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04-25-2015, 10:53 AM #1I'm a social vegan. I avoid meet.
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I got two words for ya: Lilac Vegetal
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04-25-2015, 10:58 AM #2
The vegetal part puts me off, all I can think about is the smell of left over water from boiling cabbage or something. Though I am sure it is nothing like that - I have never smelled it.
Originally Posted by JBHoren
I got two words for ya: Lilac Vegetal
Bread and water can so easily become tea and toast
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04-25-2015, 12:34 PM #3Senior Member
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Never had an aftershave last long. Most disappear to me within an hour at best. I have to use an EdT or cologne to get a lasting scent effect.
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It's not an old classic, but Wm. Neumann & Co's "1911" fragrance has a classic character to it, and has prompted a few queries at work. I find that bay rums (which are pretty darned classic!) elicit compliments as well.
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This was the first clubman scent I didn't care for at all. Masculine is not the description I would give it. Smells like flowers that I wouldn't give a second sniff too. Originally Posted by JBHoren
I got two words for ya: Lilac Vegetal
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English Leather and Canoe were two of my old (60's) favorites.
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05-08-2015, 01:30 AM #7Senior Member
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My wife keeps buying me the new stuff, I keep wearing the old..
I have a theory: the old stuff was stronger to cover the now less popular booze and tobacco smells...
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05-08-2015, 01:33 AM #8
And also poorer general personal hygiene I would have thought. Originally Posted by Pringr
Bread and water can so easily become tea and toast
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05-08-2015, 03:37 AM #9
I enjoy old scents, I am an avid garage saler ( boot or tag sales to the heathen.)
I have about twenty+ different scents from the 40's onward. All are enjoyable to me and none but a couple newer Clubman type bother my allergies. A couple of Fabergé scents, NOS Brut, NOS Old Spice and new, NOS Jade East and a couple of imitators, NOS Stetson with other personal products, NOS English Leather, NOS Walgreen's Bay Rum, NOS Original 50's Lyme and Royall Bay Rhum, and a couple others.
The scents then were oil based and distilled with or dissolved in grain alcohol and as the alcohol evaporated, many of them became stronger. What is interesting to me is that older men's scents, for the most part, did not go sour. Not so with many older woman's scents.
Scents depend upon body chemistry so not all will work for any given individual but the ones that fit a person's can be fun.
So if the scent you enjoy is working pleasurably with your skin, enjoy it and let it be enjoyed by others.
YMMV
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