My brother prefers to wash with women's soap because he says he doesn't want to smell like sandalwood or "musk". He wants to smell like a beautiful flower.
One day when I was young I realized my favorite smell was cedar wood, but, cedar wood seems to be exclusively marketed for men and I think it's almost the only scent for men. So yeah, I think they do. 😅
Don't forget smoke! Whenever my boyfriend grills(on our charcoal grill) or whenever we have a little bonfire and we get back into the house and it's so noticeable and omg its smells so good on him. I guess this is still in the realm of "trees/woods" though because I'm definitely not talking about weed, cig, or vape smoke. All of that smells TERRIBLE.
I always thought of cedar and sandalwood as gender neutral (I'm a woman) and reading descriptions of someone's soap or favorite fragrance just makes me want to stick a bottle of EDP under my nose so I can inhale that olfactory deliciousness.
I haven't yet seen a character descripted as smelling like 'man', but I Have read an infinite number of descriptions of male characters smelling like sandalwood, cedar, pinetrees or pinecones, cinnamon, fresh earth, 'musky', 'the dark forests' etc.
Yep: I can literally walk into place & sometimes know some of my friends/their family members are being around by the same scent that is in their home. Would not recommend smelling my current apartment - there are reasons as to why it’s smell is vastly different from mine…
Oh that's interesting! I'm a colonge guy so for me masculine scents are like patchouli, leather, tobacco or oud. So when romance novels talk about that I always thought more of my time in my local colonge stores.
I’ve always placed ‘man’ as ‘that very specific smell that the boy you love naturally smells like plus whatever cologne he wears baked into a jacket he’s been wearing for like.. a week’
I was mainly buying to try their shaving cream but I saw man soap and had to try it. They have a Man 2.0 version that is a 3 in 1 body, shampoo, and shave but I opted for 1.0 and a shave soap. 😂
My favorite "man" smell is the Pour Homme collection by Carter and Jane. They describe the scent profile they were going for as: "Top Note: Vetiver + Sweet Spice Middle Note: Leather Base Notes: Wood + Musk + Vanilla" But the ingredients are cedarwood, ho wood, two kinds of sandalwood, vanilla, frankincense, patchouli, and vetiver. All organic.
I just think of this very distinct mix of rexona original and BO that my dad always smelled like. Not a bad smell, just comforting. In more vague literature terms, like a hard day's woke, falling asleep in your father's arms or just simply: man
Thats fits quite well :D Apparently I have synesthesia, sounds and movements has texture and taste/smell to me. And "man" "homem" "ombre" and similar words used to describe male feels like grass, tree or thorns. While Woman, Mulher, Devotcka taste like fresh watter, fruit juice and/or iced/hot tea (variations acording to the language).
That really makes me chuckle, because my Male Lead uses soap scented like juniper and sage, and one of my friends was like, "Oh, so he basically smells like Christmas!" XD
The perfume industry decided a long time ago that some fragrancies were only for men. Sandalwood, cedar, musk, vetiver, citrus, pine, mint, leather... Very natural indeed…
I always have an impression of the smell of warm leather 😅. I have no idea why it stuck in my brain, but a boyfriend I had as a teenager always wore a leather jacket and I’ve always really loved that smell. I don’t even communicate with that person anymore and it’s been decades since our relationship. Still, when a book describes ‘man smell’, warm leather is still what instantly comes to mind for me 😅
I remember reading something where there is a scent component to things, especially with attraction...it's also something that's oddly messed with via birth control with a study it covered where there were odd cases with couples both breaking up and forming due to it.
I finally broke down. I’ve only ever read one romance novel in my life decades ago and didn’t care for the oh poor me female roles, but after listening to you for months, I finally ordered all your books on kindle. I look forward to reading them
When I think of man smell, I think of what my boyfriend smells like after he's been sweating and working all day. That smell is almost sweet and absolutely intoxicating! I can't really describe it, it's just him☺️
Ooo! Leather, oud, and pine are the fragrances I think of. My earliest "man" scent associations are the smell of top soil (that good dirt smell, iykyk) or Hoppes #9 (gun cleaner). My grandfather loved to hunt and garden.
