Portland General Store Men’s Collection
Keep your skin in check and yourself smelling good with the Portland General Store Men’s Collection ($5-$25). Handmade in Maine using natural, high-quality ingredients, the lineup includes items such as shaving jelly, lotion, soap, aftershave, and cologne, available in a variety of ultra-manly scents like wood, whiskey, and tweed, packaged with incredibly awesome old-fashioned labels that will look great in your bathroom cabinet. [via]
This is good. I’ve always wondered where the very manly scents had gone to. I know that in the recent years there has been a sort of market push towards “manly products”, and there has always been men’s cologne. However they all just don’t really scream MAN to me when I smell them. For example most Axe products I think smell either flowery, or like talcum powder. If I was say… 18 months old then perhaps I wouldn’t mind. However, I have reached far beyond the age of 18 years and feel I should smell more my gender and age.
This doesn’t mean I want to smell of sweat, car grease, booze, and bar smoke. However some of these things have elements that would smell good. For example Whiskey is a very masculine smell and in a very small dose can be charming to women. Trust the man who drinks $200 dollar Whiskey, if you smell of Top Shelf the women love it. Another example being pipe tobacco. Not the smoke and ash smell of a room that smells like the inside of an ash can. The sweet and woody aroma of pipe tobacco lightly burning inside a fine pipe. I have gotten more attention from women puffing on my Churchwarden than I have sucking down a Camel. No offense Mr. Reynolds.
Actually there is something to be said for smelling as though you just spent your day elbows deep in the engine bay of a 1939 Ford Coupe. The sort of women it attracts though tend to be a bit more on the wild, dangerous, and Bettie Paige side. Nothing wrong with that either.
