Well, in this day and age, I'd add "get a shave!" to the list, as well.I motion we add " get a haircut !" to the voting list.
Well, in this day and age, I'd add "get a shave!" to the list, as well.I motion we add " get a haircut !" to the voting list.
Nice plan, but I suspect if you ever get old and decrepit enough to be put into one of those homes, "running" is the last thing you'll be doing!To me, Old Spice is "Classic", whereas anything predominantly or significantly floral smells of "old folk". Specifically any old folk I encountered as a kid. Weird, scary, smelly old folk, that for some reason I was expected to be more polite around than "normal" people.
The divide was normally accompanied by someone being called Mr or Mrs something, instead of having a forename. People with forenames never smelled of old folk, and smelly old folk never had forenames. When I started gardening, I preferred growing edibles to flowers, as flowers tend to smell of old folk.
I don't think I'll ever break that association, even if I live to 100, and if I ever get put in a home that smells that way, I'm doing a runner!
Nice plan, but I suspect if you ever get old and decrepit enough to be put into one of those homes, "running" is the last thing you'll be doing!
None of them. Certain scent profiles often trend at certain periods of time, so they get associated with a particular generation. What one thinks is "old man" is to another, "classic" or "timeless," and to another what's "dad," is "great-grandpa." With respect, I think it's a silly and pointless question. The vast majority of ingredients just get reused over and over again over the centuries (lavender, citrus, rosemary, wood).... use what you like!
I didn't say it's silly to discuss those things you mention - rather, I object to calling something "old man." To me, it's fair enough to say you don't like something or that it's reminiscent of a certain time period, but "old man scent" comes off to many people as pejorative and disrespectful.You're right... but I don't think it's silly or pointless discussing our mental associations with scents. We all have our favourites, and our aversions, and it can be just as interesting to discuss the adverse associations we may have, as well as the positives.
This is an interactive shaving internet forum where we discuss things like my “silly and pointless question” (that you just took the time to answer) all day long. I posted the thread to start conversation, not to insult anyone’s aftershave choices.None of them. Certain scent profiles often trend at certain periods of time, so they get associated with a particular generation. What one thinks is "old man" is to another, "classic" or "timeless," and to another what's "dad," is "great-grandpa." With respect, I think it's a silly and pointless question. The vast majority of ingredients just get reused over and over again over the centuries (lavender, citrus, rosemary, wood).... use what you like!
Haha!! Discuss we do and discuss we shall, including sharing our opinions about what we think is silly or pointless. Yeah, there are a lot of lathered soap pics, but to each his own, indeed.This is an interactive shaving internet forum where we discuss things like my “silly and pointless question” (that you just took the time to answer) all day long. I posted the thread to start conversation, not to insult anyone’s aftershave choices.
Most of the comments on this thread are much more interesting to me than pics of lathered soap, but to each their own.
Perhaps because light, bright scents remind people of spring and summer (youth)!while heavier, darker scents remind us of fall and winter (middle and old age.) I also think scents are like anything else. Without a range of exposure, people like what they know. Young people like whatever is being marketed in their era, older people like the familiarity of the “old” scents that were once considered young.
To me, it's fair enough to say you don't like something or that it's reminiscent of a certain time period, but "old man scent" comes off to many people as pejorative and disrespectful.
Now be fair to yourself - it wasn't your "old man" comment, it was your son's! That's how I took it, anyway. Youthful indiscretion, I suppose we can call it.
With me, the "old man" scent, is what was burned into my memory as a small child, and has nothing to do whatsoever with older people today. I know plenty, many I have great respect for, and some I don't, pretty much like any other demographic on the planet.
I have a vivid recollection of floral plus something else, a "formula" of sorts, rather than a specific scent, and thinking "why on earth do people want to smell like that". I probably asked that question out loud a few times, and got a clip round the ear for it too.
Those scents today, reawaken the confusion of that young child. The sense of those people I didn't understand, with their different names, behaviours and expectations, the additional restrictions imposed by all around me, and the change in behaviour of those who were familiar to me around that one group that weren't. And always, there seemed do be that identifying scent type which was seeming compulsory for those people, worn too strong, and clung to wherever they'd recently been.
I like to think I enjoy a variety of scents, from fruits, to spices, to woods. It's less a label of them, and more a label of being so very different from them in so many ways, and that scent being a reliable marker of people and places where I would not be at ease.
There aren't actually that many scents that evoke much of a memory for me, but those do. They mean that other world, and those other people, where I cannot be me. Where I would get in trouble, for no reason I could clearly discern. Other kids my age associated the same scent the same way too. Back then, when the memory was rooted, it was the "old folk" scent. Not just older people, but that sub group of REALLY old people, in whose presence everyone changed and became less fun, and less welcoming.
Perjorative and disrepectful, maybe, but still the indiscretions of a young child, albeit carried through to later life. I cannot leave that behind, and that scent will always take me back, and be associated with people I don't want to be around.
This post confirms what everyone here knows: yes, I'm an old man!Pinaud Clubman
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