In Dixon Rule, by Elle Kennedy, it's sandalwood. It's spicy (The book, not the smell). But, ya, as a man I guess I need more "mainly" soap, but my skin drys out easy. So guess I smell like unscented Dove.😁
I wouldn't worry about using unscented soap. I am quite sure you have your own scent. The scent of hair a day after it is washed smells distinctly of the individual person. After my sisters stopped using hairspray, I noticed each of them has a distinct scent. (We hug in greeting and when we give our goodbyes.)
I first started reading romance novels in high school, in the 90s. At that point all the boys wore Drakkar Noir, so for the longest time that is what I associated with "man smell".😂 Thankfully we all grew up!
One of my favorite soaps is from a local soap maker and the scent is Southern Gentleman. It reminds me of my Grandpa, but it's not the typical tree smells in most soaps.
I've always liked the "man" scents. Given the choice between smelling like, say, an Asian lily and a freshly cleaned hamster cage, I'm going with hamsters. My favorite perfume, though, smells like a gin and tonic.
as a non-expert on human scents, especially man ones, but someone who has kept many hamsters (all rescues and appropriately kept) i can confirm that hamsters themselves smell delightful, and they all smell slightly different! HOWEVER, you should not clean hamster enclosures to the point it smells of anything. Hamsters have an incredibly strong sense of smell and that just leads to uncomfortable hamsters and respiratory infections. Plus hamster enclosures should not be cleaned with chemicals *EVER* except when you are disinfecting an enclosure with *vinegar* after your hamsters' *death* before you allow another hamster to live in there, or if you get a bug infestation or something. The most cleaning you should do during a hamsters lifespan is sieving the pee clumps out of the sandbath, occasionally replacing smelly bedding if there is any, only if it's on the surface and easily accessible, and rinsing out the wheel in the rare case your hamster is a wheel-peeing one (my most recent one lmao, he was such a character sometimes)! I'm not mad, just don't want the idea of deep-cleaning for hamsters being necessary perpetuated, it can lead to a lot of stress for the little guys and they get stress-related sicknesses incredibly easily, so you shouldn't do that :D i know you meant no harm, just maybe change the freshly cleaned hamster cage smell thing to something else that actually smells strongly of cleaning chemicals? or whatever smell you were going for (p.s. i am more a person who wants to smell of water lilies, but i agree that all smells should be equally accepted :D)
I think they might be trying to say that the men have a more husky, darker scent since that’s what most perfumes for men smell like. Women’s perfumes are either sweet or flowery
My husband and I have fun in the candle aisle at stores. We'll smell them and then try to describe them without using the actual descriptions. So something I would say is that straight up smells like a dude and it's usually something like "leather" or "campfire" or that smells like a clean dude which would be 'waterfall" or something else that smells like Irish spring soap lol 😂😂❤
Actually not so far-fetched; I don't know _why_ this is, but: I am a man and I wear cologne, and there are days when floral, complex stuff goes on my skin and just smells rancid, but good old "pine" never disappoints (although after reading the label, my pine cologne appears to be made largely out of coriander and clove - hence the quotes)
One time I thought I was being haunted or something cause I kept randomly smelling cologne that wasn't my own despite no men besides me wearing cologne in my room recently. Then I movef around and caught a whiff again and realised it was just my own deodorant which I wasn't used to the smell of.
I always assumed it was the scent of the person's skin. If you smell a person's neck or chest, you can usually get the scent of their skin. Don't do it when they've just worked out of course, because it won't smell good, then. But everybody has a natural scent.
I beg to differ, fresh sweat is intoxicating. But it has to be fresh sweat from working not end of day or stress sweat. It also probably depends on the person.
I always assumed "smelling like a man" meant smelling like if a man had just spent some time doing physical labor or anything else that causes a lot of sweating. Everything else is silly nonsense.
Bay Rum springs to mind. I’m not sure if I want to know why Elisabeth’s been in the boy’s locker room … But I *do* want to know if the Liege of Lesser Cuddeley refers to the lady of the same as “wife” 😂!
@@ErnestLordGoringOh BOY does that take me back to when my brother played hockey . . . 😂 My mother was VERY particular about where he was allowed to keep that thing and how often it had to be cleaned, but after a game, coming out of the locker room . . . 😆
There is a distinct "man" smell that isn't the same as masculine scents (trees and such) and it isn't just sweaty BO lockerroom smells either....but its impossible to describe. Its strongest at their scalp imo (but no its not just the shampoo/conditioner they use, bc it remains the same even as the products and even the person changes). Idk it is my own personal experience but as a relatively experienced bi girl, men and women have very distinct natural smells
I have never been close enough to a male (besides my dad but he just lacks the usual 'male' odor) to smell their scalp lol but yes, I can smell boys and men quite distinctly. Just walking by them is enough. Often, I have been able to tell if a foreign man, such as a trade or a family member's friend has been in the house, even hours later, because the smell lingers. The teens at my school usually smell like vaguely unpleasant body pray and sweat, especially in summer, but occasionally, when the smell is more subtle, it is pleasant.
