People's Sexiest Man Alive issue hits the stands today (Hugh Jackman??? Are you kidding me?) and in addition to drooling over the goods, you can also smell them, or some of them, anyway. This year's issue…
…includes a section dubbed “Sexy Scents” with “scratch-n-sniff” photos of Gossip Girl actor Chace Crawford, film actor Taye Diggs, Law & Order star Chris Meloni and U.S. Olympic Team swimmer Michael Phelps—each of whom “describe the fragrance that makes them feel their sexiest.” (Crawford chose freshly cut grass, telling the magazine he “grew up playing a lot of football and golf … When I smell freshly cut grass I get this air of competition. It wakes me up, gets me going”; Diggs “loves vanilla, chocolate, sandalwood and musk essential oils.”)
You can read the rest of People’s Sexiest Man Alive Issue to Include ‘Scratch-n-Sniff’ Section at Folio, or go to People and check out the (scent-free) slideshow. (many thanks to Jeudi for the link!)
50 Comments
Read more about commenting at Now Smell This.
that's interesting…
but it would be more interest if it smelled like what the people actually smelled like
How bizarre.
If that'd be the case, I hope Gerard Butler is on the list. That man is dead sexy.
Krokodilgena, that, I might actually rather not know
Don't know him! And I'm so pathetic that I only knew 5 out of the 15 men featured in the slide show. I really need to buy this issue, I guess.
Sort of fun though!
Hugh Jackman wins!! swwwwweeet!
Sexy AND dedicated husband and father – does it get any better? (just like my hubby!)
Out of the 15 guys – he was the ONLY sexy one to me….and I didn't know who half those guys were – but they weren't my cup of tea either anyhow.
He is! I bet Gerry would smell like Glenfiddich, leather, woodsmoke and musk.
Ha! Scratch and sniff hunks! Love it!
But yeah, give me Javier Bardem over Hugh Jackman any day of the week.
I find myself wanting to smell Taye Diggs…
I'm looking at the scent-free slideshow
Robert Pattison is kind cute. Zac Efron is the only Disney star that I like, but he's not very sexy.
I don't think any of the rest are even kind of sexy. I like feminine men.
There are several good inverviews of him on YouTube. He stared in PS I Love You, Attilla, 300 (he played the king). Very warm, masculine, and has that Scottish accent. (and being 6'2 with blue green eyes doesn't hurt either)
You can have him
No, she can't – he's MINE!! lol
I love Hugh Jackman and am glad it is his year, but when I was watching the Oscars this year, I noted that in that room of gorgeous people, only Javier and George Clooney really stood out as truly attractive men.
I have to pick up this issue – this one and the Most Beautiful are the only Peoples I get all year.
I don't know who Taye Diggs is either. You guys can have the lot of them
Your criteria are probably far and away from People's then…
I'm just into that scuffiness
Ask my hubby to have facial hair and not get a hair cut.
Speaking of Haircut – I can not get past “Zack” from Saved by the Bell, he will ALWAYS be a kiddie teen to me, and also the Dawson Creek guy. I don't care they are in their 30s. But “Zack” needs a haircut – it's way too greasy – and I like long hair on men!
yes!!!
I was thinking about this a few days ago (don't ask why), I think my ~*perfect man*~ would look like Bvlgari Black
I don't know what that's supposed to mean, I guess its open to interpretation
And I think my idea of the sexiest man alive would wear Dior Homme. People ask him in interviews and he says he doesn't wear cologne, but I don't believe that.
Tee hee — I flipped through this article online (alas, no smells on the internet!) and was appalled by how far most of these men are from my own taste. Where is Viggo Mortensen? Where is James Mcavoy? Where, oh where, is Subcommandante Marcos? Now *there's* a man I'd like to sniff…
You need to get out more!
Taye was in the movie “How Stella Got Her Groove Back”, amongst other things. Very cute.
Yeah, if you are wondering why Hugh Jackman is the sexiest man of the year apparently you haven't seen him with his shirt off in the trailers for “Australia.” Yowza! 40 never looked so good!
James McAvoy didn't make the list? He is my sweetie! (Don't tell my hubby!)
I don't remember where I read this, but while trolling the internets yesterday I read that Mr Sexiest 2008 wears Timbuktu, which just so happens to be what i'm wearing these days myself. And I'm a late-middle aged matronly type myself. So, now I ask myself… does some of his sexyness have to do with his scent? So does wearing Timbuktu make me sexy? Or does my wearing it detract from his appeal on some cosmic level? And should I even be wasting my time with such existential maunderings, and just be happy with the fact that I was able to score a bottle of this divine fragrance? (But this does open up a new line of thought – I wear Acqua da Parma. Does this make me in any way like David Niven? I love Chanel No. 5, so do I bear any resemblance in any way, shape or form to Coco Chanel? Has someone reprehensible worn Vol de Nuit, thus ruining it for me? ) Oh, the ramblings on a Friday afternoon after a long week at the office.
