Yesterday I bought a small bottle of English Leather, which I haven’t splashed on my upper regions in quite a while, possibly decades. The reason was that I’d just watched a 13 year-old YouTube clip of MSNBC’s Chris Matthews going on about the older-guy sex appeal of then former Senator Fred Thompson, at the time a contender for the Republican Presidential nomination.
“I’m lookin’ at this guy and tryin’ to figure out the new order of things, and what works for women and what doesn’t. Does this guy have some sort of ‘it’ thing goin’ on that I should notice?…do you think there’s a sex appeal with this guy?…a sort of mature, older man…you know. He looks sort of seasoned and in charge of himself…can you smell the English Leather on this guy, the Aqua Velva….this sort of mature man’s shaving cream, after shave…a little bit of cigar smoke or whatever?”
I still replenish my supply of Aqua Velva, but they don’t carry it any more in CVS or Pavilions — you have to buy it online.
