I remember this scene from Fight Club (LOVE that movie) where Pitt and Norton get on a bus. Norton points at a crotch picture ad and mockingly asks 'Is that what a man's supposed to look like?', and chuckles.

Cologne is much like that. We get served options that aren't bad but really don't say who we are so much as what designers think we are. That said, I decided to try my hand at making my own; One that smelled the way I wanted to smell. With very little effort or expense I made one and I tell you, I could take a bath in the stuff. It smells like a fresh orange at a camp fire.

I give instructions and sources for supplies in an article in the 'aftershave' forum if you care to give it a try.

"Self-improvement is masturbation. Now self-destruction..."
-Tyler Durden