I've always thought Hugh Jackman looks creepily lizard-like… sorry! And the scratch 'n' sniff photos are a bit creepy too — you have to rub particular body parts to release the cheesy scents, and I don't WANT to rub Michael Phelps's neck, thank you very much!
I like scuffy too, just don't think he's handsome. Ah well — everyone else does, apparently!
No kidding!
I remember reading some tidbits from a study done by the Monell Institute on the contribution of various scents to sexual arousal, and noting that the scent of “men's cologne” was a near-universal turn-off for women. Of course, “men's” colognes vary widely, but you know when you pick something up and sniff it and you think, oh, that smells like men's cologne? I'm convinced it's *that* smell. Which leads me to wonder: which chemical compound is the culprit? And WHAT is it doing in perfumery?
And I should mention that, in case “matronly” doesn't give it away, i am a female.
I'll take the man who looks like Bvlgari Black AND is wearing Bvlgari Black!
You know I didn't like him when he was all prim and proper looking in that movie with Meg Ryan (was it meg ryan?)
Like when he's all cleaned up – nope not sexy
But all hairy and agressive as Wolverine – Now THAT is sexy
Viggo — yes, Mcavoy — never heard of him.
Subcommandante Marcos — I believe he was recently voted least likely to appear in People's Sexiest Man Alive issue.
I googled him this morning, so actually got a look at his chest. Still not my thing
Annonose, got a very good laugh at “does my wearing it detract from his appeal on some cosmic level”…that's hysterical. If Jackman does really wear Timbuktu, my respect for him just increased.
Hey, Timbuktu is practically my HG… AND I'm Jackman's age. Does that increase my appeal on some cosmic level? I need all the help I can get.
Oh, and I can be pretty matronly at times, so I don't think that adjective automatically gives away that someone is female. HA!
His neck is one of the few places I'd be willing to touch – he is so shaven he looks like plastic. He can definitely wear low-slung pants well but I don't find him particularly sexy.
Dibs on John Hamm, but if anyone tires of Javier, just holler!
Any man that smells of sandalwood has me in a trance…
I was at Borders with my sister and she was looking at magazines, so I decided to look at the scratch and sniff section. I didn't scratch though, since I wasn't planning on buying the magazine, so I couldn't smell it that well but thats ok.
I think the other magazine consumers were wondering why I was sniffing the magazine.
ok, so I haven't tried L'Homme by YSL so I very very lightly scratched Michael Phelps a little bit, btw I do not understand his appeal at all.
But speaking of YSL and celebrities, I remember Hilary Duff saying that she wears Opium as her ~*night scent*~. At the time I wore it as my everyday, going to school, going to church, etc. scent.
Which is why I thought I'd mention it. In retrospect, it seems an almost vain gesture. Oh well.
I think of it as “man perfume smell”, and it's in 95% of mainstream men's colognes.
Joe, I don't see how it can't.
Can't keep googling all these strange men!
LOL — that's funny! Women all over America rubbing Phelp's neck!
The Bvlgari Black man would be perfect!
He'd be masculine but have enough feminine qualities to keep him from being too *manly*. Clean but dirty.
I like the “just rolled out of bed” look, but I don't like scruffiness really
Oh, I can go you two better on matronly
I'm still saving myself for Sean Connery (Jicky and Habit Rouge). He's hot for an old dude!
I don't get his appeal at all; he looks like some wrongly proportioned alien. And yes, definitely made of plastic.
Subcomandante Marcos, NOW we're talking sexy! Seriously, I find him utterly fascinating, and I figure he'd smell like pipe tobacco and revolution, mmm…
Okay, I had to look up the Subcommandante dude (now I'm the one who needs to get out more) – quite the dashing figure, I must say, considering all you can see are eyes and a pipe.
there's only one who should have made it: james bLond
as I have a younger hotter version at home, I would suppose he smells like Un Jardin aprés la Mousson – fresh and spicy, somehow masculine, somehow daring, like water and sun coming up.
You mean Daniel Craig?
Yes, Mr. Craig, I use to call James BLond since he is the first blond actor playing 007. My boyfriend is also blond with these blue eyes (he does not wear any perfume, his skin is so light that he smlells three days from one spritz!) and has this beautiful body. I am so thankfull!