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I think it means musk and like natural pheromones...which if youre jnti that, kudos...
As a person who exists through smells (BOTH my smell and sight are god-awful, but I make do with what I have xD), I always find it *beyond* amusing when people try describing in fiction smells they have never thought of or experienced. Like, my person in pesto who wrote about "the smell of Man"... all the men I know (including myself, until further notice) all smell different xD
I always thought of just the normal smell of skin. 😅 I also think it's a way for authors to both describe a man's smell without being forced to just say "smells like a normal human being" and also another way for them to say the man is manly and stuff. XD
men do have a scent. I'm a teenage girl and when I walk by boys at school I can smell them. Frequently, it is a bit overwhelming. They also smell like wayyy too strong body spray sometimes. But occasionally the odor is pleasant, if it is subtle enough. It's warm and musky and very...human.
Humans have no known pheromones, despite people looking pretty extensively for the last 100 years or so. The organ used to detect pheromones in mammals is called the Jacobson’s Organ and while humans have this organ (or remnants of it) it’s connection to the outside world is sealed and the organ itself is nonfunctional. Plus, people don’t realize how other mammals to do use sex pheromones, like dogs, detect them. Not only do dogs already have a better scent detection than we do, between 10k-100k times better depending on breed, but how they check for sex pheromones is still very personal kinda gross. If you’ve ever seen a male dog lick a female dog’s genitals or urine and the click their teeth before the you’ve seen a dog use its Jacobson’s Organ to check another dog’s sex pheromones, congrats lol.
@gamingwhilebroken2355 the Flehmen response in horses has a special twist of their lips when they are smelling for pheromones specifically. Edit: Corrected spelling.
That kinda salty "musk", and some kinda tree (cedar is popular, but sandalwood is lovely as well). There are also the drink accompaniments like espresso, coffee, whiskey, or brandy (hops are too "tea" like? 😢).
I prefer description of a "man" or "woman" over describing people to smell fruits or flowers because people don't smell those things. When someone says "man" I know what that means but when someone smells like apricose I instantly think that people don't smell like fruits.
🤣🤣🤣 To be fair, how else would you describe the natural scent of any human person? I mean, everybody has a scent unique to them, even if they did not in fact ever use any products that would inevitably add to their particular combination of scents. (Plus, acknowledging that animals or other non-human creatures can almost definitely differentiate male from female just by scent alone?) Yet still ..I have often wondered this same question myself, anyhow.😅😂😂
I love how everyone is saying men smell different things like trees or rain and I just thought they meant they smell like sweat Especially if we're thinking about characters who are constantly fighting in the battlefields. (To be honest I never found men to smell good, they either have no smell or they smell very bad)
I took it to mean what I think a good smelling man would smell like. Trees, sun dried clothes, fresh grass, sex and that undefinable thing that makes some men smell like the tastiest thing walking.
My husband smells like a fall morning after a fresh rain storm mixed with clean linens. I'm pretty glad he doesn't just smell like man because I imagine that smells like toe fungus and an especially overused gaming chair.
The 'smells like' descriptions always amuse me ... almost as much as the 'eye' descriptions. I'm on a series now that, I'm finding mildly offensive in the way her past of trauma, torture, and s
Personally, I've never smelled a "masculine" fragrance (is in, those used in soaps, colognes, and other stuff for men) that I didn't dislike. I also hate most florals, they all smell rougly the same and are super irritating / headache inducing. Pretty much the only fragrances I like are the ones that smell like something I wanna eat, like cucumber, vanilla, cinnamon, fresh fruits, and sugar. I had a lotion that kinda smelled like oatmeal with berries.
