Why must it be this way? (but also I'd like shark please)

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Secret: just buy women's deodorant for the odors, nobody is stopping you

And have my dick fall off? No thanks

Can confirm, I do this for shampoo, conditioner and body wash too.

I get to smell like fruit and shit instead of “pleasant chemicals”

I get to smell like fruit and shit instead of “pleasant chemicals”

Now I really want to make Piperonal since it apparently smells really good. I just lack money, equipment and skill.

Also I don't know how legal that would be since it could be used as a MDMA precursor and even if it's legal I don't really want to get the house of my parents raided.

I'm a generally masculine-presenting cis guy and I've never liked cologney smells. My favorite deodorant all my adult life has been one from the women's section that has a picture of cucumbers on it. The scent is subtle, not overwhelmingly chemical or perfumey, it keeps the B.O. at bay, and nobody really notices it but me.

I'm allergic to the scents in women's deodorant. I get hives. I use a pleasant (imo) smelling old spice and it is great. Especially because I sweat a LOT.

Are you sure it's the scents and it's deodorant, and not antiperspirant? I have trouble with antiperspirant but deodorant is fine.

I'm a man and I'd much rather smell like vanilla and passionfruit. I don't need more help to smell like fuel.

Exactly. Just go out on the ramp and check the fuel sumps and oil. There, now you'll smell like 100LL and plane engine all day.

Old Spice F-35 is my favorite scent.

Ladies love the smell of jet exhaust in the morning.

I hate those manly male scents for true men™ so much. I've now switched to odorless deodorant which is so much more expensive but it's worth it. And when I want to smell nice, I use a perfume.

I stopped using women's antiperspirants because the scents would make my armpits break out in hives and it wouldn't stop my ungodly sweat. I use some kind of old spice that's a gel stick. Can't remember the exact scent lol. It works great, especially for underboob sweat. The smell isn't bad either. 10/10 would recommend for women who are super sweaty like me

I like Fruity smells too! I have one now that smells kinda like a SweetTart candy but it's called Wolfthorne and is aggressively masculine in the packaging and such lol

Lol I've tried that one, was not expecting the fragrance it has

Unsented roll on, because the smells they add to make it smells good actually make you stink more towards the end of the day. The white powder ones ruin shirts and Clough pores.

Lol, rose-scented shea butter, starch and baking soda deodorant all the way baby. You apply it once a day, twice at most, it moisturizes and nourishes your skin, lasts all day, there's no plastic and you get to laugh in the face of fragile masculinity.

I don't mind Oldspice's BEARGUN BEER THRASHER. Reminds me of my childhood abuse.

Look at that guy! He uses the F-16 deodorant, not the SR-71 one.

Incorrect

Guys get deodorant in such high quantities at Christmas it lasts till next Christmas

If that's your experience, my friend, then your family members are trying to tell you something.

It'd not just my experience it's a Scottish tradition at this point

I just bought a bathbomb called black rose frome Lush. My girlfriend approved but she wasn't the one using it.

A bathtub, chocolate, and wine. Guys listen, ladies have it all figured out. Treat yourself.

I wonder how much of my preference was advertising and upbringing, but as a man I do prefer to use the male scents almost every time.

I don't buy deodorant for it's smell, I buy it so I don't smell like a locker room by noon....

I require all my deodorant to be breeze scented. Either mountain or ocean. There are no acceptable alternatives.

Au naturel.

Wash regularly. Wear clean clothes.

I want to smell like me. Not wood, coal, fuel, fruit, smoke, pine, or flowers.

Just watch out for heavy garlic & onion days 😆

I use those hypoallergenic deodorizer crystal sticks, cost a couple of bucks last forever, no smells no scents.

There are a few Old Spice variants that I think are a bit fruit-forward and fresh and designed for men.

I've never liked the super cologney scents - I like smelling sweet, so Fiji is a good one for me. Smells tropical and a bit fruity.

I also liked Wolfthorne, which is super fruit forward. I actually got a pack of that because some super insecure dude was complaining about it in the reviews.

Outside of that, Stone from Henry's is another fave of mine. Not fruit, but it's light and I think anyone could wear it. Fig as well, but that's more of a winter deodorant because I find myself needing to reapply, but it smells awesome.

Coffee & Whiskey is the goat

Somewhat ironically, a "unisex" deodorant of mine with almond perfume is the best one I have at keeping my body odor away. It's local stuff that beats Nivea's 48h sports men whatever every day (and smells much nicer, too)

I like oats and alps. Duke cannon thick is nice too, and has names like “naval supremacy”, which is cheesy, but I don’t get too hung up on it.

Old spice is off the rails though.

Smells like jet fuel? Splendid!

Cucumber scent is the shit. I'd take that over Mountain Spring any day

so the other day I saw this liquid hand soap on sale and I got one of each color. I didn't really read the scent since I'm not picky for hand soap, but after using it I got genuinely pissed it was cucumber. I'm sorry, but that's horrible. After washing my hands it felt I spent the last hour cutting cucumbers. Who smelled cucumbers and had the idea of making a soap out of it?

So you bought something without reading the label, then got mad about it, and it's their fault for making a scent you don't like? 🤣

oh absolutely, it's their fault for making something that should not exist in the first place.

I once tried tar and sulfur soaps. Both of them were really weird in the beginning (who in their right mind smells some rotten eggs and thinks "we could make a soap out of this"?), but I got used to them after a few days and began to really like them. I should be on the lookout for them, so I can buy them again someday.

I'll have one that smells like a mix of diesel, burnt gunpowder (and the prettiest flowers out there) please.

I use benzoyl peroxide facewash in my pits when I shower. I never smell like BO or anything else.

Those brightly colored tubes of marketing they sell in the deodorant aisle probably don't do what you think they do. This is because the mega conglomerates that sell this shit don't care if their product works or not. What they sell you on is shame and poor body image.

Deodorant smells gross. People smell fine. Fkn state of the world, convincing humans that smelling like a human is bad.

Ever left the house? You'll change your opinion right quick when you're behind a random guy in the grocery store and you get a strong whiff of sour milk that has been out in the sun for a week.

Thank god for deodorant (and regular showers).

Maybe the guy you're responding to lives somewhere in East Asia? A lot of people there have a gene which makes them have no body odor. I can confirm from personal experience - my friend from Taiwan doesn't even own deodorant and she never smells, even after hiking all day in hot weather.

That's an interesting thought!

Like Asian earwax is super dry and flaky, while European earwax looks like yellow green toxic goop.

So you have different genes and on top of that different diets (I had Indian neighbors once, you could smell the curry in the entire hallway of the building 24/7. But they obviously use a ton of spices when cooking).

As a central European Caucasian guy I personally start to smell really bad without deodorant just after a day or so. No matter how often I shower or what I eat. I also tried to switch to deodorant without aluminum and that didn't work out at all :-/

Women choosing a deodorant

I don’t get it

Throw off the shackles of Big Deodorant. Girls don't need it since our body odor is generally much lower, and it could potentially be unhealthy for us.

Also, girl smell 🤤

Public transportation users and gym goers please ignore this person's comment. No one wants your stank.

I go to the gym 4x/week. I just... Shower every day. 🤨

If you shave your armpits, you should look into aluminum accumulation in your breasts.