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A few months ago, we were at a supermarket with my mom, buying some stuff.
My mom needed an antiperspirant. When she was about to grab a black one, I heard a guy “helpfully” telling her that she was grabbing one “For Men™”, that the ones “For Women™” were the pink ones.
I immediately looked at the guy like “lol what, who asked”.
(My mom uses “men’s” antiperspirants because she doesn’t care about that, and they are usually cheaper than “women’s”)
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That’s because men’s scents transcend reality
Guys, you know you can buy shower gel in fruity / sweet versions and still be super manly, right? I am a straight dude and ALWAYS use nice smelling bath stuff, because ‘ninja carbon fighter jet black 2000 jet fuel’ just isn’t for me.
I recently bought a new bottle of cologne. Though i didn’t realize until i brought it home that the scent sounds more like an intersection where one might find a strip club and it smells like how one of the managers at said strip club might smell.
The scent: Cypress & Grapevine
I want to smell.like delicious fruit and sweet things, not like I just got out of Bear Night at Charlie’s. Now I did just get out of Bear Night at Charlie’s but thats not the point.
If we’re gonna have “guy scented” stuff, can we at least do “guy stuff” stuff smells I actually enjoy.
Campfire. Burnt gunpowder. Sawdust. Sizzling Steaks.
Why do we get locker room and sports bar?
You would not like Tuscon Leather by Tom Ford. Though some say it smells like cocaine which may make it more appealing.
Nobody is stopping men from smelling line vanilla or lavender.
That’s like saying “Nobody is stopping men from wearing dresses”. You probably won’t get arrested for it, but there are definitely social pressures that strongly discourage it.
Nah, you could walk around smelling like vanilla or citrus and still smell masculine.
I smell almost as fruity as I am. Not all of us smell like sandalwood.
my preferred cologne has main notes of lavendar and black pepper.
Who says some of us don’t?
I smell like Product The Supermarket Will Drop In Two Weeks.
I’m a man and don’t like most scents of the deodorants/antiperspirants “for men”, so I just use one “for women”. I smell fruity instead of some agressive chemical fragrance.
You may like Bath and Body Works Immortal. The Black Plum gives it a very distinct sweetness so it’s not your typical masculine scent. Only available in autumn though.
Its annoying that every mans product is “whiskey barrel” or “bourbon wood” or whatever, yet smells NOTHING like whiskey. Its just a word used to describe generic “guy scents” so they dont have to call it ‘bergamot lavender neroli allspice’.
That’s a feature not a bug. The goal is to smell woodsy like the barrel, not like an alcoholic.
It doesnt even smell like the barrell…i have on my shelf right right now several fragrances with “whiskey” in the name. Granted, I like all of them, they are good smells, but they smell nothing like aged oak, scorched aged oak, or other whiskey-adjacent things.
Femininity is nouns (due to objectification), masculinity is verbs (due to the valorisation of action)
Verbing weirds languages, but it’s apparently very masculining \s
That’s a really good way to summarise the problem actually.
That’s not entirely true. We can also get smells named after types of wood, metal, or alcohol.
Copper Bourbon cedar is my favorite
Carbon Jungle
Yeah that’s where my head went at lol, we get “fancy wood” scent.
As a woman, woody scents are awesome. Honestly I find it really silly how we’ve managed to gender entire categories of scent like this. Like, hormonal sex absolutely does wildly change our scent, but not in a way that makes flowery scents mix poorly with man stink or woody scents with woman stink. Hell, I personally love the mix of a musky woody scent and woman stink. And a man oughta be able to feel confident smelling like a bouquet if he wants.
Believe me, as a gay man, I am confident with the bouquet smell.
True or not… cant we get some outrage at the (gestures broadly) injustice?
I’d be more outraged if I used the stuff. I use scentless or when it comes to soaps I don’t buy the men’s scents. I’ll smell like vanilla after my shower if I want to!
I was at the grocery store with my brother in law and saw some guys girlfriend giving him shit over the men’s scents for body wash.
“Men’s stuff all smells like wood. Why?!”
Without skipping a beat, I ran over, picked up a bottle and said “whoa, I want to smell like wood”
Girlfriend glared daggers at me, as apparently I had just diffused the debate of the century, while her boyfriend was giving me thumbs up and smiling.
For the rest of the day, my brother in law and I would respond to everything with “smells like wood”
The ancient Egyptians used sandalwood to produce perfume oils. Smelling like wood isn’t ever going out of style.
wood smells good tho
My favorite concept is Unscented.
That reminds me of how the original Febreeze was an odor remover that didn’t smell like anything. It wasn’t very popular, so they started adding scents to them.
I’ve found a few locally made perfume of unscented. It’s kind of amazing to me. It smells like “nothing” and “existing” as a scent concept.
Then there’s a French fragrance of smelling like after sex. Reportedly it smells like, well, after sex. Sweaty, carnal.
How tf would we know if something smells like after sex. That sounds like it smells awful, unless you are well, horny.
Is there even an “after sex” smell that isn’t just regular sweaty smell?
Sweat plus the scent of sexual fluids.
Options are tree, cold tree, beach tree, and mystery menthol.
Cool sport rush smells like mint. The bottle is black and the sticker has a wave of some sorts printed on it(the added surfer is optional). The gel is blue if its a fancier brand.
You buy it because you are doing sports but manly and sweat really manly. Only a cool sport rush can help against that. Its pretty obvious idk
edit: the bottle can be dark blue with silver applications on the sticker too! ngl this shit is more complex than i thought!
Make sure that your micro plastic shower puff is blue, black, or silver.
Wouldn’t want your rubber ducky collection think you were gay.
I’ve seen shaving cream in “sports edition” before. Can you explain that? Does it shave faster?
It’s for racing cyclists. There’s nothing more aero than legs and face shaved with sports shaving cream.
Uuuh,
probably because it isnt really that manly to shave anything but your face. But if its done for sports its even manlier.
dont @ me. I dont make the rules.
Are you saying multiple brands use Cool Sport Rush?
One more reason to become girl 😉
