Axe (brand)

This article is about men's grooming products. For other uses, see Axe (disambiguation).
Axe/Lynx
Product type Men's grooming products
Owner Unilever
Country France
Introduced June 6, 1983 (1983-06-06)
Related brands Dove
Markets Worldwide
Website www.theaxeeffect.com
www.lynxeffect.com

Axe (known as Lynx in the United Kingdom, Republic of Ireland, Australia, New Zealand, and People's Republic of China) is a brand of male grooming products, owned by the Anglo-Dutch company Unilever and marketed towards the young male demographic.

Products

Lynx Deodorants; Apollo, Black and Africa
Collection of many Axe products

Axe was launched in France in 1983 by Unilever. It was inspired by another of Unilever's brands, Impulse. Unilever introduced other products in the range but were unable to use the name Axe in the United Kingdom, Ireland, Australia and New Zealand due to trademark problems so it was launched as Lynx, also some countries such as South Africa named the product as EGO.[1]

Scents have evolved over time. From 1983 until about 1989, the variant names were descriptions of the fragrances and included Musk, Spice, Amber, Oriental, and Marine. From 1990 until 1996, geographic names for fragrances were used. In 2009, the brand launched an 8-centimeter container called the Axe Bullet. The brand has also extended into other areas.

Most scent names usually have a shower gel to accompany them and sometimes an antiperspirant/deodorant stick and an aftershave lotion. The Axe Shampoos come in three different sizes, regular size, travel or sample size of and XL bottles. Axe also ships a shower scrub tool called the Axe Detailer.

Axe also launches limited edition variants from time to time that may be on sale for a few months or over a year.

List of Axe deodorants

AXE's list of yearly body-spray variants is as follows. Limited edition or short-lived variants are listed in a following table below and others.

Axe Limited Edition chronology

Axe also launches limited edition variants from time to time that may be on sale for a few months or over a year.

Axe shower gels

Axe shampoos

Axe hair stylers

Marketing

From 1990,s, Axe advertisements portrayed various ways the products supposedly helped men attract women. In 2003, the advertising in the UK for the Pulse fragrance showed how it supposedly gave geeky men the confidence to dance to get women. In 2005, Consumer Expert Dr. Vince Wong, CEO of Insights Interactive, was hired to help explore cross cultural behavioral motivations of their young male adult consumers. This fed into development of the brand globally, resulting in award winning global communication campaigns.. This was followed by Touch, Unlimited,[24] Clix,[25] and in 2007, Vice[25] was marketed on a theme of making "nice" women become "naughty".

PR controversies

Adverse publicity has been generated by the product's advertisements for encouraging sexual promiscuity and sexism.[35] The Campaign for a Commercial-Free Childhood claimed that Bartle Bogle Hegarty's work on Axe "epitomizes the sexist and degrading marketing that can undermine girls' healthy development."

On January 12, 2008 12-year-old Daniel Hurley from Derbyshire, England died in a hospital five days after collapsing at his home. The medical coroner ruled that he had suffered from cardiac arrhythmia and died from heart failure as a result of spraying large amounts of Lynx in a confined space.[36][37] Videos on social networking sites depicted teens setting themselves on fire. The trend resulted in multiple injuries.[38] After these incidents occurred, the company created two ads, one against the use of Axe as an inhalant, and the other warning of its flammability.[39]

Axe Apollo Space Academy (AASA)

Axe selected 23 astronauts for their Axe Apollo Space Academy, with the 23 countries represented being marked in color.

Axe initiated a marketing campaign whereby the company would select people in a worldwide contest to become astronauts who would fly sub-orbital space missions aboard the XCOR Lynx spaceplane. On December 5, 2013, Axe announced the 23 space cadets who had won the extensive training competition held at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The winners were from 23 different countries, some which had never been an astronaut before. The suborbital rides may take place after the as yet unbuilt Lynx rocket has passed flight test objectives.

