Africa

Epic Journey Into the Bottled Yonder, 003 ------------------------------------------------------- Another one from the old world. This and Voodoo flooded the corridors of my high school. Always loved them. Found them earlier this year in the bottle design featured above. The "new" versions in the smooth, smaller looking bottle are just rubbish. Africa in that bottle smells like sweat and even Voodoo is quite different. The bottle above is just fine, barely smells extremely reformulated compared to the rubbish forced out the doors today. I mean, I miss all the Axes and Lynxes. From Java to Accelerate, and Phoenix to Click (pretty sure that one was renamed Clix as it says so on this website, pretty dumb). If you had Rexona, you weren't that cool. My signature juice at the time was Anti-Hangover, wore it so much I've forgotten what I wore before that one and after I switched to something else to keep up with the changing seasons and fashions. Africa is the closest you can get to Joop (pronounced with a Y, as in Yawp) without opting for Jeer, which is an excellent deo version of Joop. Jeer is not identical, but it's closer to Joop than Africa.

To me, it smells like all Terminator movies combined. Think of tech noir depth, the endless route of escapes, an array of obscure sounds composed by Brad Fiedel, the HI-NRG eroticism blasting from the yellow foamy cushions of your walkman headphones and that ambivalence between sunrise and sunset that is disguised by the blue lights haunting you on every step you are about to take. It's gonna take you miles to future and light years back to past like big electric bolt. Encapsulating. Irresistible. Addictive.

Bought the roll-on after many years and was quite shocked. Africa has been brutally re- and deformulated, now reduced into a mandarin-orange-zest smell only. It's so different now that it should have been renamed... Not that it's bad smelling, but still a pale shadow of it's former self. I can only hope they bring the original back at some point. The deospray used to have edt-power back in the days, I guess not anymore.

Axe Africa Smells like very good cat! i never smell so good parfumeme smell is very good 11/0 It smell everywherre anndnd very sweeeet and spicy would reccocomend axe afrcia cause it very good buy now gfood porice! - Ugly faT Cat Rated 10/10 From Official Retard!

Sure, Africa has great resemblance to, say Roma or Minotaur, but still has enough uniqueness to stand on its own. It is by no means a total clone of any other scent. Not at all like those dirt cheap copies of Fahrenheit and Le Mâle you can find everywhere.