This may have been visited before, but I just have to say that there are certain products available that I return to based on scent alone! Regardless of the presence or lack of any other properties! Some of these products include: Irish Spring Body Soap Yardley English Lavender TSD Monkey Farts Anything Speick Brut Skin Bracer Blue Avon Tai Winds Aqua Velva Musk Aramis Eternity Abercrombe & Fitch Feirce Murray & Lanaman Florida Water Pe Re Ja Turkish Lemon Cologne Murray & Lanaman Orange Blossom Cologne Hoyt's Cologne Dominica Bay Rum For me, the scent of my shave stuff is at least 50% of my experience, regardless of how long or short lived the scent lasts. What scents are your must have's?
My favorite is Superior 70 Bay Rum. It's a nice mild Bay scent that treats me well. ***ETA*** I have also recently become a big fan of Burberry London EDP. Not much of a cologne guy, but it is a nice scent.
My sense of smell isn't the greatest; I rely on the wife and 2 teenage daughters to point me in the right direction. I can judge how the scent works on me by the number of hugs I get when I come out of the bathroom. Daughter #1 is an Old Spice Freak, Daughter #2 loves Cliven Classic. SWMBO goes nuts for Kiehls #1 Original Musk. Everything else is kind of neutral. Works for me, gotta keep my ladies smiling.
Most of my favorites are listed already. Jeff, do NOT smell the Burt's Bees SS. Smells great, lathers worse than water.......
Speick T&H 1805 Peppermint (as long as it's EO, not fake) Bergamot (again EO) Neroli Honorable mention to TSD Bourbon Vanilla - wife doesn't care for it but I LOVE it.
As far as my shave soaps go I don't particularly care if they have scent or not but as far as my edt's and colognes go, I fancy Burberry Brit and Burberry Azzarro pour homme Eternity Polo Original Grey Flannel Pinaud Clubman Original Pinaud Clubman Citrus Musk Master Lilac Vegetol Irish Spring has always been my favorite scented shower soap Ivory, I think it smells clean and sudtle but delivers big on performance for me. I do like the T&H Tralfalgar scent as well as the Prorasso/C.O. Bigelow scent as well
Ogallala Bay Rum soap & a/s Old Spice One of my favorite colognes was Avon Jamoca, smelled a little like coffee, but they discontinued it.
I don't use anything I don't like the smell of. I have close to 40 different soaps and creams and half a dozen colognes. Of the colognes, I don't use anything my wife doesn't like the smell of. What are my "must have" scents? That would mean picking a favorite
Favorite scents...thats a tough one, if only to narrow down this list. I would currently say anything Bay Rum, very partial to the C.O. Bigelow ASB which has sadly been discontinued. Old Spice Clubman (the wife is a big fan of their Special Reserve) Aqua Velva Speick Tabac and while its not very strong I really love the scent of MWF.
My wife loves the scents of arount 75% of my edt's, but of many of my aftershaves, for example my Booster Iced Lime and Polar Ice, she hates them. She keeps on criticizing the scents - which means she tells me I smell like an old barber. I don't care, because if I like a scent of an aftershave or edt, I'll wear it no matter what.
Pinaud Clubman Aqua Velva Aqua Velva Sport <--- The green stuff E.J. Sea Buckthorn TSD Monkey Farts TSD Iced SubZero TSD 4711 Type TSD Jelly Doughnut TSD Orange <--- New favorite!
Yesterday, I wore my Booster Mosswood aftershave, and my wife said to me I smellled like an old man, but she still gave me a big kiss!
I make my own Bay Rum and if I didn't like it I'd change the formula so that I did. So Bay Rum. That's really my only must have scent.
Scent really isn't a big thing for me. I don't like excessively strong smells, and I don't like them following me around all day after I'm done shaving. It's more about avoiding unpleasant smells than seeking out pleasant ones. My favorite aroma has nothing to do with shaving, but quite a bit to do with starting the day out right: coffee.
TOBS St James & Sandlewood Royall BayRuhm But, hands down, GOOOOOOD is this: From my wife on our 30th Anniversary
Greg - Have you tried the TSD dupe of ADG? IMHO it's even better. Then again, I don't like ozone notes and the lack of one is the main difference.
