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A few months ago, we were at a supermarket with my mom, buying some stuff.

My mom needed an antiperspirant. When she was about to grab a black one, I heard a guy “helpfully” telling her that she was grabbing one “For Men™”, that the ones “For Women™” were the pink ones.

I immediately looked at the guy like “lol what, who asked”.

(My mom uses “men’s” antiperspirants because she doesn’t care about that, and they are usually cheaper than “women’s”)

    • Obi@sopuli.xyzEnglish
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      2 months ago

      Yeah that’s where my head went at lol, we get “fancy wood” scent.

      • captainlezbian@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        2 months ago

        As a woman, woody scents are awesome. Honestly I find it really silly how we’ve managed to gender entire categories of scent like this. Like, hormonal sex absolutely does wildly change our scent, but not in a way that makes flowery scents mix poorly with man stink or woody scents with woman stink. Hell, I personally love the mix of a musky woody scent and woman stink. And a man oughta be able to feel confident smelling like a bouquet if he wants.

        • quinacridone@mander.xyzEnglish
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          2 months ago

          I hate the fact that most (but not all fragrances) are shoehorned into male/female categories Its a smell! It doesn’t have genitalia, if you love it wear it And as a fragrance nerd I have a lot of supposedly ‘masculine’ scents full of woods, spices, booze etc A (male) truck driver mentioned that he loved wearing Chanel no5 on one of the fragrance sites which I think is fantastic! A man comfortable with himself and wearing what he loves

      • you_are_dust@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        2 months ago

        I’d be more outraged if I used the stuff. I use scentless or when it comes to soaps I don’t buy the men’s scents. I’ll smell like vanilla after my shower if I want to!

    • jballs@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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      2 months ago

      That reminds me of how the original Febreeze was an odor remover that didn’t smell like anything. It wasn’t very popular, so they started adding scents to them.

    • JayGray91🐉🍕@piefed.socialEnglish
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      2 months ago

      I’ve found a few locally made perfume of unscented. It’s kind of amazing to me. It smells like “nothing” and “existing” as a scent concept.

      Then there’s a French fragrance of smelling like after sex. Reportedly it smells like, well, after sex. Sweaty, carnal.

      • WorldsDumbestMan@lemmy.todayEnglish
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        2 months ago

        How tf would we know if something smells like after sex. That sounds like it smells awful, unless you are well, horny.

        Is there even an “after sex” smell that isn’t just regular sweaty smell?

  • Daviino@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    2 months ago

    Guys, you know you can buy shower gel in fruity / sweet versions and still be super manly, right? I am a straight dude and ALWAYS use nice smelling bath stuff, because ‘ninja carbon fighter jet black 2000 jet fuel’ just isn’t for me.

    • white_nrdy@programming.devEnglish
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      2 months ago

      As a large bearded man who uses Coconut and Vanilla body wash and deodorant. Along with lemon/sage + tea tree oil shampoo and conditioner, I’m with you

  • muusemuuse@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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    2 months ago

    I was at the grocery store with my brother in law and saw some guys girlfriend giving him shit over the men’s scents for body wash.

    “Men’s stuff all smells like wood. Why?!”

    Without skipping a beat, I ran over, picked up a bottle and said “whoa, I want to smell like wood”

    Girlfriend glared daggers at me, as apparently I had just diffused the debate of the century, while her boyfriend was giving me thumbs up and smiling.

    For the rest of the day, my brother in law and I would respond to everything with “smells like wood”

    • tetris11@feddit.ukEnglish
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      2 months ago

      I use that nivea roll on one for women. It’s pear scented and amazing.

      The male equivalent one is what I imagine hedgehogs smell like

  • Hond@piefed.socialEnglish
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    2 months ago

    Cool sport rush smells like mint. The bottle is black and the sticker has a wave of some sorts printed on it(the added surfer is optional). The gel is blue if its a fancier brand.

    You buy it because you are doing sports but manly and sweat really manly. Only a cool sport rush can help against that. Its pretty obvious idk

    edit: the bottle can be dark blue with silver applications on the sticker too! ngl this shit is more complex than i thought!

  • DaCrazyJamez@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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    2 months ago

    Its annoying that every mans product is “whiskey barrel” or “bourbon wood” or whatever, yet smells NOTHING like whiskey. Its just a word used to describe generic “guy scents” so they dont have to call it ‘bergamot lavender neroli allspice’.

      • DaCrazyJamez@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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        2 months ago

        It doesnt even smell like the barrell…i have on my shelf right right now several fragrances with “whiskey” in the name. Granted, I like all of them, they are good smells, but they smell nothing like aged oak, scorched aged oak, or other whiskey-adjacent things.

  • tino@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    2 months ago

    I’m a man and my deodorants are either lemon or sage.

    Just stop buying shit.