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Young ladies, you may line up here for the high-fives -- my mom and I are indeed responsible for setting up my younger brother with the good-smelling colognes.
This started back when I was in high school and my mom first suggested that we give the gift of actual nice decent cologne to my brother so we could steer him off from the body sprays before he hit high school. The search involved a long circuit through the Macy's mens' fragrance section (fruitless), and my mom placing a phone call to the mother of a boy I was in a school play with, since I had mentioned that I thought he smelled nice. (Luckily, a. they were friends so it wasn't a random cold call and b. this never got back to said boy, as I would have been super-embarrassed.)
It took quite a bit of time, and there was some Axe-dosing going on in our house (when I was in college, so I escaped most of it), but we finally got around to giving him some nice stuff that he never would have thought to try or buy on his own.
The first go round, we got him Terre D'Hermes, which tends to be available at Sephora stores but not Sephora.com. The second time, Navegar. (I really, really like the sample of Rêve en Cuir I have, but at $250 a bottle, I don't think he -- or I -- will be getting it any time soon.)
We're lucky that my brother is willing to put up with us pushing stuff on him -- he doesn't have to buy it, we don't complain about what he's wearing since we've pre-approved it (which goes hand in hand with "girls will like it since we like it"), and frankly, he doesn't smell like anyone else at the party or the bar (as we're no longer in high school, of course). I know not everyone is as easy-going when it comes to accepting beauty or fragrance-y gifts, which is why it's hard to recommend them (instead of samplers or a gift card), since it's all so personal. Still, sometimes it does take a little nudge to get a young guy away from the Axe-y stuff.
Oh, and by the way -- I did find out what that boy in high school used. It was just regular green Speed Stick. The cologne I searched for for years... was Speed Stick. Go figure!
