Having a Male Scent That Fills Women with

Lust - Chase Amante

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In the comments on “Your Mental Model is Flawed,” M asked the following

question about cologne:

“Speaking of expensive cologne…is it worth the investment? Right now

my only scent is my deodorant, lol.”

I gave a quick response, but I’ve been wanting to do a piece on male scent for
a while now. I spent a great deal of time diving into this to figure out what
the “ideal” scent for men was… was it a cologne? A body spray? An
aftershave? Was it pheromones? Something else? What scent gets you the
best results with women?

They all propose to turn you into a man irresistible to women, of course…
but most of it’s just noise to be tuned out. There had to be, I felt certain, a
specific solution out there somewhere to the question of what scent women
like best.

Today’s article chronicles my own intermittent investigation — spanning

perhaps 15 years — into the phenomenon of male scent, and takes a look at
what the research on scent has to say.

And my guess is, if you’re accustomed to the standard advice thrown

liberally about in Western society, you’ll be in for a bit of a surprise.

When I first hit puberty, I started using generic roll-on deodorants from Avon
(my mother was an Avon lady), and I selected a Calvin Klein cologne I liked
the smell of to wear.
I did a lot of things wrong.

The deodorant I used was a liquid with an old-fashioned roller ball that you’d
roll across your armpit. It was wet, it was sticky, and it was rather
uncomfortable. But, it was all I knew, so I used it. I used several different
varieties, but never got any compliments on them. At least they kept me from
smelling bad, like some of the other kids in class, I reasoned.

The cologne I selected was one that appealed to my olfactory glands. It was
called “Obsession for Men.” I used it for five years — junior high, and the
first three years of high school. My sister would complain constantly that the
bathroom “smelled really bad” after I finished using it in the morning, but I
always wrote this off as sibling rivalry. Our family cat loved when I used the
cologne, anyway — she’d lick my face and rub against it whenever I had
Obsession on and knelt down to greet her.

It took me five years to discover that women find the sent of Obsession for
Men repulsive, and all cats — including tigers, cheetahs, and jaguars — are
intoxicated by it (see the Wall Street Journal article “Big Cats Obsess Over
Calvin Klein’s ‘Obsession for Men’”).

Apparently, the scent I’d been sporting for half a decade repelled women, but
attracted cats.

Lucky me.

However, that experience started me off on a new obsession of my own:

finding a male scent for me that would be every bit as scintillating to women
as my old one had been to cats.
A Simple Poll

Late in high school, once I realized I was wearing a smell that girls hated, I
began to ask the girls around me what their favorite cologne was.

“Cool Water, by Davidoff,” one would tell me. “Cool Water,” the next said.
“Cool Water… definitely Cool Water,” I heard again.

Cool Water it was.

So I went shopping and bought a bottle of Cool Water. I took a whiff… it

smelled awful to me. Ugh! But, I asked my mother and sister to smell it, and
they agreed it smelled wonderful.

I started wearing Cool Water everyday, and women started complimenting

me on my scent — something that had (understandably) never happened
before.

I also changed my deodorant, to something less “slimy” and more

comfortable to use. For the life of me, I can’t remember now what I used
then, but it was a green stick and I used it for a long time. That one also I
didn’t much like the smell of, but women told me smelled good.

So there I was, wearing a cologne I didn’t like the smell of, but women told
me smelled great, and a deodorant I didn’t like the smell of, but women told
me smelled great.

I spent years surrounded by what was to me a bad smell all for the sake of
smelling good for women.

But, despite the compliments, women were hardly tearing my clothes off. In
fact, I didn’t see any difference at all in how women were treating me.

Maybe a male’s scent didn’t matter much after all.

Trying Pheromones

When I first began dabbling with approaching women while out and about in
2005, I decided to purchase some male pheromones, and see if they made an
impact. There was no smell, and I couldn’t see any real noticeable difference.
Women seemed a little warmer… I thought… but I really couldn’t be sure. It
might just be a psychological confidence boost.

