I was intrigued by the name, Gucci Guilty. Now that you've mentioned it....I'm gonna have to make another trip back to the local perfumeries.

I guess you can tell this is all a bit new to me. I was never a perfume guy. I would just rub on some antiperspirant deodorant, and that was it. For years. I wasn't interested in sweet scents. Then I smelled 1 Million Intense in a GQ magazine someone handed me.

That was it.

Let me make a little commentary. A big problem with a lot of these scents is the longevity. When you do a little homework on basic perfumery, you find out that Eau de Toilette is a more diluted version of a scent. Next step up in density would be Eau de Parfum. Now, it's easy for a woman to find a Parfum, versus just an eau de toilette. Not so for a man. Our scents tend to be more diluted. That's unfortunate. I think really it might come down to economics [again]. Maybe men are not the primary consumers of perfumes, and so maybe a perfumery doesn't want to put a concentrated mixture into a bottle, wasting more of the compounds needed to make a much greater quantity of eau de toilette or cologne.

I looked for an Invictus Eau de Parfum. Brother, it's not out there.

That would be a "cologne" to blow away all contenders for decades to come.

Let's hope Paco Rabanne reads this and at least comes out with an Invictus Intense like he did with 1 Million.

Alfano's Girl, instead you should have said Toujours Fidele instead of forever loyal. It would have been a masterstroke comeback on a thread like this.

I'm really picky about scents.. But I have to say the dolce&gabbana the one is my absolute favorite and the only thing I really use. Just a nice clean smelling scent I think. Not too harsh and crazy.

Ok gang, so I got my delivery of Toujours Fidèle from France. I am wearing in on top of my Invictus to test its longevity.

I must say, it does smell almost exactly like Invictus except Invictus is more masculine and musky, heavy. That is the only difference. If you spray one on top of the other, I don't think it really counts as mixing two different scents.

I'm still stuck in the 90's and early 2000's.

Tommy

Aqua Di Gio

Has anyone ever tried "Umpire".

It's for foul balls.

All gangsters wear Pino Syvlestre its shaped like a pine cone.

I remember back in the '80s, it was rumored that gay men loved Pierre Cardin because the bottle was shaped like a penis. And seeing how so many wiseguys prefer the company of men to women, that might be something to think about. But a pine cone shaped anything would have to hurt like a motherfucker .

LOL! [speechless]

After sporting TouJours Fidele by Fragonard a few times, I must say, it is distinctly different from Paco Rabanne's Invictus.

Toujours Fidele smells closer to a musky bouquet of flowers.

Invictus is 10 times more masculine and rich smelling.

Agua Brava by Antonio Puig is what I use

I used to wear an assortment of things (infrequently) in the '70s and 80's, but I honestly can't remember any one particular product that stood out in my mind. Nowadays, dinosaur that I am, I will wear just a little bit of English Leather.

I've always had an aversion to those really overpowering scents that can knock you out from a block away. I remember back in college (in 1973), I had a roommate that wore Brut. He let me try some, and I swear you could smell it in the next county! I also tried the aftershave that fateful evening, and it burned the ever-lovin' crap out of my skin. Never again - even if Joe Namath did do commercials for that shit!

Yeah, as the saying goes: I wear English Leather, or I wear nothing at all.


Signor V.

My Mom tells me stories about Sears & Roebuck catalogs (she is 68, you probably have went through that eh PB?) and used up corn cobs.

I've honestly had to use pine straw before while hunting and have used newspaper at work before. Down here working in the middle of nowhere (which isn't hard) there are not any bathrooms and the boss wasn't going to let us rack a truck up and drive 10-15 minutes OR MORE to the store and use theirs. Just grab some shit and go. After one time I started stocking my truck with toilet paper.