Lynx

[pancreas]

A student has left my office reeking with the nauseous smell of Lynx Africa.

I hope there is no-one here who still uses it.

Personally, I like to go with the neutral, inoffensive bouquet of Nivea For Men 'Cool Kick'.

[Cuellar]

I am impressed with its longevity.

We all used it 20 bloody years ago, and it's STILL a touchstone for adolescence.

[Sebastian Cobb]

Smells like handsex and teenage desperation.

[Cuellar]

And is positively Proustian for that very reason.

[BlodwynPig]

A student has left my office reeking with the nauseous smell of Lynx Africa.

I hope there is no-one here who still uses it.

Personally, I like to go with the neutral, inoffensive bouquet of Nivea For Men 'Cool Kick'.

Molton Brown Black Pepper. Be a man.

[Sebastian Cobb]

I go with either Sure purple or green or green cap right guard.

Whichever one happens to be on £1 special at the time.

[Jerzy Bondov]

L'Oreal one that comes in an orange canister, seems to be on offer all the time. I just like orange canisters.

[Sebastian Cobb]

My dad used to use this Aramis stuff that was like spraying chalk all over your armpits.

[kittens]

dove silver control. get that kittens scent

[Jerzy Bondov]

Anybody here on anything other than a spray? The idea of a rolly ball or a stick of paste going all around in my curly armpit hair makes me sick.

[pancreas]

I go with either Sure purple or green or green cap right guard.

Whichever one happens to be on £1 special at the time.

These are quite offensively 'sporty'. Like you want people to think you've been playing badminton. Their use is contraindicated.

[pancreas]

dove silver control. get that kittens scent

Satisfactory. The vulnerability of clean soap: you are not trying to insulate yourself in grease.

[Cuellar]

I know it's bad for the environment but I spray liberally. Currently L'Oreal something yellow. But I also have the black one.

Come summer I'm tempted to get those specialist super hardcore anti-sweat ones that go for about a tenner. I sweat at the slightest provocation and something must be done.

[Sebastian Cobb]

Anybody here on anything other than a spray? The idea of a rolly ball or a stick of paste going all around in my curly armpit hair makes me sick.

I've got a rollerball in my desk for emergencies. Partially because it's horrible whereas if I ran out and used a spray I'd not get another one until that ran out, thus defeating its purpose as a back up.

[Wet Blanket]

Anybody here on anything other than a spray? The idea of a rolly ball or a stick of paste going all around in my curly armpit hair makes me sick.

I find the spray ineffective. Within a couple of hours it's stinky pits time. Roll on provides the all-day protection a hard working man like myself requires. Dove Cool and Fresh is my preferred brand.

Africa was my favourite Lynx as a teen. The move on to proper grown up deodorants came when this was revealed as Alan Partridge's choice.

My local newsagent had a supply of Axe brand Lynx that he was getting from the same dodgy supplier who got him his Coca Cola in entirely Arabic branding. 

[Lisa Jesusandmarychain]

I quite liked " Intuition " and " So This Is Romance ". Oh, and RIP Oscillations.

[Norton Canes]

I've always found Lynx quite appealing

[Lost Oliver]

Cool kick smells like gas and leaves white stains. It's all about L'ORÉAL MEN EXPERT mate. 96 hour protection lads.

[Shit Good Nose]

Lynx is very much like Brut - 9 out of 10 people, regardless of gender, love the smell of it...if they don't know what it is.  The minute they find out, their opinion changes.

[pancreas]

Cool kick smells like gas and leaves white stains. It's all about L'ORÉAL MEN EXPERT mate. 96 hour protection lads.

Why would you need 96 hours, unless you didn't wash for 4 days?

Oh, mate ... are you down on your luck atm?

[gilbertharding]

Sanex roll-on for my pits.

I carry an aerosol of spray-on deodorant in my gym bag for that post-run freshen up - but because Lynx Africa just isn't ironic enough, it's always Old Spice or Brut for me.

[Hat FM]

i use vaseline intensive care because FHM gave it 5/5 in 1997 in their deodorant round up. never question my mindless commitment.

[Sebastian Cobb]

Why would you need 96 hours, unless you didn't wash for 4 days?

Oh, mate ... are you down on your luck atm?

Festival.

[The Culture Bunker]

I have an Aunt who still gets me Lynx stuff for Christmas, despite the fact I am coming up 38 years old and no longer the sexless freak I was over 20 years ago, when I did use the stuff. Never Africa, though, as I thought it was a bit "too much".

[studpuppet]

i use vaseline intensive care because FHM gave it 5/5 in 1997 in their deodorant round up. never question my mindless commitment.

Me too. I hate anything that smells of too much and this does the job. Only two places still stock it: Poundland and Ocado. Go figure.

[studpuppet]

Be a man.

[Shoulders?-Stomach!]

Wilko rollerball on the body then a couple of booshes of aftershave for me.


Deodorant never works for me and anti-perspirant like Sure makes me itch.

Rollerball stuff though, that's good. Of course it's a bit wetter than the alternatives but ain't that bad. And the dirt cheap stuff smells fine, non-disinfectanty or skanky like Lynx Africa.

[shiftwork2]

Impressive brand loyalty from you prawns.  Why not choose what's on offer for £1 like the chap above mentioned?  They're all the bloody same.

[pancreas]

Impressive brand loyalty from you prawns.  Why not choose what's on offer for £1 like the chap above mentioned?  They're all the bloody same.

Hang on. Now that I think about it, I have a vague recollection of smelling Lynx on you at one of the CaB meets. Is that possible?

[gilbertharding]

Why would you need 96 hours, unless you didn't wash for 4 days?

It feeds into the paranoia, the mental scar left from when you were bullied 30 years ago for being smelly - perhaps you grew up with parents who remembered the war, when personal hygiene meant "having a bath once a week whether I need it or not" - an antiperspirant deodorant which promises to work in orders of magnitude greater than actual bathing frequency is an absolute must.

96 hours is pushing it though. Personally I feel sufficiently well adjusted to make do with a 48 hour deodorant.