Thread: any vintage aftershave users?

i sometimes use an old yardley as. i have a bunch of vintage edt's but of the aftershaves it's just the yardley. it works very well.

I use Penhaligons English Fern, Opus 1870 and Endymion.
I believe that the English Fern is the only one of these that is actually vintage scent (about 100 years old), but the other two are based on the same principles.

my normal rotation is
old spice
hai karate
aqua velva
i like the old smelling stuff, i just need to get me a bottle of old old spice

-dan-

I haven't been called vintage before; I do use aftershave though.

I use Pinaud Clubman regularly..probably my favorite scent even compared to some of the much higher priced brands out there.

I came across some Booster made in Canada since 1920's. It smells just like a barbershop. Feels pretty good. I also got an aftershave bump jell by Woody's. When you put it on after a shave it feels like Kevin Did in Home Alone, but after that it feels incredible, like your face has never been fresher or cleaner.

I use a number of old or vintage brands--mostly colognes. Creed (Green Irish Tweed and Tabarome) as well as Penhaligon's Blenheim Bouquet.

Twi winds, is my weakness, my grandmother gave me her late fathers stash of it last july and i gotta say i love it, he has the old avon cars and stuff and there is aftershave and coloughn. I love both of them and now im the only 15 yr old that smells like a 70 yr old in the area, I love being diffrent.

Originally Posted by DLB

I like Old Spice and use the following:
The vintage aftershaves and colognes have a richer, more complex scent. I do not find any degradation in the vintage scents.

This may be the case with Old Spice, but I can't say the same for Aqua Velva. I found an old bottle that had lost its color completely. The blue tint was gone, it just looked like water. I opened it and immediately tossed it. The smell was very strong and just as unpleasant.

Aqua velva is a tricky one leadduck cause they did mess with the formula of it about the late 70s and early 80's. Which caused it go from a deep rich blue to a very teal blue color. Later I bellieve in the early 90's but maybe later they went back to original formula. So the bottle you got might of been from the changed formula era.

And to the original post I am a Aqua Velva man