Your first cologne

[rickboone1]

Probably Brut. Or Adidas. Or English Leather. Or Canoe. First one that got a girl's attention....Gravity. Wore it by the gallon.

Polo and Drakkar filled the halls of my middle school. I got my first bottle of Drakkar one Christmas and wondered why in the hell people liked this stuff. 48 sprays and I wasn't feeling it. Felt kind of sick to the tummy, really.

 

[The Knize]

I got my first cologne when I was about 12 years old in my Christmas stocking. It was Wild Country from Avon . A family member has been selling Avon for decades and the house was filled with Avon products. Thanks for the flashback.

thank you, now I have to track down what that first Avon scent was!

 

[heat sink]

First for me was a gift from my older sister when I was in Jr. High I guess : Preferred Stock. I wasn't a scent person but I wore it occasionally, and thought the scent was decent.

Later in high school, I purchased a cologne that I used on and off through HS and college. It wasn't just a scent, it was a force of nature... Gravity.

I honestly can't remember if I finished the bottles or if they just got tossed along the way. I almost picked up a bottle of Gravity for nostalgia's sake, but then I came to my senses and realized I had quite enough olfactory enhancements on my shelf already.

 

[DizzyArnaz]

English Leather when I was really young (9-10 years old).

This was my first too. All the men in our family got it as a stocking stuffer that year.

 

[sensor]

lacoste original 1984. i got it as a gift sometime in 1990's though.

really first first would be nenuco though i had no choice in that one either.

 

[Rollie Juddernaut Fingers]

Lacoste Eau de Toilette Pour Homme. It has lasted over 2 years. It came in a silver bottle. I still have it in fact. I am just nearing the end of it, and am looking for a replacement.

Yeah, I was a little late to the game, as my father always had reactions to the stuff (He only uses one aftershave, that does not make him itch . I always figured I'd have the same problem, but thankfully I didn't.

 

[tempestivo]

Opium YSL .Very nice at the time but haven't actually smelled it in a while .

 

[DFrancis]

Old spice, after going through others I'm back to Old spice, I've always liked it and SWMBO really LOVES it.

 

[tom66]

man, i think it was an avon product, i'm thinking it was either a xmas or birthday gift back in the mid-70's, i do remember that the bottle was shaped like a guitar! the guitar neck was plastic which also served as the bottle cap! lol!
i wish i would have saved the bottle for decanting AS!
i also remember receiving several soap on a rope, old spice, english leather, and various no name colognes during my early years.


the first cologne or maybe it was an EDT, that i bought myself was grey flannel, i hit that stuff hard in the 80's! same goes for quorum and Pierre Cardin!


these days i'm mostly a drugstore aftershave cowboy. good thread.

 

[dougr]

Old Spice and my grandmother gave it to me every Xmas from age 12 along with a box of #2 yellow pencils with my name always misspelled: Doughlas

 

[dougr]

thank you, now I have to track down what that first Avon scent was!

My mother in law was the Avon lady and I got the Wild Country almost every year until they went into the tool gifts. Then things got really bad and I got tire pressure gauges that were battery operated.

 

[Agent8426]

Mine was "Woods" by A&F. My 12th grade girlfriend gave it to me. I cannot remember anything about the smell.

 

[KiltedShaver]

Another Old Spice fellow here. Sometime in Middle school when I began to think about those things I began using my dad's Old Spice. The first full bottle I remember getting was Burt's Bees Bay Rum. I also bought some cheap drugstore colognes (Canoe & Compass, blech.) Would love to find some of the vintage OS that my dad had so I could use it again. DW doesn't like the modern OS.

Cheers!

Aaron

 

[Island King]

My first bottle of cologne was a gift from a girl in high school who had a crush on me. She shop-lifted a bottle of Hugo Boss and thought it would impress me. Took the cologne...but not the girl!

 

[Tyronious]

Can't remeber if it was "Very Sexy" by Victorias Secret or "Pleasures for Men" by CK.

Don't wear them anymore. Their ok fragrances, not great by any means, so I don't know, I may never buy them again.

The stuff I have now (7 bottles, 4 large decants, several samples) are a lot better.

 

[DizzyArnaz]

Mine was "Woods" by A&F. My 12th grade girlfriend gave it to me. I cannot remember anything about the smell.

If I remember correctly, that stuff was AWESOME! As much as I hate the whole A&F culture that's been created by their softcore quarterly mags, that was an amazing fragrance. I had a bottle of it in high school. If I had known they were discontinuing it, I would've stocked up.

 

[Buckfever4life]

I dont remember exactly, but it has to be one of the following: Black Suede, English Leather, Old Spice or Royal Copenhagen. I am leaning towards Old Spice, but my dad always had multiple bottles of after shave/cologne in the bathroom.

 

[Gizmo]

Nautica Original.

 

[Elecid]

+1 for Gravity. In retrospect, that stuff was foul.

 

[fchan]

Swiss Army since I was an early teenager. Still keep a bottle and wear it every now and then.

Usually its Canali Men now though...