I finally got a girl I met at the gym to say “yes” to a date with me while
wearing pheromones. We almost went home together that night, on my first
date ever, except that I over-drank, and I didn’t know what I was doing and
was in over my head out one-on-one with a girl, something that never
happened.

And I got my first phone number from a girl I met at a nightclub while
wearing pheromones — a tall, slinky, beautiful girl in sexy attire from
Trinidad who’d become something of a legend among people who knew in
some of my earliest field reports after I discovered the seduction community
and repeatedly tried to pull this girl from nightclubs (in front of her
boyfriend).

But, I wasn’t sure if I could chalk this up to the pheromones, or if it was

simply because I was finally out there trying to make progress with women
for the first real time in my life. Ultimately, I stopped using the pheromones,
and I kept progressing with women just the same.
A Change of Brands

After university, and after I’d moved to California, I eventually changed

brands again, both for deodorant and for cologne.

The new deodorant I selected — actually, an antiperspirant — was Right

Guard Sport, which felt great to me, smelled great to me, and which women
told me smelled great to them, too — when I’d be wearing no cologne at all
but have that deodorant on, women would tell me, “Wow, you smell great!” I
knew that one was a hit.

I also read some good reviews for the Victoria’s Secret cologne Very Sexy
for Him, and decided to try a bottle of that. I did, and found that not only did
women like that one more, on average, than they did the Cool Water cologne,
but I actually liked it, too.

At last, I’d found two scents I could wear that both *I* liked and *girls*
liked, as well.
But did it help?

To get a more complete picture and go beyond the anecdotal, I wanted to

have a look at what the research has to say about male scent, cologne, and the
like. I found five (5) relevant pieces of research.

We start with a look at men’s colognes, oils, and body sprays.

Our first piece of research is an excerpt from the 2009 book Bonk: The
Curious Coupling of Science and Sex, by Mary Roach, as reported at Barking
Up the Wrong Tree (a fascinating website in its own right):

“Stop wearing cologne. Women don’t find it attractive. If you don’t

believe me, here is a quote from a press release from the Smell and
Taste Treatment and Research Foundation in Chicago: “Men’s colognes
actually reduced vaginal blood flow.” Foundation director Al Hirsch
hooked women up to a vaginal photoplethysmograph and had them wear
surgical masks scented with ten different aromas or combinations of
aromas. (To be sure the women weren’t just getting aroused by dressing
up in surgical masks, Hirsch put unscented masks onto a control group.)
In addition to the smell of cologne, the women were turned off by the
scent of cherry and of “charcoal barbeque meat.” At the top of the
women’s turn-on list was, mysteriously, a mixture of cucumber and
Good ’n’ Plenty candy. It was said to increase vaginal blood flow by 13
percent.”

If you’re unfamiliar with genital blood flow monitoring, this is used to find
out rather conclusively whether someone finds something sexually arousing
or not. In other studies, women have been found to have increased vaginal
blood flow in response to sexual stimuli regardless of whether they report
being aroused or not (that is to say, certain stimuli aroused women whether
they admitted it or not).

In this case, colognes reduced arousal.

Which is a curious finding.

But the excerpt left me wondering…

Does this mean only a few colognes were used?

Does this mean only one cologne was used, and the other nine scents were
other smells?

Was the one cologne used Obsession for Men, by Calvin Klein?

Because I didn’t have these details, I was afraid to make a blanket statement
writing off men’s cologne altogether based on a limited study of unknown
variables here… but it did raise some interesting questions.

(One of the most interesting questions being, perhaps, why and how does the
aroma of cucumber and Good ‘n’ Plenty mixed together make women horny
and excited?)

So, I did some more digging, and I found that the book’s source was
apparently a U.S. patent filed in 1998.

