Thread: The Gentlemen's Quarter - Free Samples

Coleen feel free to send him any notes, thoughts, and even share my private email if this helps you.

Theo, thank you so much for your kindness

Gentlemen, we have 18 hours and counting to the presentation tomorrow at 1pm. I'll tell ya true....I've been scrambling to achieve everything on the "to do" list, not only for the Greenbrier, but for the company that is helping me with the new labels. Everything seemed to have a deadline that fell this week lol.

I am going thru some of your comments this evening, regarding the samples that you tried out 6 weeks ago, and I'll be adding some of them to our presentation tomorrow. Now tis true, that my contact seems to like his soap quite a bit....and uses it every day, but still....I feel a need to include comments from other men. I believe it adds "weight" to the quality of the product.

Aftershave Labels have been moved to the forefront on the design list. They'll be somewhat the same as the shaving soap labels. If I had more time I would go into what my hopes are for the Aftershave in terms of ingredients, but we can discuss that later.

Some of you, may be aware of "operation secret squirrel"...that will commence on Friday of this week. Then next Thursday I leave for Sturgis. I'll be absent for 10 days.

We got in !!!! And I know I shouldn't say that I was certain......but because our contact really, really liked the "Desert Ironwood" and shaves with it everyday, I suppose I felt like the shave gods were blowing good suds our way We also discussed "Desert Ironwood Aftershave" so you can believe that as soon as we return from out west, I'll be making Aftershave !!!!

There is a row of boutique shops downstairs in the hotel, and "The Gentlemen's Quarter" shaving soap will now sit there too!!! I really am honored to have our product there.

The Greenbrier Resort......for those of you who like history, and golf you might find the following of interest. I just copied the first 150 years.


1778 - Earliest guests come to White Sulphur Spring to “take the waters” to restore their health.

1830s - The resort enters its first period of prominence as politicians, judges, editors, lawyers, diplomats, ministers, planters and merchants, primarily from the Southern states, annually congregate at the "village in the wilderness." They do so only in the summer months because the 2,000-foot elevation offers relief from the heat and humidity down in the lowlands. The antebellum resort consists only of cottages and many including Paradise Row, Alabama Row and Baltimore Row still stand today.

1830-1861 - Before the Civil War, five sitting presidents stay here, demonstrating the resort's reputation as the favored gathering place for the nation's most influential and powerful families.

1858 - White Sulphur Springs' well-established status as America's most fashionable social resort leads to the construction of the first large hotel in 1858. It is officially named the Grand Central Hotel but affectionately known as “The Old White.”

1861-1865 - The resort closes during the Civil War. During that conflict, both sides occupy the grounds, using the hotel either as a hospital or military headquarters.

1865 - Shortly after the war's end, it reopens and the resort's prospects are incalculably improved with the completion of the Chesapeake and Ohio Railway in 1873.

1910 - The Chesapeake and Ohio Railway purchases the historic resort property and embarks upon a major expansion.

1913 - The railroad adds The Greenbrier Hotel (the central section of today's hotel), a new Mineral Bath Department (the building that includes the grand Indoor Pool), and an 18-hole golf course (now called The Old White Course) designed by the most prominent contemporary golf architect, Charles Blair Macdonald.

1914 - For the first time, the resort, now renamed The Greenbrier opens year round. President and Mrs. Woodrow Wilson spend their Easter holiday at The Greenbrier, and Joseph and Rose Kennedy travel down from Boston for their October honeymoon.

1920s - The Greenbrier takes its place within high society's traveling network that stretches from Palm Beach, Florida, to Newport, Rhode Island.

1922 - The obsolete Old White Hotel is removed, which leads to a substantial rebuilding of The Greenbrier Hotel in 1930. This refurbishment doubles the number of guest rooms to five hundred. Cleveland architect Philip Small redesigns the hotel's Main Entrance and adds both the Mount Vernon-inspired Virginia Wing and the signature North Entrance façade.

