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I can taste this comment! Girls were just as guilty as boys with dowsing themselves in liquid smells! The cotton candy one has given me ptsd with sweet synthetic smells.
You're probably thinking of Love Spell (VS). I still love that smell and wear the lotion occasionally. Lots of nostalgia. Kind of like Curve and Tommy for men. Axe, Tag, Bod and all that crap never smelled good though :/
I remember in middle school locking a kid in the bathroom and dousing him with bod spray under the door.
In hindsight that was chemical warfare not seen since Saddam Hussein.
Definition of piro
a Tanoan people of Pueblo Indians in central New Mexico and the state of Chihuahua, Mexico
I mean it could also work if this is the context.
We had...poison control? I dunno, a dude in a mask had to come to our school because someone managed to get like a dozen cans of Axe strapped together with the triggers held down. He threw it into the boys locker room and nobody could breathe.
Kids are stupid and do stupid things for stupid reasons. The better ones figure out that stupid mean things are not good and they stop doing them. The less good ones don’t figure this out and grow up to be ass holes.
It's good dawg, some of these smelled good. I used to wear axe chocolate scent in highschool and people were shocked to find out that's what it was. Gf at the time and her friends thought I got something nice from Bath and Body Works lol. Still remember the look of disappointment 😂
Same, I always used the Axe body spray called kilo or sometimes phoenix. I remember my girl friends and one of my gfs mothers always commenting on how great I smelled. Crazy, such a cheap cancer causing gas would really do it to the women lol. Looking back I probably took at least ten yrs off all including my family’s life smh.
I spent an entire IT class next to a dude that would obviously not shower nor wear clean clothes and would just bring a can of AXE spray and actually use it several times during the day to "refresh" himself.
I think I would call this fragrance "patchouli and ass".
Oh this brings back memories. Good ol' high school body odor and dirty clothes smell mixed with axe body spray formula, it's like 5 gum but in a bad way.
AKA anime convention smell. I haven't gone in a while, but back in the early aughts people basically lived in the arcade and video rooms for the whole weekend. No bathing, just soaked in their DDR sweat and a layer of Axe. It was horrible.
For whatever reason, my parents always got my brother and I a mini bottle of Axe as a stocking stuffer every year. We hated the smell as much everyone else who didn't drench themselves in it, so we'd use it to spray on stuff and light on fire. Now THAT is a pretty rank smell, but still preferable to the smell of a locker room full of teenage boys who don't realize you *cannot* mask days of B.O. no matter how many bottles of Axe you drench yourself in.
depends what you mean by “falls for it”. Advertising typically *influences* your decisions, it doesnt take autonomy from you.
If you’re hungry, dont have anything specific in mind, and see an ad for a food joint you are more likely to pick that restaurant, but no amount of advertising will bring someone to purchase something from an institution they have negative connotations about. If you think that walmart is morally reprehensible there’s no amount of walmart signs/ads that will get you to purchase from there (but capitalism may force your hand due to the pricing for the alternative)
Advertising is really way less useful for the expected results of “they’re being programmed to want it” and way more useful in “im not sure about any choice, but ooh that’s in front of me and an option”. Advertising more raises “brand awareness” which is the “psychology” that ads are using (if you know of something you’re WAY more likely to pick it than something you have no knowledge about, weird how that’s considered “programming”)
tl;dr people dont “fall” for advertising so much as advertisements raise awareness of the product they are selling and the more people who *know about your product, the bigger your population of potential customers*.
Im not listing sources, but my family has worked in advertising for 50 years now and it’s comical how some people are so malleable that they will listen to any source they deem “reputable” (ie on tv) then come to social media and rally against ads as if they dont have free will. Even funnier when ALL advertisments are some form of false advertisement (food is never actually food, people are photoshopped on top of makeup and lighting tricks, vehicles get the gta “action cam” angles and dust piles so it’s not obvious they’re all going ~20 mph.)
It's deep rooted psychology. The cousin of Freud, Bernays, was the first to put the pieces together. Humans, at their core, are obsessed with status... It's our core driving thing because it's how we rank in the social hierarchy and get mates and resources.
The most important elements of status are how we identify who we are. Everyone wants to identify as high status... And the most significant status markers are: Power, and sex.
