Old Spice Roll-Call

Thank you for looking into it. I haven't seen it anywhere just curious. Has anyone noticed the repackaging of Old Spice. I purchased some the other day at a grocery store here in Wisconsin. Later in the weekend I was looking at some stuff at a Walgreens and noticed they had some old spice that was a red box with gold stripes with old spice written vertically on the right hand side. Are they repackaging old spice?

 

Worse yet, it's going plastic. I was in my neighborhood Walgreen's today and the box has been brightened up and re-labeled as "classic," and inside was a plastic version of the old spice bottle, with horribly modern labeling. I don't know if they've also mucked around with the formula again. This hasn't hit all stores -- later in the day, at the supermarket, I took a look and they still had the older bottle and packaging. I saw this coming with the new wave of OS advertising, clearly meant for a younger crowd -- I guess they figure 20-somethings don't give a hood about quality packaging. I think I'll just buy the Indian version from now on, and use it to fill one of my older OS bottles.

 

It was the same shape as always, and more or less the same cream color -- but it had a lot more red writing on it, and was made of hard plastic as far as I could tell. The box was a sort of shiny red, and the bottle was pretty damned small. It was in exactly the same place as OS always is in that store, and the price doohickey excitedly proclaimed "New Item!" The regular bottle was nowhere to be found. I quickly put it back in the box and back on the shelf and walked away hoping it was just a bad dream....

 

I've been "experimenting" with aftershaves recently and decided to try Old Spice. Didn't know the difference between old and new and all that- anyway, I am *very* pleased with Old Spice. Scent lasts nice and long and The Wife heartily approves.

This is an especially pleasant development because I had been using an aftershave lotion that was irritating my skin. Who would figure that an aftershave lotion made for sensitive skin would actually irritate? Results vary indeed!

 

I have had the fortune to try both the Shulton formula and the P&G formula and I like both, a lot. Both are very nice and I wouldn't put one before the other, really... They will both be in my rotation!

 

I've got some Old Spice and some Old Spice Musk aftershave on it's way to me, both the old version by Shulton.

Also, I'm getting some Tryphon American Spice shave soap in the same batch.

Does anyone have any experience w/the OS Musk I'm getting? I'm not usually a musk fan, but we'll see.

I'm getting on a Lime shaving cream kick. Does the OS Lime smell like Old Spice AND Lime, or is it just a lime cream that happens to be made by Old Spice?

Saw a bottle of NOS Old Spice Lime that went for over $30 on ebay recently.

 

add me to the ranks of old spice users. I've used old spice cologne and after shave for as long as I've been shaving, with only a small deviation on occasion. Right now I rotate between o/s and masters bay rum.

 

Yep, I saw this as well. I have been wondering if the scent-formula istelf has been changed (again), along with the packaging. I'll find out eventually when I run out of current stock, but nonetheless have been curious.

The new plastic version was initially off-putting. It was a fear of Aqua Velva turning to plastic bottles that led me to stockpile.....luckily I also have a stash of Old Spice built up as well

But, looking again at the new plastic bottle and design its not all that bad, and has a fresh look to it. However, I prefer the glass and will most likely decant into the glass bottles I have now and never get rid of them until they are selling for thousands on eBay

 

Can't STAND Plastic Bottles if glass are available for a pour product. Partly for tradition sake and partially just for quality.

 

Its the cologne for me.

marty