bye bye not buy buy.... old spice

[mikesride]

I wonder how well a lady's perfume would sell if the commercial featured an attractive lady saying. "Look at me, I am sexy, look at your girl.... god shes ugly. Buy my perfume so that when you are forced to kiss that dog you can at least be thinking of me." I have used old spice products in the past but will no longer. You guys know the commercials I'm talking about right?

[vash]

i'm thinking they are being sarcastic...

anyways..hot chicks have been selling things forever.

i dont buy old spice on the smell principle..i dont think the stuff smells good.

[pwd72s]

Nope, not familiar with the ad...guess I should spend less time here & more in front of the TV?

I had a bit of fun at the coast when Cindy & a friend were shopping, hubbies just hanging out...our stogies finished, I strolled into a "scent" shop...they selling high $$$ perfumes & stuff for both sexes. I asked for a bottle of skin bracer... Funny, they didn't carry it.

[Jim Richards]

Why people want to smell like _______ is beyond me. It's pure hell on the subway or any place where people congregate. Please, don't bath in scents and instead shower regularly.

[Evans, Marv]

When I was a teenager, I used Old Spice and hair oil. Couldn't imagine using either again.

[Rick Lee]

I like their deodorant. Never liked their cologne. The Old Spice deodorant I use smells nothing at all like their cologne.

[Moses]

I think those ads are funny!

[Z-man]

Originally Posted by Jim Richards

Why people want to smell like _______ is beyond me. It's pure hell on the subway or any place where people congregate. Please, don't bath in scents and instead shower regularly.

In my book, there are three ways to wear perfume or cologne:
- A whisper
- A statement
- An announcement.

There's a guy at my work who wears an ANNOUNCEMENT. As in, when I enter a certain elevator, I know this guy was there 10 MINUTES ago.

Seem there are a lot of folks wearing announcements on the subway these days...

I wear my cologne as a whisper.

-Z-man.

[UconnTim97]

Not a big fan of the product, but the ads are hilarious.

I also wonder how many women go out an buy this product for their men? All the cologne that I wear my wife has bought for me. Hey, she has to smell it, not me. I do agree with Z man's whisper approach on this matter as I too work with a few that make announcements.

[John TArsicwitz]

Originally Posted by mikesride

I wonder how well a lady's perfume would sell if the commercial featured an attractive lady saying. "Look at me, I am sexy, look at your girl.... god shes ugly. Buy my perfume so that when you are forced to kiss that dog you can at least be thinking of me." I have used old spice products in the past but will no longer. You guys know the commercials I'm talking about right?

You mean the guy who is in the commercial happens to be a little darker than me? He's probably better looking than me also. I think the commercials are hilarious but the products really stink. I don't think they had to ever worry about getting me to buy their product based solely on their product.

[herr_oberst]

Most women I know think Old Spice reminds them of grandpa.

Just sayin'.

[emcon5]

Originally Posted by mikesride

I wonder how well a lady's perfume would sell if the commercial featured an attractive lady saying. "Look at me, I am sexy, look at your girl.... god shes ugly. Buy my perfume so that when you are forced to kiss that dog you can at least be thinking of me." I have used old spice products in the past but will no longer. You guys know the commercials I'm talking about right?

The difference is most men don't have a stick up their arse about looks like women tend to. You will never hear a man ask his wife "do you think he is better looking than me?" because men don't care.

The commercials are hilarious.

Here is the original: YouTube - Old Spice | The Man Your Man Could Smell Like

Here is the follow up: YouTube - Old Spice | Questions

There are also 50 or 60 short clips they did in answer to YouTube comments and Twitter posts.

YouTube - OldSpice's Channel

They are hilarious as well.
Only 3 times in my life have I purchased any product based on advertising, but this is one of the very few exceptions. The last time I ran out of deodorant, I picked up some Old Spice. Not because I want to smell like Isaiah Mustafa, but because they made me laugh, a BUNCH of times.

The other two exceptions:

I got gas at Shell after their awesome F1 commercial, with all the vintage F1 cars. The audio from that commercial gives me wood.

A Carl's Jr "Spicy BBQ Burger" after they used Paris Hilton in the commercial. She was in a bathing suit, washing a car and eating a burger. This one wasn't because of the commercial itself, it was because of the company's response to the habitually offended jackholes who complained about it. Their response was, and I quote "Get a life"

[TechnoViking]

The original commercial is hilarious. Good stuff. Old Spice is a grandpa's brand, and they are doing their best to revive it.

[emcon5]

Originally Posted by TechnoViking

Old Spice is a grandpa's brand, and they are doing their best to revive it.

The cologne/aftershave certainly is, but the deoderant and body wash isn't the same thing.

Come to think of it, their commercials with Bruce Campbell are pretty funny as well.

YouTube - New Old Spice Bruce Campbell Ahoy Commercial

[sammyg2]

Old spice sux. I'm an aqua-velva man.





Yes of course I'm kidding.

I use Drakkar Noir, sparingly.

[Dave L]

Im still waiting on the Hai Karate comeback

[R K T]

I always crackup at the "celebrity" NAME stuff. Especially Michael Jordan's....what does it smell like? A sweaty basketball player?

[berettafan]

Brilliant ad campaign in my opinion. One of the funnier i've seen. Shows that women are as simple minded as men (or at least accuses them of being so).

'two tickets to that thing you like'....i mean how can you not like that?!

[berettafan]

oh and when i'm around a guy wearing cologne i feel like i'm being assaulted. like being between him and some chick he's groping in a cheeseball night club. ugh. i mean if you want to swing your wang at some chick to see if she'll put out go right ahead, but don't do it until i'm well clear of the area!

[emcon5]

Originally Posted by R K T

I always crackup at the "celebrity" NAME stuff. Especially Michael Jordan's....what does it smell like? A sweaty basketball player?

I was thinking the same thing about Paris Hilton's perfume. The special combination of stale champagne, KY Jelly and dried semen. {shudder}