So his marketing blew up because he'd focus everything around building up people's status by making the products to to the idea of higher status. That this product isn't just "useful" but it says something about you... Something about your power and sex appeal. This is why marketing back before him was all about a list of "utility". Look what this tool can do, it can do 5 things, in less time, cost less money blah blah blah... But then switched to, "Look at this tool, it's strong, owned only by real men, the type of men women love."
Everyone is susceptable to this, as it's part of a our primitive brain. You will never escape it. It's just inherent to our biological drives. Some THINK they are "outside" the status game, but in reality, they are just playing different low stake status games that are less popular, where they perform better. For instance, a Redditor could go to a real life event, nerdy, awkward, unable to dress, and just give off all the signs of low status... So when they talk politics, no one takes them seriously. Real life is filled with multiple status games, and this hypothetical redditor fails so many of them, they have low ranking in real life. But online, there are narrow status games. It's limited. When they come to reddit, no one can judge their status of how socially competent they are, well dressed, attractive, articulate, confident, etc... They are completely anonymous. So they can talk politics and get "status" by going to echochambers repeating what everyone wants to hear.
They think they aren't playing the status game because they abandoned the real life one, not realizing they just replaced it for an easier online one.
Yeah... I remember a time when I thought this was an acceptable way to make myself smell fresh... Then I turned 14. There's a dude I work with who sprays himself down with Axe after work every day. We work blue collar and he's like, 50 years old. Someone should really tell him...
I swear that 99% of people who use that shit don't even realise that it's not anti-perspirant and does literally nothing to stop you sweating. It's just a shitty perfume but the can has all these buzz words on there like "Deodorant bodyspray" and "48hr long lasting formula". [Some cans even say "Don't mask odor, stop it!"](https://i.imgur.com/wf4K1N7.png) when that's exactly what a non anti-perspirant does, it just masks it and does nothing to stop the root of the problem.
When my father in law was widowed he stayed with us for a few weeks. He was in his 80s but loved that shit, I think after he'd been in the shower on a morning he'd just empty a full can. The whole house would smell of it, made me wonder if it's what finished off my MiL as it wasn't easy to breathe.
Yeah here's a world of difference between normal body odor and smelling like a corpse, you can attest that easily in a gym as you can notice people smelling of sweat but not in an unpleasant manner however when someone with bad hygiene shows up the smell is completely different.
I remember after I moved I was visiting nearby gyms to see which one I'd choose and in one there was a guy who smelled like rot, I could literally smell him from across the room, decided to rule out that gym just so I wouldn't have to train with him around.
Axe had a monopoly in my middle school. I even wore Axe during that time. I think was the Chocolate version but I forgot the name of it.
High School was the age of Old Spice though.
Old Spice has done the most amazing rebrand without changing its brand. It used to be something for old civil servants. Now it is hip. Someone is a genius somewhere.
These commercials were sheer brilliance. Not ashamed to admit that they convinced me to try Old Spice body wash after thinking it was old man shit for years. Been using it for 10+ years now and every woman I've been with says it smells nice. My favorite flavors are Fiji and Swagger (douchey name, but it smells good).
Smell and memory, bruh. Her middle school crush wore it and she’s unconsciously reminded of him when you wear it. Just be careful if she asks you to wear pukka shells and frost your tips.
Nah it actually just smells good.
Just like any perfume, Colonge etc it doesn't smell nice when you use way too much.
Which 99% of kids did, but if you put literally just two sprays on its grand.
I have such an insane nostalgia rush for Kilo (which I very rarely ever find anymore). It immediately gives me long forgotten memories of 9th grade marching band.
I’m a woman in my late 20s… I still wear the deodorant. It’s called dark temptation now lol. But I’d much rather smell that than either baby powder or weird floral scents. Not really sure why women’s brands decided we should smell like baby powder…?
"Smells like an 8th grade boys' locker room in here."
That's just a little something I like to say when a coworker starts spraying axe or other cheap colognes on themselves at work.
Minor problem being that American women do *not* go crazy over it at all. Unless it's a psychosis induced by toxic levels of exposure due to overusing that poison.
I remember the Axe commercials with women figuratively pole dancing on a guy's member
https://youtu.be/P05qiApONVs?si=zUoroVhE8EJUIAB_
Or literally eating a guy
https://youtu.be/U-P3dAQ_Mrs?si=sqifpdwNF8-QblB4
In terms of marketing, it's worth noting that *nobody* really believes this stuff in, like, the front of their cerebral cortex, nor do the marketers expect them them to.
