Thread: Are there "age appropriate" scents?

True. Old Spice was the only thing I used for about 30 years. Still like it.

Originally Posted by carlmaloschneider

No, it's up to you. However, a lot of people comment on the 'old' scents like Old Spice and Pinaud Clubman to say they smell like 'an old man scent', basically because they remember their father or grandfather using it. So, I guess if you want to smell your age, get some Old Spice or Clubman

Hi, and welcome to SRP. As for scents if you, and your wife like it use it.

I think that the older you are the more options are available to you. Sometimes people will say that a scent is "old" or consider a scent for older men. Hence it may not have any appeal for a young guy. I think the concept of age appropriate is something younger men might be concerned with but not older men.

At my age any scent I want to wear is age appropriate, put my time in and earned that right. It may be of concern to younger men who have not yet learned you can't stay young forever.

Bob

I'm pretty sure the majority of fragrances we discuss on the forums would be considered "old man scents" by those of a certain age LOL

On the flip side of the coin, something along the lines of Axe would most certainly be considered a "young man scent" and wouldn't be age appropriate for anyone over the age of 20....

20 is pushing it eh?

Originally Posted by WadePatton

20 is pushing it eh?

LOL, ya perhaps 20 is a little old for Axe

I was actually gifted an Axe set for Christmas, though it was probably regifted in reality. Came with body wash, shampoo, deodorant and body spray. It was free and so I thought what the hell and have tried all the products. I only tried the body spray once before my wife banned it from the house - potent stuff, that Axe. She said I smelled like a 16 year old guy and to stick with my usual scents. At least I can't fault my wife for her good taste

Two polar examples.

Ever notice when you walk into the house of really olde people, there is a distinct and unpleasant funk? Okay.

Ever notice how when you walk into a 17 year old boys room, it smells like a nest of weasels? yep.

As our body goes through chemical changes, such as the myriad of changes collectively known as "decay", our natural scent changes. The trick is to find scents that compliment whatever our natural body chemistry smells like.

I think, for example, that vertiver stinks fine when combined with that weasely odor of teenagers, but (in the words of one SRP contributor) smells like someone pissed on a campfire when applied to old folk.

You get the drift. My recommendation: drag your daughter to mens section of the perfume aisle, get squirted until she finds a scent she likes, buy shave product in that same general family. Why daughter or other youngish female relative? Our noses grow distinctively less sensitive overall, and distinctively more 'colorblind' as we age.

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Originally Posted by jgjgjg

Two polar examples.

Ever notice when you walk into the house of really olde people, there is a distinct and unpleasant funk? Okay.

Ever notice how when you walk into a 17 year old boys room, it smells like a nest of weasels? yep.

As our body goes through chemical changes, such as the myriad of changes collectively known as "decay", our natural scent changes. The trick is to find scents that compliment whatever our natural body chemistry smells like.

I think, for example, that vertiver stinks fine when combined with that weasely odor of teenagers, but (in the words of one SRP contributor) smells like someone pissed on a campfire when applied to old folk.

You get the drift. My recommendation: drag your daughter to mens section of the perfume aisle, get squirted until she finds a scent she likes, buy shave product in that same general family. Why daughter or other youngish female relative? Our noses grow distinctively less sensitive overall, and distinctively more 'colorblind' as we age.

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