Armpits! Mmm… We like our own smell – it took us years to perfect the mix of beer, bacon fat and stale cheese that makes up our special musk, and it takes a lot of convincing to get us to cover it up! Lynx has managed it, though – by putting these minty-fresh girls in its new deodorant advert!

Alice, 27

What are you up to?

I’ve moved to LA from Miami. I’m doing commercials, catalogues and modelling – but I’ve also been to film school, so I want to go behind the camera at some point.

You’d like to direct?

Yeah. I’ve been doing a couple of documentaries about trash issues in the States. I don’t know how it’s done in England, but the recycling over here isn’t really that effective. I’d like to show what happens when you get rid of the trash.

So what was it like being in an advert with Ben Affleck?

I didn’t get to see him much because the scene was short, but he seemed cool.

Did he smell nice?

I didn’t get to smell him.

Did you wonder if he was checking to see if you smelled nice?

I didn’t notice him smell me…

What’s your favourite smell?

I like the smell of freshly cut grass in the morning.

If there was a perfume that smelled like cut grass, would you wear it?

I probably would! Then I’d end up with the gardener, like in Desperate Housewives!

The ad is about Ben Affleck clicking a counter every time a girl flirts with him. How many clicks would a bloke have to have before you thought, ‘He must have something – I’ll give him a try’?

I’d go for a guy with less clicks.

What if he only had three? Would you think there was something wrong with him?

Yeah – but if there’s a guy with 300, then that would be a little weird as well.

Do you think a man with a clicker would just be weird anyway?

Yes.

 

Joanna, 27

Given a choice between an ugly man who smells nice and an attractive one who doesn’t, who do you go for?

It depends on what the other person smelled of. As long as they are a nice guy, and they bathe regularly. That’s what’s important.

That counts us out. What does Ben Affleck smell like?

All I could smell was asparagus! In the shoot I had to entice him with a piece of asparagus… he was sitting across from me, so I’m sure the smell came from that.

Or maybe he just smells of asparagus?

That too.

Is it true you’re an accomplished gymnast? What’s your best move?

Ha ha! Yeah, I was. Let’s just say the vault is my best apparatus. I like a tumble…

Does being good at gymnastics have any advantages?

Yeah, you can be very agile in a lot of things in life, and it helps me out quite a bit. I’m very flexible…

 

Amanda, 28

What’s been your favourite role to date?

That’s tough… I just did a horror movie, which was actually a lot of fun. It didn’t require a lot of depth of acting, but it was fun and it was something I hadn’t done before.

Did it involve a lot of screaming?

Screaming, and there were a lot of sex – er… ‘party’ – scenes. Things like that. It was called Trapped.

Did you get killed off?

I can’t reveal that yet because it’s not out – it’s coming out in the spring. It’s about a serial killer with sort of like a ‘surgeon’ edge to him. It’s pretty gory – I got a lot of fake blood on me.

What was Ben Affleck like when you worked with him?

Very nice and funny. He seemed pretty down to earth.

Kevin Smith told us that Ben liked to dangle his scrotum on the backs of people’s necks on set. Did he do that to you?

Not that I noticed! I hope not…

Were you wearing a polo-neck?

No… but I think he’s a changed man now he’s married.

What do you smell like right now?

I smell of DKNY. So that’s deeply delicious.

What do you think we smell of?

I’d guess… stale booze?

That’s pretty accurate! It’s stale booze and shame. Can you tell us what smell you’d expect to find in the following situations?

OK…

A dark alley next door to a kebab shop at 1.30am on a Sunday?

Urine.

A filthy bedroom covered with posters of naked women, with one rogue sock situated very close to the bed?

Eww… BO and dirty laundry.

A big pitbull gnawing hungrily on a bloody T-bone steak?

Dogs just smell like dogs to me!

A naked beauty in a bubble bath surrounded by candles?

Flowers.

Is there any scent that could make you attracted to even the most repulsive man?

I like really masculine smells.

Like sweaty armpits?

Yes! No… like… I love the smell of men’s deodorant. That clean smell. Like a clean man.

So maybe a man who worked in a laundrette would be good?

Maybe…

What’s your least favourite smell?