Men of the UK, how sad are you now?

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Peeteebee@reddit

Joop! Homme. The stench of 90s nightclubs.

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https://preview.redd.it/1htsiv3u8bqe1.jpeg?width=1000&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=8c77662f8e0c6653a972bf8d892b23ea7c279c3d No, theres no "De" .... Unless it's the cheap knock off you got for xmas. The original real product was, is and always will be, simply JOOP! Homme.

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merlin8922g@reddit

No Joop, No Hoop!

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Glittering_Pride_386@reddit

No Armani, No Poonani!

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merlin8922g@reddit

No Splash, No Gash!

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brightdionysianeyes@reddit

No spray, no lay!

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frogfoot420@reddit

Wash your fingers for the mingers

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twonaq@reddit

No spray lo lay

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JeffBroccoli@reddit

No Issey no pussy!

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JeffBroccoli@reddit

It’ll be back quick enough

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crapusername47@reddit

I’m not particularly mourning the loss of any product sold to men on a ‘buy this so women will like you’ basis.

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l8yters@reddit

You have to be pretty dense to not realise that is massively tongue in cheek.

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twonaq@reddit

Isn’t that how everything is sold to men

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crapusername47@reddit

Well, yes, and that’s the point.

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AskUK-ModTeam@reddit

It's a marketing gimmick

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jim_jiminy@reddit

It’s the smell of 1995. I’m gonna stock up.

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cardiffman100@reddit

I'll just have to have BO until they bring it back.

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PurpleBiscuits52@reddit

I don't know if I should tell you, but it never covered your BO.

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cardiffman100@reddit

This explains a lot. *A lot.*

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iloveburritos263@reddit

Actually it does cover the smell of BO. It doesn’t reduce sweating though

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Lost_Raccoon5241@reddit

Very

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Thomasinarina@reddit

They’re not, it’s just a marketing gimmick.

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Nuo_Vibro@reddit

Thank you for speaking for all me you buffoon

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RockinMadRiot@reddit

They are stopping Lynx Africa? I have just fell to my knees in Savers

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Nuo_Vibro@reddit

Moderately so

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AdWerd1981@reddit

I'm sad because I hardly ever had Lynx unless I got it myself. I'm sad because other kiddies at school got to smell "trendy". I'm sad because I'm now over 40 and still won't get that feeling.

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ar4975@reddit

I'm just imagining people giving an experimental sniff and going "Ooh, you smell trendy!"

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inide@reddit

I don't care, I use the one that smells of vanilla and sawdust.

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PoopFandango@reddit

Guess my in-laws will have to find something else to get me for christmas

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Tyruto@reddit

Is that why they have brought out Jungle Spray? Also, Fever was the best scent, but that got discontinued years ago I also preferred Excite to Africa

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GT_Pork@reddit

Switch to Sex Panther. 60% of the time, it works every time

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cloudmountainio@reddit

My dad is from Ghana and the way I would proudly give him a lynx Africa set every Christmas as a kid🤣🤣🤣

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Humble-Variety-2593@reddit

Everyone's nans are livid at having to actually put some thought into a gift this year.

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NinjaOfMuffins@reddit

I'm happy as f.. lynx Africa is one of the worst smells ever. Along with Black vanilla, which to me smelt like someone with extremely bad bowel movements and hygiene

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Chunderdragon86@reddit

I still miss oriental

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goldenthoughtsteal@reddit

It's a shame, the smell of Lynx Africa remindef me of my year doing a PGCE during lockdown! I'm sure school teachers everywhere will be rejoicing however.

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puffinrust@reddit

I steered well clear of Lynx Africa tbh, cultural appropriation is a minefield that I’m not prepared to wade through.

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tmstms@reddit

Men will be celebrating- it will be the elderly relatives who will be dismayed, going into the shop to buy their younger male relatives their annual Christmas present only to find it does not exist any more and they will have to buy extra pairs of socks for them instead.

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Erikair69@reddit

Lynx Africa was my least favourite. I preferred Mirage

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Colonel_Wildtrousers@reddit

Alaska was where it’s at (showing my age)

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Fluffy_Space_Bunny@reddit

Who knows what crap I'll get for Christmas now.