The Greenbrier was converted into Ashford General Hospital to serve wounded soldiers during WWII.1941 - The U.S. State Department leases the hotel for seven months after the U.S. entry into WWII. Hundreds of German, Japanese and Italian diplomats and their families are relocated from Washington, D.C., until their exchange for U.S. diplomats similarly stranded overseas is completed.

1942 - The U.S. Army purchases and converts the hotel into a 2,000 bed hospital known as Ashford General Hospital. Over the course of four years, 24,148 soldiers are admitted and treated at the surgical and rehabilitation center.

1946 - The Chesapeake and Ohio Railway reacquires the hotel from the U.S. government and commissions a comprehensive interior redecoration by the noted designer Dorothy Draper.

1948 - The Greenbrier reopens in 1948. Sam Snead returns as golf pro to the resort where his career began in the late 1930s. More than any other individual Sam Snead establishes The Greenbrier's reputation as one of the world's foremost golf destinations.

1950s - The U.S. government once again approaches The Greenbrier for assistance, this time in the construction of an Emergency Relocation Center, a bunker or bomb shelter, to be occupied by the U.S. Congress in case of war. The classified underground facility is built in conjunction with an above ground addition to the hotel, the West Virginia Wing. For thirty years the facility codenamed Project Greek Island is maintained at a constant state of operational readiness.

Congratulations! Not surprised though and definitely not surprised someone favored the Desert Ironwood!

Originally Posted by churley

We got in !!!! And I know I shouldn't say that I was certain......but because our contact really, really liked the "Desert Ironwood" and shaves with it everyday, I suppose I felt like the shave gods were blowing good suds our way We also discussed "Desert Ironwood Aftershave" so you can believe that as soon as we return from out west, I'll be making Aftershave !!!! .

Alright! Looking forward to it!

Good Morning I thought I'd share "the rest of the story" with you regarding yesterday's adventure to the "Greenbrier Resort". If nothing else, the women in your life will get a little chuckle

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I met with two different individuals yesterday, I was dressed nice, professional.....all except for my shoes.

I never get dressed early, I wait to the last minute, because I hate waiting, If I'm dressed I'm ready to go. So imagine my total disbelief when I go to the closet to get my comfortable, but very nice black dress shoes, and they weren't there �� I ran to the other closet.....not there either, the clock is ticking, I got a flashlight, rechecked both closets....still no shoes, omg. I could feel the panic beginning to rise in the pit of my stomach. Back to the closet, wishing them by sheer will power to appear, and there....I saw them, that beautiful pair of red pumps that I've never worn, hmmmm... red is a little flashy, but it's not like I had any other choice, so red it was !

However......oh yes....we have a however.....In the back of my mind I noticed they were hard to walk in, but the other half of my brain is said,"You're already 10 minutes late, you better suck it up girly, you're walking in these shoes, come hell or high water" so off I go to the Greenbrier, driving faster than I should while scouting for the police.... had to make up for those 10 min

Once I arrived at the Greenbrier; my contact came, and we set off walking to his office.... I don't really know how to explain to you that halfway down that long hall, I realized that it wasn't going to go well for me and those red pumps.

My shoes weren't hurting my feet, but they kept slipping off of my heel....and I couldn't walk in the them, and I couldn't take them off either. I had to tell my business contact, "I'm really sorry to be walking so slow, but wow I'm having trouble walking in these shoes". He was SUCH a Gentleman, waved his hand off like he sees women everyday shuffling along in high heels. I spent my day taking tiny little "Geisha Girl" steps in these fabulous red pumps, lol. I just kept repeating, "I'm sorry I'm being so slow".....him, oh it's fine, don't worry about it.

While we were walking down the hall, I told him I had to give a business speech in September, and I was going to tell the women in the audience, here's an important tip for you, "Don't ever wear shoes to an important business meeting, that you've never worn before"....he laughed....I took that as good sign, I laughed too.

As our meeting continued on into the second hour, and we took another very loooong walk down a hallway that I swear must've been 5 miles long (more like 100 feet) shuffle, shuffle...on the inside, I felt like an idiot, but at the same time, saying to myself, it doesn't matter about the damn shoes, just "work the problem" ......shuffle, shuffle.... lol

In the end.....I talked all about "The Gentlemen's Quarter" over
the last few years, and I talked about all of you.

