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.

so nostalgic reminds me of being a tomboy scoundrel. pretty heavily despised because of teenagers who treat it like a replacement for showering but i never found the scent bad, its actually pretty nice.

Was my high school signature bo basher. Still wear it today while owning a bunch of niche. If they made this DNA as a perfume, I'd be all over it. When this badboy drys down, its great.

I still love this fruity fresh scent so much, cheap or not. If only Africa was available as edt or edp, I would look no further for the perfect spring/summer perfume.

A timeless fragrance that reminds me of my youth. I keep a bottle for nostalgia sake. Lately, i've been spraying it on my pijama before bed.

I don't even care. I know it's cheap and the stigma is teenage boys douse themselves in it, and blah blah, but it smells damn good, okay?

Spicy warm sensual scent that lingers for hours ... I use Axe Africa in winter and Axe Marine in summer.

Still the best AXE bodyspray. Apollo being the 2nd and Black probably the 3rd

Reformulation is horrific, same with Dark Temptation and Gold.

To me, Axe Africa is like L B Roma without the pine note.

Africa is decent, and I immediately recognized this when applying. I'm not sure who wore it exactly, but probably an ex, or an old friend. It has an intense familiarity to me. I'm 35, but I feel 15 when I smell it. Axe was never anything to analyze in a serious way, but as an aging Millennial...I'm now thinking -Why the hell not review these?' There aren't that many distinct notes to my nose at all, aside from a vanillic citrus tone. Underneath it, it's a blue, woody melange of a boyish aroma that smells super blended, and super soapy. What I appreciate about this one is that it's less *piercing* than other Axe scents that I've smelled...that have a high-pitched blueness. This smells soft. I'm a woman and generally prefer more feminine things, but occasionally I love smelling clean and woody. Again, the operative word for this is "soft", and the vanillic base is nice. I believe in wearing what you like regardless of gender of course, but if I had to use generalities I'd say this is 75% classically masculine, but some women (like myself) might enjoy it if applied with a light hand. Still, this has that undeniable *Axe* DNA which always strongly reminds me of the 2000s. Take that impression how you will, but I like to bask in nostalgia 😊

This is a body aerosol spray and not a true EDT, EDP or aftershave. The scent doesn't develop on me similar to the dark temptation version, it sprays on and instantly becomes intensely spicy yet fresh at the same time. I also get bergamot and sandalwood in the background Projection/Sillage is around a few feet and no more. Longevity is around 3-6 hours but it does depend on your skin and how much you spray. Very popular in the UK, the Africa scent is better for wearing during the day, the dark temptation is best in the evening 2.6/5

A scent from my childhood. Bright and energetic, I still use it because of the nostalgia, but only when I go to the gym. I remember I was 12, during summer camp and wearing this perfum. Suddenly a 16 year old rose up and said "Someone is wearing AXE Africa!". I was suprised and thought of the TV ads where men where attacked by women for their axe sprays and wondered if it would happen to me now. It didn't. I wouldn't recomment it to someone as a signature scent, but for everyday-practical use is good.

When the summer comes I'm using Africa. I know it's a man deodorant, but it works perfectly on me in hot weather, owerhelms the sweat and bad smelling. I enjoy also because smells enough fresh but spicy at the same time, timeless, modern, not a typical man's cologne. Yes, I suspect where the resemble of LB Roma comes from, but I think Africa isn't as soft and sweet as Roma, fresher and more masculine, because of geranium and bergamot.

Wow this brings back my teenage years, last time I think I wore this was when I was 16, literally 20 years ago lol Now I wear Xerjoff Naxos, Dior Homme Intense and various Guerlain frags . I think my taste has had some development over the years. It gets a like for me for nostalgia.

my boyfriend wears this all the time and it’s so hot on him tbh reminds me of sweaty rugby boys but overall for €3-6 it’s really good defo recommend it for men who wanna smell cheap and trashy cuz women r very into that