Do women really want their man to smell like Chocolate?
Apparently so, according to Axe body spray.
LOL @ the girl dipping the strawberry in his chocolate belly button.
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33 Comments:
Dude.
Whenever I think or smell "Axe" the term 'moron' comes to mind.
Seeing this ad makes me totally positive I'm right in doing so.
foodvox at 9:44AM on 10/08/08
Well, I couldn't comment on the smell, as I try to avoid sniffing other dudes whenever possible, but when I think of the word Axe I picture a psycho killer chasing people thru a dimly lit wooded area with an axe trying to chop them up into little pieces, but that's just me and I've seen too many horror movies.
Anyway, why all the negativity towards the chocolate man?
I thought he was kinda cool. Silly and weird... but cool.
FastFoodCritic at 10:28AM on 10/08/08
I can't watch youtube at work, but no chocolate smell thank you...ew
Southern_bella at 10:34AM on 10/08/08
Oh - I don't have a lot of negativity towards the chocolate man. He reminds me of a guy I know named Barry Fig. Decent guy but rather full of himself and tending towards this sort of idea - like covering himself with chocolate and running around removing his nose will somehow make him adorable and desirable to any lurking female that crosses his path.
I'd think he was just silly if he were just himself. But he's an Axe guy. Connect anything with Axe and you've got 'moron'. Sorry.
Wearing Axe is the modern-day equivalent of wearing musk oil or patchouli oil or some mix of them both in past times. It defines a guy. Psycho killer, no. Pitifully sex-crazed and desperate, yes.
And now they are taking to covering themselves in chocolate.
Bwah ha ha ha ha ha ha ha!
foodvox at 10:40AM on 10/08/08
Haha... ok, I can't argue with that. :-)
FastFoodCritic at 10:47AM on 10/08/08
That guys face is frightening.
wunami at 11:03AM on 10/08/08
I'm with foodvox on this one!
izatryt at 11:07AM on 10/08/08
Oh, I love the way one of the Axe scents smell, so I bought it for my husband. Then again, I like the way patchoulli mixed with lavender smells, so my office at work smells of that. :) I bought a Zum Bar made of goats milk and shave a sliver every few weeks to keep the scent going.
As to guys smelling like chocolate. No thanks. Nothing against the guy - I can't watch YouTube at work either. I don't even like chocolate.
Guess I'll check it out when I get home!
Cassaendra at 11:48AM on 10/08/08
Chocolate, no. My ex-bf used to wear a Chanel cologne that, by end of day, smelled like cinnamon cookies. Now THAT was yummy.
jeninewsbite at 11:58AM on 10/08/08
I agree foodVox. It screams "retarded".
Personally, I like my man to be smart and cook some damn good and healthy food for me. (plus desserts arent for me anyway)
Though I did have a chocolate, vanilla and caramel perfume once that bf adored....the other way around maybe?
hungrychristel at 12:48PM on 10/08/08
@hungry, I do think it's different for women, they're supposed to smell cute and yummy, men are supposed to smell rugged and manly.
That being said, my perfume smells like marshmallows and vanilla and cotton candy... I'm told it smells like different things to different people... but that it smells good to people that notice. :)
just curious, what was the name of your perfume? ;)
Southern_bella at 1:46PM on 10/08/08
LOL bella it's true; a man should smell manly!
Mine's the Body Shop Amorito Eau de Toilette: here -- People notice this one too! Strange though, for someone who doesn't like sweets much, I sure do have a lot of these types of scents :) You might like it!
hungrychristel at 2:03PM on 10/08/08
If my husband came home smelling like chocolate he'd better have brought me some.
I like men to smell clean, that's all. They shouldn't smell like food, for heaven's sake. The reverse would be a cologne for women that makes us smell like, say, beer. Or pipe tobacco. Ack.
moibec at 2:10PM on 10/08/08
If I want to smell chocolate, I'll bake brownies, not stick my nose into my man's neck.
I have to refrain from commenting further because I think I might be a perv...my mind just started wandering off onto another tangent involving my man and chocolate.
wookie at 2:42PM on 10/08/08
i'm with the brownies.
dearrie at 8:59PM on 10/08/08
I'm with moibec.
What the heck does "manly" smell like, anyway...sweat and motor oil? Mmm-mmm!
Just give me someone who smells fresh and hygienic! :P
And leave the food smells to the food.
fuuchan at 9:16PM on 10/08/08
@hungry- I don't like sweets either, but I have a bad allergy to most perfumes and colognes, so I have a hard time finding something that I can wear/tolerate that doesn't give me headaches.
Mine is Click me!
for the others, "manly" doesn't mean gross, it means clean and...hygienic as fuuchan mentioned, smelling like soap and the light scent from their deodorant, or their after shave, or Old Spice, those types of smells, I don't want my man smelling like food, or B.O. for that matter.
