To use Axe or not to use Axe?

[dwnwrdishvnwrd]

I say go with the Axe, just as long as your boss doesn't have any problems with the distractions from all the hot chicks you will be attracting.

I just laughed out loud with at that.

I'm going to have to join the chorus and say nix the Axe. I'm a big fan of wearing whatever floats your boat but as person who genuinely cares for your well-being I'd say kick the can to the curb. You're going to smell a little funky working outside. It's the nature of working up a sweat. If you work around other people who are just as fragrant as you are then I wouldn't worry about it.

I hate that some scents like Old Spice, Brut, Cool Water, etc. have a bad rap because every boy between the ages of 11 and 18 bathes in the stuff. I don't mind that Axe has the same rap. I have worked with a few dudes that would spray that stuff on and at the first opportunity I'd throw something else their way with a "Hey, try this instead of that Body Lysol you're using."

Of course they used the Axe after shaving with their Fusion and day-glo green Edge Gel--there's just no saving some people.

 

[sanuginz]

I'm in the minority but I like to use axe as a deodorant not a fragrance. The dark temptation smells chocolaty just like T.M. A*Men. And the Phoenix is more sporty for daytime. What does the commercial say "Double Pits to Chesty"

 

[HoratioCaine]

I'm in the minority but I like to use axe as a deodorant not a fragrance. The dark temptation smells chocolaty just like T.M. A*Men. And the Phoenix is more sporty for daytime. What does the commercial say "Double Pits to Chesty"

An Axe connoisseur...now I really have seen everything.

 

[mrbeckett]

If you like the AXE personally, there's no need to question it. I for one feel like the scents of Axe products are only suited to guys under 25 who like to follow the crowd. I've never really been one for those "I'm trying to get laid" scents.

 

[sanuginz]

An Axe connoisseur...now I really have seen everything.

I pity thyself... LOL

 

[HoratioCaine]

I pity thyself... LOL

No need to pity me unless I'm standing next to you in an elevator.

 

[sanuginz]

If you like the AXE personally, there's no need to question it. I for one feel like the scents of Axe products are only suited to guys under 25 who like to follow the crowd. I've never really been one for those "I'm trying to get laid" scents.

Admittedly the Axe marketing is one of the worst. Marketing aside, some scents, especially Dark Temptation is good. I spray it under the clothing so nobody outside my wife really smells it anyway.

The only other Axe product I like is the hair gel. It really works better than expensive stuff.

 

[bearbear]

Axe the Axe. I'd rather smell like I've worked outdoors all day than to smell like anything by axe. I find it just so overpowering and synthetic smelling. It's just horrible, vile stuff even when used in moderation.
/rant

The czar is wise. when i smell axe, i'm reminded of a detail shop, topnotes of aluminum, and industrial citrus, with a middle note of ammonia, drying down into a base of laquer thinner, acetone and mineral spirits. I'd opt for a deodorant stick or something neutral smelling that does more in the oder fighting department. I can't remeber what it was called, but there was one spray that smelled kind of like baby powder, and it faded quick, but helped quench the stench.

You've been a member of B&B for over three years and have almost 1,000 posts, so I don't understand the question. Is everything ok?

I to am very concerned.

 

[adonnellyr]

Axe makes me throw up in my mouth a little.

 

[Samouraï]

Axe is one of the worst grooming products I have ever encountered. I can remember kids spraying themselves after weights class in high school. Once the axe was broken out by the select pubescent unpersons (usually underclassmen), the locker room was compromised (all life-forms left inside were asphyxiated!). I would strongly urge you to never use axe. It is worse than bug spray...makes me long for the bug spray smell, actually.

 

[HoratioCaine]

Once the axe was broken out by the select pubescent unpersons (usually underclassmen), the locker room was compromised (all life-forms left inside were asphyxiated!).

Was it the Dark Temptation, or the Phoenix?

 

[Obsessed]

Axe makes me throw up in my mouth a little.

 

[Day Tripper]

I hate the smell of most Axe products. They smell like sin, and not the good ones. I do use one of the body sprays with green lettering after I the gym. There was another that smelt like a cologne, it had green lettering too.

 

[HoratioCaine]

They smell like sin, and not the good ones.

Do they smell anything like crackwhore sex?

 

[northpaw]

They sell Axe over here, but I can't recall ever smelling any of them (that I'm aware of).

I do know a few women who are nuts about them - especially the chocolate-scented(?) one. Fairly sophisticated, attractive, adult women, at that. No joke.

 

[mretzloff]

Forget the Axe. You're a grown man and should not even be considering it. Axe is for children with no sense of style.

 

[copenhagen1221]

there's an old joke about using a pine scented air freshener after using the toilet: All it does it make the room smell like you took a sh*t in the forest. I think the joke also does a good job of illustrating the concept of trying to cover up body stink with fragrance - like haiti said, all you're going to do is smell like a combination of body stink and fragrance, and it won't be pretty. I don't think you'd be fooling anybody by spraying on axe or anything else. Besides, if you're working outside all day during the summer, who are you trying to impress by smelling better? Isn't everyone around you smelling just as bad? In my opinion, given your line of work, stinking is just an occupational hazard you may need to suck up, at least during business hours. You already shower two times a day. Personally, i'd let it go at that. The wet wipes might not be a bad idea, though.

+1

 

[Koss]

They sell Axe over here, but I can't recall ever smelling any of them (that I'm aware of).

I do know a few women who are nuts about them - especially the chocolate-scented(?) one. Fairly sophisticated, attractive, adult women, at that. No joke.

Next I am going to hear they are coming out with a Bacon Scented... wait!

I must leave now to patent my new idea... CYA

 

[dwnwrdishvnwrd]

Next I am going to hear they are coming out with a Bacon Scented... wait!

I must leave now to patent my new idea... CYA

Right when I saw this I thought "Demeter has to have a bacon scent." Nope, they overlooked that one. They have Turpentine, Swimming Pool, Lobster, Riding Crop, Funeral Home, Pruning Shears--no bacon.

 

[GarageBoy]

Wow, so much dislike for the Axe
Even Joel has a can on his counter (forgot which tutorial)