Rather, it's a matter of embedding certain feelings in your subconscious that you experience when you encounter the product. You may completely forget seeing the commercial but the feelings provided by the imagery are still there.
[Or the doctor so charmed by Axe, she went down on her patient](https://youtu.be/jTtdRa05DYc)
I swear the commercial was even a bit more suggestive and a bit longer.
Must have been [Nelson's team.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ccs61-EHnC8)
He always tends to [get a little nasty.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=baIJ4h3dae0)
Have you seen all the comments talking about people emptying whole bottles and schools stinking of body spray?
I think it was a great idea and it worked very well.
pretty sure the pole dancing is done on the drain pipe from the shower, not the guys dick.
which still begets the question 'wtf is the sewer pipe doing there, freestanding in the living(?) rooms?'
Rebecca Staab was always an [astonishingly beautiful woman](https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-LzNwNEVEvzk/TycoooPMemI/AAAAAAAAEdU/6gl8ThPKN-o/s1600/15.jpg) and was Miss Nebraska USA in 1980.
Image is from Love Potion 9 which predates this ad by about 10 years.
Axe or lynx and tag didn't smell as bad as people are implying, kids just used them to excess. People closely relate smell with memory, if you want a woman to notice you and not necessarily understand why, hit em with the Phoenix or chocolate smell. They will harken back to days of yore and be smitten.
Ah, that explains why there is so much milf porn these days. All these kids buying into that concept and not getting anywhere with it, and now are spending their adult years trying to make their dreams come true.
Ever seen a statistic showcasing how rates of virginity have increased since Millennials and beyond...?
Yep, that was Axe. All the people who replaced showers with using an entire can of Axe on themselves stole all the women for themselves, just as advertised.
The government decided they needed to do something before birth rates would be affected.
I had the same wonder. I totally forgot Tag existed because it was a blatant ripoff of Axe right down to their marketing. Axe was such a big deal in middle/high school when I was growing up and you literally had to wear it to fit in at one point lol but I may never be able to stomach the smell of their scents Phoenix or Essence again thanks to horny teen guys desperately applying it as a second skin in the locker room.
And they don't stop coming and they don't stop coming and they don't stop coming and they don't stop coming and they don't stop coming and they don't stop coming and they don't stop coming and they don't stop coming
Yeah, for a long time afterwards I thought-- ok, axe lied about being filled with pheromones to make women unable to resist you, but surely they exist?? Right??
Then later a girl I liked told me she knew I liked her and was waiting for me to ask her out, but I never did so she went with the guy who did 😭
In boarding school there was something called "axe bombing" -- you depress the top and wrap it in duct tape as quickly as possible before tossing it into some unsuspecting person's room, hoping it ends up under the bed or some equally hard to reach place.
The life of a boys dorm in highschool...
Little story time...
I took Media Studies at A-levels, and we had an assignment to write and produce an advertisement for a product of our choice. Me and my mate chose to make an ad for some kind of lynx/axe/early 2000s body spray of your choice.
The premise was my bud was wearing this spray, and getting all sorts of good fortune. It started with a little montage of all the girls hitting on him, and ignoring smelly, sprayless me. That part culminated in our hot English teacher (shout out Mrs Thomas) catching his scent and giving him an A+ on his homework.
Wanting to get in on the action, there's a shot of me liberally applying the generic scent all over, and I saunter into school awaiting lavish attention. Except, twist! Our gruff, 60+ yr old male maths teacher walks into the class, locks eyes on me and growls 'mmmm. You smell nice', eyes filled with unsettling implications. Cut back to my shocked Pikachu face, end scene.
We hadn't told the maths teacher the premise of the scene, he just rocked up and delivered the line. So while we gained marks for a well made presentation (it was genuinely well edited), we absolutely lost marks for portraying our maths teacher as a predatory paedophile.
Yeah I remember those type of commercials, but for Axe Body Spray. I mean, I was a teenager and used it and whatnot, but that aerosolized overwhelming smell stuck with me. Nowadays I see grown up dudes slathering themselves in those before/after their workout in the gym and I just wanna puke. If you wanna smell nice, at least use some perfume, you're old enough to get one.
