The 80s smelled like hairspray and styling gel.
All I could smell was cocaine
2010s: Axe body spray
That was more 2000s than 2010s.
LOL 2000s was what I typed first, then I remembered Leslie Knope remarking about Tommy Haverford being surrounded by “a dense cloud of Axe body spray” which was like in 2011 or 12. I figured he would be using whatever was trending.
It was just as pungent around 2006 and probably earlier.
I remember it being a thing when I was in highschool, but that was late 90s.
Late 90s, early 2000s was peak adolescent Axe usage. I entered high school in 2003, right when the fad was peaking. Which is good because it covered up the stench in the PE locker room.
PE locker rooms and axe are a terrible, terrible combo. Some kid inevitably empties a full can, then no one can breath.
The joke with axe was that it stank worse, not that it made things better.
2025: dumpster fire and Nazi taint.
2020s smell like nothing because COVID
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2000s smelled like, burnt bodies, charred buildings and camels.
Too soon?
What if I told you they still have camels today?
The 80s smelled like cocaine and wine coolers.
My late 90s smelled like wine coolers and weed.
My guess is if you’re smelling cocaine something going ok.
You could argue the 90s smelled like teen spirit too
I thought teen spirit was sex and candy?
Nope just deodorant
Specifically lots and lots of Axe, like way too much
Everything everywhere before the 2000s smelt like cigarettes and old smoke, it was rancid a fuck.
I miss it so much.
Coming home from the pub and your clothes and hair reaking of cigarette smoke
Who’s saying they don’t still?
For starters, it’s been illegal to smoke indoors in my country for over 20 years
Okay… what about that stops someone coming home smelling of smoke?
You don’t get exposed to it in the pubs at all?? So unless you self inflict, chances are almost non existent to come home smelling of the cancers
So absolutely nothing then.
Good lord yes. It was glorious.
Nah, the 90s smelled like dog turd, but nazis were hiding themself so it was a good decade.
80s was clove cigarettes and Obsession
My olfactory experiences in the 90’s were not like that.
Post 2020: Had covid, can’t smell shit.
Might as well unban smoking in public places again. 🤷♂️
That’s… on the Trump Bingo Card.
The 90s smelled like sex and candy, but the smell was actually vintage clothes from the 70s and leaded-gas fumes.
The 2000s smelled like axe body spray and watermelon bubblegum
Fuck, guys dousing themselves in an entire fucking can of axe, all throughout middle and high school. gag
I just wish more people were like my mom. She told us from a young age that women have a far better sense of smell. So when we think we smell good we have gone too far.
My brother and I learned a small amount of body spray or cologne goes a long way. If I can smell someone from 5 feet away I can only imagine how unbearable it must be for women and their heightened sense of smell.
I forgot who exactly it was, but a woman in my life when I was younger, probably a family friend, told me that less is more when it comes to fragrance. A quick spritz across the neck and right wrist was all you needed. I’m not sure why the right wrist though…
I would just put a drop directly into the part of my jacket or shirt closest to my neck and then sorta rub it into my neck.
Then I would usually rub another drop between my inner wrists and again rub them on my neck.
My theory is that you want to mix the pleasant scent of the cologne with your natural scent as well. That way even if someone else is wearing that same cologne you won’t smell exactly the same to women or something.
Idk it made sense to 8th grade me and it has served me well since haha
Because you were twelve
93 baby. So yeah pretty much haha.
