Need help with smell please - hot guy scent

[JamieB]

How would you describe the best smelling guy you've ever met? I have trouble with describing cologne.

Thanks!!

[scarletpeaches]

Toasted cheese with Worcester sauce.

[Momento Mori]

scarletpeaches:
Toasted cheese with Worcester sauce.

I worry about you. ;)

Jamie - best advice I can give you is to try going down to a store and just smelling different types of cologne until you find one that works. Most of them have a list of ingredients on the back (and from my own unscientific research, sandalwood is a biggie in the man-smell world) and I usually conjure something up from that.

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[scarletpeaches]

Just sniff random men in the street.

Though obviously, not my street.

[alleycat]

Large amounts of money.

[dolores haze]

How would you describe the best smelling guy you've ever met?


He smelled of soap, leather and expensive single malt scotch. Dunno what kind of cologne that would be.

[Rachel]

The best guy smell ever is soap. My way-over-sensitive nose can't stand cologne (or perfume, for that matter). And after being around the hard working men of a farming community, soap is best. ;)

[Madican]

Soap. I, as a guy, will never wear cologne or heavy deodorant because of the fact that not everyone wants to taste the air around you when they walk by. It's disgusting when encountering especially heavy scents, it makes me want to pull a Super Soaker out and hose them so the scent stops rising. I feel the same way about perfume as well.

[MissKris]

Post futbol (soccer) match sweatitude.

Beer breath (I know, sounds weird - it was an in the moment thing).

Soap's good.

Aqua di Gio at the base of the neck.

Yeah, leather. At the wrist.

Sun, sand, ocean.

The dirt from a baseball diamond on tanned arms.

Grass. Not the smoking kind. The kinds that says that this guy is not too cool to get on the ground.

[tilt190]

The Aeropostale cologne is amazing. I'd personally spray it on myself.
As is the smell of Hollister Co. clothing--just bought.

Leather and grass as well as musk or moss smell real good.

[fairy86]

Victoria's Secret Very Sexy cologne is incredible.

[JamieB]

The Aeropostale cologne is amazing. I'd personally spray it on myself.
As is the smell of Hollister Co. clothing--just bought.

Leather and grass as well as musk or moss smell real good.


I agree - every time I walk by Holister I get all dreamy eyed. If I put the brand name in my ms, it would date it though, right? And some may not know what Holister was... I'll have to sniff out the ingredients...

[Zoombie]

He smelled like himself.

[Stunted]

Does he really have to smell like anything? I feel like hot, smelly boys are over-done. Maybe if she's particularly close to him, but if they're just hanging out and she can smell him, they might have an issue.

Under the right circumstances, unwashed sweat shit hits me hard. Or if he's the kind of guy who'd use his little sister's shampoo, that's a nice detail. Or if he works in some kind of inherently smelly industry, like iron welding or leather...doing shit to, then fine. But don't have him randomly smell like vanilla. He's a boy, not a cake.

[tilt190]

I agree - every time I walk by Holister I get all dreamy eyed. If I put the brand name in my ms, it would date it though, right? And some may not know what Holister was... I'll have to sniff out the ingredients...

Apparently the SoCal perfume for girls is what the employees swear by. It's not the same as the room spray they put on the clothes, though: you can't buy it. :(

I think it's musk and sandalwood and some vanilla. Something along that range.

[Madican]

A guy won't smell like anything unless he works around a particular smell (fast food), is about to go in for something formal (interview), or he just got out the shower (soap). We don't randomly slather on smelly stuff then go bump into people all day.

[dragonkid]

A guy won't smell like anything unless he works around a particular smell (fast food), is about to go in for something formal (interview), or he just got out the shower (soap). We don't randomly slather on smelly stuff then go bump into people all day.

If only this were true. There are guys and girls at my school who must bathe in cologne/perfume because they reek of it. It's not a pleasant effect. I don’t really care what people smell as long as they are 1) clean (so soap would be nice) and 2) don’t make me sneeze because they’ve drenched themselves in Axe body spray.

[black ink]

Minty fresh toothpaste.

[C.bronco]

vanilla body lotion

[Cranky]

Leather, slight tinge of tobacco, and Grey Flannel cologne. Never met another man who wore that cologne, either, except for this one guy.

[C.bronco]

My friend Richie wore Grey Flannel. I never dated him, but he smelled nice.

[Cranky]

My friend Richie wore Grey Flannel. I never dated him, but he smelled nice.

Odd little coincidence...I never dated the guy I knew who wore it, either. Outta my league, fo sho. Supernice, sweet guy, though.

[Haphazard]

No, it can't just be 'soap'. It's gotta be IRISH SPRING soap. Because that's a soap you can SMELL and you know it's CLEAN.

Either that or PineSol. :D

Whatever it is, do NOT make him smell like outside of an Abercrombie and Fitch. I nearly pass out every time I walk by.

[firedrake]

Skin and soap.

Ralph Lauren's Polo is lovely, or it was. The man I knew that wore it turned out to be an arse.

[Red.Ink.Rain]

Whatever it is, do NOT make him smell like outside of an Abercrombie and Fitch. I nearly pass out every time I walk by.

I had a mortal enemy in high school who drenched himself in cologne from Abercrombie. Now every time I walk past that store I want to hit something. Plus, it's just ridiculous. So overwhelming it hurts.

[Madican]

If only this were true. There are guys and girls at my school who must bathe in cologne/perfume because they reek of it. It's not a pleasant effect. I don’t really care what people smell as long as they are 1) clean (so soap would be nice) and 2) don’t make me sneeze because they’ve drenched themselves in Axe body spray.

This is where the Super Soaker comes in handy. A couple squirts and that perfume will be washed away!