They smell like "man" which I translated to smelling like the outdoors thanks to the men in my family being fishers, farmers, hunters and just outdoor hobbies like running and bike riding. When I moved to the Midwest and we have mature pines in our backyard, I hang dry laundry as often as I can and that wind, sun with a hint of pine smell is just amazing. Add a little oil or "mechanic/engine", coffee and light cigar or a freshly lit menthol cigarette (that first spark up always smelled good... kinda like pancakes....) to the combo and BOOM! CORE MEMORIES unlocked from the time handing my dad tools when he was working on his truck or cars. That's what I always think of when it comes to "man" smell, with a hint of amber. That always seems to be a base note for most male fragrances. Amber, sandalwood or cedar.
"Smells like a man" always makes me think of really strong cologne
Strong cologne and sweat
My brother prefers to wash with women's soap because he says he doesn't want to smell like sandalwood or "musk". He wants to smell like a beautiful flower.
Nice
I love that ❤
I'd rather smell like coconut or citrus, personally.
Good for him, gendering fragrances has always been weird to me, just let people smell how they wanna smell.
Lol and I tend to prefer muskier scents for myself. That’s why I love Chanel scents since they are a bit muskier for women scents
You can't convince me ALL of these authors knew about this 😅
Doesn't matter now, they should've specified their canon!!
One day when I was young I realized my favorite smell was cedar wood, but, cedar wood seems to be exclusively marketed for men and I think it's almost the only scent for men. So yeah, I think they do. 😅
The way she just said “MAN SOAP” was just too funny 😂
I love the fact that everyone just unanimously agreed that trees, animals and gas ⛽️ are the man scents 😂😂😂
@@Spyanairo Man = outdoors? To paraphrase Apocalypse Now, it seems many love the smell of gender roles in the morning…
@@ErnestLordGoring sweetie it’s a observation I meant in a joking way calm down internet warrior the UA-cam comment section is safe 😂
Mine smells like sawdust or like tree sap musk? Idk hard to describe. So yeah, that tracks
@HalideHelix animals weren't mentioned either.. but they were just listing other common stereotypical "manly" scents
Don't forget smoke! Whenever my boyfriend grills(on our charcoal grill) or whenever we have a little bonfire and we get back into the house and it's so noticeable and omg its smells so good on him. I guess this is still in the realm of "trees/woods" though because I'm definitely not talking about weed, cig, or vape smoke. All of that smells TERRIBLE.
Its either trees or fresh rain or grass
Or cinnamon
Id def start sneezing if I met the man that smells like grass
Sometimes with a touch of amber resin
Or smoke. Somehow, it's often considered manly, understandable but like. I'd rather go for less addiction genes 😂
@@alirak9261 woodsmoke, just a touch of mesquite or applewood.
I laughed so hard at « cedar », because I swear in half of romance books the men smell of cedar.
It's a close tie with sandalwood, that's for sure! 😂
I always thought of cedar and sandalwood as gender neutral (I'm a woman) and reading descriptions of someone's soap or favorite fragrance just makes me want to stick a bottle of EDP under my nose so I can inhale that olfactory deliciousness.
We literally line closets when you think about it with cedar because it and or kill insects and rodents, but it smells fabulous
My boyfriend smells like woods and lavender. It's an excellent blend
Sounds like a moonlit path
Any chance you know the brand of his colonge?
In my mind, "man" either smells like pine trees or cinnamon, so I guess I was half right?
If your man smells like pine, that's not your man, that's Pinocchio.
I haven't yet seen a character descripted as smelling like 'man', but I Have read an infinite number of descriptions of male characters smelling like sandalwood, cedar, pinetrees or pinecones, cinnamon, fresh earth, 'musky', 'the dark forests' etc.
As far as I can tell men do have “a scent” but it has more to do with the bond people have with them. It’s kinda like vibes
Yep: I can literally walk into place & sometimes know some of my friends/their family members are being around by the same scent that is in their home.
Would not recommend smelling my current apartment - there are reasons as to why it’s smell is vastly different from mine…
Oh that's interesting! I'm a colonge guy so for me masculine scents are like patchouli, leather, tobacco or oud. So when romance novels talk about that I always thought more of my time in my local colonge stores.
In one of my favorite books EVER the live interest is described as smelling like chocolate and trees 🤷♀️😃
New movie: Scent of a Man.
That sounds like a thriller. Something like A Quiet Place, but with scents instead of sound.
Would make a great mockumentary.
