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Best fragrance for a manly man?

Can't beat Chiseled Face!

Get a sample from Amazon, one scent is "gasoline and motor oil" lol.
This is my favorite, all the notes come through if you're looking for them, but hard to single one out initially. To boot it sticks around, you'll smell it in the next mornings shower.
Most importantly, my wife likes it.
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I am a 41 year old engineer who has worked at a construction site, offshore rigs and mining pits.

Nothing like the smell for burnt steel, dirt, sweat, grease and Chanel Allure to turn a cave man into a neanderthal.
 
I'm 44 years old. I'm a family man. I'm a Lawyer but I'm mostly an outdoor type...hunting, fishing, farming, wood chopping kind of a guy. I'm very traditional.
I want a fragrance that is endearing, not sexy. Manly, not teenager. I may even prefer old man smell at the risk of ever smelling like a teenager or pimp.
I love my Speick Aftershave but it doesn't last. Same with Pinaud Clubman. I'm thinking of getting the EDT in Speick. I just finished my Victorinox cologne but it was too fleeting. What do you recommend? Also, where is the best place to 1) Get good deals - such as when I bought a new tester of my Victorinox off Ebay. Not all scents are sold that way. 2) Where is a good place to buy sample sizes? If you can't tell, I'm into spending like $50 or less per bottle if possible.
Drakkar
 

FarmerTan

"Self appointed king of Arkoland"
I'm as manly as they get. I'm a retired Cosmetologist/RN......

I will tell you this: Grey Flannel AFTERSHAVE, which I received in a PIF from @TheVez2 about two hundred years ago is really good. The cologne? Man, that stuff is ten times stronger, and I think I killed some people in church with it. I swear, I ONLY used one squirt, and people coffed up lungs in the aisles! True story doggone!

Then my lovely bride, the War Department, hid a BUNCH of my scents out in the barn. I just found 'em a month ago or so. I had forgotten about the Grey Flannel AFTERSHAVE! I tried some yesterday before we had a cookout/Bible study with a bunch of folks from church. NO ONE COFFED UP A LUNG!

But ya wanna know what? I could still barely smell it hours later when we got home.

Interesting factoid: Grey Flannel pairs INCREDIBLY well with the original smell of Tabac puck soap, back when they were still killing imaginary unicorns to get the fat for the tallow. Again: true story doggone!
 
So without getting into what makes a manly man, I'll say this. If your work has you outdoors, working with machinery or animals or lumber (or all three), you already have a rather nice boquet of earthy, leathery, animalistic, gun oil scents. When I was doing that kind of work I gravitated towards florals and citruses. Trust me, the other notes still linger in the background, and women definitely notice.

Now that I'm in an office, I find myself gravitating towards more earthy, woodsy scents because I lack those in my life. I still like florals and citruses, but I usually try to combine them with something else that's deeper.

My daughters love the smell of ouds on me; my wife does too but likes bergamots and lavender and lilacs more.

If I were making my own it would have bergamot and lavender top notes with a base of vetiver, oud, and musk.
 
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