Old Spice – Sport – Barra de Jabón
/“Uncle Soapy”
I’m an idiot—I’ve had this in my soap rotation for a while, kinda wondering why it doesn’t really smell like “Old Spice”—and I just looked at the box and noticed the little blue tag with a soccer ball that says “Sport”—so that’s why. Old Spice fragrance sometimes reminds me of that stuff they sprinkle on vomit, while Old Spice Sport smells like a hoard of frat guys in a sports bar. My notes indicate that I bought this in a “dollar store”—packaging is bi-lingual (Spanish)—ingredients list alarming. Old Spice is from 1937—my history with it is c.1973, when someone wrapped me a manly Old Spice gift set for Christmas—and for a while, there, I was “Mr. Old Spice”—until the deodorant caused underarm rash and the cologne and aftershave became repellant. Really cool bottles, though—the white ceramic Erlenmeyer with a blue sailboat. My tagline “Uncle Soapy” refers to my favorite clown, Duane Thorpe—because I really do picture him as an Old Spice Guy.
Soap Review No. 184