Lynx Africa – a body spray marketed to men – has divided opinion online after the suggestion was made that it actually “smells good” and the hate it attracted was unjustified.
Hundreds responded revealing the traumatic memories they associated with the scent, most often involving boys who tried to cover up the fact they didn’t shower after exercising. Among the reactions were dozens of people who agreed while the scent itself was inoffensive, the same couldn’t be said for the people who wore it.“We don’t hate the scent. We hate the accompanying memories of pubescent boys bathing in it and using it as a replacement for antiperspirant,” one wrote.
“Combine it with cheap cigarettes and you have get the scent of the back corner of my high school,” someone else wrote.“Probably the same reason so many people say they hate Nickleback or hate the word moist. It’s a popular hate bandwagon to get on. I would bet that a tonne of people who claim they hate it wouldn’t even pick the scent out if they never wore it,” a popular comment suggested.