Lustray bay rum smells great. It's milder than clubman's bay rum. I still have a full bottle of clubman bay rum and original pinaud so I should prob work my way through some of that first.
Some women don't like the classics. I have the same problem going on at home also. Most of the colognes she likes just happen to be expensive, but I fooled her, told her to smell several aftershaves and one of her favorites was Barbasol Pacific Rush. She was shocked that it came from the dollar store. Bottom line, I like to wear scents she likes (of course), but shaving soap is another story, since the scent is replaced by A/S by the time I leave the den. What's good for the wife is good for you. Keeping your partner happy will make your life easier.
Done with Clubman? No, in fact I just started this week. 4 consecutive days with it and I'm very pleased with the skin conditioning it provides. My wife even likes the scent. No objections from co-workers yet either, but having read about it first, I back off the dose a bit. I like it.
Pinaud bottle in place of the Dos Equis bottle. Cost me a mint to get him back for a second photo session.
I consider myself quite lucky, my wife loves Clubman, the Veg, and especially Special Reserve. Distilled manliness in a bottle. She is an angel, and also regards me as an aspiring curmudgeon. Special Reserve is definitely the most manly, the Clubman is the most classic. Clubman defines "classic barbershop" to me, with the talc scent background. I think it smells also like Hoppe's No. 9, which makes me positively misty eyed with childhood memories of my dad and great uncles. Love them all. They make me think of this series of commercials: -- (oh, looks like it's time for another shave) On the other hand, the wife refers to anything Bay Rum as "Bay Rum s--t" describes Speick as "the rotting, fermented armpit hair of a homeless drunk". Pretty sure that meant she did not like it, and did not risk using it again around her. Used it only for travelling. I figured if she thought I was wearing it while away, that she would assume it was driving other women away, and she had nothing to worry about, and thus reverse her position regarding my use of it.
I'm done with the Clubman Country Club Aftershave, but went to CVS to get the ORIGINAL A.S. It's a bit better than Country Club, and I like the original bottle better. So that makes me done with "a certain brand of Clubman" only.
Took stock of my first container of Clubman talc today and when I opened it the little cardboard seal inside the lid was loose so not sure if it had been opened but just want to ask some advice that I've purchased the genuine thing. It's pink in colour. Was expecting it to be white. But more importantly I was expecting it to smell like cologne or a nice manly scent which is what I've read on various forums. Instead it smelled like carpet freshener Is this normal?
