Men and Cologne

This is a spin off of the odor thread...since cologne was brought up a few times...I thought I'd see:

What's the scent that drives you wild?

D used to wear Escape...mmmm.
I really used to love Cool Water and Polo...but you know once you start dating someone...their scent is the one that drives you wild! :D

I'm allergic to almost all perfumes (well, all, as far as I know), and even soaps/shampoos/detergents with heavy perfumy smells. So I don't wear any cologne, and my YW doesn't wear any perfume.

Wow....your sweat glands must pour a pleasant odor! :D

LOL

Well, I can only hope so. My YW tells me that I (usually) smell good, but hell if I know. I'm just glad she can tolerate me.

Originally posted by EMCAD80
D used to wear Escape...mmmm.
I really used to love Cool Water and Polo...but you know once you start dating someone...their scent is the one that drives you wild! :D


Swinging over to the subject of perfume.........
I'll have to disagree with you on that, EMCAD.

I once had a girlfriend who wore Vanilla. She bathed in a Vanilla bath scent and wore Vanilla perfume.

I loved her to death but I HATE THE SMELL OF VANILLA. I guess you can say that I tolerated it though. We are still friends to this day.

I stand corrected...and yes, there are those who tend to bathe in a particular scent....and the over-powering of it makes me sick to my stomach. I so know what you are talking about!

Back in college there was this one girl, M.

M would wear MUSK and boy oh boy...

I didn't even have to see her to know she was there:D

It drove me so crazy:p that

I switched from boxers to briefs, out of necessity;)

Hmmmm..... I love it when 'C' wears his 'Chrome' cologne. It reminds me of when we first met at the bank when we worked together. Awwww.....memories :-)

He also wears my other fav. 'Polo' by Ralph Lauren.

Now myself on the other hand.... I wear sooo many different scents. Even though I think I am allergic to perfume ( I sneeze like crazy for an hour after I spray it on myself); I wear 'Glamourus' by Ralph L. & also 'Ralph' by Ralph Lauren. I love the Gap scents - 'Heaven' & 'Dream' . And for special occasions I wear 'Pure Tiffany' by Tiffany. Marc Jacobs is good too.
Aren't I ridiculous??!!! I can never stink! Unless I put too much on; don't you hate it when women put like the whole bottle on themselves?!!

Hey, a smell that drives me crazy in candles is 'Roasting chestnuts' by Illume. Hmmmmm....... Now that is yummy-licious

A friend of mine came to visit...and poor dear would bathe in her damn perfume! The smell would linger for at least a half hour after she left the room! YIKES

Originally posted by SaltwaterBlues
Back in college there was this one girl, M.

M would wear MUSK and boy oh boy...

I didn't even have to see her to know she was there:D

It drove me so crazy:p that

I switched from boxers to briefs, out of necessity;) I love musk too , Jovan is good one . I love a man's natural scent . I love too Obsession , Zino Davidoff, Xeryus , Dolce & Gabana. All sexy scents .;)

My favorite men's scent is the classic "Armani". I also like "Male".

My favorite scent for me is the classic "Lauren". I also like "Poeme". Some of the Salvador Dali perfumes are also very interesting. I may try one of those next.

My husband wears a lot althought I can't remember the names LOL... I love BY by Dolce and gabbana.. and Jean Paul Geatuea men cologne.... I LOVVVEEEE Gio Armani also.. I like citrusy scents...

I wear Happy or Tresor myself!!

I'm a scent person all the way, but I prefer subtle use of men's fragrances such as Royal Copenhagen, Pierre Cardin and Azzaro Chrome. I like to wear perfume, too: Anne Klein, Elizabeth Arden's Sunflowers, Aromatics Elixir by Clinique and Chanel No. 5.

On the first date with my man, his scent was driving me CRAZY!! It was sort of spicy and masculine and unique...not a scent I ever would have picked up and said, "hey, I like this."

It's "Farenheit." And it STILL drives me crazy!!

Although I have to say...it's HIM wearing it that drives me crazy...I worked--until a week and a half ago--at a department store. And at night (yikes, this is bad) I would go over to men's fragrance and grab that bottle and sniff....only to be sadly disappointed, because it didn't smell the same when it wasn't on him!!

For myself, I prefer darker, spicier scents. I adore "Opium." But one has to be careful with that, one squirt and it lasts and lasts. But two squirts--and everyone around you will be gasping for air!

I also like patchouli. Another one that one has to be careful with. I found this lovely blend of patchouli oil and a mild base...dunno exactly which one it was, darn it, and can't find it anywhere else...anyway, it was patchouli, but toned down, softer...yum. My best friend teases me that whenever she smells patchouli, she looks around for me...

If I'm really in the mood for a light scent, it's "Cashmere Mist" by Donna Karen. Soft and light and nice.

And my man loves them all, thank goodness!

When I first met my man, he wore Obsession and I could smell him all the way down the hallway into my office LOL

I never really liked that scent, but everytime I smell it now, I think of him :)

He currently wears Catalyst, OMG that stuff drives me WILD!!

