18 Manly scents

The Art of Manlness ^ | 8JUL13 | Brett & Kate McKay

[50mm]

Nothing smells more manly than a hockey locker room.

Or as bad.

[Mr. Lucky]

Perhaps the country wouldn’t be on the brink were more attention paid to the important things in life.

[ArtDodger]

A fine, lightly oiled leather strap, attached to a vintage rifle or a pre-war stringed instrument....

[Bigg Red]

I gave up cigarettes in 1974, and I can’t stand the smell of cigarette smoke — except outside by a body of water. I think it must remind me of my father on trips with the family on my his boat.

[Ancesthntr]

...in the morning.

[mewzilla]

Old Spice.

[fidelis]

Woodshops, auto repair shops, machine shops, pipe tobacco, strong coffee, pre-dawn air, jet fuel, and whatever that stuff is that traditional barber shops put on you after a haircut. Love that.

[Covenantor]

Left out a good wet field dog after a long day in the woods.

[88keys]

"Manly, yes...but I like it too...!"

New-mown wild grasses, hay, whatever it is the "mowers" along the rural highways are always mowing...

Hundred-year-old wooden-floored hardware stores (with their inventory - you could get about anything there!)

Marine fuel, and the smell around the docks...

[fidelis]

From the same blog as the story above:

How to Smell Like a Barbershop

[hoagy62]

How about lake/hunting cabin?
Deep woods?

[Man from Oz]

Dawn dish soap is the solution here. Nothing stanks more than sweaty hockey gear....

[misanthrope]

Gunpowder, both black and smokeless.

[windcliff]

ping

[dznutz]

Does anyone here remember that sort of thing about the older ballparks (Wrigley, Old Comiskey Park, Tiger Stadium, Yankee Stadium before renovations in 1974, Fenway, Crosley, Forbes, etc)? Or about the older NHL rinks like Chicago Stadium, Boston Garden, Detroit Olympia?

What I remember about old Comiskey Park was the smell of stale beer and cigar/cigarette smoke. It was no wonder, people always said Comiskey was the largest tavern in Chicago.

[Some Fat Guy in L.A.]

Whenever I encounter a teenage boy wearing cologne, I inform him that boys his age are supposed to smell like used motor oil. Drives the girls crazy.

[Vigilanteman]

I’d add black licorice and musk. My lady rewards me with something very special when I shower with musk and brush my teeth with black licorice flavored toothpaste.

[HonkyTonkMan]

Can't stand that site - I find it mostly women writing that stuff...they search the web and tell dorks how to be "real men"....meh.

You can't be a man by reading a website.....well maybe FR only!

[Postman]

and the scent of beer and cigarette smoke just after midnight in an old working class Brooklyn Saloon.

[minnesota_bound]

My grandfather (born 1900) had some cologne or aftershave that I liked. He passed away in 1976. I only came across it twice in passing and it was several states away from where he was so I figured it was a national brand. I have bought the Bay Rum and Aqua Velva listed here but it is not the scent. He was an mechanical engineer and wore a white shirt and grey pants so I know it was not some wild scent.

Any ideas what was popular in the 1960’s and probably bought at a drug store or Sears or Montgomery Ward, JC Penny’s?