Southern_bella at 6:50AM on 10/09/08
Actually I just had new carpet laid in the house and now that I think of it from the aroma rising from the two guys that were doing the job if I'd had any chocolate laying around I might have thrown it over them. Or at the very least dabbed some under their armpits.
foodvox at 8:04AM on 10/09/08
Nope. I think that Axe spray sounds disgusting.
Junie at 9:06AM on 10/09/08
i don't want my man to smell like chocolate-i just want him to bring me chocolate.
however, i do use a combo of palmer's cocoa butter and a jasmine/vanilla lotion on myself.
gastronomeg at 11:29AM on 10/09/08
i agree with Wookie clean and fresh is good. the only time i want my SO to smell like chocolate is....... um well never mind this is a family site . (blushing now)
huneybumper at 6:14PM on 10/09/08
As long as its not CKone, that makes me gag. I can imagine that the chocolate smell would be a bit like when they had chocolate cherry dr pepper and it wasnt good.
jennywenny at 6:58PM on 10/09/08
OMG. I just about fell out of my chair when I saw the topic. First, let me just agree with the rest of those on the bandwagon -- any product even remotely similar to Axe is gross, and anybody who buys it is a sucker. Soap and water is good. Creed's Green Irish Tweed is exceptionally excellent. Otherwise, just put down the can...
All righty then.
The reason I was cracking up? I'm always telling my husband that he smells like chocolate. Seriously. I'm not even kidding. Every once in a great while, he exudes this faint little hint of a scent that reminds me of chocolate. We'll be cuddling, and I'll get this ever so slight whiff of something that suggests chocolate, and next thing I know, I'm burying my nose in his neck trying to "catch" that elusive scent, and he's ROFL.
Bizarre. I know.
Carry on.
LoCo at 7:29PM on 10/09/08
I used to be really picky. Had to be at least 6' tall, blue eyes, wise and intelligent, but able to laugh at himself, good sense of humor, athletic, smell great, but most important he had to think I was the most beautiful, intelligent, precious jewel on the planet. Now, I require that he can breathe, a ventilator is ok.
PerkyMac at 7:37PM on 10/09/08
Oh Perkster! Breathing is good! ;-D Listen Dimples ~ I know they are beating down the door in Perkyville!!
izatryt at 7:42PM on 10/09/08
Ewe IZ in trouble 4 giving out my nickname mizz ryt, and U iz ryt. heh heh Hoping to give somebody a giggle - that would make my day!
PerkyMac at 7:48PM on 10/09/08
Sorry Perk ~ Couldn't resist that one. Just breathing my patootie! Hey, I spend half my life in trouble. What's another day.........
izatryt at 7:54PM on 10/09/08
Yea, I thought this was hilarious too. The commercial is kinda creepy! My boyfriend would personally love to smell like chocolate for his own sake...But do I want him to? Not so much.
Hillary
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Chew on That at 5:04PM on 10/10/08
Personally axe makes me think of two things: Growing Up Gotti, and this amazing piece on the Onion a while ago (technically tag body shot, but you know, same same) http://www.theonion.com/content/node/52985
As to ladies possibly wanting their man to smell like chocolate, I don't see why not. I'm a lady and a chocolate lover, and can safely say that my enjoyment of all things increases by a power of 10 when combined with chocolate. However, I must stipulate that any body spray have a tastefully done chocolate smell--seriously, if you could have valrhona cologne, that'd be my undoing--but I highly doubt that Axe would be able to achieve anything close.
urbanruralist at 12:28AM on 10/11/08
This topic instantly reminded me of the time I was shopping at Target and saw a little old man looking at the Axe body spray. He must have been in his seventies. Anyway, he nabbed a passing employee and said, "Is this the stuff that makes the ladies come after you?"
buffy at 6:42PM on 10/11/08
My teenager 'bathes" himself in Axe daily. Yes, it is revolting. He brought the chocolate one home last week and sprayed it at me saying "doesn't this smell great?" After leaping into the shower to get it off of my body, I told him it smelled terrible and did not remotely resemble chocolate. Buttt...girlfriend likes it, so I guess I'd better get used to it.
btw, I thought Axe was a teenager thing?
Josdean at 11:22AM on 10/14/08
Thank God!, and to think I was gonna throw away my bottles of Brut, Old Spice, English Leather and Jovan Musk for men! Don't forget ladies.... if YOU wanna get someones attention...."Whisper........"
Pavlov at 11:18AM on 10/16/08
Ok, confession time: My BF wears Axe, and I love it. I can't help it. I loved how he smelled before I knew what scent he wore. When I found out it was Axe, I told him I couldn't believe what a sucker I was. I fell for it! But I still love the smell. He uses the "Kilo" flavor, and occasionally I'll spray a tiny bit on myself. Once he even said, "You smell good. Are you wearing perfume?" So I guess we're both suckers. We belong together.
BTW, no teenagers here. He's 30 and I'm 33. Both old enough to know better!
Also: That commercial creeped me out, and I don't want my guy to smell like chocolate.
Kerosena at 11:36AM on 10/16/08