References

  1. Van Den Bergh, Joeri; Behrer, Mattias (2013). How Cool Brands Stay Hot: Branding to Generation. Kogan Page Publishers. p. 145. ISBN 9780749468057.
  2. "Axe Amber / Lynx Amber by Axe / Lynx (1983)". Basenotes.net. Retrieved 2009-05-09.
  3. 1 2 3 "Axe Deodorants Divers 1987" (JPG).
  4. "Axe Musk / Lynx Musk by Axe / Lynx (1983)". Basenotes.net. Retrieved 2009-05-09.
  5. "Axe Spice / Lynx Spice by Axe / Lynx (1983)". Basenotes.net. Retrieved 2009-05-09.
  6. 1 2 "Children Of The Web". Businessweek.com. 2007-07-02. Retrieved 2009-05-09.
  7. "Lynx Orient / Axe Orient by Axe / Lynx (1987)". Basenotes.net. Retrieved 2009-05-09.
  8. "Axe Marine / Lynx Marine by Axe / Lynx (1989)". Basenotes.net. 2007-12-08. Retrieved 2009-05-09.
  9. "Axe Java / Lynx Java by Axe / Lynx". Basenotes.net. 2009-06-13. Retrieved 2010-01-27.
  10. "Axe Alaska / Lynx Alaska by Axe / Lynx (1994)". Basenotes.net. Retrieved 2010-01-27.
  11. "Axe Nevada / Lynx Nevada by Axe / Lynx (1992)". Basenotes.net. Retrieved 2010-01-27.
  12. "Axe Tempest by Axe / Lynx (1990)". Basenotes.net. Retrieved 2010-01-27.
  13. "Axe Mirage / Lynx Mirage by Axe / Lynx". Basenotes.net. Retrieved 2010-01-27.
  14. "Axe Africa / Lynx Africa by Axe / Lynx (1995)". Basenotes.net. Retrieved 2010-01-27.
  15. "Axe Inca / Lynx Inca by Axe / Lynx". Basenotes.net. Retrieved 2010-01-27.
  16. "Axe Atlantis / Lynx Atlantis by Axe / Lynx". Basenotes.net. 2009-06-13. Retrieved 2010-01-27.
  17. "Axe Apollo / Lynx Apollo by Axe / Lynx". Basenotes.net. Retrieved 2009-05-09.
  18. "Axe Voodoo / Lynx Voodoo by Axe / Lynx (1999)". Basenotes.net. Retrieved 2009-05-09.
  19. "GATEWAY".
  20. "Axe Phoenix / Lynx Phoenix by Axe / Lynx (2000)". Basenotes.net. Retrieved 2009-05-09.
  21. "Axe Gravity / Lynx Gravity by Axe / Lynx (2001)". Basenotes.net. Retrieved 2009-05-09.
  22. "Lynx Dimension by Axe / Lynx (2002)". Basenotes.net. 2006-10-16. Retrieved 2009-05-09.
  23. Axe Touch Archived 10 August 2007 at the Wayback Machine.
  24. 1 2 "New Lynx fragrance set to deliver 'Unlimited' sales". Unilever.co.uk. Archived from the original on 2 June 2009. Retrieved 2009-05-09.
  25. 1 2 3 "Lynx- Click". Unilever.co.uk. Archived from the original on 6 January 2009. Retrieved 2009-05-09.
  26. "Chocolate deodorant to lure girls". Sundaymirror.co.uk. 2007-09-30. Retrieved 2010-01-27.
  27. "AXE Mature". AXE. 2014. Retrieved 2015-03-15.
  28. "AXE Black". AXE. 2015. Retrieved 2015-03-15.
  29. "AXE Blackstage". AXE Nederland. 2015. Retrieved 2015-03-15.
  30. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 "Product page".
  31. "Shower power!".
  32. "The Axe Effect Website".
  33. "The Axe Effect Website".
  34. "AXE Smooth & Sophisticated Look Shine Pomade".
  35. Harris, Paul (2006-07-09). "The Menaissance: The American male is learning to flex his muscles again". London: Guardian. Retrieved 2009-05-09.
  36. "Boy, 12, Died After Spraying Deodorant: Lynx Aerosol Triggered Heart Condition In Daniel Hurley | UK News | Sky News". News.sky.com. Archived from the original on 12 March 2009. Retrieved 2009-05-09.
  37. Andy Dolan (2008-11-20). "Boy, 12, collapsed and died after 'using too much Lynx deodorant' | Mail Online". London: Dailymail.co.uk. Retrieved 2009-05-09.
  38. "CTV Edmonton - Teen burned in popular body spray stunt - Canadian Television". Toronto.ctv.ca. Retrieved 2010-01-27.
  39. "Responsible Use". The Axe Effect. Retrieved 2010-01-27.

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