well, it feels like a little while since i have considered, or "reviewed" a deodorant here. that, look you see, is probably because i have settled on lynx gold as the one for me for all of time. except, apparently not without the occasional detour. and quite the detour appears to have happened. not only have i deviated from gold - briefly - but also from lynx (or axe, depending where you are in the world) entirely.
some background to this brave and bold move. or whim, off the cuff, spur of the moment purchase. i was browsing some shops to see if i could further my lynx gold collection on the cheap (someone somewhere always has it on "special") with little success. then i notice another, different brand was on a quite interesting (as in cheap) offer, so i went for it.
yes, then, i bought a couple (2) of cans of french connection uk deodorant. indeed, you know, the company which so humorously and in a quite witty way promotes itself purely by the initial "fcuk", so as to look a bit naughty or edgy. sigh. to be precise, or accurate (if it helps) it's the "urban" variation of their deodorant i bought. mostly as this was the only one on offer. certainly, indeed, the meaning or definition of the word "urban" has become curiously clouded and appropriated over the last couple of years, or decades, but no matter.
motivation, or reason, for giving this one a go? price. just pure cost, or affordable nature thereof. from what i recall these were reduced to £2 a tin, which struck me as being rather low down for such a well known and established, if not particularly cherished, brand.
for the purposes of fair, unbiased testing (or whatever) i took these tins on the road with me. so, to give clarification which really is not needed, i sprayed this on me in a pretty conventional way (kind of) whilst in Wales for one week, then that there London (innit) for another.
any good? nope, as in no. or non, merci i suppose. despite it being the product of an oh so fancy established designer (or whatever), the ingredients or mix feature those two key words which are, truly, the curse and the plague of the majority of deodorants available in the uk. here i (but of course) speak of how it contains "citrus" and "musk".
really don't get the fascination with either. at all. for citrus, they use a shock, stack citrus scent, as in the kind which is used to mask poisons in cans of bug spray used south of the equator, designed to kill insects what are generally bigger than your hand. for "musk" you can always, always read it as "p!ss", and not a particularly nice scented streak of it, if such even exists. the musky p!ss scent gives every sense of being of the provenance of some ghastly hedge dwelling rodent or similar vermin.
it's not, to my nose (or nostrils) any good, then. and yet it is some designer thing, and usually reasonably expensive. perhaps i am missing something. that i don't like it is an aside, i suppose, for what would matter more is people in my vicinity liking it. quite a bit like the "wolf" t-shirt some bloke sold me down the market. i am not overtly keen on it, yet people who see it tend to say how much they like it, and so on. just maybe, then, the scent of a badly deformed badger what has just disgraced itself in shock after someone tried to spray poison it to death is attractive to some in the uk.
up to now, alas, no one has rushed up to me saying how much they like the smell of this on me. oddly they (ladies, too) have done so when i have been wearing my smart versace aftershave ("eau de toilette" or whatever). so no, going on what testing i have done with this thus far (and not too much more is going to follow, believe you me), it isn't a scent to make one instantly appealing.
highly likely that what's going on here is usual French sh!t, or if you will la manière française de faire les choses, which is also the wrong way. carefully controlled and guarded, the French can do some decent stuff. leave them unattended, and they just go right ahead and make everything smell as disgusting as they possibly can. which is kind of what they have done here.
best of luck to you if you give this stuff a go, but let it be noted that i tried to issue a warning.
be excellent to each other!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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