It’s interesting that the instructions want you to cup your hands around the nipple instead of just spraying yourself directly

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    What’s funny is that you (and I) associate cologne with high school, but adult men were spraying that shit on themselves from like the 50s to the 90s. Then Axe Body Spray took over the youth market, and a lot of boys coming of age started reevaluating their life choices. Smoking in public also became rare, and generally people started smelling better without the need for fragrances.

    I can’t remember the last time I used cologne or smelled it on another person. But my laundry, shampoo, body wash, and beard balm all have their own fragrances.

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      Smoking in public also became rare, and generally people started smelling better without the need for fragrances.

      This has got to be a big part of it in two different ways: smokers wanting to cover their own stink, but also smokers having reduced sense of smell!

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        also smokers having reduced sense of smell!

        Nowadays I feel like people have nuked their sense of smell with fragrance generally. I trip to anyone else’s house and I get headaches from the amount of automatic fragrance despensers, reed diffusers, essential oil atomisers, scented this that and the other on top of bombing themselves with strongly scented body products and sprays.

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      It feels mostly regional to me. The vibe I get is that Americans especially don’t really care for fragrances while here in the Middle East it’s a goddamn stereotype of us Lebanese men that we wear too much cologne.

      (Or as I have grown up to understand it, just about enough cologne)

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        Very regional. I live in Colombia and literally every single person wears perfume or cologne. I’m the odd one for not wearing scents like that.

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        once lost a game of hide and seek cause the seeker could smell my cologne (i do in fact have some lebanese blood in me)

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        Good point, I’m only speaking from my experience in the Mid-Atlantic US region. It’s probably different everywhere.

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        Yeah I’m American but I initially thought that that must be in the middle east since in my experience middle eastern men are much more likely to love wearing cologne

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      I find it’s very regional inside of the US. It depends on a few factors, but age, prominance, and locality to a “night-life” tends to be the primary ones I find. I live very rural in Southern US, and it’s hit or miss if I ever smell a guy with cologne, but when I do it’s the guy I know goes out a lot and lives in-town or much older.