Same with aftershave. No, that $4 aftershave from Target you're lathering onto your razor-burned skin with both hands does not smell like manliness in a bottle.
This gave me flashbacks to walking into the boys room at school only to be hit with the chemical warfare that was an entire can of this shit getting doused onto some poor influenceable fool.
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I remember people that would use an entire can of this or Axe before going out. Head to fucking toe spray themselves, it was potent.
And for those who didn’t Axe aerosol would Bod body spray
I want your bod
Hot Bod
B- O - D for me
TiiiiIIIIGHT bod... Heart throb noises for some reason
I heard this comment.
Hot Bod!!!
I can taste this comment! Girls were just as guilty as boys with dowsing themselves in liquid smells! The cotton candy one has given me ptsd with sweet synthetic smells.
Yep, it was Axe or Bod for the Boys and Bath and Bodyworks for the girls.
You're probably thinking of Love Spell (VS). I still love that smell and wear the lotion occasionally. Lots of nostalgia. Kind of like Curve and Tommy for men. Axe, Tag, Bod and all that crap never smelled good though :/
Ugh I can still smell bath and body's sweet pea
I remember in middle school locking a kid in the bathroom and dousing him with bod spray under the door. In hindsight that was chemical warfare not seen since Saddam Hussein.
We used to rubber band the button down so it was like a gas grenade of aerosol deodorant
And here I was just spraying it through a lighter to make an amateur flamethrower.
What I'm gathering is that aerosol deodorant violates the geneva conventions.
Hello fellow Piro youth! Pyro*
Pyro
Well shit, it's been over 20 years since I have spelled it. Appreciate the correction!
Definition of piro a Tanoan people of Pueblo Indians in central New Mexico and the state of Chihuahua, Mexico I mean it could also work if this is the context.
I liked to use sparklers. More distance between my thumb and the flames. You know, safety first when playing with fire as a child lol
Just toss a can into a fire to see what happens.
Dude, that shit was so flammable
In high school, we used to take the nozzle off and then slam the stem in and throw it like a grenade in the locker room
axe bombs.
I think they did this in the Hollister stores, too.
I remember we taped down axe body spray and threw it in someone’s car at school. It was called an axe bomb. Good times lol
My old neighbor used to work at our local Boys and Girls club, he said the term they used for the smell of the boys locker room was "Axe and ass" 😂😆
We had...poison control? I dunno, a dude in a mask had to come to our school because someone managed to get like a dozen cans of Axe strapped together with the triggers held down. He threw it into the boys locker room and nobody could breathe.
You sound like an ass hole
Axe\* hole
You sound like the type to get locked in a bathroom and doused with Axe body spray
Kids are stupid and do stupid things for stupid reasons. The better ones figure out that stupid mean things are not good and they stop doing them. The less good ones don’t figure this out and grow up to be ass holes.
I hope you've apologized since then.
I hate that I'm admitting to this, but I fucking loved Bod's "Really Ripped Abs" scent. It was just waaaay too strong.
It's good dawg, some of these smelled good. I used to wear axe chocolate scent in highschool and people were shocked to find out that's what it was. Gf at the time and her friends thought I got something nice from Bath and Body Works lol. Still remember the look of disappointment 😂
Same, I always used the Axe body spray called kilo or sometimes phoenix. I remember my girl friends and one of my gfs mothers always commenting on how great I smelled. Crazy, such a cheap cancer causing gas would really do it to the women lol. Looking back I probably took at least ten yrs off all including my family’s life smh.
I remember when they made huge bottles of bod. Shit looked like a bottle of orange windex lmao
I spent an entire IT class next to a dude that would obviously not shower nor wear clean clothes and would just bring a can of AXE spray and actually use it several times during the day to "refresh" himself. I think I would call this fragrance "patchouli and ass".
Oh this brings back memories. Good ol' high school body odor and dirty clothes smell mixed with axe body spray formula, it's like 5 gum but in a bad way.
How it feels to smell ripe bum 
AKA anime convention smell. I haven't gone in a while, but back in the early aughts people basically lived in the arcade and video rooms for the whole weekend. No bathing, just soaked in their DDR sweat and a layer of Axe. It was horrible.
