The Men's Health Blog

Men should smell good. And I don't mean just good.

Men should smell reeeally good.

Aside from gym sessions, I think we should always strive to elicit double-takes from women solely based on our scent.

Work? Yup.

At home? Yup.

Weekends? Yup.

Out with friends? Of course.

Personally, I can think of two colognes that I have owned in the last ten or some odd years that have truly stood out among the rest in terms of double-takes and a bombardment of "excuse me, what cologne are you wearing?" encounters with the lady folk.

In college, it was Aqua Di Gio by Giorgio Armani. Since joining the professional world, it has been Polo Black by Ralph Lauren.

If you've ever smelled those two colognes, I think it's quite easy to realize my style. A bit sweeter and sportier -- as I've never been a rigid, or musty sort of guy.

But now my stock is running low, so I'm in search of the next great female-head-turning fragrance for dudes... and I think I just found it.

I was thumbing through the latest issue of Men's Health Magazine when I came across the advertisment for Gucci by Gucci.

Gentlemen, start your engines.

Gucci's latest spray-on sex appeal seems to be the natural progression in my cologne evolution. Still on the sweeter side, but even more refined than my trusty Polo Black.

The ad describes the cologne as such:

Gucci by Gucci Pour Homme combines classic masculine appeal with cool, contemporary elegance, and is inspired by the warmth and sensuality of incense.

I'm wondering... have you tried Gucci? If so, is it worth the cash?

Which colognes have you found to work the best?

What has been your cologne evolution?

If you're a regular here at The Men's Health Blog, you might have noticed that I've added a link to Dr. Sheldon Marks' Men's Health Office under my blog roll.

I dig WebMD.

And I really dig this post on the myths and facts surrounding penis enlargement.

I don't know about you but I am fast growing tired of the dozens of spam e-mails I get every day about the magic new penis enlargement pill, cream or device. But it is not limited to these anonymous e-mails. Now I have to watch or listen to these same scams on major prime time TV shows and radio. What amazes me most is that these advertisements must be making money, or they wouldn't still be on the air week after week, month after month.

Here's the kicker - there is no truth or science behind any one of them. They are all pure and simple scams, designed to separate out the foolish from their money. Nothing more than snake oil salesmen, and sadly as educated as we are, we still remain gullible. Hey, if I could find a way to feel comfortable stealing money from people I might too jump in and offer "Sheldon's secret penile enlargement formula- but don't' wait, because organized medicine wants to shut me down, so order before midnight tonight and we'll throw in a free spray-on window tinter". And here is how they promote an age-old gimmick - now they call it male enhancement - kind of like a used car is now called pre-owned so they can charge more. If I sell my own secret formula, then I can lie but it is a new lie so it will take a few years for it to catch up to me and maybe by then I will have my millions hidden away in an off-shore Caribbean island. But my ethics gets in the way.

So many times people ask "why doesn't the government step in an stop these quacks from making outright lies and false claims?" The reason is simple - the supplement industry has worked very hard to keep the FDA out of the supplement market. This way, they can sell anything to anyone and they don't have to prove that it is effective, that it is even helpful or that it is even safe. So anyone with some money can create a fake treatment and sell it, making wild and extreme claims.

And what better way to trick people than playing to the secret wish of many men - to have a bigger penis? Because, after all, we know that men with bigger penises must be happier, more successful and have happier wives. And who will complain that his penis enlargement pill didn't work? I would guess very few men.

I like the good doctor's take on the subject, and will probably be linking to his work more often in the future.

If you've got a health blog and want me to add it to my blog roll, drop me a comment... unless you're trying to sell the sort of bogus supplements to which Dr. Marks was referring.

In that case, piss off.

Excuse my French.