I wear Design by Paul Sebastian, and Marc Jacobs (my new fav!!)

I'm a sucker for men wearing good smelling cologne, it's a big turn on for me.

I agree, that certain scents remind me of the people that wear them, and wouldn't want my man wearing colognes that my dad wears, etc. LOL

Oh, and Farenheit is yummie too- I got that for my hubby last year (it's all gone now :( ) but it smells like violets to me!!

I suspect that covering up natural body odours is a mistake. It may make perfume-wearers 'acceptable' to more of the opposite sex, but it may actually destroy their chance of true love. Here's what Edinburgh University 'Student' newspaper published from me last year (13 ii 02, after it had run a big article discussing the merits of shaving off pubic hair):

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Dear Editors,

I was glad to see your organ toying genially with pornographer Larry Flynt's claim that to prefer shaven to hirsute pudenda is usually paedophilic ('Hair, there and everywhere', Helen 'Arm' Pidd, 6 February). After all, it is only five years ago that Student was screaming for my head after I had said there was a lot of harmless paedophilia around – as had emerged in the case of an American Nobel prizewinner who had become a fan of the ways of the young adolescents of Papua New Guinea. How times have changed as you yourselves debate the 'Brazilian' ('landing strip') and 'Hollywood' ('blitzing it') methods of infantilization by shaving so as to attract sexual partners! As you tell readers, "the choice is yours." Plainly we are now in a different century.

Nevetheless, with Valentine's Day almost upon us, I must counsel Edinburgh students against any mass defoliation. What matters, says modern psychology, are individual differences. Recently, research has suggested that partners are actually much concerned at the beginning of a relationship to assay the state of each other's hormones – hence the enthusiasm for removing each other's clothes that is so characteristic of early courtship. In particular, it is known that a woman (at least when she is in the fertile part of her menstrual cycle) will prefer a man whose pheromonal state indicates an immune system possessing strengths complementary to those which her own immune system already possesses. Studies in Germany and Scotland have ascertained that people emit chemical signals so as to communicate their own immunogenetic make-up (see Steve Farrar, 2001, 'Immune system wins by a nose', Times Higher, 9 March, p. 56). Shaving pubic hair will doubtless achieve the bland result of not upsetting anyone – especially latent paedophiles. But it may not deliver the partner of your immune system's dreams or the much-sought-after experience of falling madly -- chemically -- in love. Your younger readers at least, however determined they are to be carried away, should give nature its chance and keep their pubic hair on.

Yours aye, -- Chris Brand (lecturer in Edinburgh LUniversity Psychology Department, 1970-1996).
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For more, see http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/h2g2/A854912 [Review of Erich Fromm’s 'The Art of Loving'].

Best to all here, -- Chris Brand, Edinburgh.

My man's current favorite is "Fahrenheit". It seems to be very popular among guys right now.

I break out with most brands. I did like Drakkar. But the name reminds me of someone who broke my heart. I'm afraid of spending money only to break out.


Steve

Haunted...

heck no! I wouldn't spend a dime if i knew I would have a reaction. I don't blame you.

I once went on a date with this guy....his cologne smelled so cheap and strong that I had to lean all the way off to the side in my seat at the movie theatre just to let my nose get a 'lil bit of fresh air. You know, honestly, I do feel bad for the guy; I am sure that it made him feel bad, but, honest to gawd, that smell was going to turn me over like a ****roach if I didn't get at least a little bit of ventilation. Seriously, he smelled acidic like an alkaline battery, or some kind of corroded metal, or sumthin'. Really, though, he had enough of that crap on that my eyes started watering and I started sneazing up a storm, too.

But, anyway, cologne can be good....my personal favorites are: Navy, Cool Water, and Preferred Stock......and there are a couple others that i have not been able to identify thus far, but smell lusciously good. and, sometimes, nothing smells better than a man's natural musky scent. mmmmmm...pheromones.

~Muse

I LOVE Joop! for men and Chanell's Pour Homme and Romance for Men. B, however, sticks to his tried and true El Cheapo "Stetson", and I have to say, I LIKE it on him. ROFLMAO. If you'd asked me a few years ago if I'd ever date a man who wore Stetson, I would've laughed you off the dock.

For me, I wear some unusual scents - my favorites during warm seasons are Parfum D' Ete by Kenzo and this Tea Olive perfum I get from New Orleans, although where I live is rampant with Tea Olive bushes. LOL. During the winter, I wear Poeme, Chanell Allure, Chanell No. 5 and Romance.

And just like anything - it's good IN MODERATION. Hee hee hee.

And just like anything - it's good IN MODERATION. Hee hee hee.

Too bad Muse's date didn't know that rule!

My Husband was reading Men's Health and there was a poll that asked women if they prefer colgne on men or not. 95 % of the women said cologne is out and the smell of a nice soap is what they want to smell on their men. I tend to agree