According to U.S. Patent number 7067162, “Use of odorants to alter blood

flow to the vagina,” citing a multitude of sources and filed by Alan R. Hirsch,
director of the Smell and Taste Treatment and Research Foundation in
Chicago:

“Examples of odorants and odorant mixture that can be administered to

increase vaginal blood flow by about 10–30%, include a baby powder
odorant, a mixture of licorice-based odorant and banana nut bread
odorant, a floral-aldehydic perfume fragrance such as Chanel No. 5 and
White Linen, a mixture of lavender and pumpkin pie odorants, and a
mixture of baby powder and chocolate odorants. Examples of licorice-
based odorants include a black licorice odorant, and Good N’ Plenty®
(licorice and anise) odorant. Such odorants are commercially available,
for example, from International Flavors and Fragrances, Inc. (IFF, New
York, N.Y.), Energy Essentials, AromaTech, Inc. (Somerville, N.J.),
Florasynth, Inc. (Teterboro, N.J.), and as essential oils. Such individual
 odorants and odorant mixtures have been found to be particularly useful
in increasing vaginal blood flow in female individuals who are highly
aroused by masturbation.”

Okay, now we’re getting somewhere. Hirsch’s patent continues:

“According to the invention, odorants can be administered to decrease

vaginal blood flow of a female individual. With a reduction in vaginal
blood flow, the female individual experiences an inhibited or reduced
level of sexual arousal. Examples of odorants and odorant mixture that
can be administered to decrease vaginal blood flow by about 10–20%
include a licorice-based odorant alone, a cologne such as Old Spice®, a
floral-aldehydic perfume fragrance such as Chanel No. 5 and White
Linen, a charcoal barbecue meat odorant, and a cherry odorant. Such
odorants and odorant mixtures have been found to be particularly useful
in reducing vaginal blood flow in female individuals who are minimally
or not highly sexually aroused by masturbation or manual manipulation
of the female genitals.”

All right — now we have it. It wasn’t Obsession for Men, but Old Spice that
Hirsch found was a turnoff for women.

But that still only leaves us with one cologne tested, and many more not.
Axe Body Spray — Does It Work?

My freshman year of college, I was blessed with an incredibly noxious

roommate. Due to what I can only assume were atrocious eating habits, he’d
launch unbelievably potent flatulence at all times of the day, including in the
middle of the night while sleeping (and he’d complain to no end when I’d
open up the window wide in the middle of a freezing, blustery Pennsylvania
winter because I wanted fresh air no matter the temperature and I didn’t want
to suffer in silence in that stench). To try and mask the violent odor
constantly being expelled from his body, he — an otherwise tidy guy —
would spray large amounts of air freshener (the scent of which I grew to hate)
all over the room, and AXE Body Spray (which I also grew to hate) all over
himself.

Ever since then, I’ve been as opposed to AXE Body Spray as I have been
Dave Matthews Band, which that roommate also drove me to hate. So I’ve
looked rather dismissively at the AXE Body Spray commercials that show
women lustily attacking men wearing the spray.

If you haven’t seen them, here’s the most famous of those ads (currently with
40 million views on YouTube):

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And here’s the second most watched of them (with 25 million YouTube
views):

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Ridiculous, right?

Well, as it turns out, my old roommate just may have been onto something.
Another book excerpt, this one from The Consuming Instinct: What Juicy
Burgers, Ferraris, Pornography, and Gift Giving Reveal About Human
Nature, again courtesy Barking Up the Wrong Tree:
 “Interestingly, the so-called Axe effect seems to actually exist. In a
recent study, men were sprayed either with a deodorant imbued with an
active concoction (flavor oil and an antimicrobial constituent) or with a
nonactive version. Subsequently, they were asked to provide several
self-evaluations (e.g., self-confidence and self-attractiveness). Then
short videos were recorded of the male participants, which were
subsequently viewed by female raters, who rated the men along several
metrics (confidence and attractiveness). Incredibly, not only did the men
who received the active deodorant provide higher ratings of self-
confidence but also women rated these men as more attractive (based on
viewing the short video clips).”

So, the researchers apparently sprayed men with either an active deodorant or
a placebo, and the men with the active concoction both gave themselves
higher ratings and received higher ratings from women.

