Pinaud Clubman is the oldest bargain aftershave on our list. Since 1810, Pinaud Clubman has been making the world smell manlier with their wide range of grooming products. Walk into any traditional barbershop and you’ll likely find Pinaud Clubman aftershave sitting on the shelves; it’s part of what gives classic barbershops their distinctive scent. I was going to say it reminds me of the 50's, but apparently this first came out in 1935. A true classic. It is also often customary to use astringent salts such as aluminium salts. Potassium alum can be used, but more generally, complex aluminum salts will be used. Specific plant astringent extracts such as witch hazel extracts are also often used. The level of fragrance is significant,1to3%, without reaching the usual dosage of eau de toilette or other alcoholic perfumes. As you might have guessed, high-end designers wasted no time jumping into this arena too, with everything from Chanel Pour Monsieur in 1955 through to big hits like Calvin Klein’s Eternity for Men in 1989 getting aftershave variants, often not even having any added enhancements like menthol or skin conditioners. Most of this also coincided with men’s fragrance becoming more ubiquitous, and shaving habits getting increasingly focused on expediting the process with disposable or electric products, meaning that wearing aftershave seemed like a superfluous step when you were just going to douse on your favorite designer fragrance after a shave anyway, with matching the cologne to the aftershave feeling a bit like overkill unless you were “that guy” who also wore the matching deodorant, used the matching bar soap and shave cream, etc. The Decline of Traditional Aftershaves

Many believe that today’s Old Spice cologne isn’t the same as the original.Aficionados swear there was a subtle change made to the formula after Procter & Gamble acquired the brand. Even with the tweaking, this is still a solid, timeless, and manly fragrance. Good to have in your collection. Stevens, Sharon Ritenour; Jones, James (July 1999). "The Thin Red Line". The Journal of Military History. 63 (3): 706. doi: 10.2307/120503. ISSN 0899-3718. JSTOR 120503.Aqua Velva was first trademarked in 1917 by the J.B. Williams Company [2] and later acquired by the Beecham Group in 1982, [3] SmithKline Beecham in 1989, [4] then by GlaxoSmithKline from 2000 until it was sold to Combe Incorporated in 2002. [5] As of 2016, it is marketed by Combe Incorporated and Unilever (formerly Sara Lee) in Europe. Aqua Velva products include Classic Ice Blue, Ice Sport, and Musk, as well as Original Sport (sold only in Canada). The Classic Ice Blue serves as the original version of Aqua Velva. [6] Behle, Anna; Pawlowski, Alice (2021-10-28). "Recipe for standard BG-11 media v1". doi: 10.17504/protocols.io.bzjup4nw. S2CID 240207461 . Retrieved 2022-02-07. {{ cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= ( help) badgerandblade.com (15 February 2010). "Aqua Velva Plastic Bottles". Badger & Blade . Retrieved 3 January 2020. What it smells like:It’s a pretty simple fragrance. Starts off with a citrusy smell that slowly fades to a woodsy, leathery scent. As the day wore on, it started to smell more like baby powder. Nice and fresh.

Below are my thoughts and a bit of history on the six drugstore colognes and aftershaves I tested. Enjoy. Pinaud Clubman My Dad (1920--1997) used this and I remember the blue bottle on his shelf above the sink with razor shaving brush etc. Fantastic post shave properties: the menthol cools everything down, the witch hazel heals and the lanolin conditions the skin. Some adventurous men in the middle classes (then working classes) took up learning the straight-razor themselves if they didn’t want a regular expenditure for visiting the barber, and alongside such self-shaving came a need for take-home grooming products, which included some sort of “after-shave” tonic, lotion, cream, or powder. I actually took to using aftershaves more when switching, not because I need them, but because I like that finishing touch they provide.

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Make sure you put your aftershave and other potentially harmful products away again after using them. Don’t leave them out on a counter where they’re within your child’s reach. When the bottle is empty and you’re ready to discard it, be sure to rinse it thoroughly and throw it away safely.

After a week of testing these colognes and aftershaves, I’m happy to report that I was pleasantly surprised by my findings. I actually thought all of the drugstore colognes and aftershaves smelled great. If you’re looking to invigorate your freshly shaved face or want to dab on a bit of scent every day without breaking the bank, they make for agreeable alternatives to expensive fragrances. After a century of making cowboy hats, the Stetson Company decided to get into the men’s fragrance business in 1981 with a cologne for men. Stetson took advantage of their cowboy heritage by pitching their cologne as the scent for men who are independent and love adventure. And as the gift idea for those who didn’t know what else to get the man in their lives (“Stetson makes it easy, for yo uuuu!”).Eventually, the smell and blue color we know Aqua Velva itself to have today was added post-Prohibition in the US to keep guys desperate for a swig of booze from chugging the stuff, although these days it isn’t even made with potable alcohol (nor are many toiletries anymore). That leather-meets-mint-and-lemon smell of Aqua Velva became so appealing at one point that Williams just recommended using their product as cologne too, adding a material they marketed as “Humectin” to extend the longevity of the smell. The popularity of Aqua Velva opened the door for other purpose-made aftershaves like Mennen’s Skin Bracer in 1932, itself a shameless rip off of Houbigant’s Fougère Royale with mint replacing much of the citrus top, and being a much simpler “fougère” structure overall. As a shaver, who during COVID transformed from a Gillette multi blade user to a wet shaver with an expensive DE and have now discovered fragrances, I’ve gone from using aftershaves always to rarely. But that’s because I can do a very clean shave and I then use professional face care moisturizer. So the scent purpose of aftershave has been lost as has the face feel purpose. I have some unscented splashes for occasional use and a few balls, and I still love the DR Harris Arlington scent (aftershave , not so much cologne), but it’s no longer needed. An. interesting read, thank you. Aqua Velva is an American brand of grooming products targeted at men. Its best-known product is the Ice Blue aftershave introduced in 1917 by the J.B. Williams Company. [1] History [ edit ] Professional products are good (I have some too), but the very nature of them being for professional barbers makes them less fun to use in my opinion. Thomas Derdak, Tina Grant: International Directory of Company Histories, volume 46, 2002, p. 205 [1]