[paranormalchick]

Ummm, well I do have to say I love it when guys wear cologne :) I'm partial to Clinque Happy for men :) (Just a dab will do ya...LOL)

[Madican]

The problem with any cologne or perfume is that the people using it get desensitized to its scent. So they use more, and more, and more. And before they know it they're killing asthmatics just by walking in a ten foot radius of them.

[som1luvsmi]

[quote=Haphazard;3629881]No, it can't just be 'soap'. It's gotta be IRISH SPRING soap. Because that's a soap you can SMELL and you know it's CLEAN.

So true.

Allure magazine came out with their readers choice awards and the ones for men's fragrance were AXE deodorant body spray in Instinct and Acqua di Gio by Giorgio Armani(which smells really good, btw).

[Manix]

http://ts2.images.live.com/images/thumbnail.aspx?q=841774866009&id=41cacbd66b8d3e436da108ec2d8cac56 My favorite scent...ah...

Mon cheri...we could make beautiful music together...http://imagecache2.allposters.com/images/pic/ATA/24536BP%7EPepe-le-Pew-Posters.jpg

[dgrintalis]

My 18 year old son loves his Axe body spray. I can always tell when he's applied it, even when I am downstairs in the living room and he is in his room with the door shut! It is potent stuff.

[WriteKnight]

WD-40 and Horse Sweat.

Trust me.

[MissKris]

[quote=Haphazard;3629881]
Allure magazine came out with their readers choice awards and the ones for men's fragrance were AXE deodorant body spray in Instinct and Acqua di Gio by Giorgio Armani(which smells really good, btw).

Yes, yes! Aqua di Gio was on my list. The one and ONLY cologne I like on men. Used sparingly, of course.

[strawberryblondie]

My boyfriend uses Aqua di Gio but it mostly just enhances his own personal scent (which is actually really good for a guy lol). When I described my MC's love interest's smell I described it as smelling rich like a fine cognac that's been aged for a hundred years. It might sound dumb but that was the only way I could think to describe it.

[dpaterso]

My other half swears my armpit smells great. When she lies her head on my shoulder at night she'll sometimes bury her nose and take a deep sniff. Technical breakdown: Palmolive soap plus a dusting of Johnson's baby powder. I usually sleep in the tee shirt I've been wearing all day, so add my special manly sweat bouquet to the mix. Sends her to sleep every time.

-Derek

[sharpierae]

The scents that people find attractive are highly individual (I could get all geeky about biology of attraction and scientific studies here, but i won't), so if you could use this mention of "hot guy smell" to say something about what the huffer finds attractive you describe two characters in one go. Not bad.

Personally, I'm not a fan of cologne on men, fictional or otherwise. It reeks of trying too hard ;)

[backslashbaby]

My favorite smell on a guy is when I bury my head in his chest and smell fresh laundry. Like sheets hot out of the dryer.

I do like soap, too.

[Manix]

Personally, I do think pheromones are underestimated--they play a bigger part than cologne, so the primal scent of attraction, among other subtle cues, is actually carried through the air.

Call me base, but my experience is: "You can take the beast out of the jungle, but you can't take the jungle out of the beast.";)

[adktd2bks]

Leather and Armani cologne. Makes me go crazy.

[Repartee]

A light amount of not-super-musky cologne. Any more than that, and I'll start gagging. Light means: I can barely smell it while walking past you. Not: I walk past you and promptly start gagging/sneezing.
This goes for perfume, too. Just because you can't smell it any more, doesn't mean everyone else can't. Pleases stop putting more on every ten minutes. Your miasma offends me.

My favorite smells?
Good leather, especially French calfskin. [no, I'm not into *that*. I have horses, so I ride in all leather tack and leather tall boots, and leather-palmes gloves. There's a lot of leather going around.]
Pine shavings, especially a freshly opened bag. Mmm mmm. Goes back to the horse thing.

Outside of the horse world, I don't like much. Call me weird but I love the smell of Showsheen. Anyone else? And Passier Lederbalsam. And Duraguard flyspray. And Bigeloil. And, well, everything else associated with horses. It's like magic.

ETA: and coffee. I loff the smell of coffee.

[tilt190]

Since you mentioned it, Pazzo, about the leather, I do art and the smell of freshly sharpened Staedtler pencils (blue pencils, metal tin) gets me all the time. Must be the wood...but the graphite smells good, too. My brother's obsessed with Acqua di Gio, so I should go and give it a sniff.


ETA: I put some of it on! When used liberally, Acqua di Gio smells like the inside of a Hollister store.

[WriteKnight]

I'm serious about the wd40 and horse sweat - sure, toss in a liberal dose of leather, saddle soap and mink oil... but I can't count the number of times I've been asked "What scent are you wearing? What is that smell, its ... kinda... sexy..." after I've gotten off horse from a joust.

[lisalulu09]

My hot-boy smells...

Soap (or at least a clean smell)
Chocolate *drools* :D

My little brother seems to have a weird thing about buying really strong deodorant and spraying so much that when you walk into the bathroom it hits you so hard you start gagging. Yuck!

Oh, and after-sport sweat + deodorant = EW!

[Little Red Barn]

I've smelled the Hollister perfume, my daugh used to call it "boy". I always knew when she'd been to Hollisters. ;D

Aside, whomever mentioned the sand, sea and sun earlier, would do it for me on a man!

[chevbrock]

I keep imagining you all looking like Bear out of the big blue house :)

[Like a Fox]

The three important boys in my life smelt like:

The back of a burger joint. (He never washed his hair. I think it was the grease.)

Coffee and cigarettes

Baked beans (I can't explain this one. Could just be something wrong with my nose.)


Cologne I love - Jean Paul Gaultier - Le Male.
I can't describe it. It's beyond words. It once led me to being hugely attracted to my best friend's boyfriend, who is not my type. Pure sex.