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Axe body spray is well aware of its reputation. Teenage boys have been drenching themselves and their surroundings in its scents for decades—and drawing complaints and choking coughs for just as long.

If you were a teenage boy in the early 2000s, there's a good chance you wore Unilever 's Axe Body Spray at some point. "The idea that you spray this on and you get the girl is sort of nonsense, really ...

Teenage boys have been drenching themselves and their surroundings in its scents for decades—and drawing complaints and choking coughs for just as long.