I can’t find this study — there may be a reference in the actual book, but I
don’t have a copy of the book on me as I’m writing this — so I can’t read any
further about the researchers conclusions. If I had to guess, though, the flavor
oil in the active concoction probably led to some sort of scent that the men
smelled and liked, providing the confidence boost, which led to better
posture, eye contact, and nonverbals displayed on the video of those men
shown to the women, who then found them more attractive.

My assumption — not having access to the full research here — would be

that, unlike the odors and vaginal blood flow phenomenon, this is a placebo
effect after all — the men smelled the smell, got the confidence boost, the
confidence boost improved their nonverbals, and the women rated them as
more attractive for it.

Perhaps if you had the women smell AXE directly and monitored the blood
flow to their vaginas, you’d get a different story.

Verdict on AXE: the jury’s ultimately still out.

Real Pheromones

Now for the remaining piece of the puzzle.

Researchers from Sweden put together a pair of studies, one on heterosexual

men and women, and the next on homosexual men, reviewing the impact of
smelling male and female hormones from other individuals.

This from “Smelling of Odorous Sex Hormone-like Compounds Causes Sex-

Differentiated Hypothalamic Activations in Humans”:

“The anatomical pathways for processing of odorous stimuli include the

olfactory nerve projection to the olfactory bulb, the trigeminal nerve
projection to somatosensory and insular cortex, and the projection from
the accessory olfactory bulb to the hypothalamus. In the majority of
tetrapods, the sex-specific effects of pheromones on reproductive
behavior is mediated via the hypothalamic projection. However, the
existence of this projection in humans has been regarded as improbable
because humans lack a discernable accessory olfactory bulb. Here, we
show that women smelling an androgen-like compound activate the
hypothalamus, with the center of gravity in the preoptic and
ventromedial nuclei. Men, in contrast, activate the hypothalamus (center
of gravity in paraventricular and dorsomedial nuclei) when smelling an
estrogen-like substance. This sex-dissociated hypothalamic activation
suggests a potential physiological substrate for a sex-differentiated
behavioral response in humans.”

And, the follow-up study, on homosexual men, “Brain response to putative

pheromones in homosexual men”:

“The testosterone derivative 4,16-androstadien-3-one (AND) and the

estrogen-like steroid estra-1,3,5(10),16-tetraen-3-ol (EST) are candidate
compounds for human pheromones. AND is detected primarily in male
sweat, whereas EST has been found in female urine. In a previous
 positron emission tomography study, we found that smelling AND and
EST activated regions covering sexually dimorphic nuclei of the anterior
hypothalamus, and that this activation was differentiated with respect to
sex and compound. In the present study, the pattern of activation
induced by AND and EST was compared among homosexual men,
heterosexual men, and heterosexual women. In contrast to heterosexual
men, and in congruence with heterosexual women, homosexual men
displayed hypothalamic activation in response to AND. Maximal
activation was observed in the medial preoptic area/anterior
hypothalamus, which, according to animal studies, is highly involved in
sexual behavior. As opposed to putative pheromones, common odors
were processed similarly in all three groups of subjects and engaged
only the olfactory brain (amygdala, piriform, orbitofrontal, and insular
cortex). These findings show that our brain reacts differently to the two
putative pheromones compared with common odors, and suggest a link
between sexual orientation and hypothalamic neuronal processes.”

The finding here was, women (and homosexual men) have a region of the
hypothalamus strongly associated with sexual behavior activated by smelling
the testosterone found in men’s sweat.

Straight men, when smelling this, simply have normal olfactory regions of
the brain light up that have nothing to do with anything sexual. Conversely,
straight men smelling the estrogen from women’s urine have the same sex-
associated part of the brain light up that women and homosexual men do
when smelling men’s sweat testosterone.

The effect on straight men almost certainly ties back with what we talked
about in “What’s the Best Way to Pick Up Girls? Get the Ones Looking for
You,” when discussing the research on the impact of women being in their
fertile periods and their effect on men (in addition to the effect on their own
mate preferences at the time versus other times) — basically, women seem to
be putting something in the air while fertile that men react to quite strongly
and instinctively.
Well, this research from Sweden in 2001 seems to show that the scent of the
sweat of men is having the same kind of effect on women.
Smelling Fear

There’s one other piece of research I want to cover, too, but bear with me
until we get to the next section if you find yourself wondering why this one is
relevant.

