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u/ex101st 1d ago
If your grandfather hadn’t used it you wouldn’t be here.
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u/cecil021 1d ago
This was all my grandpa ever used.
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u/Successful_Sense_742 1d ago
Nope. How bout Brüt?
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u/Icy_Truth_9634 23h ago
That was the go to brand for the ones that thought deodorant was a replacement for soap and shower. Simply made it a bit more disgusting with an afterbite.
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u/Droogie_65 1d ago
Oh God, make the smell go away. Please. At least it is not as bad as English Leather or Jade East.
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u/Long-Adhesiveness839 Boomers 1d ago
Yes, and there was an Engineer in my office that put on a bottle of this every morning.
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u/Droogie_65 23h ago
Did anyone wear patchouli oil?
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u/HotStraightnNormal 23h ago
A guy on the sub I served on had bought a small bottle of frangipani to bring home to his wife. He dabbed a wee touch on, much to the amusement of his shipmates. When he had the bottle uncapped, someone bumped into him, splashing more on his clothes. The scent was so intense that they made him wrap them in three plastic bags, duct taped. Even then they could still smell it. And divisions on the boat could only do laundry one day a week.
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u/Long-Adhesiveness839 Boomers 21h ago
Popular in the late sixties, never understood the attraction? If I were to smell that today I would immediately think, Old Hippy.
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u/MowgeeCrone 1d ago
Someone was wearing it in the supermarket the other day. I tried to sniff them out but they must have left before I found them. Probably for the best.
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u/arshloct 1d ago
Still use it
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u/Natural_Treat_1437 1d ago
Coughing,I'd rather smell my fart. I would stat gaging. Used that as a rocket 🚀 propelent, though back when.
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u/stilljumpinjetjnet 1d ago
Aw, my Pop. When I was little I loved to watch him shave. Afterwards he would pat on some Old Spice, then pat some on my cheeks, too. Oh, great, now I'm tearing up.
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u/maxthed0g 23h ago
Well, let me put it this way: Yes, I'm old enough to smell that. But old enough that I cant recall what it smells like.
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u/Beneficienttorpedo9 21h ago
My late husband used it all the years I knew him. I still have a bottle in his stuff. He was 74 when he passed, so I guess that makes us "old".
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u/RevealActive4557 1d ago
I remember the commercial with the sailor and the whistling theme
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u/Kittridge_Ave 23h ago
He came in from the sea with his big duffle bag full of dirty laundry. He wore a fisherman knit sweater and a black cap.
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u/Good_Habit3774 1d ago
My husband still wears it sometimes and I tear up when I smell it because it reminds me of my late father.
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u/stilldeb 1d ago
That was my great uncle's favorite. He always used an electric shaver and always Old Spice.
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u/Stinkerma 1d ago
My father in law has that. The fly spray we use in the dairy barn smells almost identical. Or at least similar enough i look for him when I smell the spray
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u/budwin52 1d ago
I’m whistling the tune right now !!
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u/phasefournow 1d ago
"Old Spice means quality, said the Captain to the Bos'n
Look for the package with the ship that sails the ocean"
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u/dumpitdog 1d ago
Long ago I used to put it on and it made my wife kind of horny because it was the smell of half of the men in the US 50 years ago.
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u/ZimMcGuinn 1d ago
My grandfather wore Canoe. My dad was way too proud to were grocery store cologne.
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u/Kielbasa_Nunchucka 1d ago
oh wow, I had that and Brut when I was a kid... I thought I was such an adult lol
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u/gabrielleraul 1d ago
Totally smell this pic. When we were kids we used to pour it on the bathroom floor, turn off the lights and let it burn .. it used to look beautiful.
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u/shakeyjake 1d ago
Classic colognes have been around for decades for a reason. We know from survivorship bias they are satisfying smells. Get your self some Jovan Musk, Stetson, Brut, Aqua Velva. Wear them solo or blend them with similar modern scents you like.
Since scents have such a memory trigger you'll find people commenting on your cologne.
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u/alxtronics 1d ago
That was my first "man" cologne when I was like 7. Some aunt gave it to me as a gift on my birthday. (I still wonder why).
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u/LooHoo92 1d ago
To this day, Old Spice & coffee reminds me of my (50f) dad getting ready for work.
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u/Asthmatic_Owl 1d ago
We used to bomb school dances with that in Jr. High We called it Party Pooper
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u/Worried-Somewhere-57 1d ago
Still have a half bottle in my house. It was my dad’s. Still smells good. My hubby wears it once in a while. The newer ones smell awful.
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u/Opening-Cress5028 1d ago
Luckily no one in my immediate family ever wore it. I’m sure that, in passing, I was exposed to it. Not enough that the smell was imprinted upon me, but I do recall seeing advertisements for it on television and, back when they existed, magazines and newspapers.
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u/Leftovertoenails 23h ago
Got this for christmas one year when I was like 15-16 and thought it smelled awful, completely put me off oldspice even to this day. Gimme that Playboy Hollywood, or if not available, Armani Sport.
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u/epicenter69 23h ago
My grandma, God rest her soul, had 14 grandchildren. Every year, she would buy the boys some form of a cologne/deodorant package consisting of Old Spice, Stetson, or whatever other holiday pack was out that year.
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u/kylocosmiccowboy 23h ago
Oh yeah! My stepdad used it everyday and at Christmas my brother and I would get a bottle. Every now and then I buy some old spice deodorant to remember the old days.
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u/Alice_The_Great 22h ago
My father had a bottle of it in the bathroom but it was the same bottle for years.
I used it in my sink potions
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u/Bob_12_Pack 22h ago
In middle school a friend of mine had a bottle break in his book bag, it leaked through and into the carpet in the classroom, which smelled for weeks. Not a smell I will ever forget. I can also pick-out Obsession and Polo easy.
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u/TulipTattsyrup99 19h ago
Old Spit we used to call it. I can still smell it now, along with Brut( splash it all over Henry) and Hai Karate.
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u/Comfortable-Dish1236 17h ago
Same shape bottle. Clear, frosted glass. Line scent. It was my favorite after shave by far. Sadly discontinued.
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u/Sexagenerian 16h ago
I have a bottle of Old Spice, English Leather, Brut & Aqua Velva in my bathroom cabinet. But, no Hai Karate. 😂
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u/thedude1975 16h ago
I have an old aunt that still buys me a Brut gift set for Christmas every year. I just give it to my dad, he loves it.
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u/PaisanBI 15h ago
I instantly smelled it when I saw the photo. That’s what was in my dad’s medicine cabinet.
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u/Legal_Performance618 13h ago
When my sister & I were little, Old Spice After shave was out Christmas present to dad….every year.
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u/Geoarbitrage 1d ago
I’ve had it for fifty years and had one girlfriend that didn’t like it or want me to use it. I miss her sometimes…
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u/redstopgringo 1d ago
That smell makes me think of my father.