these sprays have propane in them...explains why after a few minutes it goes from sickly sweet ass scent to SUPER ass scent edit: all in all I didn't think these sprays were all that bad, I guess they're worth five bucks, but all the same...it's nothing I'd recommend to anyone. Strangely enough I've heard plenty of girls say they like Axe...and this was even before they even came out with these "classic" scents.
If anyone is actually in to body sprays, Check out Old Spice's new line. Classic is the best IMHO, but the rest ain't too shabby either. I put them on, on top of the crystal rock.
I don't have a problem with Axe and their marketing campaign but I still wouldn't buy their stuff. I'm not an elitist or anything. I just enjoy being different. There are likely to be so many people wearing the same Axe scents and that's what bothers me. Besides, I like it when women stop me and ask me what I'm wearing.
I have graduated to slightly more refined scents in the last few year, but in my mid twenties, in college at Ohio State, I am not going to lie, good looking women would stop me fairly regularly and say I smelled nice while waring Axe's "Touch". I never really liked the smell much myself. All the advertising I have ever seen from Axe says that it will attract women to the wearer, and in my experience, sickly sweet smell and all, the advertising was true. Go Figure.
Irena, you're not imagining it--they have a weird smell, period--at least to me! My brother-in-law loves some of them, strangely enough.
Well that's good to know. I bought 2 diff. types from a fragrance manufacturer. I was going to use them in my soaps, but now I don't think I will.
Axe's scents are just straight, completely flat scents...there's nothing to them and they're not made to change over the course of time like a real eau de toilette, cologne, or perfume When they were first released in the US, Axe had Ann Gottlieb (who has created many high end fragrances for designers) design a few of the scents. I imagine they were still nothing special (I didn't bother with them), but they're designed to be poured on gratuitously, because the sillage and longetivity is particularly bad. They're of course trying to appeal to a lowest common denominator and every year they drop the two worst selling scents and introduce two more. Given the nature of public perception, it appears they've gotten rid of pretty much every good scent by this process! Only one that was designed by a real perfumer has remained!
Check your local Target if you want to try these out. I was at Target tonight, they had the Bergamot and Vetyver scents in big box sets (Two sprays and a body wash) on clearance for less than $6 each scent. They have scratch and sniff patches on the top, so you can kind of try before you buy. I was not impressed enough to waste my unemployment benefits on them.
Some of the Axe varieties are OK in small quantities - you just don't want to spray it all over your torso like they suggest. Phoenix and Kilo are decent.
The current trend it seems is to be smelled, not light scents. Also I have a friend who thinks I am crazy for using small house brands and not big name ones like DG, Polo and so on. I mean if a girl asks what I am wearing and I say Bond No.9 they wont have a clue what that is.
Or that they are just in my age range. Granted I dont think any girls would ask what you are wearing they would just say you smell good.
Really? Most of the girls I know say it smells like battery acid tossed over vomit. Or was that, it makes them want to vomit? Dunno. Wouldn't touch the stuff myself. Gives me a headache. I always liked what my grandpa used to wear, but I don't know what it was, and unfortunately he's no longer around to ask. :-/
