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Does anyone else find the Lynx lower body spray advert utterly nauseating?

31 replies

Bikergran · 03/07/2025 20:21

I aporeciate that it is made in a jokey way, but feel that not only is it nauseating, showing people sniffing each other's crotches like dogs, but it encourages men to think they can neglect washing their arses/genitalia and simply spray them instead. Yuk.

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MintTwirl · 03/07/2025 20:22

Yeah it’s pretty grim! My 9 year old son finds it hilarious though.

vincettenoir · 03/07/2025 20:23

I don’t like it either.

MarySueSaidBoo · 03/07/2025 20:29

The very thought of the smell of a sweaty ball sack mingling round with a hefty spray of Lynx... lovely.

averylongtimeago · 03/07/2025 20:41

It’s revolting. Got a smelly bum? Have a wash. Don’t just spray it with lynx.

BorgQueen · 03/07/2025 20:43

It’s absolutely foul but not nearly as bad as all the toothpaste adverts where they stick their tongues out and run them all over their teeth 🤢 Bleurggghh. I have to look away, I can’t stand it.

Gumballina · 03/07/2025 20:44

Sorry, I think it's hilarious and so does DH. (We did agree that we hoped DS20 hadn't seen it, though, because that might be the last nail in the coffin of his personal hygiene.)

PinkiOcelot · 03/07/2025 20:45

Horrible adverts. I think Sure do one as well.

Zov · 03/07/2025 20:51

It's horrible. Glad it's not just me who hates it.

I hate the ads for womens pissy pads too, where they try and make out any woman over 40 pisses herself when she sneezes, coughs, laughs, or farts. And I hate the fecking awful ads (for Corsodol) where they spit blood into the sink.

These ads are always on at fecking mealtimes too! Hmm

The Trade Centre UK one (that's on the radio quite a lot, but also on the TV occasionally) makes my ears bleed, with that hideous, annoying, shouty man on it. I have stopped listening to independent radio (like Smooth and Heart) because this ad comes on every 6-8 minutes. Also, 'vintage cash cow' can bore off too! I HATE those ads! 'oooooh Annie, I got meself £189.53 for a bunch of gold and silver I sent to vintage cash cow.' Course you did Beryl, but it was worth £3,700!

MissAvainthesun · 03/07/2025 21:07

I hate it…Part of my job is to work in a school a few days a week and the smell on the corridors is awful especially in this heat these last few days. The smell is either lynx or Victoria’s secret or they haven’t washed. Kids really need to be taught properly about hygiene by both parents and school. I sat down with my Godson and said have a shower after PE, apparently nobody does that so he uses body wipes now and a roll on after (due to two students having Asthma attacks no one is allowed sprays) and luckily he’s taken to it and now saves up to get the branded versions like Hugo Boss.

He hates Lynx but the majority of his mates use it…from what he says some to seem to think that the down below sprays means they don’t need to wash down there as often 🤢 luckily he’s going through the stage of washing and smelling nice…long may it continue.

aWeeCornishPastie · 03/07/2025 21:10

It made me laugh. It’s just light hearted humour w you should try it sometime

InMyOpenOnion · 03/07/2025 21:13

It's the bum and crotch sniffing that makes me nauseous.

fruitandvegoverload · 03/07/2025 21:14

It's so vulgar and crass. I turn into Mary from Gogglebox whenever it comes on; 'Not more depravity!'

ShamrockShenanigans · 03/07/2025 21:15

It makes me nauseous, as do the Andrex adverts where people are farting before going for a crap.

MooseAndSquirrelLoveFlannel · 03/07/2025 21:19

Oh jeez, it's awful but not as awful as the pepto bismal one.

InMyOpenOnion · 03/07/2025 21:21

MooseAndSquirrelLoveFlannel · 03/07/2025 21:19

Oh jeez, it's awful but not as awful as the pepto bismal one.

Oh yes, that's up there too. I don't think anyone needs a jaunty song about diarrhoea.

itwascousinhalifax · 03/07/2025 21:23

It’s disturbing, the slow-mo crotches narrowly brushing against noses…bleurgh.

However, it’s karma for all the years we’ve had Femfresh pushed at us. Now it’s men’s turn to be bothered about smell. Ha!

Greedybilly · 03/07/2025 21:35

God it's awful. So childish. Yuk hate it.

Thingyfanding · 03/07/2025 21:37

It’s terrible. I can’t see it helping the global decline in sperm count either.

Greedybilly · 03/07/2025 21:41

Desperate capitalism- what can we make money out of next? Sweaty balls of course. What a sad world we live in.

Pomer0l · 03/07/2025 21:43

Yes it makes me feel queasy

Galatine · 03/07/2025 21:50

Reminds me of the ad for a deodorant where the woman can wear her (smelly) top once more. Gross!

Serpentstooth · 03/07/2025 21:52

Revolting. It's hard enough to get a clean teenager without this company trying to persuade them that squirting a load of chemicals all over will do the work of a shower. Blecchhhh.

Funnywonder · 03/07/2025 21:52

Aw Jaysus. Why did I open this thread?🤢 At least I know to avoid the ad now.

JohnTheRevelator · 03/07/2025 21:56

Zov · 03/07/2025 20:51

It's horrible. Glad it's not just me who hates it.

I hate the ads for womens pissy pads too, where they try and make out any woman over 40 pisses herself when she sneezes, coughs, laughs, or farts. And I hate the fecking awful ads (for Corsodol) where they spit blood into the sink.

These ads are always on at fecking mealtimes too! Hmm

The Trade Centre UK one (that's on the radio quite a lot, but also on the TV occasionally) makes my ears bleed, with that hideous, annoying, shouty man on it. I have stopped listening to independent radio (like Smooth and Heart) because this ad comes on every 6-8 minutes. Also, 'vintage cash cow' can bore off too! I HATE those ads! 'oooooh Annie, I got meself £189.53 for a bunch of gold and silver I sent to vintage cash cow.' Course you did Beryl, but it was worth £3,700!

Edited

OMFG radio adverts. I listen to LBC a lot and over the last year. I am utterly sick to death of the Harris Fowler personal injury lawyers. The woman's voice irritated me beyond reason. And they play the damn thing EVERY SINGLE poxy as break. I thought adverts usually have a 'shelf life',i.e. after a few months they are discontinued. But this one seems to have been going on for eternity.

Meredusoleil · 03/07/2025 21:57

I agree OP.

But I'll just add another ad into the mix. The Dominoes one where the couple are in the bath and the delivery driver pops up from behind the man. I'm like wtaf is this I'm seeing. Just awful awful awful imho 😏