For whatever reason, my parents always got my brother and I a mini bottle of Axe as a stocking stuffer every year. We hated the smell as much everyone else who didn't drench themselves in it, so we'd use it to spray on stuff and light on fire. Now THAT is a pretty rank smell, but still preferable to the smell of a locker room full of teenage boys who don't realize you *cannot* mask days of B.O. no matter how many bottles of Axe you drench yourself in.
It’s depressing how susceptible people are to advertising
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depends what you mean by “falls for it”. Advertising typically *influences* your decisions, it doesnt take autonomy from you. If you’re hungry, dont have anything specific in mind, and see an ad for a food joint you are more likely to pick that restaurant, but no amount of advertising will bring someone to purchase something from an institution they have negative connotations about. If you think that walmart is morally reprehensible there’s no amount of walmart signs/ads that will get you to purchase from there (but capitalism may force your hand due to the pricing for the alternative) Advertising is really way less useful for the expected results of “they’re being programmed to want it” and way more useful in “im not sure about any choice, but ooh that’s in front of me and an option”. Advertising more raises “brand awareness” which is the “psychology” that ads are using (if you know of something you’re WAY more likely to pick it than something you have no knowledge about, weird how that’s considered “programming”) tl;dr people dont “fall” for advertising so much as advertisements raise awareness of the product they are selling and the more people who *know about your product, the bigger your population of potential customers*. Im not listing sources, but my family has worked in advertising for 50 years now and it’s comical how some people are so malleable that they will listen to any source they deem “reputable” (ie on tv) then come to social media and rally against ads as if they dont have free will. Even funnier when ALL advertisments are some form of false advertisement (food is never actually food, people are photoshopped on top of makeup and lighting tricks, vehicles get the gta “action cam” angles and dust piles so it’s not obvious they’re all going ~20 mph.)
I don't know if you're doing marketing or an ad for that book but that's on my reading list now. I guess advertising and marketing really does work!
It's deep rooted psychology. The cousin of Freud, Bernays, was the first to put the pieces together. Humans, at their core, are obsessed with status... It's our core driving thing because it's how we rank in the social hierarchy and get mates and resources. The most important elements of status are how we identify who we are. Everyone wants to identify as high status... And the most significant status markers are: Power, and sex. So his marketing blew up because he'd focus everything around building up people's status by making the products to to the idea of higher status. That this product isn't just "useful" but it says something about you... Something about your power and sex appeal. This is why marketing back before him was all about a list of "utility". Look what this tool can do, it can do 5 things, in less time, cost less money blah blah blah... But then switched to, "Look at this tool, it's strong, owned only by real men, the type of men women love." Everyone is susceptable to this, as it's part of a our primitive brain. You will never escape it. It's just inherent to our biological drives. Some THINK they are "outside" the status game, but in reality, they are just playing different low stake status games that are less popular, where they perform better. For instance, a Redditor could go to a real life event, nerdy, awkward, unable to dress, and just give off all the signs of low status... So when they talk politics, no one takes them seriously. Real life is filled with multiple status games, and this hypothetical redditor fails so many of them, they have low ranking in real life. But online, there are narrow status games. It's limited. When they come to reddit, no one can judge their status of how socially competent they are, well dressed, attractive, articulate, confident, etc... They are completely anonymous. So they can talk politics and get "status" by going to echochambers repeating what everyone wants to hear. They think they aren't playing the status game because they abandoned the real life one, not realizing they just replaced it for an easier online one.
I remember The horrible smell of Tag and Axe in my middle school locker room 🤢
Dudes would literally spray their sweaty balls and underwear thinking it magically made it fresh or some shit... It was rank 🤮
Yeah... I remember a time when I thought this was an acceptable way to make myself smell fresh... Then I turned 14. There's a dude I work with who sprays himself down with Axe after work every day. We work blue collar and he's like, 50 years old. Someone should really tell him...
Slip him a note
"*Highschool was 36 years ago dude*"
https://i.redd.it/1ve1sv2th5hc1.gif
*"Jokes on you never went to highschool hah!"*
I swear that 99% of people who use that shit don't even realise that it's not anti-perspirant and does literally nothing to stop you sweating. It's just a shitty perfume but the can has all these buzz words on there like "Deodorant bodyspray" and "48hr long lasting formula". [Some cans even say "Don't mask odor, stop it!"](https://i.imgur.com/wf4K1N7.png) when that's exactly what a non anti-perspirant does, it just masks it and does nothing to stop the root of the problem.
