11/25/21

Master Witch Hazel (Master Well Comb)

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The search for a superior witch hazel continues, and I may have found it. It's funny to consider how public opinion changes. When I sta...
11/20/21

Candie's Men (Iconix Brand Group)

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A Candie's Shoe Ad from the 1990s This stuff was everywhere when I was a teenager, yet it seemed to vanish with my teenage years, and h...
11/6/21

Joy (Jean Patou)

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The celerity with which a forty year-old vintage of Jean Patou's Joy develops on skin makes a hangry adult Cheetah seem laggard by compa...
9/20/21

Clubman Country Club Shampoo (Pinaud)

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When it comes to shampoo, people are scornful . I'm guilty of it, my derision aimed at the cheap work perfumers must offer shampoo maker...
9/1/21

Stephan Lilac Fragrant Skin Toner (Stephan)

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I tend to approach barbershop  products with love. I'm won over by their shabby and unpretentious looks, their schlubby labels, and thei...
8/21/21

17 Oud Mosaic (Banana Republic)

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It's August, and autumn is right around the corner here in the stormy and muggy Northeast. Although I'm growing ever fonder of barb...
8/8/21

Eau de Quinine (Pinaud)

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British Colonial Soldiers, early 1900s I'd like to get this out of the way first: Pinaud's hair tonics are not meant to provide hol...
8/1/21

Let's Keep the Terms "Designer" and "Niche"

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A few years ago, Youtuber Daver of Fragrance Bros. fame posted a thought-provoking video in which he proposed retiring and replacing the te...
7/16/21

Salvatore Ferragamo Pour Homme and Yet Another Irrefutably Clear-Cut Account of In-Bottle Maceration

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The thing that interests me most  about Salvatore Ferragamo Pour Homme is that it's a nineties fragrance that was issued in 1999, almost...
7/1/21

ck One (Calvin Klein)

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Beautiful Ad, Beautiful Frag It might surprise you to read  that I consider ck One a great fragrance. I flirted with it throughout the ninet...
6/22/21

Post-Pandemic Update: Stuff I've Been Into

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My Chinese knock-off of a brass Victorian mantle clock, cherub intact So it looks like this pandemic  is finally winding down. I've been...