Slog - Comments on CK One Was Grunge? Well, Anyway, Meet CK in2u, the Fragrance of the "Technosexual Generation"

Comment by Gay Gay Gay!

Gay Gay Gay! — Thu, 08 Mar 2007 10:09:02 -0800

Yeah, that shit was so gay, too, out in the middle of nowhere, Texas, circa 1993 or whenever it came out. And it stinks, too.

Comment by Fnarf

Fnarf — Thu, 08 Mar 2007 10:09:55 -0800

Grunge smelled like smoke and rotting garbage. I spent a lot of time in the 90s in record stores, trying to get as far away from the grunge records as I could get, and if there was any CK1 being offered there it was invisible to me.

Comment by monkey

monkey — Thu, 08 Mar 2007 10:22:03 -0800

I think I actually bought a bottle of CK1 at the Queen Anne Tower Records once.

I'm so gay.

Comment by Gitai

Gitai — Thu, 08 Mar 2007 10:24:59 -0800

My high school bf gave me Joop!, but then, I grew up in New Mexico.

Comment by Callie

Callie — Thu, 08 Mar 2007 10:25:52 -0800

That post was amazing. You just made my day.

Comment by The_Pope_Of_Chili_Town

The_Pope_Of_Chili_Town — Thu, 08 Mar 2007 10:34:47 -0800

Could those people from CK sound any more clueless and phony?

Of course the sad thing is this scent will make them ten-bazillion dollars.

Comment by dwb

dwb — Thu, 08 Mar 2007 10:40:16 -0800

Maybe there are still some left-wing crazies at the Times, that's so over the top that the author must be making an ironic point about this post-consumer mess of a country. Welcome to the age where corporations tell you what you experienced in the past and how your senses actually work.

You can smell w/ your eyes and brains in NYC. You realize that summer's coming, and your brain smells garbage and piss. You spot a pile of puke on the subway platform, and you have a pretty good idea how that's going to smell as you walk past. Actually, I do think my eyes and brain can smell Axe. It seems go beyond the nose and right to eye-watering and brain seizure.

Awesome post. Ridiculous corporate culture.

Comment by flamingbanjo

flamingbanjo — Thu, 08 Mar 2007 11:06:00 -0800

The idea that grunge had a signature cologne is hilarious.

Comment by dwb

dwb — Thu, 08 Mar 2007 11:16:27 -0800

Before I could smell through my eyeballs flamingbanjo, I thought that too.

Actually, doesn't that last quote translate into 'Americans are so materialistic and image conscious that CK could sell them pisswater if the bottle looked nice and the marketing was good enough'? Seems to me that a cologne for a technosexual would smell like hand lotion (for men) and a hot, vibrator motor (for the ladies).

Comment by Special K

Special K — Thu, 08 Mar 2007 11:18:42 -0800

So, a metrosexual, a lattesexual, and a technosexual walk into a bar...

Comment by nipper

nipper — Thu, 08 Mar 2007 12:19:42 -0800

"authenticlly grunge"...hmmm, it shoulda smelled like weed, Mark Arm's hair and Jack Endino's studio. and what records stores carried crappy perfume? Tower? ug! no one I knew in 1994 could afford to buy a Speed Stick much less fucking CK1.

Comment by Tlazolteotl

Tlazolteotl — Thu, 08 Mar 2007 15:20:45 -0800

I'm waiting for their newest scent "Not That in2u"

Comment by elswinger

elswinger — Thu, 08 Mar 2007 17:38:57 -0800

I still have a nearly full bottle of CK1 that I bought in the early 90's (at the U-District Tower). It sitting next to the bottle of Old Spice I got as a present in 1980.

Comment by COMTE

COMTE — Thu, 08 Mar 2007 18:37:01 -0800

@2&11:

Add Rainier Beer vomit, Dog House hashbrowns (or conversely, Rainier Beer and Dog House hashbrowns vomit), and pre-junk-shootin' sweat to the mix and I think we've got the CK1 formula...

Comment by Alex

Alex — Sun, 11 Mar 2007 08:56:21 -0800

The new fragrance concept is about what we are just doing right now...connection...sharing our thoughts miles away without not knowing each other...so in some way they got a point...

Comment by Slim

Slim — Tue, 20 Mar 2007 05:30:11 -0800

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Comment by Slim

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Comment by Slim

Slim — Tue, 20 Mar 2007 07:51:20 -0800

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