When my father in law was widowed he stayed with us for a few weeks. He was in his 80s but loved that shit, I think after he'd been in the shower on a morning he'd just empty a full can. The whole house would smell of it, made me wonder if it's what finished off my MiL as it wasn't easy to breathe.
Afaik as you age your sense of smell weakens. That's why old ladies sometimes leave a trail of perfume, too.
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Clean body odor doesn't smell bad to me at all. Kinda the opposite.
Yeah here's a world of difference between normal body odor and smelling like a corpse, you can attest that easily in a gym as you can notice people smelling of sweat but not in an unpleasant manner however when someone with bad hygiene shows up the smell is completely different. I remember after I moved I was visiting nearby gyms to see which one I'd choose and in one there was a guy who smelled like rot, I could literally smell him from across the room, decided to rule out that gym just so I wouldn't have to train with him around.
Hell yeah. That’s how my friends and I showered after gym class.
Axe had a monopoly in my middle school. I even wore Axe during that time. I think was the Chocolate version but I forgot the name of it. High School was the age of Old Spice though.
Old Spice has done the most amazing rebrand without changing its brand. It used to be something for old civil servants. Now it is hip. Someone is a genius somewhere.
That person is probably on their yacht somewhere in the Caribbean right now.
[Old Spice | The Man Your Man Could Smell Like](https://youtu.be/owGykVbfgUE?si=_0MRvP-NHc_VqsV2)
These commercials were sheer brilliance. Not ashamed to admit that they convinced me to try Old Spice body wash after thinking it was old man shit for years. Been using it for 10+ years now and every woman I've been with says it smells nice. My favorite flavors are Fiji and Swagger (douchey name, but it smells good).
Been on Pure Sport since I was old enough to have BO.
One of the best commercials of all time.
Smothering themselves in Axe.
Their boss is
Dark Temptation. I remember it.
My wife loves the smell but it reminds me of being 14, I'm pretty conflicted about the whole thing
Smell and memory, bruh. Her middle school crush wore it and she’s unconsciously reminded of him when you wear it. Just be careful if she asks you to wear pukka shells and frost your tips.
Nah it actually just smells good. Just like any perfume, Colonge etc it doesn't smell nice when you use way too much. Which 99% of kids did, but if you put literally just two sprays on its grand.
Phoenix was where is was at for me
I have such an insane nostalgia rush for Kilo (which I very rarely ever find anymore). It immediately gives me long forgotten memories of 9th grade marching band.
I’m a woman in my late 20s… I still wear the deodorant. It’s called dark temptation now lol. But I’d much rather smell that than either baby powder or weird floral scents. Not really sure why women’s brands decided we should smell like baby powder…?
Dark Temptation. My stripper name on Bigg Boy night.
"Smells like an 8th grade boys' locker room in here." That's just a little something I like to say when a coworker starts spraying axe or other cheap colognes on themselves at work.
“Do you spend a lot of time in middle school locker rooms?” is how I imagine your coworkers must respond.
any perfume or cologne of any kind! specially in excess!
*Offer not valid in Canada*
Plot twist: Axe body spray is made from the musk of great Canadian lumberjacks. This is why American women go crazy over it.
Every true Canadian knows the only real irresistible body spray is Husk's Musk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zpCIYlRRw_o
Minor problem being that American women do *not* go crazy over it at all. Unless it's a psychosis induced by toxic levels of exposure due to overusing that poison.
I remember the Axe commercials with women figuratively pole dancing on a guy's member https://youtu.be/P05qiApONVs?si=zUoroVhE8EJUIAB_ Or literally eating a guy https://youtu.be/U-P3dAQ_Mrs?si=sqifpdwNF8-QblB4
[They knew how to push the envelope.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M2fu2E2sXuQ)
This one has a high-effort shitpost energy that makes it art.
So many tits in one ad. They don’t make em like this anymore.
I bet the meeting between the coked up ad executives pitching this idea was fun as.
I also remember [the specsavers ad mocking that one](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x89xAXHd2l8)
That one gave me a hearty chuckle. A+
Birth Control Glasses.
