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Originally Posted by Joel_Cairo I agree. If you are gonna have only two male scents in the market, AMen and TM Cologne are good choices; they definatley cover a wide stretch of terrain. BMen just doesn't fit, and is considered (in commercial "units-sold" terms) to be a dire flop. Too bad. Maybe it was the name: B*Men. "B", as in "2nd place", "2nd choice", "runner-up", "also-ran", "not quite as good as". IMHO, B*Men is far superior and more wearable than A*Men (I own both). I've gotten lots of great compliments on B*Men, and very few (if any) compliments on A*Men. Good thing I bought an extra bottle for dirt cheap awhile back.
And to think, B*Men won the Basenotes' Award for best new men's frag of 2004.
"Isn't it a pity."
--George Harrison

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Sad to read that B*Men is being discontinued. Its what A*Men should have been in the first place.
Eitherways, time to stock up

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Yeah, I've been thinking about getting this for a while.
Never liked A*Men, but B*Men has always been intriguing. I love Cologne!
Time to take the plunge.

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This just makes me laugh at The Clarins Group!
When this scent was first launched I recall the head of Mugler Parfums stating to the press that they were not looking for BMen to head off in sales like Amen/Angel Men.
But they were instead going to make the scent grow slowly in the market - market gross was not an important matter to them for they nuture their fragrances in the market place.
Well it looks like the buck is important - why are they pulling it after what 2 - 3 years on the market?

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I also found BMen to be the most wearable of the Mugler line. I am intrigued to see what they come up with for a follow-up although if the Clarins group has the balls to call the next fragrance for men, C-Men, I will fall off my chair.
"What's that kewl new 'fume you're wearin', dude?"
"C-Men!"
"Ewwww!!!!"

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Weird. I just got my samples of A/BMen along with TM Cologne. I tried BMen on and found it rather thick, though enjoyable. Just from smelling the test sprayer things, AMen seems to smell better, less cloying. But I do believe that when applied moderately, BMen would wear rather well on me. Hope I can pick it up around here.

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I got a B*Men 1.7 OZ spray on the clearance shelf at Marshall's yesterday. It was not a steal at $28.99. I'll give it a good wearing next week. If I don't like, to the swap boards it will go!

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Originally Posted by fakepurseninja My point was: Why only two? If you don't like heavy chocolate gourmands you are stuck with a unisex laundry fresh fragrance. I utterly don't get it, and I think these two are quite polar(izing?) scents (not polar like in arctic) that don't really cover that much fragrance terrain. How about some diversity? They might as well reduce the production volume of B*Men.
Besides, it feels strange, all this talk about commercial success. Commercial success shouldn't be embraced as the no. 1 criterion, at least not here on basenotes. BN'ers will wear anything they like regardless of sales; I don't think anyone here has sales as #1 criterium. It's just natural to wonder why something fails that's good, or why something succeeds that isn't good.
As to diversity, I'm with ya, I'd like to see more Mugler male frags. But I'd guess that it's simply because they sell tons of female frags, and why not take the easy route?
I tend to assume that anything I really like will eventually be discontinued, almost like a scientific law.

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Originally Posted by docluv45 I also found BMen to be the most wearable of the Mugler line. I am intrigued to see what they come up with for a follow-up although if the Clarins group has the balls to call the next fragrance for men, C-Men, I will fall off my chair.
"What's that kewl new 'fume you're wearin', dude?"
"C-Men!"
"Ewwww!!!!"
rofl

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Originally Posted by zztopp Sad to read that B*Men is being discontinued. Its what A*Men should have been in the first place.
Eitherways, time to stock up Are you kidding me? What A*men should have been in the first place?!?! A*Men broke down the door and opened up the whole gourmand market. Like it or not, A*Men was groundbreaking as hell. If B*Men had been released in its stead, it would have just been a good fragrance, but not anything revolutionary. If not for A*Men and its popularity, its possible that Mugler wouldn't even have a men's line of scents right now. Also, the influence that A*Men lended to B*Men is obvious. Thus, one way or another, if it weren't for A*Men, B*Men probably wouldn't exist right now.