That’s on the impact of cortisol — stress hormone — on the natural scent

attractiveness of males, from “Scent attractiveness and endocrine status in
male students before and during a stress situation”:

“Scent attractiveness of sweat samples collected from male students

before and during theoretical exams was assessed by female students.
Five-rank scale was used for subjective assessment of the scent samples
in term unpleasant/pleasant. Scent attractiveness depended on
physiological conditions of both recipients and donors. Male students
with low basal concentration of salivary cortisol smelt better than
students with high level of cortisol. High level of salivary testosterone
also was associated with low scent attractiveness of the male students,
but only for the recipients in non-receptive phase of menstrual cycle. In
all, the females who were in receptive phase of menstrual cycle assessed
scent attractiveness of male students higher then the females in non-
receptive phase. Exam stress coincided with increase of the salivary
cortisol resulting in decline of scent attractiveness in male students. The
negative effect of exam was most prominent in students that failed exam
and in student who aspired to be the best but failed. So, the exam stress
and basal variation of stress-related physiological indexes, such as
salivary cortisol, are mirrored in male chemical signals, which are
recognized by females.”

Straightforward enough: the more stressed out a man becomes, the less
attractive his scent becomes to women.

Interestingly, high testosterone is also rated as unattractive by women, but

only by women who aren’t fertile. This matches what we discussed in the
previous article linked to, where we saw that women are very attracted to
manly men while fertile (to the point of flirting / cheating on unmanly
partners with manly men to get better genes while ovulating), while they
prefer safer, lower testosterone males to take care of and provide for them
when not sexually receptive and not able to be impregnated.

That (the note on cortisol) is going to impact how we decide to do what we’re
going to do with our own male scent — and I’ll talk about how just below.

So what do we know? Here’s a quick recap:

1. Women are turned on by baby powder / licorice and banana nut bread /
lavender and pumpkin pie / baby powder and chocolate odors

2. Women are turned off by Old Spice (sorry, Old Spice) / charcoal
barbecue meat / cherries

3. Women like confident men (of course)

4. Women are turned on by the testosterone contained in male sweat

5. Women are turned off by the cortisol (stress hormone) contained in male
sweat

I had all these basic theories in mind (I was aware of testosterone and cortisol
research many years back) when I had an interesting string of experiences:
prolific seducers who took their smells and went au naturel.
Musk: The Natural Male Scent

After my first year of learning how to pick up girls on my own, I discovered

the pickup community and realized there was a group of men already doing
this, and I took swift action. I signed up for training with several of the most
talented coaches out there — I wanted to see the top guys in action, and I
wanted to learn from the best to expedite my own learning.

And I noticed something curious — the most talented, baddest-ass instructors

I had who approached tons of women and got the strongest attraction the
fastest all stunk.

As in, they smelled like they hadn’t showered for days.

As in, being in their presence you really had to tolerate some musk.

One of them didn’t even mention this, and shrugged it off when I pointed it
out. Another of these guys told me that after he’d been dating women for a
while — and this was a guy who dated models, dancers, and women from
high society — they’d universally tell him how glad they were that he didn’t
wear deodorant or cologne.

I watched these guys walk around, get right up in women’s personal space —
women have better senses of smell than men, and if I could smell these guys
from a few feet away, the women undoubtedly could, too — and the women
would get happy, excited, affectionate, right away… these guys clearly had
tons more sex appeal and a far stronger sexy vibe than I did back in 2006 and
early 2007.

So I wondered to myself… could part of that sex appeal be the smell?

A (Totally Speculative) Theory

Based on the research I’ve read, and the men I’ve seen, I have a theory.

A theory about the male scent.

My theory is, that a man’s musk serves as a “territory marking” signal that’s
at once both attractive to genetically compatible women, and repulsive to
(non-homosexual) males, as well as genetically incompatible women.