Thriller from manhunter’s perspective immediately comes to mind 💙
I’ve always placed ‘man’ as ‘that very specific smell that the boy you love naturally smells like plus whatever cologne he wears baked into a jacket he’s been wearing for like.. a week’
I always equaled ‘man’ to Mahogany and Amber with a bit of Bergamot tossed in for spice.
Dang thats good. I don’t even know what that smells like but its sounds good.
@@trenae77 Oof, that sounds heavenly.
I have an obsession with candles and I had one that had those scents together and it 100% smelled like my boyfriend lol
I think the sheer novelty of that soap was why he started buying from that company. I know I want to.
I was mainly buying to try their shaving cream but I saw man soap and had to try it. They have a Man 2.0 version that is a 3 in 1 body, shampoo, and shave but I opted for 1.0 and a shave soap. 😂
@@glssjg Damn. I want that 3-in-1 soap now. I wonder what it is with us guys that makes us love things like that.
I once bought a soap called "shit, shower, shave" just because of the name.
It was ok.
Sandalwood and leather is usually how my brain translates that.
I would pay so much money to naturally smell like sandalwood and leather.
My favorite "man" smell is the Pour Homme collection by Carter and Jane. They describe the scent profile they were going for as:
"Top Note: Vetiver + Sweet Spice
Middle Note: Leather
Base Notes: Wood + Musk + Vanilla"
But the ingredients are cedarwood, ho wood, two kinds of sandalwood, vanilla, frankincense, patchouli, and vetiver. All organic.
My husband and I use minimal fragrances my husband has his own musk. Frankense and sandalwood come to mind when trying to describe his scent.
I always imagine “man” smell is the aftershave a guy in one of my college classes wore, because I like the smell so much!
I just think of this very distinct mix of rexona original and BO that my dad always smelled like. Not a bad smell, just comforting. In more vague literature terms, like a hard day's woke, falling asleep in your father's arms or just simply: man
Thats fits quite well :D
Apparently I have synesthesia, sounds and movements has texture and taste/smell to me. And "man" "homem" "ombre" and similar words used to describe male feels like grass, tree or thorns. While Woman, Mulher, Devotcka taste like fresh watter, fruit juice and/or iced/hot tea (variations acording to the language).
That really makes me chuckle, because my Male Lead uses soap scented like juniper and sage, and one of my friends was like, "Oh, so he basically smells like Christmas!" XD
The perfume industry decided a long time ago that some fragrancies were only for men. Sandalwood, cedar, musk, vetiver, citrus, pine, mint, leather... Very natural indeed…
Actual fragances for women have some citrus, touches of woods and natural resines. They are usually described as exotics.
Testosterone has its own scent. (I have a super sniffer) It's tough to describe. The closest thing is cedar/pine/sage.
The most “man” smells I’ve encountered are a mix of trees and warm (whatever that means) amber
They are all just really into that soap 😂
In fairness, my girlfriend frequently comments that I smell nice, so maybe that's an important sensory element to attraction for some people.
I always assumed Man smelled like Irish Spring 😂
Cedar, sandlewood and citrus, 😂😂😂😊
Thank you for finally enlightening us after all these years
I always have an impression of the smell of warm leather 😅.
I have no idea why it stuck in my brain, but a boyfriend I had as a teenager always wore a leather jacket and I’ve always really loved that smell. I don’t even communicate with that person anymore and it’s been decades since our relationship. Still, when a book describes ‘man smell’, warm leather is still what instantly comes to mind for me 😅
If we’re thinking pleasant “masculine” smells then woodsy, earthy smells come to mind.
Not sure the scent of pickles counts. 😅😅
I remember reading something where there is a scent component to things, especially with attraction...it's also something that's oddly messed with via birth control with a study it covered where there were odd cases with couples both breaking up and forming due to it.
I finally broke down. I’ve only ever read one romance novel in my life decades ago and didn’t care for the oh poor me female roles, but after listening to you for months, I finally ordered all your books on kindle. I look forward to reading them
Similarly to you I think of the guys dorms in college. So thank you for finding the anwser.
The CEO of men I can say that I often smell like honey, coconut or almond
When I think of man smell, I think of what my boyfriend smells like after he's been sweating and working all day. That smell is almost sweet and absolutely intoxicating! I can't really describe it, it's just him☺️
Wait, what?? What kind of person likes the smell of sweat 💦🤢
Ooo! Leather, oud, and pine are the fragrances I think of. My earliest "man" scent associations are the smell of top soil (that good dirt smell, iykyk) or Hoppes #9 (gun cleaner). My grandfather loved to hunt and garden.
