Canoe

I keep seeing these ads for something called "Axe" - apparently a body scent for young men.  I know this only because my nephew slathers it on with wild abandon.

Well, we had "scents" when I was a kid, too.  But they weren't namby-pamby "body lotions," they were proper after shaves or colognes.  And the big one was Canoe.  You knew you had reached dating age when you were permitted to slap some of THAT on.

You learned real quick not to lay it on too thick, unless you wanted an unapproachable "scent zone" surrounding you.  This is a lesson that the makers of Axe don't want today's kids to learn, seeing as how it would dip into profits.  With Canoe, a little dab would do you.  Perhaps that's why, when I recently googled "Canoe," a reviewer said "My mother gave me a bottle at 16 and I still use it at 68."

Quite a bottle.