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Hai Karate (1967)
by Leeming

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  • Availability: Discontinued
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Hai Karate was developed by Pfizer (Now more famous for Viagra). The commercials showed some guy who wore Hai Karate. Girls were coming at him from all angles and he had to karate chop them away. The aftershave even came with instructions on how to do this.
I'm pretty sure any fragrance released today which advocated the hitting of women wouldn't get very far!

Just so you know, here's what the instructions say:
Don't dare use Hai Karate without memorizing this: Here are step-by-step instructions on how to defend yourself from women in case you apply an over dose of Hai Karate
It then gives three simple steps to 'remove' the offending women. Lastly it tells us to be careful how we use it.
-Hmmmmmmmm

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17 reviews

Okay, well in defence of this scent (seeing it has virtually ALL negative reviews), it was cheap back in the day apparently (I was too young to remember first hand though) and upon smelling it today, it is/was not too dissimilar to Brut but perhaps not quite a strong. Brut is a timeless classic no matter if you may or may not like it, and I find that this, being similar, is a pretty ok (nothing special) scent for the price.

Okay, to pick up a bottle now will cost you a small fortune on eBay and then maybe you could say it's not value for money, but judging it on it's early price and quality of scent, I'm giving it a thumbs up (albeit a borderline middle of the road thumb.)
18 July 2009


27 reviews

This toxic waste has torn a hole in the ozone!!
01 April 2009


12 reviews

In 1972, I won a bottle of this so-called "cologne" as a door prize at a dance. I tried it before I went to see a movie. The stench was so overpowering it gave me a severe headache and people sitting next to me kept moving away to another row after a short while. Quite humiliating... True story!
27 April 2008


861 reviews

All that is vile and hellish in the world, but captured in a bottle and sealed with a lid (to help keep the toxic fumes from stripping nearby pieces of furniture and killing small, furry creatures in the vicinity).
28 September 2006


143 reviews

O the horror, the horror!
10 March 2006


3258 reviews

This was some vile stuff. Even forty years ago, when I had little discernment and even less taste and almost no money, I used it two or three times and then tossed the bottle—it was rrreeeaaallllllllyyyyy bad.
01 December 2005

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