Those soaps are as accurate as skin colored crayons.
In Dixon Rule, by Elle Kennedy, it's sandalwood. It's spicy (The book, not the smell). But, ya, as a man I guess I need more "mainly" soap, but my skin drys out easy. So guess I smell like unscented Dove.😁
@@Dragonmoon8526 I quite like sandalwood. As someone noted, funny how we all think of trees and the outdoors
nothing wrong with that lol. use whatever scent you like.
I wouldn't worry about using unscented soap. I am quite sure you have your own scent. The scent of hair a day after it is washed smells distinctly of the individual person. After my sisters stopped using hairspray, I noticed each of them has a distinct scent. (We hug in greeting and when we give our goodbyes.)
I might need to get that unironically. I have tea trees scented shampoo and conditioner so might as well get soap as well to complete it
I first started reading romance novels in high school, in the 90s. At that point all the boys wore Drakkar Noir, so for the longest time that is what I associated with "man smell".😂 Thankfully we all grew up!
*sigh* these days, instead of Drakkar Noir, it is Axe. You can smell them from 10m away...
One of my favorite soaps is from a local soap maker and the scent is Southern Gentleman. It reminds me of my Grandpa, but it's not the typical tree smells in most soaps.
Ahh thanks for the much needed clarification😂😂
I've always liked the "man" scents. Given the choice between smelling like, say, an Asian lily and a freshly cleaned hamster cage, I'm going with hamsters.
My favorite perfume, though, smells like a gin and tonic.
Is your nose broken? Hamsters and gin smell horrible!
as a non-expert on human scents, especially man ones, but someone who has kept many hamsters (all rescues and appropriately kept) i can confirm that hamsters themselves smell delightful, and they all smell slightly different! HOWEVER, you should not clean hamster enclosures to the point it smells of anything. Hamsters have an incredibly strong sense of smell and that just leads to uncomfortable hamsters and respiratory infections. Plus hamster enclosures should not be cleaned with chemicals *EVER* except when you are disinfecting an enclosure with *vinegar* after your hamsters' *death* before you allow another hamster to live in there, or if you get a bug infestation or something. The most cleaning you should do during a hamsters lifespan is sieving the pee clumps out of the sandbath, occasionally replacing smelly bedding if there is any, only if it's on the surface and easily accessible, and rinsing out the wheel in the rare case your hamster is a wheel-peeing one (my most recent one lmao, he was such a character sometimes)! I'm not mad, just don't want the idea of deep-cleaning for hamsters being necessary perpetuated, it can lead to a lot of stress for the little guys and they get stress-related sicknesses incredibly easily, so you shouldn't do that :D i know you meant no harm, just maybe change the freshly cleaned hamster cage smell thing to something else that actually smells strongly of cleaning chemicals? or whatever smell you were going for (p.s. i am more a person who wants to smell of water lilies, but i agree that all smells should be equally accepted :D)
There's also dr squatch soaps for all natural ones. highly recommend!
I think they might be trying to say that the men have a more husky, darker scent since that’s what most perfumes for men smell like. Women’s perfumes are either sweet or flowery
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Also adore the casual addressing your husband by his title! 😅
"Smells like man" always makes me think of sawdust and the outdoors 😂 glad I was close!
My husband and I have fun in the candle aisle at stores. We'll smell them and then try to describe them without using the actual descriptions. So something I would say is that straight up smells like a dude and it's usually something like "leather" or "campfire" or that smells like a clean dude which would be 'waterfall" or something else that smells like Irish spring soap lol 😂😂❤
Actually not so far-fetched; I don't know _why_ this is, but: I am a man and I wear cologne, and there are days when floral, complex stuff goes on my skin and just smells rancid, but good old "pine" never disappoints (although after reading the label, my pine cologne appears to be made largely out of coriander and clove - hence the quotes)
lmao love every second of this😂👌 yeah even when it's described in more detail the ML always smells like trees😂
I thought it was obvious. Man smells like woods, smoke, grass, outdoors. There's also aftershave, but you could have any fragrance you like.
One time I thought I was being haunted or something cause I kept randomly smelling cologne that wasn't my own despite no men besides me wearing cologne in my room recently. Then I movef around and caught a whiff again and realised it was just my own deodorant which I wasn't used to the smell of.
