Pet Peeve - Age-ism / Scent-ism

That is just too funny! I've just got to try it.

Thanks!

One of the top 15 manly smells! How do you like that!

Ask and ye shall receive... again.  

http://www.chiseledface.com/product/tall...ight-stag/

I forgot about that one, I would like to try it though.

That is just too funny! I've just got to try it.

Thanks!

One of the top 15 manly smells! How do you like that!

Brian, check out this blog on manly smells:

http://www.artofmanliness.com/2009/06/23...ly-smells/

and this one:

http://www.artofmanliness.com/2013/07/08...ly-smells/

I have to reprint a couple of parts - manly smells, some I know, some I don't

“The smell of a long used wood frame, dirt floored garage.
Canvas tents on a warm summer night
Coleman lanterns pushing the darkness back
The differing smells of ammunition being reloaded
A salt marsh, lake, river, pond or stream at dawn
The woods at dusk.
Driftwood burning on the beach
Lava Soap, the bar not that new fangled pump stuff
An old bar, well kept but permeated with the smells of constant patronage
Leather being worked into various items.
The fixative applied to old black and white Polaroid pictures.
An 16 mm movie projector running.
A flash bulb just after it it’s gone off.”
Tom R.

“Loads of great memories here. Add a few more, some subtle like:
fresh maple syrup in the morning when my dad made pancakes (or the smell of ANYTHING cooking for breakfast after a long night camping);
the whiff of scent of a freshly lit Zippo lighter;
the faint ozone and oil of slot car racing or model railroad engines;
that sweet airplane glue or the clear dope you painted on tissue paper covered balsa airplane wings;
and Cox model airplane fuel burning in a micro two-stroke spittin’ and barking in your hands.
The sulphur of model rocket engines when they launch;
the fresh pigskin smell of a brand new football.
The grassy plastic smell of “Jarts” on a summer afternoon before do-gooders made them illegal.
And a few not so subtle:
August-hot creosote on the fresh telephone poles my dad would climb when he was a lineman;
the smell of engine, black grease, dust and the acres and acres of crop you were working under your grampa’s tractor when he trusted you to do the field when you were just 11 years old;
black powder smoke from the shooter’s point of view on a firing line of muskets in a Civil War reenactment;
ether engine starter spray;
waterproofing on G.I. tent halves;
mothproofing stuff on canvas webgear and new uniforms;
LSA cleaning solvent for your M-16 or M-60 (and the sulfur, burning grass, and white-hot metal smell whenever you had to change barrels);
deuce-and-a-half diesel exhaust; the smell of the inside of your combat helmet (the steel pot kind);
jet exhaust, dust and just a hint of somebody else’s barf as you exit the tail of a C-130 over a blistering hot tarmac – weird as it might sound, still striking good manly memory smells.”
P.S. Whitmore

+1 on that Midnight Stag. The AS is as good as the soap.

I generally think of old man smell as urine infused-dirty clothes and scurfy, possibly leprose appearance. You know it when you see/smell it for sure. And, I simply move out of close proximity. On the other hand there is the old man smell of the barber shop of the 50's 60's that I remember with great fondness. lots of good smells there, like the smell of when the barber got done trimming my neck with a straight razor and smacked the area with a rolled up towel with powder. Great smell. So in my mind "old man smell" can be either terrible or wonderful? So, in conclusion it is a terrible term to use unless it is qualified with a description of the surrounding circumstances?? Anyone agree with that opinion?

I generally think of old man smell as urine infused-dirty clothes and scurfy, possibly leprose appearance. You know it when you see/smell it for sure. And, I simply move out of close proximity. On the other hand there is the old man smell of the barber shop of the 50's 60's that I remember with great fondness. lots of good smells there, like the smell of when the barber got done trimming my neck with a straight razor and smacked the area with a rolled up towel with  powder. Great smell. So in my mind "old man smell" can be either terrible or wonderful? So, in conclusion it is a terrible term to use unless it is qualified with a description of the surrounding circumstances?? Anyone agree with that opinion?

That barbershop smell you remember so fondly from the 1950s and 60s (me, too, by the way) I would call old fashioned before I'd call it old man.  As for your first description, that isn't "old man" but rather unwashed, could be caused by many things (such as being homeless and sleeping in the street), and truly has nothing to do with age, in my opinion. However, I absolutely agree with you about "old man" being a pretty bad term to use as a scent descriptor.

However, I absolutely agree with you about "old man" being a pretty bad term to use as a scent descriptor.

Darn right, Freddy, I resemble that descriptor! But I bathe regularly, and you know I shave regularly so to compare me to the men in pantaloons frequenting the saloons in Philadelphia during Ben Franklin's day is totally wrong!

Just kidding - don't care much what is said about me and my aftershave. I am what I am; an OF, obviously!

However, I absolutely agree with you about "old man" being a pretty bad term to use as a scent descriptor.

Darn right, Freddy, I resemble that descriptor! But I bathe regularly, and you know I shave regularly so to compare me to the men in pantaloons frequenting the saloons in Philadelphia during Ben Franklin's day is totally wrong!

Just kidding - don't care much what is said about me and my aftershave. I am what I am; an OF, obviously!

We obviously have a lot in common.

When I smell Pinaud Clubman I do think of old man smell though. It is what my grandpa wore and what the barbershop that I went to on the first Saturday of the month with him smelled like.

Pinned Clubman! Loved that smell!