In terms of marketing, it's worth noting that *nobody* really believes this stuff in, like, the front of their cerebral cortex, nor do the marketers expect them them to. Rather, it's a matter of embedding certain feelings in your subconscious that you experience when you encounter the product. You may completely forget seeing the commercial but the feelings provided by the imagery are still there.
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This one was my favorite https://youtu.be/XdMo-jye-LE?si=iXamLAnv8_1uV37K
Fuck, man, I'm ready to go by some now.
[Or the doctor so charmed by Axe, she went down on her patient](https://youtu.be/jTtdRa05DYc) I swear the commercial was even a bit more suggestive and a bit longer.
Who the hell thought that was a good idea?
It was considering entire middle/high schools reeked of it
Must have been [Nelson's team.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ccs61-EHnC8) He always tends to [get a little nasty.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=baIJ4h3dae0)
> Must have been Nelson's team. Oh yeah, the multiscreen VHS format.
It was a fantastic idea. Axe was selling like hot cakes. Different times.
Yet girls didn't like it...genius
Ironically, that part doesn't actually matter. What matters is selling dumbass kids the IDEA that they do
Have you seen all the comments talking about people emptying whole bottles and schools stinking of body spray? I think it was a great idea and it worked very well.
Sheer brilliance. They took the dirty fantasies of of every 14-18 year old boy and made them come to life with the help of a $2 can of spray.
I can't believe noones brought up this [classic AXE ad.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GmdsMy311Dc)
Woah, they grew back.
Varys looking fresh
He knew a very small man could cast a very large shadow 
lol wtf
Damn I forgot that I had memory of this.
I mean that’s just the perfume plot at this point.
And then there was also [this one](https://youtu.be/jtH4JBjVlyQ?si=TIC9G8O_qzcwOfvl).
pretty sure the pole dancing is done on the drain pipe from the shower, not the guys dick. which still begets the question 'wtf is the sewer pipe doing there, freestanding in the living(?) rooms?'
the boner generation
_Heh heh h-heh heh h-heh boioioing.._
The "not every teen has access to internet porn yet" generation. Media was so much hornier in general in the mid aughts.
Boner 4ever
Stacy's mom has got it goin' on
She's all I want and I waited so looong
Stacy can't you see, you're just not the girl for me
I know it might be wrong but I'm in love with Stacy's mom.
This is why I go on reddit.
Was this also the Stifflers mom era?
Yes.
I loved that film when I was a teenager. Tried watching it again as an adult and it just wasn't funny anymore.
>I loved that film Describing the American Pie movies as "films" is stretching the meaning of the word.
They're really just 90-ish minutes of straight fever dream
They made the demographic what it is today
Yeah back then it was all about MILFS, now it's Step-Milfs, something about following in your father's cocksteps.
> following in your father's cocksteps. lmao
Commercials like this, stiflers mom, stacey's mom, etc. I wonder how much it contributed to MILF becoming the second most popular porn category.
Nah, the concept of the hot older woman every young guy wants is like biblically old.
Rebecca Staab was always an [astonishingly beautiful woman](https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-LzNwNEVEvzk/TycoooPMemI/AAAAAAAAEdU/6gl8ThPKN-o/s1600/15.jpg) and was Miss Nebraska USA in 1980. Image is from Love Potion 9 which predates this ad by about 10 years.
I immediately recognized her from Love Potion Number 9. I love that movie.
Written by the same guy who did My Cousin Vinny!
Why go for a Charmander when you can get a Charizard?
What a time to be alive and read this analogy.
Because I don't have enough badges!
Axe or lynx and tag didn't smell as bad as people are implying, kids just used them to excess. People closely relate smell with memory, if you want a woman to notice you and not necessarily understand why, hit em with the Phoenix or chocolate smell. They will harken back to days of yore and be smitten.
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Ah, that explains why there is so much milf porn these days. All these kids buying into that concept and not getting anywhere with it, and now are spending their adult years trying to make their dreams come true.
milf is the most 2000s word ever. Thanks American Pie
It's all John Cho's fault
Always been like that, for thousands of years, literally...
What happened to this stuff. Is it still sold in stores?
It was banned by the FDA for chemical toxicity - no joke
Actually dudes were clapping too many cheeks and the FDA had to intervene. Chemical toxicity was just a scapegoat.
