Men's Cologne: Classic or Dud?

Cologne on a man at any time is as dud as dud can get.

Funny, though -- I like scented candles. I can handle them AS LONG AS they're the fancy ones made from beeswax and not the petroleum-based crap Glade makes. The stuff you get from card stores usually suck, too, and smell absolutely vile at that.

I usually have no problem with flowers, either, now that I think on it.

(But, I know that most people have a serious dislike for cologne, so I wouldn't exactly recommend wearing it as a pick-up kind of thing.)

No they don't. Bloody hippies.

Q: is cologne just a synonym for perfume/after shave

classic when used appropriately

GUYS WHO WEAR COLOGNE ARE FUCKING DOUCHEBAGS

not you though deej

although guys who go to köln, not douchebags

w all due respect that thread title is bs

why does classy babes never want guys to wear cologne?

I love it wearing it, but never do b/c I'm self-conscious, or too conscious about how people feel about it. (Although I suspect they're not always being honest with themselves on this issue.)

they shouldnt notice unless they are all up on you

then you have a situation where action has been initiated without help from cologne, but could be halted due to the cologne. not good stratgy.

I don't like perfume on women either unless it's always the same one and I get used to it.

Obviously, smelling good is both sexy and classic.

The next obvious question is: does men's cologne smell good? In my experience, no. Men's cologne is almost always made with cheap scents that smell of the chemist's shop. Men would be better off using rose water or vanilla extract than most colognes.

in my experience, you dont know what you are talking about

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deej, it's enough to say you like how the cologne you use smells. I happen to know my own experience. I expect I know it better than you do.

i think he's responding to :

Men's cologne is almost always made with cheap scents that smell of the chemist's shop.

aimless

I suppose it's in how you measure it.

If there are 10,000 varieties of men's cologne and 9,950 of them are expensive scents, hand made from the juice of alpine meadow grasses and tropical frog sweat, then perhaps you could say that most men's colognes are neither cheap nor chemically.

However, if the remaining 50 varieties are made in bulk from stuff that comes in 50 gallon drums and these account for 90% of the fluid volume sold, then one could reasonable say that most men's cologne is cheap, chemical crap.

that doesnt make any sense

No, you couldn't make any sense of it.

no, you're just embracing fallacy

A*men and B*men are the business.

Hopefully they don't do a third one.

It is awesome when guys put on cologne for me (er, one in particular). It says, "I am doing this considerate grooming thing."

i smell like cologne

I sprayed cologne on myself today for the first time in probably two years and put on too much and now MY DAY IS RUINED.

http://www.moltonbrown.co.uk/gifts/fragrance/re-charge-black-pepper-eau-de-toilette.html

^^^^ totally bad-ass (and worth buying duty-free)

taking a shower with that Black Pepper molton brown liquid soap is a sensory experience that all men should experience...preferably in a walk-in marble joint

I have to say, having experienced the cologne I'm now mad I didn't buy the soap.

The idea of that cologne is one of those things that sound s sexy & exciting I am truly sad I don't have a senseof smell.

INGREDIENTS:

* italian coriander
* egyptian cumin
* italian bergamot
* nigerian ginger
* slovenian oakmoss
* indonesian patchouli

That's totally groovy that all those countries have come together in sexy peace but I don't see any actual black pepper. !!!

I mean I'd be sad if I bought Absolut Peppar and it turned out to be ginger vodka even tho I love ginger vodka.

I was just behind a guy at 7-Eleven who bathed in something today and I couldn't fucking breathe. IF you're going to wear it, remember that a little goes a long way ffs.

A few remarks on cologne and its application. I wonder if The Kids care for cologne, or if the women who date the young care for the admixture of sweat and Dior.

There is a very bro-ish strain of fragrance culture that is all about perfecting the art of getting women to smell you from 15 feet away and lives on Reddit / YouTube. It seems to mostly be 18-30 in age range but I never know how widespread it is. The abuse of Lynx / Axe doesn’t seem anywhere as prevalent as it did in my youth. I suspect, if nothing else, the difficulties in buying young people things they don’t already have means a vast amount of cologne gets sold to aunts and grandparents at Christmas still.

I miss cologne, but would have no idea where to start.

I don't smell it out in the wild much. There's a maintenance man in my building who wears something I used to wear when I was young - maybe Perry Ellis 360 or Emporio Armani. A few weeks ago, a real poncy beardo (I don't want to cast aspersions but the impression that I got was 'alt-right') breezed past me wafting something complicated.

If in doubt, go for Guerlain’s Habit Rouge imo - classic and relatively inexpensive.

Need to try it.

I second that, it's a really nice scent, the antithesis of the in-your-face bro style. Works as a unisex scent too.

Just bought the Guerlain Habit Rouge through curiosity after reading about it in an old blog article about the 1960s London clothes designer Mr Fish.

One of the comments from a seemingly well-informed reader says:

The men's fragrance that encapsulates that period was Habit Rouge by Guerlain. Apparently, Marianne Faithfull still wears nothing else...

(Other comments seem to be by former ilx-er Barima (the name seems familiar) ? )

It is a very interesting fragrance: quite exotic and transporting. I do like it a lot - pleased to say.

Keith Richards wears it too

I found a really old (but nearly full) bottle of English Leather in a junk shop awhile back, looks like it might be from the 70's (with oversized wooden cap). It's just wayyyy too strong, even a little bit lingers for hours. I might try to dilute it with some alcohol, but the scent is so nostalgic.