Thread: Clubman Bay Rum

Originally Posted by carlmaloschneider

Nice idea. I might save my Dominica Bay Rum bottle when it's finished and try this :-)

Thank you . I plan on doing the same when mine is empty .
For now , I'm using a minuter whiskey bottle .

I use Clubman Bay Rum all the time, and it has the sort of scent that SWMBO love to skiff when ever I walk by,
better than love potion number 9!!!!!

Thanks !

tinkersd

Originally Posted by dave5225

I mix mine with witch hazel , in small batches , and use it for aftershave . The ratio is roughly 8 parts witch hazel , to 1 part bay rum .

This is a tip I picked up here at SRP that I really like. I bought a couple of swingtop bottles and cut the witch hazel with Pinaud Bay Rum and Classic. Thinking about giving it a shot with Old Spice. The Pinaud products are a little overwhelming for me.

How is the scent compared to DBR? Any idea on the ingredients? The closest b&m retailer that might carry both is in downtown Toronto, where only crazy people try to take their motor vehicles.

Originally Posted by ZeroCool

It's like fire in a bottle! Lol good thing I like the sting.

It ain't so bad. As other posters below pointed out, if your razor is sharp it hardly stings at all. It's what I'm using in the summer-although I might buy a different bay rum when I finish the Clubman just to see the difference.

Originally Posted by FiReSTaRT

How is the scent compared to DBR? Any idea on the ingredients?

I find Clubman to be heavy on the cloves compared to Dominica (which has a more natural bay leaf scent). There is no ingredient list on the bottle, but it's basically fragrance with a high volume of alcohol.

Originally Posted by Ryan82

I find Clubman to be heavy on the cloves compared to Dominica (which has a more natural bay leaf scent). There is no ingredient list on the bottle, but it's basically fragrance with a high volume of alcohol.

We'll see.. I ended up ordering it.. Based on their description and my correspondence with Fendrihan, it is supposed to be an actual bay rum.. Worst case scenario I run through it and get DBR next time around.

Update...my technique has improved greatly and now get more of a warm light tingle now. Though it'll let you know if you got any micro cuts that didn't quite appear visually

Even though I didn't shave this morning (growing a 2-day for a shave-test), I tried out the aftershave. Definitely heavy on the cloves but not unpleasantly so, passed the wife test. It's not just alcohol that evaporates easily, there's also a slight moisturizing component to it that I liked. All in all, it's a pass and the default choice next time I need a bay rum fix.

I like and use Pinaud Bay Rum. To me the most important thing is to get the stuff out of the plastic bottles. Maybe its just nose over matter, but I think I can tell a difference after a plastic contained product is placed and aged in glass for a while. And difference here is spelled IMPROVEMENT. I think that this is true for all plastic housed products. I'm sure its true for Pinaud. I've got a bottle of Lilac Vegetal in its original glass container. The LV in the new containers begins to smell like the old stuff after a short ageing in glass. When transfering the PBR to glass bottles, I also add a shot of scentless witch hazel and a couple of shots of scentless glycerin. This combination is as skin soothing as any high end balm that I've tried.