My son got the puberty lesson at school in forth grade. As part of this, they get the little “hygiene kit.” He comes down stairs and stands next to me. I sniff.
“You smell like my grandfather!”
I like classic Old Spice, but it is one of those “Dad/Grandpa” scents a twenty year old guy may not want to remind his date of.
I use mitchum gel, but not for any of the reason’s listed here…yeah, it smells nice, but it also doesn’t stain the pits of my work shirts. I HATED throwing out perfectly good work shirts because the pits were yellow, stiff, nasty pieces of material.
This can not be highlighted enough. The last time I dated a boy probably would have been about my early-20s, but nothing spoils the mood faster than kissing a guy and suddenly getting a whiff of grandpa. It was like trying to make out with a parent standing in the room.
I only remember different version of Speed Stick in my ex boyfriends’ rooms. Old Spice was for the more mature, martini-drinking crowd, and not so much the kegger kind of guys.
I may be wrong here, but I thought it wasn’t necessarily the odors themselves of the Axe and Old Spice products that were particularly bad, but the over-application by eager adolescent boys that made them so noxious. I mean, if any woman put on that much Chanel #5, it’d be pretty terrible to be around as well, classic fragrance or not.
When I was in my twenties (9 years ago), I wore the various Right Guard, Sure, Degree and Old Spice antiperspirants. Never got any positive or negative comments about good smells or stinky BO either.
My brand loyalty lies with Gillette for pretty much all products. I usually use the gel deoderant but I also have prescription strength handy for when I know it’s gonna be a long day.
Sprunk.
Or Chanel allure bodywash.
Wear an undershirt.
This. Whichever is on sale in the multipack at Costco.
Do mature men in their 20’s use a different one than immature men?
Nothing says mature like a fine cheddar. Rub it under your arms before leaving the house, and you’ll be good to go.
Nothing, except Fomunda cheese, of course.
My pits can’t take anti-persperant. They get a rash and sore. That greatly limits my options.
I’ve used Old Spice Deodorant since a teen. I always picked up the Fresh Scent. I did get a compliment when I was 19 or 20 that I smelled nice when I was wearing it. I’ve had a hell of a time trying to track it down over the last couple of years. Even worse, I can’t find the Original formula for it here in Canada. I have to hunt it down when we go to the States. Even the newer Long-Lasting deodorant can irritate my skin.
Mitchum or Degree are good and don’t seem to have any douchey connotations. I like the powdery or mild flower smells for myself (I’m female though). I’m not sure what smells they market to guys but you can’t go wrong with either unscented or something bland like “shower fresh” or whatever.
This is what I have to use 'less I get what I call “Monkey Pits”. I can go about 8 hours with just the soap method and then it starts getting like a primate house in there.
Immature men use Axe because the ads say women flock to you.
I use unscented Mitchum. It’s the best I’ve used and it doesn’t trigger an allergic reaction in me pits.
I just dig through the garbage until I find a deodorant that hasn’t been completely used up, then use that.
I snorted.
I’ve used Sport scent Degree since I worked on the brand, 20 years ago. The fragrance was designed to smell like Drakkar Noir, a men’s cologne which was popular at that time (my old roommate used it; he called it “Eau de Womanizer”). Never used Drakkar Noir, but my wife has always liked how Degree smells.
IMO you should try to use unscented products whenever possible. In our house we use Sure unscented (I use the stick and my husband uses the aerosol) but we also wash our clothes in unscented All detergent with unscented Bounce fabric softeners, etc. The only scented things we use are soap and shampoo and even on those we try to choose gentle scents.
There are enough people with allergies to various scents that you could possibly lose a date because she couldn’t stand the smell of your deoderant, or worse, lose a job or something. I actually almost got fired from a job because they kept smelling something weird on me that turned out to be the scent of Tide. It apparently bothered some people who were sensitive to it and I couldn’t figure out what the smell was until I posted a thread about it here and someone told me they noticed that smell when they used Tide because they had recently changed the formula. I recommend not taking that chance and just using unscented products whenever possible.
I find that, other than the Mitchum unscented gel, which runs out quite quickly, unscented deodorant doesn’t work for me. So instead I settled on one that goes with every cologne I actually wear: Old Spice After Hours. The other Old Spice things either don’t blend well, don’t work, or actually start smelling foul on their own over time.
Furthermore, After Hours is not a scent that anyone seems to actually recognize, so you don’t have to worry about any social connotations. And if you wear cologne with it, no one even smells it.
I think it might not go as well with more citrus-based colognes, though–but, of the ones I’ve tried, I don’t like how they smell on me. I discovered this well before I discovered After Hours.
I don’t use anti-perspirant (they make my pits itchy, and I’m not active enough to sweat through both my undershirt and my shirt). But I use Right Guard classic deodorant, just like my old man. My wife gets disconcerted if I wear anything else now because she won’t recognize my smell.