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Smells (sh.itjust.works)
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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")

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[-] Nasan@sopuli.xyz 2 points 1 month ago

I recently bought a new bottle of cologne. Though i didn't realize until i brought it home that the scent sounds more like an intersection where one might find a strip club and it smells like how one of the managers at said strip club might smell.

The scent: Cypress & Grapevine

[-] Daviino@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month 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.

[-] fisch@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

Wish I could smell like Hegelian dialectic or categorical imperative or something like that.

[-] Sanctus@anarchist.nexus 1 points 1 month ago

I want to smell.like delicious fruit and sweet things, not like I just got out of Bear Night at Charlie's. Now I did just get out of Bear Night at Charlie's but thats not the point.

[-] aeronmelon@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

My favorite concept is Unscented.

[-] Simulation6@sopuli.xyz 0 points 1 month ago

'Autumn Breeze' probably has a different vibe if you happen to live down wind from the municipal dump.

[-] tomiant@piefed.social 1 points 1 month ago

"Brown Fog"

[-] tino@lemmy.world 0 points 1 month ago

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

Just stop buying shit.

[-] AbsolutelyNotAVelociraptor@piefed.social 1 points 1 month ago

I mean, I love lemon, but I wouldn't rub one on my armpits...

[-] Mac@mander.xyz 1 points 1 month ago

Pfft. Coward.

[-] tomiant@piefed.social 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

I washed my balls in 24% acetic acid once.

They did get clean, in the sense that it burned the outermost layer of skin right off, yeah so but just letting you all know not to do that.

[-] Aceticon@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

TIL to avoid washing my balls with concentrated vinegar.

[-] tomiant@piefed.social 1 points 1 month ago

It seemed like a reasonable thing to do at the time.

[-] you_are_dust@lemmy.world 0 points 1 month ago

That's not entirely true. We can also get smells named after types of wood, metal, or alcohol.

[-] tgcoldrockn@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

True or not... cant we get some outrage at the (gestures broadly) injustice?

[-] Obi@sopuli.xyz 0 points 1 month ago

Yeah that's where my head went at lol, we get "fancy wood" scent.

[-] captainlezbian@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month 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.

[-] no_circumlocution@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

Believe me, as a gay man, I am confident with the bouquet smell.

[-] muusemuuse@sh.itjust.works 0 points 1 month 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”

[-] shawn1122@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 month ago

The ancient Egyptians used sandalwood to produce perfume oils. Smelling like wood isn't ever going out of style.

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