![]() My 13-year-old nephew advised me to steer clear of the “nasty grossness”-scented products. I confess that it was hard to choose a fragrance. On it went, until the final weekend at the beach, when I found myself trapped in the shower with only a bottle of three-in-one Axe ™ product (shampoo, body-wash, and conditioner). Dinners quickly became unbearable, with three Axe-drenched young people fogging up all tastes and smells until your pasta simply tasted like the painful ache at the back of your tongue that occurs when every boy in the house sees a daily Axe dip as part of his grooming. I decided to handle this olfactory terrorism like a mature adult: several days of merciless teasing. But after a single day at the beach this past August, when they shared a bathroom with their big hockey-playing Axe-scented cousin-slash-hero, even the 8-year-old was smearing his small hairless self with the body wash, the deodorant, and, in case he still couldn’t be smelled from the next pier over, the spray cologne. My own boys, at 8 and 10, are too young for Axe, or for fragrance, or for wah-wahs of any variety-or so I shall insist to myself until they are about 40. ![]()
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