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PM_ME_VAPORWAVE@reddit

I'll never recover

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MidfieldGeneralKeane@reddit

I'm glad! Now people will have to get creative and buy me a proper present instead Lynx Africa boxset 😂

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NoTrain1456@reddit

Oh, your grandma bought the entire stock from Poundland. You've still got 10 years of it coming your way

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MidfieldGeneralKeane@reddit

Would have a hard time doing that as one has been dead 12 years and the other 6 years 😂

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dickwildgoose@reddit

I am beside myself with fury. I feel wounded. Violated even. In fact, I am so cross that I'm almost inclined to write a scathing letter to Unilever, the goddamned MONSTERS.

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benzilla04@reddit

I have a tooth infection so it’s not great, but on the bright side I have a job interview next week so might not be an unemployed bum for much longer

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PKblaze@reddit

That's an interesting move after all the advertisements last year claiming it's the GOAT

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takesthebiscuit@reddit

Duolingo killed their owl and got loads of publicity

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pigeon_in_a_suit@reddit

It’s a marketing gimmick inspired by Liptons who were inspired by Duolingo who were no doubt inspired by some other massive corporation. We’re truly living in a postmodern corporate hellscape.

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MisterD90x@reddit

I'm hanging on..

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Chaosblast@reddit

Not sure why people care. I personally stopped using aerosols to smell better. There's just plenty of alternatives.

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RichieLT@reddit

What will I buy for Xmas now?

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iceystealth@reddit

I’ve not used Lynx Africa since I was 13. I’m 40 now, I think I’ll survive.

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Errror_TheDuck@reddit

Pretty sure the lynx stuff is just a marketing scheme based on a similar one by Lipton. Your Christmas traditions will remain don’t worry.

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Top-Fisting@reddit

idk. they took away vapes, XL bullies, now this. games gone lads. im sad

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NeilJonesOnline@reddit

Thank God I stockpiled the Africa & Marmite edition

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frosty024@reddit

I'd say about 60% now felt horrible this morning 10% or something this morning

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bouncer-1@reddit

Good riddance

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Supersonic-Zafonic@reddit

I still haven't recovered from them dropping Lynx Musk.

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mrhippoj@reddit

Do they at least still have Java and Voodoo?

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boolee2112@reddit

I was recently relieved to find that B&M still stock Joop Eau De Toilette.

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SookHe@reddit

Somehow, I don’t know how, but somehow I think I will cope

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RowRow1990@reddit

They're not discounting it. It was jumping on the lipton ice tea error.

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TwentyWunth@reddit

As above. It was Lynx co-opting Lipton's social media intern scheduling their April Fool post on the wrong day.

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levinyl@reddit

Africa was the best one!

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julzibobz@reddit

Wowww what a throwback. All the Guys at school wore this. Iconic product lol

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AndyTheSane@reddit

Well, it will be something of a relief not to be dog piled by a horde of insatiable lust-crazed women every time I leave the house.

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Old-Plastic6662@reddit

Chin up mate, there's always Old Spice. It's time to grow up.

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Freebornaiden@reddit

But on the plus side, I just bought a Marathon bar from Morrisons.

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danddersson@reddit

Have to go back to Brute then......!

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ddmf@reddit

I believe It all went wrong when they got rid of lynx java.

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DDFingers@reddit

We needed this to be sad?

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Financial-Couple-836@reddit

Eh, wake me up if they get rid of Original Source shower gel. Not really bothered about Lynx Africa shower gel.

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Isabella_RavenDream@reddit

Lynx Africa was basically the UK’s national fragrance, this is a tragedy. Guess we’ll have to find a new way to smell like a middle schooler

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Housemouse91@reddit

It'll be off the shelves for a year tops, seems to be a recent trick companies are doing now..get people feeling like they'll miss it and then boom re introduced through 'popular demand'...Caramac and Worcester sauce walkers crisps being the latest examples

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GrouchyAlps612@reddit

I use the shower gel and I’m not entirely sure why it gets a bad rap

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Plenty_Suspect_3446@reddit

It has a bad rep from smelly adolescent boys in the 2000s spraying it in public like in changing rooms and on public transport.

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Lovethosebeanz@reddit

They are not, its a early april fools prank copy of another brand. But I dont think many would care if it was.

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HelloReddit54321@reddit

No more xmas presents :-(

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EverybodySayin@reddit

Ohhh, have they? Thank god, worst christmas present you could ever receive. I never once got complimented on my fragrance when wearing that shit.