I immediately asume smelling like mean is a euphemism for smelling sweaty. Or worse.
I always assumed it was the scent of the person's skin. If you smell a person's neck or chest, you can usually get the scent of their skin. Don't do it when they've just worked out of course, because it won't smell good, then. But everybody has a natural scent.
I beg to differ, fresh sweat is intoxicating. But it has to be fresh sweat from working not end of day or stress sweat. It also probably depends on the person.
"Woodsy" is one of the most common smells I've read for male romance leads
Big fan of sandlewood, leather, and tobacco notes myself
I always thought it was tree, woodsmoke, leather, and raw vanilla with a hint of clean sweat.
“mAn sOap!”
I love her😌
I always assumed "smelling like a man" meant smelling like if a man had just spent some time doing physical labor or anything else that causes a lot of sweating. Everything else is silly nonsense.
So did I, actually.
@@cmm5542 Glad I'm not the only one! 🙂
I need to see that Anne Boleyn shirt you're wearing!
Bay Rum springs to mind. I’m not sure if I want to know why Elisabeth’s been in the boy’s locker room …
But I *do* want to know if the Liege of Lesser Cuddeley refers to the lady of the same as “wife” 😂!
From what I remember of my high school, you don't have to be _in_ the boys' locker room to know how It smells like...It tends to ooze out...
@@annalisalundberg4561 *Shudders in memory of passing hockey bags* 😁
@@ErnestLordGoringOh BOY does that take me back to when my brother played hockey . . . 😂 My mother was VERY particular about where he was allowed to keep that thing and how often it had to be cleaned, but after a game, coming out of the locker room . . . 😆
There is a distinct "man" smell that isn't the same as masculine scents (trees and such) and it isn't just sweaty BO lockerroom smells either....but its impossible to describe. Its strongest at their scalp imo (but no its not just the shampoo/conditioner they use, bc it remains the same even as the products and even the person changes). Idk it is my own personal experience but as a relatively experienced bi girl, men and women have very distinct natural smells
I have never been close enough to a male (besides my dad but he just lacks the usual 'male' odor) to smell their scalp lol but yes, I can smell boys and men quite distinctly. Just walking by them is enough. Often, I have been able to tell if a foreign man, such as a trade or a family member's friend has been in the house, even hours later, because the smell lingers. The teens at my school usually smell like vaguely unpleasant body pray and sweat, especially in summer, but occasionally, when the smell is more subtle, it is pleasant.
I think it means musk and like natural pheromones...which if youre jnti that, kudos...
I always think of smelly socks for men
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You are hilarious!!!
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As a man who makes his own soaps, shampoo bars and deodorants...yes, trees...and patchouli 😅
As a person who exists through smells (BOTH my smell and sight are god-awful, but I make do with what I have xD), I always find it *beyond* amusing when people try describing in fiction smells they have never thought of or experienced.
Like, my person in pesto who wrote about "the smell of Man"... all the men I know (including myself, until further notice) all smell different xD
Smoke, firewood, caramel ❤
I always thought of just the normal smell of skin. 😅 I also think it's a way for authors to both describe a man's smell without being forced to just say "smells like a normal human being" and also another way for them to say the man is manly and stuff. XD
men do have a scent. I'm a teenage girl and when I walk by boys at school I can smell them. Frequently, it is a bit overwhelming. They also smell like wayyy too strong body spray sometimes. But occasionally the odor is pleasant, if it is subtle enough. It's warm and musky and very...human.
some people just have a specific smell and humans do not smell like trees, they can smell earthy however
My natural scent is kinda like Italian seasoning.
I always thought 'man' was like a genre of scent kinda like how 'feminine' is all things sweet and floral no matter how unfounded amy of it is.
Male pheromones come to mind to me hahahah
Humans have no known pheromones, despite people looking pretty extensively for the last 100 years or so. The organ used to detect pheromones in mammals is called the Jacobson’s Organ and while humans have this organ (or remnants of it) it’s connection to the outside world is sealed and the organ itself is nonfunctional.
Plus, people don’t realize how other mammals to do use sex pheromones, like dogs, detect them. Not only do dogs already have a better scent detection than we do, between 10k-100k times better depending on breed, but how they check for sex pheromones is still very personal kinda gross. If you’ve ever seen a male dog lick a female dog’s genitals or urine and the click their teeth before the you’ve seen a dog use its Jacobson’s Organ to check another dog’s sex pheromones, congrats lol.
