Christmas Season, Day 17. Full Bay Rum Christmas! Prep: Hot Shower and Bloom/Lather Building Water Soap: Colonel Conk Bay Rum Razor: Blackland Blackbird Steel (OC and SB)/Merkur Mustache and Eyebrow Razor Blade: Personna Lab Blue (6)/Merkur Mustache and Eyebrow Blade (02) Brush: VdH Boar Green Witch Hazel: Stirling Bay Rum ASB: Stirling Bay Rum AS/EdC: Clubman Bay Rum So much Bay Rum I almost cried with joy!
Christmas Season Day 22. Blackland Blackbird Brass with Stirling Spice and Old Spice!!!! Prep: Hot Shower and Bloom/Lather Building Water Soap: Stirling Spice Razor: Blackland Blackbird Brass (OC and SB)/Merkur Mustache and Eyebrow Razor Blade: Personna Lab Blue (5)/Merkur Mustache and Eyebrow Blade (07) Brush: Zenith Boar AS: Old Spice (USA) ASB: Stirling Spice EdC: Old Spice (USA) Old Spice, the smell of the Holidays and family for me.
how similar do you find the scents of stirling spice and old spice classic? I have a sample of stirling spice and I love old spice classic cologne, but the two don’t smell anything alike to my nose...
The Stirling Spice is more of the older Shulton formula. A bit more bass if you know what I mean. Proctor and Gamble changed the Old Spice formula not because of cost, but due to some of the ingredients being a bit of an issue with some laws about fragrance ingredients. (Asthma and Irritation) Now, as far as over all, I find them exactly the same to my nose. I can't sit here and tell you if I was blindfolded I could tell the difference between Stirling/Shulton/P&G USA Version/P&G European Version/P&G Indian Version/(Put Artisan Here) I'm not going to lie. If I could time travel I'd purchase every Shulton Old Spice Shave Soap/AS/EdC/Talc I could get a hold of. That and Williams Pucks.
December 20th Razor: Paradigm Diamondback 2020 Blade: Feather NHS (2) Brush: Stirling Finest Pre-shave: PAA Cube Soap: Stirling Pumpkin Spice Stirling Bay Rum Witch Hazel Stirling Mentholated Balm AS: Stirling Pumpkin Spice Good morning! Sent from my SM-G965U using Tapatalk
Thanks for the response! I have to wonder if there is something amiss with my sample of Stirling Spice. Sometimes my nose can smell strange things, but even my wife found that they were very different scents - certainly not "exactly the same" as you say. I didn't know the original Shulton Old Spice, but the newer Classic Old Spice has become on of my go-to colognes (especially considering the price!). Thanks again gcc
My wife checks everything on Ebay for prices of everything I bring home when I go on leave. In her opinion I am to only use Old Spice AS/EdC and Williams Mug Soap. The rest either go on the "shelf" for collection and presentation or is to be sold. I can't complain. She has flipped a lot of stuff for good money. Also, you have to realize the thing about the Stirling Spice shave soap. Soap is horrible way of scenting. So many variables are involved, I really don't know how the artisans can keep the products as uniform as they do.
Yeah, I have to agree - soap is not always the best way to test a scent. Maybe I should grab an AS sample with my next order...
I just got my latest shipment. Probably get one more set and some of the EdPs after Christmas to round it out at 7.
Christmas Day Shave. Rockwell 6S Matte Black with Stirling Spice and Old Spice. Prep: Hot Shower and Bloom/Lather Building Water Soap: Stirling Spice Razor: Rockwell 6S Matte Black (R6, R4, and R3)/Merkur Mustache and Eyebrow Razor Blade: Dorco Prime (4)/Merkur Mustache and Eyebrow Blade (11) Brush: Zenith Boar AS: Old Spice (US) ASB: Stirling Spice EdC: Old Spice (US) This is what Christmas smells like to me for the morning. Merry Christmas, Everybody!!!!
Merry Christmas my Stirling brothers. I’m visiting family, so I’m keeping my gear list short..........Merkur 34C, Omega Mighty Midget, and CHRISTMAS EVE soap, splash, and balm. How could I possibly use any other scent?! It’s been fantastic, as I already knew it would be. I’ll retire it in a few days so it retains is magic for next Christmas. Enjoy time with family, and drive safely.
Added to the collection this Christmas. My brother-in-law, a fellow Threat Level Midnight fan, bought me the Scarn soap, splash, and EdP.
Many months ago I had a vendor accidentally ship me a sample of Strawberry Bubbly, and I threw it on the shelf and never touched it... until this evening. I was trying to think of a fitting Stirling soap to ring in the new year, and decided that a soap named after champagne would fit the bill nicely! My wife and I both had a good laugh about it, and the scent really wasn’t all that bad (though we both agreed that it would smell much better on her!). Anyhow, just thought I’d share a Stirling related laugh as we say goodbye to a year that could use a few extra laughs! Happy New Years!
New Year's Day Shave. Rockwell 6S Matte Black with Stirling Spice and Old Spice. Prep: Hot Shower and Bloom/Lather Building Water Soap: Stirling Spice Razor: Rockwell 6S Matte Black (R6, R4, and R3)/Merkur Mustache and Eyebrow Razor Blade: Rockwell (4)/Merkur Mustache and Eyebrow Blade (18) Brush: Stirling Badger AS: Old Spice (US) ASB: Stirling Spice EdC: Old Spice (US) Happy New year Everyone!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Coniferous is already on steroids.........freshly clobbered trees and dirt.........like crashing a dirt bike on tree farm. Christmas Eve is a MUCH more complex scent, and while there’s a definite evergreen component, it’s quite literally what the home of a well celebrated Christmas smells like. It’s so spot-on that I can’t/won’t use it until I’m ready to start the Christmas season.
The Stoylin section of my SUPER order came today-a day early. Sheep shave soap and Mtn. Man Bodywash. Doc Ezlovan flipped in an Arkadia hand soap.
