Best Old School Men's Aftershave?

[Taverner]

I'm a fan of either Clubman or Bay Rum

19 votes, 0 passes | Time left: Unlimited
	Pinaud Clubman
	1 (5%)
	Old Spice
	11 (58%)
	Bay Rum
	1 (5%)
	Aqua Velva
	1 (5%)
	English Leather
	3 (16%)
	Brut
	2 (11%)
	Stetson
	0 (0%)
	Other
	0 (0%)
	0 DU members did not wish to select any of the options provided.
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[sharp_stick]

1. Hai Karate

and it's toxic waste colored green tint.

[Taverner]

3. Looks like absinthe!

Do they even make that anymore?

[GoneOffShore]

4. Tastes like the back end of a ferret. n/t

[sharp_stick]

40. No they quit making it in the 80's

and it was horrible, pretty much the wrong pole of a chick magnet

[rocktivity]

2. Mennen Skin Bracer was good enough for my dad

and it's been good enough for me. (link)




rocktivity

[Chellee]

31. My Dad used that.

I also remember seeing the Brut bottle in the medicine cabinet.

[ohiosmith]

5. British Sterling.

[Taverner]

6. I remember that stuff...

Started off strong, but ended mild right?

[ohiosmith]

12. All I recall is that it was a hickey magnet!

[GreenPartyVoter]

24. my dad used that and english leather. :-)

[Graybeard]

33. Another + for British Sterling.

Should've been on the list.

And was Canoe in this category?

[geardaddy]

7. I used to use on called "Tabac"

from Germany.

http://www.tabac-original.de/after-shave/language/en.html

[Arkansas Granny]

8. Old Spice. That's the only aftershave my dad wore.

[warrprayer]

9. Trouble

a rarity

[lame54]

10. Axe for Geezers...

[trackfan]

11. I voted Old Spice - but Lilac Vegetal deserves mention.

I use Old Spice. I once accidentally bought the Pure Sport rather than the Classic version. I smelled like I was "on the make".

[Aristus]

13. English Leather. I wore it all through high school.

Hoping it would make me as adept with the ladies as a guy I knew who wore it. It didn't...

I liked the heavy wooden cap, and the pretty ladies in the advertisements who said that all their men wear English Leather, or they wear nothing at all.



I think that's Barbara Carrera, 2nd row down, second from left...

[A Simple Game]

48. This is one reason why I should be doing advertising.

This:

all their men wear English Leather, or they wear nothing at all.

If I had done it would have been this:

all their men wear English Leather, then they wear nothing at all.

See how just one word makes a world of difference?

[Aristus]

49. Bravo!

I think you would have changed advertising as we know it...

[LP2K12]

14. When I was a kid...

my dad worked ALOT. I spent most of my summers and free time with my godfather. Even though we werent related he was like a dad to me.

He always used Brut.

Makes me think of him still.

[HereSince1628]

15. What the hell makes you think those are OLD?????????????????

You young whippersnappers...you have no sense of time.

[Z_I_Peevey]

16. For the love of all that is decent, please help me vote up

anything but Old Spice, the most vile concoction since Eau de Hoaders Veggie Bin.

Please, don't encourage Old Spice wearers.

[Taverner]

17. Old Spice Classic is Awesome!

Kind of Like Bay Rum Lite

[Z_I_Peevey]

18. Ack.

I have actually had to leave public spaces because someone was drenched in that, that...stuff. To me, it's what Rush Limbaugh's underwear hamper must smell like.

[Taverner]

19. I thought his underwear hamper smelled like onions and cat urine?

[Z_I_Peevey]

20. Could be. But probably that's just his breath.

Just stay on the safe side, and don't rub cat butt, rotten onion or Old Spice on your face. Don't smell like Rush. Trust me on this one.

[siligut]

23. OK, I voted Bay Rum

Rot has a bottle in his bathroom cabinet and I love it when he wears it, though he so rarely does.

[Chellee]

32. I voted for Brut.

I don't really remember what it smelled like, but I do remember what Old Spice smelled like, and it was terrible.

[libodem]

21. I like

British Sterling. Polo smells handsome, too. Mmmmmm.

[pipi_k]

26. Polo

drives me wild...

I have to suppress the urge to jump any guy wearing it.

[libodem]

39. So funny

Tee hee.

