The Scent Of A Man

" I put a tuna sandwich under each arm. I do not want to smell like any other man!"

Steve Martin

We have been having a discussion in another thread about smells and sex. Pheromones=good, stink=bad.

The consensus so far from our ladies is pheromones, shmeromones! If I guy’s body stinks he can keep it off of me!

I was wondering what smells the ladies DO enjoy. At the fast seduction web site they have a list of winning colognes as attested to by pick up artists:

Gucci Nobile
Armani (not Acqua di Gio)
Fahrenheit by Christian Dior
Cool Water
CK1 by Calvin Klein
Hugo by Hugo Boss
Safari for Men by Ralph Lauren
Drakkar
Trussardi (light)
Dolce & Gabbana
Polo Sport by Ralph Lauren
Eternity for Men by Calvin Klein
Trussardi (dark)

AWWW, shucks! No English Leather? :)

They also said if you happened to wear the gal’s father’s cologne it’s a plus. And wearing recognizable brands is a conversation starter. Most guys don’t wear cologne, so it sets you apart. FS Home - Fast Seduction

But what says our ladies here, and what says the ladies of the guys here?

Inquiring seducers want to know! :homer2:

I’ll weigh in on this even though I’m not one of the ladies.

stinky sweat may contain male phermones, but the attraction power of the phermones is likely overpowered by the offense of the stink. Sweat itself is not stinky however if left on the body for too long the moisture and sloughed skin cells combine to make a culture media for the bacteria that give off the stench. The use of a cologne does not mask or in any way interfere with the attractive power of phermones.

I think that overpowering “good” smells can be as offensive as stinky pits.

Most women like:

Clean natural scent (a freshly washed body).

Thier father’s aftershave is usually special to them (Old Spice?).

So don’t feel that you need to go get funky to attract the babes, the phermones are there whether you are wearing cologne or not. I would tend not to pick an overpowering scent however.

Well put, luvdadus. The dimension of how much cologne is probably as, or more important than what kind. Not enough and you are not “reaching out” enough. Too much, and you appear to be overcompensating. How close do they have to be before they smell it?

And do you put cologne “down below”? Do you mix your colognes? Layer, (scented soap, talc, shampoo, after shave, colognes)? Different scents for different occasions?

Is this thread the result of a guy with too much free time? (Educator, summers off). :surf:

I like the following scents for a man.

(Just my nose’s opinion here)

Aramis
Polo Sport
Stetson

How close do I have to be, hmmm, within personal space. If I can smell it from 3 feet, its too much. Same way for perfumes, I don’t want to smell myself, but I want others to, if they are close enough.

I like Cool Water. Intuition. Fahrenheit. Cologne (actual name of the scent).

Then some soaps and deodorants smell nice on men.

I don’t go around smelling sweaty men, but I do know that sometimes when my hubby wears a shirt, I like to wear it behind him so I can smell him.

This reminds me of a story from years ago. My workout partner and I used to go to the beach during summer and Spring Break back in the late 70’s and early 80’s (guess where) to meet the college and tourist chicks. He always insisted on dousing himself with a coat of coconut scented tanning oil. Every time we’d go to the beach it was, “rub some on my back man, I can’t reach it back there.” Nowadays this wouldn’t bother me at all, but back then in my cocky teen days, I was loath to rub oil on another guy, much less on the beach in front of all the chickies.

One day I got so fed up with doing it that after I greased down his back, I yanked out the back of his bathing suit and squirted in about half the bottle of oil. So not only did he smell coconutty fresh for the chicks all day, but he also sported a huge wet spot in his suit.

As a strange aside, this same guy had an interesting technique. He’d go out at night dressed in jeans and a denim shirt, and before leaving the house he’d squirt a little Liquid Smoke on his hands and rub it though his hair. Go figure that one out. But it worked beautifully.

Good thread Girth. I think that it does set a man apart if he smells really good. I am very attracted to a man that wears an alluring cologne. It makes me want to be near them & is very sexy to me. Also the smell of soap on a clean has a similar effect. But the cologne does it for me. I don’t think it needs to be over powering but sort of a wafting effect is nice.

Gucci Nobile

Armani

Fahrenheit

Cool Water

Stetson

Those are my favorites. My dad did wear Stetson but I always bought it for him. When I was growing up he always wore Old Spice. My dad always smelt good & maybe thats where my love of a good smelling man stems from. In my opinion theres just nothing like it. :thumbs:

Maybe Im a little extreme (at least thats what everybody tells me) but when Im getting ready for a date (especially if I know that Im going to have sex that night)… after I get out the shower and towel myself dry. I even put Cologne on my pubic hairs. I shave my arm pits and the hairs from the crack of my ass (I use Neat hair remover, hairs harbor odors,yuck!)

I put a dab of cologne on my butt hole and penis shaft, a dab on my feet, also behind my ears and neck and last but not least on my face. Thats just my cologne procedures, don’t even get me started on my long procedure for my oral hygiene, nose hairs, hands ,feet, ears, facial and I even check for lint in my belly button. :) I am pretty fanatical about that stuff but thats just me. Ive always been that way ever since I really became aware of the opposite sex.

super…I am laughing with you, not at you. :D

supersizeit you got it going on!!! :thumbs:

To summarize so far:

Not too much cologne, 3 foot rule, (thanks Sunshine!).

Be clean, no cover-ups!

Winners so far:

Fahrenheit 2
Stetson 2
Cool Water 2
Old Spice 2
Aramis 1
Polo Sport 1
Intuition 1
Cologne 1
Gucci Nobile 1
Armani 1
Liquid Smoke 1 (have to try this!)

Supersizeit:

I’m with you, bro. Only my hair trimming is in self-defence. At 54 the hair on and in my ears, in my nostrils, and in my eyebrows is trying to take over small countries! Maybe trying make up for the hairline getting weak. Anyway, I am quite fastidious myself, anticipation is fun!

Ok, we have decided on what smells good. Now here is my list of least favorite odors for my man.

Eua de transmission fluid

Eau de Quaker State 10-30 or 10-40

Old Kerosene/Gasoline

Old Brake Klean

Locker Room #5

Dirty Sock #5

(This is meant in fun, but oh how I hate those smells)

;) ;) ;)

Women are super tasters as I described in another thread on swallowing. This might also mean scent and taste are linked more than we want to believe. That is why some women hate over powering scents due to their heightened ability to sense it.

Sunny you hit the nails right on the heads. Your list of least favorite smells just about sums up my least favorites also. Good job on that list. :thumbs:

Girth I think your list is tops on smelling good pointers for men. All those colognes are extremely sexy smells that I would be allured by intensely. Good job. :thumbs:

The least favorite smells for myself, I don’t have a man except me so I’ll have to say how I gross out myself. I will ask my wife later when I smell bad and why.

Liver-farts, (I eat lots of chicken livers, a bodybuilding thing)

Nasty-leather-sandal foot, some sandals really reek when you put sweat on them

After-job-interview-sweat

Post-garlic-orgy, wife says I sweat garlic, I avoid it most of the time

onion-peeling-hand-linger, lasts for days sometimes, through repeated washings

kiddy-diarrhea, working at an Elementary school you catch stuff like this

out-of toothpaste, my most unfavorite, got to get out the baking soda