Disgustingly Offensive Scents
I love scents.
The human sense of "smell" actually is one of the most amazing senses. Just a brief whiff of a certain scent will immediately evoke very vivid memories. Just a brief whiff of a delicious meal will get your salivary glands working in overdrive and cause your stomach to start bellowing for food. Scents will bring back fond memories instantly.
With the good comes the bad as well. Just as many scents will evoke positive memories and emotional responses, some scents are truly revolting and offensive. Some of these offensive scents will linger in our nostrils for days. Heck, I can still vividly remember horrendous stenches from decades ago!
I truly love all sorts of cooking scents... garlic, rosemary, citrus, basil, etc. I love many sweet but subtle perfumes. I love many smooth after-shave lotions and colognes. There are a few scents, however, which I find incredibly offensive, disgusting and revolting. The scent which seems to be getting ever more popular by the hour is the line of teenage body sprays by Unilever under the name of Axe... truly the most disgusting and offensive scents developed by mankind. Rather than being identified by their completely irrelevant fancy scent names, they should be classified and named by weapons grades!
Whenever our resident teenager sprayed himself in his Axe body spray, the scent gripped the house in a death-like choke hold. After he would leave the house, I would open windows even when the temperatures were frigid!
The scent of Axe body spray reminds me of a cross between a Lysol bathroom deodorizer spray and a cheap perfume that is sold by the gallon (yes, women's perfume, not men's cologne). No joke, I find the scent of Axe body spray disgustingly overpowering with mismatched, offensive scents. To make matters worse, this disgustingly offensive scent lingers like a chemical gas cloud and follows the wearer around like the dirty cloud follows the lovable Peanuts character, Pigpen, choking all within a few yards of him.
I've come to the conclusion that teenagers still have not developed their sense of smell. Their sense of smell certainly must not be developed fully. If it was, they too would be choked and disgusted by the smell of their Axe body spray.
I found a blog about "The Art of Manliness" and part of a post on that blog called "Dealing with B.O."... here is an excerpt I found interesting... "Avoid spray-on deodorants and body sprays like the overpowering Axe Body Spray. There's no need to envelop yourself in a cloud of fragrance. Instead, find a subtle, mild, or no-fragrance deodorant or antiperspirant. Many of your typical grocery store deodorants, soaps, and aftershaves have cheap, tacky fragrances that hang on the wearer like an ugly overcoat." Like an ugly overcoat... very appropriate.
To the parents of teenagers, I am pleading with you to do yourself and especially your community an immense favor... Take your teenager out to any of the millions of stores that sell deodorants, after-shaves and colognes... find an appropriate and effective gel-based anti-perspirant/deodorant (gel-based does a much better job at keeping perspiration and body odor in control) and a smooth, sweet-scented after-shave lotion or cologne that he likes. Then throw all that disgusting, offensive Axe body spray where it belongs... in the trash!
Of course, if you actually like the scent of Lysol Bathroom Deodorizer spray combined with the scent of cheap, overpowering perfume.... then, by all means, keep the Axe body spray but please only use it when staying at home for the next few hours... or... hey, let's play it safe... use it only when staying at home until your next shower.
Really, think about it... Scents evoke vivid memories... Who wants to be remembered by the scent of a bathroom spray or bingo night at your local church? Do yourself and those around you a favor... dump that Axe body spray.
The human sense of "smell" actually is one of the most amazing senses. Just a brief whiff of a certain scent will immediately evoke very vivid memories. Just a brief whiff of a delicious meal will get your salivary glands working in overdrive and cause your stomach to start bellowing for food. Scents will bring back fond memories instantly.
With the good comes the bad as well. Just as many scents will evoke positive memories and emotional responses, some scents are truly revolting and offensive. Some of these offensive scents will linger in our nostrils for days. Heck, I can still vividly remember horrendous stenches from decades ago!
I truly love all sorts of cooking scents... garlic, rosemary, citrus, basil, etc. I love many sweet but subtle perfumes. I love many smooth after-shave lotions and colognes. There are a few scents, however, which I find incredibly offensive, disgusting and revolting. The scent which seems to be getting ever more popular by the hour is the line of teenage body sprays by Unilever under the name of Axe... truly the most disgusting and offensive scents developed by mankind. Rather than being identified by their completely irrelevant fancy scent names, they should be classified and named by weapons grades!
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| The average teenage male wearing Axe body spray. |
The scent of Axe body spray reminds me of a cross between a Lysol bathroom deodorizer spray and a cheap perfume that is sold by the gallon (yes, women's perfume, not men's cologne). No joke, I find the scent of Axe body spray disgustingly overpowering with mismatched, offensive scents. To make matters worse, this disgustingly offensive scent lingers like a chemical gas cloud and follows the wearer around like the dirty cloud follows the lovable Peanuts character, Pigpen, choking all within a few yards of him.
I've come to the conclusion that teenagers still have not developed their sense of smell. Their sense of smell certainly must not be developed fully. If it was, they too would be choked and disgusted by the smell of their Axe body spray.
I found a blog about "The Art of Manliness" and part of a post on that blog called "Dealing with B.O."... here is an excerpt I found interesting... "Avoid spray-on deodorants and body sprays like the overpowering Axe Body Spray. There's no need to envelop yourself in a cloud of fragrance. Instead, find a subtle, mild, or no-fragrance deodorant or antiperspirant. Many of your typical grocery store deodorants, soaps, and aftershaves have cheap, tacky fragrances that hang on the wearer like an ugly overcoat." Like an ugly overcoat... very appropriate.
To the parents of teenagers, I am pleading with you to do yourself and especially your community an immense favor... Take your teenager out to any of the millions of stores that sell deodorants, after-shaves and colognes... find an appropriate and effective gel-based anti-perspirant/deodorant (gel-based does a much better job at keeping perspiration and body odor in control) and a smooth, sweet-scented after-shave lotion or cologne that he likes. Then throw all that disgusting, offensive Axe body spray where it belongs... in the trash!
Of course, if you actually like the scent of Lysol Bathroom Deodorizer spray combined with the scent of cheap, overpowering perfume.... then, by all means, keep the Axe body spray but please only use it when staying at home for the next few hours... or... hey, let's play it safe... use it only when staying at home until your next shower.
Really, think about it... Scents evoke vivid memories... Who wants to be remembered by the scent of a bathroom spray or bingo night at your local church? Do yourself and those around you a favor... dump that Axe body spray.
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