If you read the article on the effect of the birth control pill on women’s mate
choices (here’s the link again, in case you missed it), recall the research that
finds that women appear to select mates who are genetically compatible to
them by smell, and that women who go off the birth control pill and find that
they’re dating men incompatible to them soon break up with those men
(without ever knowing smell had anything to do with it).

I’ve also heard — from countless anecdotal sources, though I’ve never
encountered research on it — that different colognes, aftershaves, deodorants,
body sprays, etc., work better or worse for different men, based on that man’s
body chemistry.

The theory I arrived at was this:

Women are attracted to men by smell, looking for three (3) things:
genetic compatibility, high levels of testosterone, and low levels of
cortisol

Deodorant, cologne, and body spray are means of masking natural male
scent, and in a sense “fooling” women’s noses into liking (or NOT
liking) you

Men who are new to approaching women and are unconfident will have
 higher levels of cortisol, and thus have scents that repel women

Men who are experienced approaching women and are comfortable and
confident will have far lower levels of cortisol, and thus have scents that
attract women

Men who are experienced approaching women and are accustomed to

having lots of sex with women will also have naturally spiked
testosterone levels, also attractive to women

My conclusions were thus:

1. Deodorant, cologne, and body spray alter your male scent, covering up
cortisol, and adding testosterone-like substances (this is merely a guess,
since cologne companies are very secretive about what they put in their
concoctions, but I’m assuming there’s something in the ones women
find alluring that triggers similar parts of their brain to what male
pheromones do)

2. Thus, if you have naturally unattractive body odor to a woman (i.e.,

you’re stressed out; you’re uncomfortable or unconfident; you’re too
genetically similar to the girl), you’re better served by masking that with
a cover up

3. Alternatively, if you have naturally attractive body odor to a woman

(i.e., you’re calm and collected; you’re comfortable and confident; and
you’re genetically distinct from her), you’re better served by eschewing
cover up and going natural

Research in mind, and having encountered a few very talented seducers

whom I knew were quite successful with women who did not use cologne or
deodorant, I made up my mind to use these only while I was still on the
beginner or intermediate parts of my learning curve with women, and to stop
using them once I reached a place I felt sufficiently advanced.
Throwing Away My Deodorant

I didn’t stop using cologne and deodorant until the end of 2009, several years
after I’d first met those men who did exceptionally well with women and
simultaneously smelled musky.

After all, while right there were a couple of guys who succeeded while
smelling musky, there were plenty of OTHER examples I’d encountered
throughout my lifetime of totally UNDESIRABLE men with a strong smell
of musk, too (e.g., a homeless person).

Besides, I had work.

(As an aside: I’ve since become thoroughly convinced that the reason
deodorant has become so popular only just in the 20th century was because in
order for us all to be able to tolerate working with one another in close
proximity in office settings, we had to begin masking our own odors)

Once I was out of an office setting though, and my skills with women had
advanced enough that I was taking them home fairly consistently, I decided
to try an experiment: I’d go without doing anything to control or change my
natural odor other than showering with soap and water, and see what
happened.

I could always go back and start using deodorant and cologne, after all.

Except, I never did. I never had any reason to. As soon as I quite cologne and
deodorant, my attraction from women spiked. It spiked at the same time that I
made some other tweaks, such as growing out some sexy facial hair and
revamping my fashion, so I can’t conclusively pin it on that.

But, if anything, it certainly didn’t seem to make a difference in a negative

way that I wasn’t masking my scent.

And actually, as I suddenly seemed to be getting a lot of much stronger initial

attraction from women, I didn’t think that could be wholly chalked up solely
to just changing my facial hair and getting a new jacket, either.
So What Should You Use for YOUR Scent?

I’m 3 1/2 years into forsaking deodorant and cologne, and I don’t think I’d
ever go back. I don’t have a naturally strong scent — I went 10 days without
showering once as an experiment, and only around Day 7 or Day 8 did people
I asked tell me they could start smelling me when they were nearby to me.
However, I also tend to take half-hour showers and scrub very thoroughly,
because I’m something of a neat freak.