[geardaddy]

47. I dated a woman who called it

"Come Fuck Me Juice"

[Gidney N Cloyd]

22. No Sex Panther?

[Populist_Prole]

25. I like them all but like Ice Blue ( Aqua Velva ) best

It's the thickest and most soothing and seems to have the most staying power ( long lasting )

[Z_I_Peevey]

35. It reminds me of my first date.

Brandy by The Looking Glass was playing on the radio, and later he told me he kept smelling his shirtsleeve where my head had rested as we drove to the movie. He said it smelled like Wella Balsam shampoo. He, of course, was dandied out in a short sleeve sport shirt and Ice Blue Aqua Velva.

[Taverner]

41. I am going to guess the car you were in....tell me if I'm right

Dodge Dart....was I correct?

If not, how about a Mercury Cougar?

[Z_I_Peevey]

45. Close...

http://www.classicshoptalk.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=2335&cid=18&stc=1

Not a Dodge, a Plymouth. It was more like this, only that light metallic blue.

[pipi_k]

27. I've heard some guys say

that they thought Stetson was cheapo garbage stuff.

Well I'm here to tell everyone...

back in the early 1990s I lived with a guy who used it mixed with a few drops of patchouli oil.

It drove the women crazy.

I loved it. It was his signature scent, and you could always tell when he had just left the room. It never did wash out of his shirts.

Mr Pipi occasionally uses it without the patchouli oil. I still like it on him.

[doc03]

52. Stetson kind of smells like horse shit doesn't it? n/t

[pipi_k]

55. I never actually

thought about it, but then, I sort of like the smell of horse/cow shit.

And dirt cellars, vinyl toys, mild skunk musk, manilla paper (the kind we drew on in school 50+ years ago), and some other odd aromas.

I would say it's probably me just liking a real stinky cologne/after shave, but it's true when I say that mixing Stetson with patchouli oil (on this particular guy) drove the women crazy. He got compliments all the time.

[Brother Buzz]

28. I'm a turpentine man, myself

It's code that shouts honest man. That, and the calluses on my hands.

[Agschmid]

29. I don't ever use it... but

if you asked me shave cream I actually like a relatively "cheap" but still classy brand.



You can get it at Bath & Bodyworks, only $10.00 but buy it when it's on sale and it's $7.00.

[DryHump]

30. Never fails

"Eau, Don't Go".

[Art_from_Ark]

34. I liked the '60s version of Old Spice

but today's version seems to be different.

I remember a lot of aftershave commercials that were broadcast during sports programs and political talk shows of the '60s and '70s.

Old Spice featured some sailor walking through town and giving some local guy a bottle.
For Aqua Velva, there was the jingle sung by a sexy female voice: "There's something about an Aqua Velva man."
English Leather had some sexy woman cooing "All my men wear English leather, or they don't wear anything at all."
And the Hai Karate commercials showed some guy using martial arts to fend off all the girls who were over-attracted to his scent.

[Graybeard]

37. Old Spice jingle.

I remember it went something like this:

"Old Spice means quality",
said the Captain to the Bos'n.

"So look for the package
with the ship that sails the ocean."
.

[Art_from_Ark]

38. I don't remember hearing the words to the jingle

but that might have been what the sailor was whistling as he walked through the town.

[Brigid]

36. Old Spice.

My dad used to use it.

[datasuspect]

42. london gentleman or blackbeard's delight

[siligut]

43. It's called Sex Panther by Odeon. It's illegal in ...

[Taverner]

44. ...

[benld74]

46. Kouros since only 1981, been using it since 1985

even my teen and her friends likes it

[trof]

50. Grey Flannel by Geoffrey Beene...very subtle and MANLY!

Not fruity or cloying.
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[fleur-de-lisa]

51. Bourbon.

[bigwillq]

53. I always liked Brut the best (nt)

[doc03]

54. I'm old and kind of like Brut and British Sterling n/t

[llmart]

56. Geez....

I'm old. I remember all of them. But no one mentioned 007. My brother used to wear it (lots of it) when he was trolling for girls. He'd walk past my father to go out on the town and my father would say, "You smell like a pimp."

How about a thread for us "girls" of the dimestore perfumes we used to wear?

[Taverner]

58. I would be lost when it comes to dimestore perfumes pour les femmes

When I ripened and became a legal male, Eternity for her/him was all the rage. Also was Obsession for her/him...

Now I go to CVS and see those are both "dime store" perfumes

I am old too

[llmart]

60. Many of the ones I used to wear are still for sale.

Chantilly, Emeraude but I used to love Imprevu and that was discontinued years ago.

I don't believe I've ever owned real perfume but then I was always a cheap date

[mwdem]

57. Old Spice...

my dad's. Need I say more?

[Throd]

59. Gin