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TonyStowaway@reddit

Ugh right? Smells like a P.E Locker room and the smell seems to stick in the back of my throat and it's so gross 🤮

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stuaird1977@reddit

I'm ok I've just bought 200 cans

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benjaminchang1@reddit

I never used Lynx anyway because I just buy the cheap mens deodorant from whichever supermarket I'm at. That said, a generation of men will never receive Lynx from that random relative or family friend who wanted to buy them a present, but had no idea what to get.

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Crayon_Casserole@reddit

The relatives were dropping a polite hint the kids stank.

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Dru2021@reddit

Read the title and asked myself the existential question, then saw it was about Lynx. I don’t know how to feel now!

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AnZhongLong@reddit

When I was a teen lynx was wodely regarded as utter shit, so I cant understand why people like it now

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ManDohlorian@reddit

You might have to have an actual shower!

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Dnny10bns@reddit

It was crap anyway. Oriental was the one.

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Extreme_Objective984@reddit

yep If they remove it to bring back Oriental I would happy.

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LordSwright@reddit

Pretty sad but nothing to do with lynx.

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bucketofardvarks@reddit

dear god here was me thinking people's internet critical thinking/scam/lie detection was on the rise

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Gaunts@reddit

Indifferent for the most part, also with each passing day reddit seems to become more like ~~karenbook~~ facebook\*

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HashDefTrueFalse@reddit

That's the one that all users treated as single use, no matter the size of the can, right?

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Kuldiin@reddit

Good thing I have a ten year stock thanks to aunties!

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Anonymous_Lurker_1@reddit

Lidl do a knock-off that is similar. I'll survive...

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Expensive-Fail-2813@reddit

What a shame...not...however still raging to this day they got rid of Tempest...

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Hazz3r@reddit

It's just a marketing thing.

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BasedGodKebab@reddit

Bro just discovered Marketing.

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GuybrushFunkwood@reddit

Deodorant of choice for a quick ‘Glasgow shower’ in my younger days.

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icarus88888@reddit

Alan Partridge in mourning

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levezvosskinnyfists7@reddit

“Voodoo!” “Java!”

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Emergency_Driver_421@reddit

Damn. No more semi-clad gangs of women following me around…

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Illustrious-Berry375@reddit

It’s fake, copied from Lipton tea and before that Duolingo

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CoffeeIgnoramus@reddit

Wow, the manipulation of marketing is really getting easy. It's literally identical to the Liptons one (which they instantly reversed).

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Nine-Eyes-@reddit

Deoderant aside, I'm forgetting what it's like to not be in a state of whimsical resignation.

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ErosAdonai@reddit

Ah, good old-fashioned, British sarcasm.

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DuraframeEyebot@reddit

No they aren't. Anyway, Atlantis was superior and that's been gone for years.

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velos85@reddit

I'll believe it when I see it.

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CyGuy6587@reddit

For the record, Lynx were taking the piss out of Lipton, who's April Fools post went out too early

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Sorry_Leopard9657@reddit

Wasn’t this just a rehash of the Lipton Peach Ice Tea debacle from the day before?

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BastardsCryinInnit@reddit

It is.

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BastardsCryinInnit@reddit

Just to be clear... we all know Lynx are taking the mick out of the Lipton Peach Tea thing? It's not going anywhere.

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MissingLink101@reddit

Aren't people suspecting is of being an April Fools that was leaked early? It also very closely resembles a Lipton Ice Tea post that was also released recently so it could just be a parody publicity stunt too.

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CyGuy6587@reddit

It was a piss-take of the Lipton post that went out too early

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Eoin_McLove@reddit

This won’t happen. I’m guessing some intern pressed post when they meant to schedule this news for April Fool’s Day.

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ModJambo@reddit

I have a bacon buttie. Very happy.

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Unfair_Original_2536@reddit

I think they are just going to gouge us at Christmas in a couple of years when it comes back. I might get a can to put aside in case I get dementia, it will help take me back with scent memory.

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Rich6-0-6@reddit

I recently got around to taking 3 years' worth of Lynx gift sets for me and my wife to the charity shop.

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Sport220@reddit

Just had 2 pints. Weekend ahead. Life’s good.

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