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Related: Culture Forums, Support ForumsWhat is the socially preferred amount of cologne a man should wear?
12 ounces? 16 ounces? More than 16 ounces? I bought a 24 ounce bottle of cologne at the dollar store, and I used the entire thing in one day. Was that too much, or too little? I'm kind of new to this "cologne thing".
Thank you in advance.
htuttle
(23,738 posts)Around here, wearing cologne at the workplace is generally frowned upon, due to the potential for HR nightmares where a person says they are allergic to it.
Out and about? At the nightclub? Pour it on. There's no 'too-much'. At the very least, everyone will know that you are headed their way.
GP6971
(31,285 posts)people
(635 posts)I third.
GP6971
(31,285 posts)The Velveteen Ocelot
(116,028 posts)LuckyCharms
(17,479 posts)The Velveteen Ocelot
(116,028 posts)That's an important consideration.
sprinkleeninow
(20,272 posts)Remember Kanøn? They still sell this stuff.
At the fragrance counter:
"I'd like some cannon, please."
"It's Ka-NUHN, silly great unwashed heathen barbarian."
lapucelle
(18,419 posts)sprinkleeninow
(20,272 posts)🤧
AJT
(5,240 posts)Cuz that makes a difference.
customerserviceguy
(25,183 posts)Cheaper by the six-pack.
Turbineguy
(37,423 posts)Agua Velva and Listerine.
customerserviceguy
(25,183 posts)PoliticAverse
(26,366 posts)when you do your weekly grocery shopping at the dollar store you can pick up a new bottle just in time.
dweller
(23,712 posts)deoderant should suffice ...
✌🏼️
lapucelle
(18,419 posts)MLAA
(17,376 posts)A HERETIC I AM
(24,382 posts)You have overdone it a wee tad.
The Velveteen Ocelot
(116,028 posts)A HERETIC I AM
(24,382 posts)To paraphrase an old Johnny Carson line....
"The smell could start the windmill on an old Dutch painting!"
sprinkleeninow
(20,272 posts)😝
Mira
(22,382 posts)i had a tenant once who put the stuff on when he went out to pick up his date.
The hallway smelled of him for a good number of hours.
He never brought a date home.
GOT IT?
LuckyCharms
(17,479 posts)Harker
(14,143 posts)polyester shirts and gold fertility symbols.
Marie Marie
(9,999 posts)complement that bottle of cologne. Warning: you may have to fight the ladies off.
sprinkleeninow
(20,272 posts)🤣
lunasun
(21,646 posts)True Dough
(17,396 posts)in the full bucket!
NRaleighLiberal
(60,041 posts)Codeine
(25,586 posts)so you know its good.
TlalocW
(15,394 posts)It works EVERY time.
TlalocW
PoliticAverse
(26,366 posts)TlalocW
(15,394 posts)Both women and men... find three scents that you like and rotate through them. You get used to just one scent, and that makes you think it's losing its potency so you start putting on more because if you can't smell it, you figure others can't either. Well... we can.
TlalocW
Codeine
(25,586 posts)but I limit my application based on how much I hate going to the mall to get more. I think Im on 18 months with my current bottle, but its dregs and vapor now.
GemDigger
(4,305 posts)If you smell like that fraudster that smells like a cesspool, then you would need a gallon at a time.
sprinkleeninow
(20,272 posts)covering up the stink of the 'covering up fraudster' whose smell is eradicable.
TygrBright
(20,780 posts)I remember it had English Leather, Hai Karate, Brut, Old Spice, Polo, Aqua Velva, Aramis, Drakkar Noir, and something called (I am NOT making this up) Joop! on it.
I believe the amounts recommended varied from .0001 mcg to .00000000001 mcg, depending on whether you wanted to get laid by someone of your own gender, a different gender, or a different species.
helpfully,
Bright
krispos42
(49,445 posts)Otherwise, it really depends on how much body hair you have to absorb the cologne and release it in a time-controlled fashion.
This is why teenagers reek of it: They lack absorbency due to their lack of body hair.
It's just scientific!
Marie Marie
(9,999 posts)Laffy Kat
(16,396 posts)Tone it down, will ya?
ProudLib72
(17,984 posts)I prefer good old fashioned gear oil. Pick some up at Walmart and rub it in your hair. You'll be good for a week!
RainCaster
(10,962 posts)If you have posted here before, no response is needed.
sl8
(14,058 posts)highmindedhavi
(355 posts)Only enough to make my wife get close to smell my neck, not ment for anyone else to smell.
UTUSN
(70,810 posts)Xolodno
(6,415 posts)....I'm in my late 40's.
One is from an old girlfriend, another I bought for myself. Then a third my wife bought me about 10-12 years ago.
Side note, after sitting their for literally decades...started using the old girlfriend cologne when my wife and I go out, which is about once or twice a month. She likes it and I might actually get through it this year. The next older one won't take long, used it fairly often because my then girlfriend soon to be wife, loved it.
Once that's done, then use what my wife bought me.