25:22Z")
I used their deodorant and body wash. Both have gotten a ton of positive feedback about both. Do they smell very different from the cologne? I’m 23, have used the deodorant for years. ---
**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 22, 2007, 4:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-spice/430842/33 "2007-12-22T04:31:58Z")
[QUOTE=AskNott] I was a janitor for several years. Really, though, it’s not that complicated. If you spent 15 or 20 minutes in a quiet room with samples of both, you could tell the difference. It’s one of those smells our parents taught us to pretend we didn’t notice. You can overcome your anti-sensual programming. [/QUOTE] I realize we aren’t in GQ, but could it be that the smells coming from the bathroom of one sex were partly urine, partly perfumes? And that mens’ perfumes might have a different chemical content than womens’ just because the manufacturers control the formulas? And that your nose might be misled by the combinations? And that your observations were not performed while double-blinded? Just sayin’. ---
**Author:** ![Carson\_O\_Genic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/cdc98d/32.png) [@Carson\_O\_Genic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Carson_O_Genic)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2007, 9:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-spice/430842/34 "2007-12-22T09:42:20Z")
Another old fart who has used Old Spice over several decades here,neither father nor grandfather used it.I think they changed the formula over the years-speaking of the cologne-because it reacts differently to my body heat & chemistry than when I began using it.'Course that could be me changing too.In either case,the scent several hours later is rather different than initial application. ``` I can also second AskNott's observation about ability to differentiate male/female urine odour.Having met people who have apparently proven ability to identify race by smell,it doesn't seem surprising. ``` ---
**Author:** ![Heloise](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e36b37/32.png) [@Heloise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Heloise)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2007, 10:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-spice/430842/35 "2007-12-22T10:04:31Z")
My Dad wore Old Spice. I love that smell. And remember the commercials? I thought they were sooo romantic. Sailor coming home to his wife, living in a light tower. Very swoon-worthy when you’re a kid. ---
**Author:** ![DMark](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e68b1a/32.png) [@DMark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DMark)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2007, 10:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-spice/430842/36 "2007-12-22T10:09:09Z")
When I lived in Berlin, someone sent me a bottle of Old Spice for Christmas. My SO tried it and went to work (at a Gay bar) and the customers loved the smell of it! He told everybody it was a new Calvin Kline fragrance and they all believed him. I did know of a few straight guys in the US who would wear it because women loved the smell - it reminded them of “daddy” and, well…I guess “who’s your daddy” was uttered later in the evening in the bedroom. ---
**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 22, 2007, 1:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-spice/430842/37 "2007-12-22T13:32:56Z")
[QUOTE=Siam Sam] I love Old Spice. Can’t find it in Thailand anymore. I hoped to find some in China earlier this year but saw none in the stores. I found Nirvana in Kathmandu once when I stumbled onto some in a small store there. I’m down to my last bottle from our last trip to the US 2 1/2 years ago. Guess it’s time to for another visit to Hawaii! [/QUOTE] I hope this is a whoosh. :dubious: ---
**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 22, 2007, 3:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-spice/430842/38 "2007-12-22T15:10:21Z")
[QUOTE=Musicat] I realize we aren’t in GQ, but could it be that the smells coming from the bathroom of one sex were partly urine, partly perfumes? And that mens’ perfumes might have a different chemical content than womens’ just because the manufacturers control the formulas? And that your nose might be misled by the combinations? And that your observations were not performed while double-blinded? Just sayin’. [/QUOTE] I just recovered from a gasping, tears-flowing fit of laughter. I imagined myself sitting down to a double-blind urine sniffing test, while my fellow janitors doubled over laughing. And the permanent nicknames I would have picked up! Oh, my goodness. Oh, dear. Who among my friends could I have trusted to prepare the samples without some unspeakable tampering (or tamponning)? A streak of twisted humor runs through janitors. I mean you no disrespect, **Musicat.** Quite the contrary, in fact. I won’t be doing any double-blind urine sniffing for you. I am retired. I’ll tell you in advance, also, that if I ever assert that poop has a rather unpleasant aroma, I will offer no research to back that up. Well! Wasn’t that an entertaining diversion? 😛 Oh, yes, that was fun. 😉 ---
**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 22, 2007, 3:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-spice/430842/39 "2007-12-22T15:19:07Z")
[QUOTE=AskNott] I mean you no disrespect, **Musicat.** Quite the contrary, in fact. I won’t be doing any double-blind urine sniffing for you. I am retired. I’ll tell you in advance, also, that if I ever assert that poop has a rather unpleasant aroma, I will offer no research to back that up. [/quote] I am _so_ disappointed! ☹ Inquiring minds want to know! 🙂 > [@Carson O'Genic](#): > > I can also second AskNott’s observation about ability to differentiate male/female urine odour.Having met people who have apparently proven ability to identify race by smell,it doesn’t seem surprising. My mother, bless her soul, when first forced to teach first grade to a mixed-race classroom, claimed that Negroes smelled different, too, but in her case I think it was bigotry talking. ---
**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, 3:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-spice/430842/40 "2007-12-22T15:26:38Z")
[QUOTE=Snarky\_Kong] I used their deodorant and body wash. Both have gotten a ton of positive feedback about both. Do they smell very different from the cologne? [/QUOTE] It depends what flavor you get, but “Original” is pretty close, if a little softer. I was just at the store tonight and noticed that they also sell original flavor Old Spice in those butane aerosol cans like Axe now too. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-spice/430842.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-spice/430842.md?page=3)