The reactions I get from women are more polarized these days than ever in
my past. Some women are instantly strongly attracted to me from the outset;
some are, for want of a better word, repelled. This is all across the spectrum
in women — one very beautiful, fashionable, elegantly-dressed woman may
be instantly drawn to me, and another may instantly want to get away from
me, for instance. My suspicion is that an unmasked male scent contributes to
this; the reactions are stronger than when I used to wear deodorant and
cologne.

However, also bear in mind that I’ve been meeting women randomly this way
since 2005, and it’s not even remotely stressful for me; my cortisol levels are
kept very low.

For this reason, my recommendations for men are as follows:

If you’re a beginner or intermediate at getting girls — and you find

yourself nervous with women sometimes — wear deodorant and wear
cologne. These will help you mask the cortisol in your sweat — a
turnoff for women — and they’ll also cover up the lack of testosterone
that comes from uncertainty and not being accustomed to “winning”
(see: “How to Be a Dominant Man: What You Didn’t Know About the
‘Winner Effect’”)

Once you’re sufficiently advanced with women that you get consistent
 results, you’re used to getting girls and sleeping with them, and your
stress on meeting and seducing women is hovering somewhere close to
“zero,” drop the deodorant and drop the cologne. At that point, you
almost certainly have very potent, attractive body chemistry going on —
your body is signaling to women that you are confident, dominant, and
stress-free, and if you’re covering that up, you’re missing a lot of strong
initial attraction from girls

I can’t stress that last one enough. It’s unconventional advice, but I suspect
that the men who fall into that category — men who are boundlessly
confident and self-assured, and care far more about what works than about
whether it’s what they “should” or “should not” be doing, according to
various anonymous members of society, aren’t going to care a whole heck of
a lot whether the deodorant industry will judge them gross for not using its
products. (if you think it’s gross to not use deodorant, don’t worry — you’re
not in the right place to be not using it yet)

Most men reading this, I suspect, will still want to lean on scent alterations
like these, however. In that case, I recommend that you check out:

1. Right Guard Sport for deodorant / antiperspirant. It lasts a long time, the
scent is very fresh, and women seem to like it a lot. Try it out for
yourself and see how it mixes with your own body chemistry, of course,
but this one’s pretty good.

2. Cool Water by Davidoff as one cologne / aftershave choice. This is the

better choice for bars / nightclubs — it’s a more robust scent than Very
Sexy for Him.

3. Very Sexy for Him by Victoria’s Secret as another cologne / aftershave

choice (bonus: you get a legitimate reason for going into Victoria’s
Secret to pick up girls out shopping for lingerie). This scent isn’t as
strong as Cool Water, though it is nicer — you’ll be best off using this
one during the day, for work/school and for meeting girls on the street
and in malls and shops and on transit.
 4. CK One by Calvin Klein. I only used this one a little bit, toward the end
of my scent-wearing days, but this one netted almost as many
compliments as Very Sexy for Him did, and it’s a stronger smell.

There are also plenty of other scents you can try and experiment and play
around with, but these were the ones I found most effective and that garnered
me the best results. I came to really prefer Very Sexy for Him the most
toward the end, and rather than use Cool Water I’d sometimes just put a
heavier dash of VSM on instead to make up for the scent’s lack of sturdiness.
Preparing to Smell Like You

Overall, my view these days is that deodorant and cologne are nice crutches
while you’re learning how to get girls, but are things you’ll want to abandon
as soon as you realistically can. It doesn’t seem to matter how strong or not
your smell is once you’re good with women; at that point, you seem to be
able to just let that smell loose, and some women will be very attracted, and
others will not be, and that’s okay — you’ll get the girls who are most into
you, which is what you want.

Until you get there though, don’t be afraid to use a nice deodorant and
cologne (or maybe even AXE… though I’m still skeptical).

Just, whatever you do, don’t use Obsession for Men.

Unless you’re into cats.

Chase Amante

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