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.
I've seen and read enough credible evidence to suggest someone out there feels this way. Even if it is a joke, things like brushing and flossing and even washing your hands after using the bathroom are controversial for a ton of people. Marketing is real important for encouraging these people to be better.
I use goat milk soap and I've been getting honeysuckle, lavender, prairie moss, dogwood, all kinds of flowery scents. I love studying botany and smelling these soaps reminds me of some of the local flowers around me. Never had any person accuse me of smelling like a woman or smelling "gay" lol, but I totally agree with your comment. I think real, normal people just like when you smell good, regardless of the scent. The "men should only wear turpentine-and-axel-grease-scented deodorants" Monday is only held in the minds of insecure looney tunes
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
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.
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.
Bit off topic maybe, but I’m just reading all these comments and some of y’all are cracking me up! I just wanted to say it was a pleasure to read a bunch of random comments that boosted my mood. Thanks!
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)
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?
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.