Aqua Velva

Funny you should say that. I have used Listerine as an after shave. Not bad.

Check out the ingredients:

https://www.listerine.com/active-ingredients#1879-all-in-all-a-pretty-awesome-year

 

This will sound like sacrilege, but I mix AV and Florida Water 50/50 to make Blue Steel.

 

Sounds interesting.

You don't mind if I call mine Murray Combe?

 

The first L.T. Piver fragrance for men is older than 4711. I think Eau de Farina also predates it, but I am not sure.

 

Call it anything you like; I got the recipe a couple years back off BB. I kept the name because it makes a neat blue color. Making a batch for my son tonite.

 

Thanks. I can mix that up toot sweet.

 

I always buy my AV at Walmart; due it's the cheapest price I've found. About fifty cents an ounce.

 

Is the American Aqua Velva very different from the European version?

 

Blue Cross knockoffs at those out of the way bargain stores are about as cheap but effective as it gets...but then I'm not much on AV anymore. Have started wearing Skin Bracer much more often.

 

So it doesn't smell all that great; is that what I'm hearing??

 

It does not "blow me away", but I still enjoy it from time to time.

 

I like a classic standby like English leather or old spice traditional

 

Old spice and English Leather is great. I also like Florida Water and Pinaud Clubman.

 

Here's a story my Dad told me. As you may remember he served aboard the USS Belleau Wood, a light aircraft carrier(CVL) in the PTO during WWII. USN ships are "dry", meaning no alcohol. He said they took Aqua Velva, strained it thru cheesecloth from the galley, mixed it with grapefruit juice and drank it. Dad said it was the smoothest cocktail he ever had.

 

The USS Bellevue Wood was Commissioned in 1978, making it impossible for your Dad to have served on it in WW II. It was Decommissioned and sunk off the shores of Hawaii, in 2005.

 

Huh? The other Belleau Wood.



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Thank you.

 

Yup........looking further, I discovered that apparently there were TWO ships with the same name:

"USS Belleau Wood (LHA-3), nicknamed "Devil Dog", was the second ship named after the Battle of Belleau Wood in World War I. Her keel was laid down on 5 March 1973 at Pascagoula, Mississippi, by Ingalls Shipbuilding."

 

Open mouth, Insert foot

 

Nope, just an honest mistake. Sorry.