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re: Say It Ain't So, Drakkar Bros. Teen Males Are Now Smellmaxxing.

Posted on 1/29/26 at 8:19 pm to
Posted by shutterspeed
MS Gulf Coast
Member since May 2007
72482 posts
Posted on 1/29/26 at 8:19 pm to
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Breaking news: male teens are wearing cologne


Not just any cologne. Ouds.
Posted by TheHarahanian
Actually not Harahan as of 6/2023
Member since May 2017
23921 posts
Posted on 1/29/26 at 8:26 pm to
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Breaking news: male teens are wearing cologne

Not exactly breaking news.

Dudes in the mid-80s were swimming in Polo green. Same with Drakkar a few years later.
This post was edited on 1/29/26 at 8:28 pm
Posted by ronniep1
Baton Rouge
Member since Mar 2016
732 posts
Posted on 1/29/26 at 8:29 pm to
I think once a law enforcement officer got a whiff of Sir Smell-A-Lot, I believe he'd let me go with a warning.
Posted by liz18lsu
Member since Feb 2009
18042 posts
Posted on 1/29/26 at 8:36 pm to
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Women still love it.


Not all of us. I don’t wear perfume, and if a guy gets off the elevator and you can still smell his cologne, that’s too much. These days, deodorant is plenty.
Posted by Celery
Nuevo York
Member since Nov 2010
11687 posts
Posted on 1/29/26 at 8:45 pm to
Yeah, I was wearing Dad’s Polo Green to the 3rd grade smelling like cigarette smoke, grass, absynthe and leather. Maybe if today’s kids wore some 80’s Polo they’d sprout some chest hair and own a house.
Posted by GruntbyAssociation
Member since Jul 2013
9734 posts
Posted on 1/29/26 at 9:35 pm to
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Ham Solo
quote:

My spaceship is almost complete. I'm


Tie Fighter?
Posted by Champagne
Sabine Free State.
Member since Oct 2007
55308 posts
Posted on 1/29/26 at 9:39 pm to
I like Old Spice.
Posted by shutterspeed
MS Gulf Coast
Member since May 2007
72482 posts
Posted on 1/29/26 at 10:19 pm to
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I don’t wear perfume


But why?
Posted by Longhorn Actual
Member since Dec 2023
3189 posts
Posted on 1/29/26 at 10:32 pm to
60% of the time it works every time.
Posted by tigerinthebueche
Member since Oct 2010
38053 posts
Posted on 1/29/26 at 10:49 pm to
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Fragrance isn’t seen as ‘gay’ anymore. It’s seen as cool.”


When was it seen as gay? I know cologne's popularity waned. Hell, I haven’t worn any since 90s/2000. But it was never considered gay. It just became less popular to wear.
Posted by Giantkiller
the internet.
Member since Sep 2007
25456 posts
Posted on 1/29/26 at 10:58 pm to
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I hate when new words are invented for stupid shite.


No cap, this thread is deadass sus. It’s also low key zesty as frick frfr.
Posted by forkedintheroad
Member since Feb 2025
2314 posts
Posted on 1/29/26 at 11:04 pm to
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crowd-favorite oud scent


What

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I tore myself away from my blotter strips


The

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Take a trip to your local Zumiez


frick

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sea of Stüssy shirts


Is

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Alas, young boys don’t want just Supreme anymore—they want Santal.


This

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larger trend of trying to “maxx” out your real-life avatar (see: looksmaxxing, frame maxxing, and even carb maxxing).


shite?
Posted by Obtuse1
Westside Bodymore Yo
Member since Sep 2016
30499 posts
Posted on 1/29/26 at 11:34 pm to
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I hate when new words are invented for stupid shite.


If you are talking about sillage, the word has been around since the French started building boats, and its use as a term of art in the fragrance industry has existed longer than you have been alive.
Posted by PowerTool
The dark side of the road
Member since Dec 2009
23224 posts
Posted on 1/29/26 at 11:41 pm to
quote:

quote:
Breaking news: male teens are wearing cologne

Not exactly breaking news.

Dudes in the mid-80s were swimming in Polo green. Same with Drakkar a few years later.


I think that was mldr's point. It's not exactly a new thing for teenage boys to think they've tapped that special formula that's gonna get them drowned in pussy.

And this part:

quote:

Take a trip to your local Zumiez, and you’ll notice that amid a sea of Stüssy shirts and Carhartt cargos


I don't know what Zumiez is, but it sounds like the 80's or 90's rolling back around.
This post was edited on 1/29/26 at 11:43 pm
Posted by Shamoan
Member since Feb 2019
13798 posts
Posted on 1/29/26 at 11:43 pm to
I got 4 sentences in and still had no idea the subject. Seems either gay or weird. Either way, I’m a “no”.
Posted by jizzle6609
Houston
Member since Jul 2009
20102 posts
Posted on 1/30/26 at 3:48 am to
frick all that, Tommy Hilfigure ‘98 is the all time panty dropper.
Posted by SoFla Tideroller
South Florida
Member since Apr 2010
41015 posts
Posted on 1/30/26 at 4:00 am to
Bro, just slap on some Hai Karate and be done with it.
Posted by Knight of Old
New Hampshire
Member since Jul 2007
13053 posts
Posted on 1/30/26 at 4:23 am to
“ Take a whiff on me, that ain't no rose
Roll up yer window and hold your nose
You don't have to look and you don't have to see
'Cause you can feel it in your olfactory”…
Posted by SquatchDawg
Cohutta Wilderness
Member since Sep 2012
20091 posts
Posted on 1/30/26 at 6:44 am to
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Sillage (pronounced "see-yazh") is the French term for the scented trail or "wake" a perfume leaves in the air behind a wearer. Unlike projection, which measures how far a scent radiates immediately around the body, sillage describes how long and strongly the fragrance lingers in a space after the person has departed.


Teenagers and old guys produce enough of this to mark your eyes water.
Posted by Rex Feral
Somewhere near Athens
Member since Jan 2014
16606 posts
Posted on 1/30/26 at 7:04 am to
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To be a smellmaxxer is to treat fragrance as more of a competitive sport than a grooming habit; in other words, your sillage is your scoreboard. It’s a movement largely fueled by teenage boys on TikTok, and it follows a larger trend of trying to “maxx” out your real-life avatar (see: looksmaxxing, frame maxxing, and even carb maxxing). In the eyes of the smellmaxxers, your signature scent isn’t just what you smell like. It’s a vibe, a status, and a symbol of social capital.


I recognize most of those words, but have no idea what this means.
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