@gamingwhilebroken2355 the Flehmen response in horses has a special twist of their lips when they are smelling for pheromones specifically.
Edit: Corrected spelling.
SCO'ISH SPRING: SOAP FOR MEN
THIS ISN'T ONE OF THOSE GEURLY SOAPS WITH FLOWERY SCENTS, IT'S GOT SAND AND GRIT AND BITS OF BROKEN GLASS
That kinda salty "musk", and some kinda tree (cedar is popular, but sandalwood is lovely as well). There are also the drink accompaniments like espresso, coffee, whiskey, or brandy (hops are too "tea" like? 😢).
Hops tends to make people sleep. Narcolepsy is an occupational hazard of hops harvesters. So I can see why this scent would not be preferred for men.
My boss produces a soap that I can’t describe as anything other than “clean man smell”😂
I usually think of "man" or "manly" scents being like: cedar, leather, and wood smoke.
I prefer description of a "man" or "woman" over describing people to smell fruits or flowers because people don't smell those things. When someone says "man" I know what that means but when someone smells like apricose I instantly think that people don't smell like fruits.
That's better than what I always assumed 'man' smelled like, which is basically just sweat 😂
I'm with you on "smells like man" = "boy's locker room."
Huh, i never really thought about what i thought it smelled likem i just always imagine this strong, musk that just smelled really good and fulfilling
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To be fair, how else would you describe the natural scent of any human person? I mean, everybody has a scent unique to them, even if they did not in fact ever use any products that would inevitably add to their particular combination of scents. (Plus, acknowledging that animals or other non-human creatures can almost definitely differentiate male from female just by scent alone?)
Yet still ..I have often wondered this same question myself, anyhow.😅😂😂
No, these authors are just describing BO. It’s just straight up Boysmell. Unfiltered ManMusk. Some people are into that ig.
No cause I almost choked at the part where you showed the soap labeled “man”
Al so slit out my noodles as well but I didn’t so that was a save
Y’all can’t tell me they don’t mean sandalwood as well cause that stuff smells HEAVENLY
I love how everyone is saying men smell different things like trees or rain and I just thought they meant they smell like sweat
Especially if we're thinking about characters who are constantly fighting in the battlefields.
(To be honest I never found men to smell good, they either have no smell or they smell very bad)
I think Home Improvement did an episode about this.
I took it to mean what I think a good smelling man would smell like.
Trees, sun dried clothes, fresh grass, sex and that undefinable thing that makes some men smell like the tastiest thing walking.
My husband smells like a fall morning after a fresh rain storm mixed with clean linens.
I'm pretty glad he doesn't just smell like man because I imagine that smells like toe fungus and an especially overused gaming chair.
Cedar and pine tree is how some authors who elaborate on the “man” smell describe it so I think this soap hits the nail on the head
The 'smells like' descriptions always amuse me ... almost as much as the 'eye' descriptions.
I'm on a series now that, I'm finding mildly offensive in the way her past of trauma, torture, and s
Probably citrus as well.
I think my favorite description was a "forest fire in winter" yes that is from Lore Olympus
Personally, I've never smelled a "masculine" fragrance (is in, those used in soaps, colognes, and other stuff for men) that I didn't dislike. I also hate most florals, they all smell rougly the same and are super irritating / headache inducing. Pretty much the only fragrances I like are the ones that smell like something I wanna eat, like cucumber, vanilla, cinnamon, fresh fruits, and sugar. I had a lotion that kinda smelled like oatmeal with berries.
They smell like "man" which I translated to smelling like the outdoors thanks to the men in my family being fishers, farmers, hunters and just outdoor hobbies like running and bike riding. When I moved to the Midwest and we have mature pines in our backyard, I hang dry laundry as often as I can and that wind, sun with a hint of pine smell is just amazing. Add a little oil or "mechanic/engine", coffee and light cigar or a freshly lit menthol cigarette (that first spark up always smelled good... kinda like pancakes....) to the combo and BOOM! CORE MEMORIES unlocked from the time handing my dad tools when he was working on his truck or cars. That's what I always think of when it comes to "man" smell, with a hint of amber. That always seems to be a base note for most male fragrances. Amber, sandalwood or cedar.
Oh thank god someone figured this out XD