Scents that ladies love

by Doctor Basenotes, 01 December 2002

"What fragrance do you recommend for me? I want something that will have all the chicks going wild! Nothing girly though, I want a real manly scent!"

Ian, New York, USA

Doctor Basenotes Says: A ladies man, eh? I remember, back in the sixties when London was swinging; my good friend Lionel and I used to spend our nights grooving to the latest pop melodies in some of London's finest clubs. Of course, being the suave, debonair gentleman that we were, Lionel and I had the ladies go wild for us anyway: One wink from Lionel would make a young girl's heart melt. He was such a heartbreaker. (He wasn't actually called Lionel, but he was such a hairy fellow, he looked like a lion in human form. I don't actually know his real name come to think about it...)

Of course, not all the chaps had the same way with the ladies as myself and Lionel, and tried all manner of crazy tricks to impress the lovely young fillies. I remember one amusing gent who used to bathe in Brut before hitting the town, it didn't make the girls go wild, simply because he applied far too much. He was actually the cause of The Great Brut Shortage in 1967, when Fabergé couldn't keep up with the demand from this one person.

Anyway, I digress. I'm afraid that there isn't a fragrance that makes 'all the chicks going wild'. What I have found in my experience is that different ladies enjoy different scents, much in the same way that my good friend, Edith, likes nothing more than a glass or seven of Australian Chardonnay, but Lionel's mistress, Laetitia, will only touch the ghastly beverage of Vodka and Red Bull, but that's the youth of today for you.

Having said this, there are some scents that are pleasing to the ladies. I would recommend splashing on some Le Male, L'Eau D'Issey, Obsession for Men, Curve for Men or Fahrenheit. Edith, is a bit partial to Eau Sauvage and Kouros, while Lionel's fancy-piece, Laetitia, just likes the smell of a clean man, though Lionel rarely fits that description.

Lastly, scent alone won't be enough: Get a decent haircut, have a shave and be confident. A good personality won't go missed either! Good luck and don't do anything I wouldn't do.

About the author

Doctor Basenotes is our resident fragrance expert. After qualifying as a fragrance doctor he spent the next thirty years in the industry as a perfume-muse: perfumer's would be inspired just by the sight of him! What he doesn't know about fragrance is probably not worth knowing. Send him all of your cologne queries at doctor@basenotes.com

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