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men's deodorant comes in four different smells

• petrol
• housefire
• off meat
• glue

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and introducing a new fragrance:

• even sweatier

@envgen wait, you're forgetting

* sports

and

* ultra sports

@envgen maybe those are just a US thing, tho. 🤷

@gdkar what does sports even smell of. sweat, changing rooms, mud, mildewy showers???

@envgen iiiii can't really describe it in words. 😅

@envgen on further consideration, i'm not sure if this is actually "men's deoderant" or, rather, "sports deoderant that, like, you could probably wear if you're maybe a man i guess." 🤷

this is only partially a joke, when i was unemployed i did market research questionnaires for beer money and one of the products was a new range of ""upmarket"" lynx deodorants, and some of the fragrances they wanted feedback on were, and i shit you not,

• wood
• glue
• rubber
• whiskey
• smoke

@envgen the others i can almost understand... but rubber and glue? the fragrance after a fetish romp

@candle i think it was specifically "tyres"

@envgen @candle .... so you're saying it would smell like...

@envgen please make me smell like a mechanic who does woodcraft on weekends

@eden @envgen would 100% unironically wear that aftershave, not gonna lie. I ❤ woodshavings.

@eden @envgen A guy can dream; the usual stuff smells like car airfreshener. Blegh.

@envgen I have a discomforting memory of Lynx shower gel coming with a sponge marketed as a "manwasher" and that really stalled my train of thought as I struggled to process this information.

@007 @envgen ah, the cheap smell of teenage desperation, to quote mock the week

@envgen but spend a little bit more money, than it will be good... #KnizeTen

@envgen @Sir_Boops

... you mean instead of a fancy expensive deodorant stick, I could just have been using a regular old glue stick under my arms all this time?

Sold! ;D

@envgen @Sir_Boops

... actually, if it weren't for the, you know, stickiness of it... the *purple* glue sticks some of us had back in school actually did smell pretty good.

Maybe I'm on to something here... 🤔

@envgen Funny, I always perceived them as

• death
• death
• death
• mild chemical smell but won’t kill me