Spray more, get more

Or not.

Yes, lynx does smell nice (along with many other men's deodorants and after-shave and smelly things) but that doesn't mean that the more you spray, the better it gets. To me, it seems like it would be more like a bell curve.

Obviously some is required to overcome bad smelling body odour, and possibly to even make one smell a bit better (say, up to the peak of the curve), but you can have too much. As with most things, what goes up must come down, except this time it isn't any of Newton's laws, or, in fact, anything to do to do with gravity at all.

As soon as the amount sprayed hits a point where anyone more than about two seats (preferably less) away can smell what you have on, well that's bad. I don't know how many people have experienced the door-to-door salesman who thinks that putting a whole bottle of aftershave on before each door will win him customers. Lose them, more like. Or been at a party, or social gathering of some sort where all of a sudden an almost noxious smell suffocates the room (and this is NOT from the food) and you look around and find (aside from all those dying from being starved of oxygen) that there are a couple of extra people in the room. (Before any boys go up in arms about this, I know the overuse of women's perfume can also be suffocating, but at least it isn't advertised with "spray more, get more".)

I'm not against boys using deodorant, or anything, oh no. And used to a reasonable degree it does smell nice. However as well as the above argument, included in this should be the way in which some boys think "oh, I don't have to shower, I'll just spray oodles more deodorant on instead and all will be fine." Well, funnily enough, all will NOT be fine. Yes, I realise that the not-showering thing is probably more of a phase than a permanent fixture, and I suppose we should think ourselves lucky that people do realise that if they don't shower then they start to smell bad, but that doesn't mean they should just hide the smell, but rather that they should wash!

And yes, I do realise that the adverts are exaggerated to the absurdly ludicrous, but the slogan is the slogan is the slogan, and it still seems wrong.

The slogan is at the end of this. (You have to select your bandwidth first, and then wait for it to load.) It was after seeing the same advert (which has been banned on some channels I think) 3 times within about 20 minutes that provoked me to write this. Teaches me to watch TV, eh?