Axe Africa / Lynx Africa (1995)
by Axe / Lynx

A very vanilla/sweet scent that has seriously stood the test of time. Lynx are renowned for discontinuing their scents if they feel they have run their course, and the fact Africa (Kilo in the USA) is still going strong (since 1995) suggests it's popularity is still as high today as it was in the 90s.

This scent should serve as an example to the company that the demand for the older scents are currently very high, with the fact that Africa is STILL the biggest selling Lynx variant in the UK despite the numerous newer scents released. Newer scents have come and gone and Africa still defies the odds and remains!

For some odd reson, i guess this one smjells like the late nineties to me. It's amazing how many costly and not at all mass-market woody notes went into this one. The main recipe used here- a cocktail of rich, sensual, exotic woods- seems to have worked perfectly here, creating a virile, energetic, warm, lush creation that doesn't reveal how affordable it is.

This smell is awful. Thank god "pulse".

My nose isn't that much sensible as of real fragrance fans, but to me Axe Africa is very similar to Gaultier Le Male or Rochas Man, with heavy vanilla aroma. It's one of my favourite mass-market deodorants, with another Axe, Phoenix.

Well, its 2007, and today when I was at the supermarket, I was in the personal hygiene aisle seeking out a change in deoderant. I after persuing various brands, I moved on to Lynx...The memories came flooding back...god aweful memories...

That last time I recall ever thinking about Lynx deoderants was somewhere around 2000/2001.

Lynx, as another basenoter here said, defined the end of the nineties. I recall with remarkable clarity the aweful, cheap stench that followed a group of teenaged males everywhere they went at the end of the nineties, smelling of industrial fumes. This one, Africa, upon revisiting, is somewhat different. Whilst unmistably synthetic smelling, it exudes this sweet, spicey, woody, vanillic auror, perfumey in nature. Probably the most acceptable Axe/Lynx offering available. The rest smell like cheap crap. And are unmistakably "of" the late ninties...

Lynx is, essentially, a line of unremarkable supermarket toiletries, but Africa does stand out with its distinctly sweet/fruity and spicy tone, balanced by sweet-smelling woods (I think). In Britain, it does define the end of nineties very well.