And now you know, the rest of the story!!! lol....






The Greenbrier - America's Resort since 1778

Good Morning, Gentlemen

Now that I have the Greenbrier behind me.....Let's talk Aftershave

For whatever reason, I don't have any men in my life, who can test my products for me. My boyfriend Alan, professes to have facial hair like that of a young teenager lol, and tis true.....he shaves with an electric razor, maybe twice a week, sometimes just once. God love his heart

While I'm still some odd months away from being fully on board with a website, and full line of products, now is the time to begin asking questions about future products.

I have 3 or so VERY NICE......IN-CRED-ibly nice, tonics and/or balms for "Aftershave". They're tried and true, tested by many over the years, and I'll add those in the months ahead towards late Fall.

What I don't have is an "Aftershave Splash" with alcohol. I would like to ask a few questions today:

For those of you love an Aftershave splash WITH Alcohol, could you please tell me why you like it? What is it about the alcohol that you like ? Is it the burn? the warm feeling ??? etc.

For those of you who DON'T LIKE an Aftershave with alcohol, why is that? Does it burn too much ? makes your skin feel tight? etc.

Originally Posted by churley

What I don't have is an "Aftershave Splash" with alcohol. I would like to ask a few questions today:

For those of you love an Aftershave splash WITH Alcohol, could you please tell me why you like it? What is it about the alcohol that you like ? Is it the burn? the warm feeling ??? etc.

For those of you who DON'T LIKE an Aftershave with alcohol, why is that? Does it burn too much ? makes your skin feel tight? etc.

It's two things: The Burn, and the astringent quality. OK, three: The aroma -- I prefer an ASS that matches either the shaving soap/cream or the EDC/EDT/EDP... or both!

OTOH, I prefer an Aftershave BALM without alcohol.

I look forward to your upcoming offerings of Desert Ironwood in ASS and ASB.

Originally Posted by JBHoren

It's two things: The Burn, and the astringent quality. OK, three: The aroma -- I prefer an ASS that matches either the shaving soap/cream or the EDC/EDT/EDP... or both!

OTOH, I prefer an Aftershave BALM without alcohol.

I look forward to your upcoming offerings of Desert Ironwood in ASS and ASB.

Ya know i just love the acronyms. So alcohol also acts as an astringent? I wouldn't have thought that at all.....thank you for the insight

OK so wait a minute.....an Aftershave that matches EDC, EDT, EDP ? Is not aftershave with alcohol merely a weak version of all the aforementioned ?

Originally Posted by churley

OK so wait a minute.....an Aftershave that matches EDC, EDT, EDP ? Is not aftershave with alcohol merely a weak version of all the aforementioned ?

Wellll... "weak" is perhaps not the adjective I'd use. Lemme tink... OK. My take on an ASS/ASB is that -- if it's part of a "threesome" -- it should primarily do it's job (either astringent - ASS, or soothing - ASB), and secondarily match (in scent, not in projection/longevity) the aroma of the soap/cream and the EDC/EDT/EDP.

How's that -- helpful?

I like the burn of an alcohol-based ASS; it lets me know where I messed-up (scrapes, nicks, weepers, cuts), and where I did good. It's refreshing... like that old (Aqua Velva?) ad where the guy applies it by slapping himself in the face. Five-to-ten-minutes later, I like the soothing and moisturing of an ASB (Floris, for example, offers an ASS and ASB that match their Santal shaving cream and Eau de Santal EDT).

TGQ Desert Ironwood is a wonderful example of how one could extend a standalone product (the shaving soap) into a product line (soap, ASS, ASB, and EDT/CX). Currently, when I shave with TGQ Desert Ironwood, I follow it with Calvin Klein Obsession for Men ASB, and later, the matching CK EDT. One learns to make-do... but a full TGQ Desert Ironwood product line might be "irresistible". I think what it would take, vis-a-vis the customer, is education (i.e., how to use the product line).