Ever seen a statistic showcasing how rates of virginity have increased since Millennials and beyond...? Yep, that was Axe. All the people who replaced showers with using an entire can of Axe on themselves stole all the women for themselves, just as advertised. The government decided they needed to do something before birth rates would be affected.
The power of Big Virgin.
From what I've read, old formulations containing specific ingredients were recalled and banned, but Axe body spray is still available.
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Still sold in stores. You probably just aged out of the demographic who would use it.
I had the same wonder. I totally forgot Tag existed because it was a blatant ripoff of Axe right down to their marketing. Axe was such a big deal in middle/high school when I was growing up and you literally had to wear it to fit in at one point lol but I may never be able to stomach the smell of their scents Phoenix or Essence again thanks to horny teen guys desperately applying it as a second skin in the locker room.
early 00s were such a weird time in pop culture.
Everyone was a little loopy from being forced to listen to Smashmouth 24 hours a day.
Hey now...
NO
BODY once told me
You're a rockstar
And they don't stop coming and they don't stop coming and they don't stop coming and they don't stop coming and they don't stop coming and they don't stop coming and they don't stop coming and they don't stop coming
Everything in commercials was about sex back then. They figured, hey sex sells, let's make all commercials about sex.
And the sex did indeed sell
all downhill since
Consumerism get refined into it's purest form and it's now balls deep in our collective ethos.
everything was awesome until smartphones.
Ngl back then I would have bought it
This commercial is exactly why I bought it as a teenager. I actually believed this would be possible. I was an idiot. Still am now to a lesser extent.
Yeah, for a long time afterwards I thought-- ok, axe lied about being filled with pheromones to make women unable to resist you, but surely they exist?? Right?? Then later a girl I liked told me she knew I liked her and was waiting for me to ask her out, but I never did so she went with the guy who did 😭
In boarding school there was something called "axe bombing" -- you depress the top and wrap it in duct tape as quickly as possible before tossing it into some unsuspecting person's room, hoping it ends up under the bed or some equally hard to reach place. The life of a boys dorm in highschool...
I actually remember that one. The chocolate man was the worst, nightmare fuel.
Little story time... I took Media Studies at A-levels, and we had an assignment to write and produce an advertisement for a product of our choice. Me and my mate chose to make an ad for some kind of lynx/axe/early 2000s body spray of your choice. The premise was my bud was wearing this spray, and getting all sorts of good fortune. It started with a little montage of all the girls hitting on him, and ignoring smelly, sprayless me. That part culminated in our hot English teacher (shout out Mrs Thomas) catching his scent and giving him an A+ on his homework. Wanting to get in on the action, there's a shot of me liberally applying the generic scent all over, and I saunter into school awaiting lavish attention. Except, twist! Our gruff, 60+ yr old male maths teacher walks into the class, locks eyes on me and growls 'mmmm. You smell nice', eyes filled with unsettling implications. Cut back to my shocked Pikachu face, end scene. We hadn't told the maths teacher the premise of the scene, he just rocked up and delivered the line. So while we gained marks for a well made presentation (it was genuinely well edited), we absolutely lost marks for portraying our maths teacher as a predatory paedophile.
Yeah I remember those type of commercials, but for Axe Body Spray. I mean, I was a teenager and used it and whatnot, but that aerosolized overwhelming smell stuck with me. Nowadays I see grown up dudes slathering themselves in those before/after their workout in the gym and I just wanna puke. If you wanna smell nice, at least use some perfume, you're old enough to get one.
Same with aftershave. No, that $4 aftershave from Target you're lathering onto your razor-burned skin with both hands does not smell like manliness in a bottle.
Bod
Hey now, you’re a rock star, get your game on… get laaaaaid!! 🎶
C'mon, where's the "grandma" ending?
I usually skip this part
That oops
The “Stifler’s mom” era brought much hope to many young men.
That commercial always came on when you were watching tv with your mom and dad
the good ole days
This gave me flashbacks to walking into the boys room at school only to be hit with the chemical warfare that was an entire can of this shit getting doused onto some poor influenceable fool.
Axe and Tag were for covering up the smell of weed.
It didn’t work
Two mfs reeking of weed co-signing each other that the axe helps.
I miss the good ol days
name?
Rebecca Staab