The pervasive odour of teenage boys is ready to vary and 1,000,000 Christmases have been ruined as the standard stocking stuffer of a can of Lynx Africa is outwardly being axed.
These days of gently hinting to {the teenager} of their life that if they will not insist upon private hygiene or carrying freshly laundered garments, they may not less than attempt masking up the stench could also be coming to an finish.
Pour one out for an iconic cornerstone of being a younger grownup and people days once you believed that cleanliness, a pleasing scent and desirability to ladies might be sprayed out of a can.
Lynx posted the unhappy announcement on social media yesterday (20 March), declaring: “REST IN AFRICA.
“You could have heard that our iconic Lynx Africa scent is getting discontinued. We all know – it hurts (sorry if we have ruined your go to perfume) however don’t fret, the remainder of your faves are nonetheless right here to maintain you smelling positive.
I’m sorry to be the one to interrupt the unhealthy information pic.twitter.com/8PikW0f4km
— Lynx (@lynx) March 20, 2025
“And who is aware of? Possibly in the future Lynx Africa will make a legendary comeback. We recognize your understanding throughout this era of adjustment and apologise for any inconvenience precipitated.”
Nevertheless, you possibly can put down the My Chemical Romance album as a result of that is trying like a load of absolute cobblers.
Earlier than you begin hoarding the final remaining cans of Lynx Africa like folks did with rest room paper in the course of the pandemic, you would possibly need to resolve whether or not it is a p**stake.
See, not too long ago Lipton made a put up saying they have been going to discontinue their peach flavour, which prompted loads of confusion and dismay.
Then Lipton made one other put up joking that they’d put their April Idiot’s joke out a bit too early, although the cynics amongst you may need thought it was to place their drink on the forefront of your thoughts and scare you with the prospect that it would not be round any longer so that you’d exit and purchase it.
You will discover that the bulletins bear some placing similarities to one another, so this appears to simply be social media admins taking the chance to razz one another on-line and present their bosses they have loads of engagement with their posts this month.
Nothing fairly comes shut in that regard to the unhinged madness of the Duolingo Owl, who was not too long ago killed by a cybertruck earlier than coming again to life in a sequence of movies the place the owl burst out of a coffin.
Nonetheless, for many who hoped they’d have the ability to disguise their pervasive odour (you are not, we will nonetheless scent it past the olfactory assault that’s Lynx Africa), it appears that evidently your favorite scent in a can continues to be round.
Except, after all, Lynx truly hoped to ditch the Africa model and Lipton gave them the proper alternative to do it whereas seemingly joking.
