stetson...

... makes a man smell really good. I like it and like the way a man smells when he puts forth the effort to smell manly and attractive.Fresh and Clean, and Interested in wanting to smell pleasant.

The two bottles here, one cologne and the other aftershave, were gifts from the daughter to her dad. She told me she bought him a birthday gift, probably delivered to the door from those very efficient people at Amazon who can have it packaged and shipped before you sign off on the credit card payment. I have not been around it in many years, and honestly don't remember what it smells like, though my brain tells me it is quite pleasant, providing nice thoughts of manly men.

She said she bought it due to thinking that was what her dad smelled like when she was a child. Even though The Man Who Lives Here has not put forth any effort to smell attractive in many years - it just reminded her of her dad. He received it when they met on his birthday at Cracker Barrel, and hopefully thanked her for the gift, even though it was only half-unwrapped. The two small boxes rode around in his truck for over a month, before he started in the direction of the house, even though they did not actually come in. Until Friday when I brought the Stetson in from where he left them in the carport. The only reason they got out of his truck was to clean it out before he left for a weekend of cards in Biloxi at the casino.

I laughed when she told me what she was giving him for his birthday, after she said she associated that aroma with her dad. Because I am the one who started buying it for him many years ago. Even more amusing is the reason I bought it: the first face of 'Stetson' was Tom Selleck. The first time I saw his smiling face, complete with dimples was on a big six foot tall free standing cutout in a department store.  Oh, my goodness: Life-size Tom Selleck with a big toothy smile, and a pair of dimples. It was love at first sight. I tried to persuade the clerk in the department store in Valdosta to let me have that very attractive man, even though that two dimensional cardboard cutout did not actually smell like the cologne. Sadly she reported he was already promised to another customer who had also fallen in lust with that very attractive man, so he was not available...

I wonder how different my life would have been if Tom Selleck had come home with me that day???