Thread: Aftershave & Colgnes

Just wondering

I feel fragrances are a very personal item that reflect your personality. I won't wear a scent that I don't like. I do own a couple that my wife really likes and I wear these when I know we'll be spending time together.

I don't think I own any colognes that she really dislikes.

i wear colognes. most of the time i get what my wife loves. some times i will get one she tolerates but that i really love

sam

If someone, especially the girl, said I smelled like I'd been drinking lysol I'm sure I'd have to reconsider my choice, but I choose for myself and luckily I'm picky enough that everybody else goes with what I do.

I work at a scent free office so the Thayer's Witchhazel and Aloe astringent goes on with an indistinct and practically imperceptible odour and doesn't have any smell at all after just a few minutes.

Outside of work, for cologne I substitute a Nigerian Green Musk essential oil that drives the women NUTS! It's not your ordinary aroma and I can't tell you how many times women standing near me will say, "what smells so good" and not believe me when I say it's me until I walk up to them and put my neck to their face. The light in their eyes at that moment is awesome. I can see them wondering if they should dump their boyfriends. Does wonders for my ego (like it needs it).

X

OK, I'll bite. Just what are the details on Nigerian Green Musk EO? I've never heard of it and can't imagine what it would smell like.


Wayne

Before I used a Straight I rarely used aftershaves just some witchhazel. Now that I use a straight I've been experimenting with different scents, some my wife likes and some she doesn't. Funny she never used to ask me about how I liked a scent before she bought for herself but now that I buy my own scents she seems to be asking me before she buys her own scents. Hmm

Originally Posted by bbqncigars

OK, I'll bite. Just what are the details on Nigerian Green Musk EO? I've never heard of it and can't imagine what it would smell like.
Wayne

It's made or perhaps only blended by a woman in a private little market shop. All of the dozens of scents she has are geared toward women, but she says this one is REAL popular with the few men who frrequent her shop. I had a friend (may he rest in peace) who would regularly travel 500km to get it. When he came back from Korea (Hi Hal) he made sure to stop in and get a few vails. They're just under an ounce each I'd say and it has a tiny roller applicator. When I was using it every day, one would last me about 6 months! Yes, it's green and like all essential oils it reacts to body chemistry and is a little different for each wearer.

Here's what just transpired at Heroes Headquarters:

X-Man
How would you describe the Nigerian Green Musk Smell?

The Validator
Oh my goodness ... (long pause) ... it is not an overpowering, musky heavy scent. Slightly floral scent.

X-Man
What else?

The Validator
I'm not sure. There's like a tinge of a soap, a clean smell, like a jasmine or something. It's making me drool. Ah, I love it. For a musk it's got a very clean scent to it. It just smells so delicious on you. Pitter-patter, pitter-patter. Why?

X-Man
People want to know.

The Validator
People? What people?

X-Man
The guys on the forum.

The Validator
Tell them it makes me drool. It's just got a delicious, sensual smell [edit] A manly smell.

Gotta go now. Duty calls.

X

Greetings Gentlemen,

I also want to bring up the subject of fragrance etiquette. Out of respect for others, Cologne should be applied in such a way that only those in close proximity can smell it. I would hate to have someone take a sniff and say Rik has entered the room.

Think we've all had that experience where someone bathed in some awful smelling stuff and then prances around the office - usually in a building where the windows don't open and the AC sadistically decided to not work.

Originally Posted by Rik

I also want to bring up the subject of fragrance etiquette. Out of respect for others, Cologne should be applied in such a way that only those in close proximity can smell it.

Right on. I was a waiter for a long time and sometimes the amount of perfume and cologne I would have to endure made me never want to use the stuff. Of course that has changed. The thing I like most about the scents I have discovered here is that they are seldom overpowering. I'm wearing some Trafalgar today. Lovely.

Ok I'll bite where can you get this Nigerian Green Musk EO ???

Also a scent free office?? While I have passed people at work who seemed to have bathed in cologne, scent free seems a tad draconian to me. Do they fire people who smell offensive?? How do they get around body odor, " Ok you stink, you're fired" Some people need scents