Ok, so I just picked this up from Meijer's on a whim - haven't used it in >45 years or so.
Will try it tomorrow.
What's your experience with this one?
Will try it tomorrow.
What's your experience with this one?
This. Used it today. May buy another, but may not. Thanks.Scent is ok but disappointing compared to the original. But the skin feel is pretty nice in my opinion
I recognize today's version's smell as the same as what I knew years ago (I only first came to it in the P&G era, however), but I feel quite certain it is noticeably weaker in strength.
I've experienced the vintage and liked that much more. It has a much stronger vanilla/powdery thing going on, is stronger, and lasts far longer. The deodorant/antiperspirant of today seems closer to that version than the current aftershave.
I recognize today's version's smell as the same as what I knew years ago (I only first came to it in the P&G era, however), but I feel quite certain it is noticeably weaker in strength.
I've experienced the vintage and liked that much more. It has a much stronger vanilla/powdery thing going on, is stronger, and lasts far longer. The deodorant/antiperspirant of today seems closer to that version than the current aftershave.
May try that!If I use the new version and want the scent to last longer, I spritz on some of the Walmart OS cologne.
I have noticed many aftershaves have weakened in scent recently. My Mennen Skin Bracer and Aqua Velva Ice Blue are both considerably weaker than the products I purchased a couple years ago.I recognize today's version's smell as the same as what I knew years ago (I only first came to it in the P&G era, however), but I feel quite certain it is noticeably weaker in strength.
I've experienced the vintage and liked that much more. It has a much stronger vanilla/powdery thing going on, is stronger, and lasts far longer. The deodorant/antiperspirant of today seems closer to that version than the current aftershave.
True. In fact, I got flamed by a member here last here for bringing up that claim.I have noticed many aftershaves have weakened in scent recently. My Mennen Skin Bracer and Aqua Velva Ice Blue are both considerably weaker than the products I purchased a couple years ago.
Some people seem to dismiss any opinion statement, even as well-supported or accurately observed as it may be in reality (agreeing with Odysseus here). Not all opinions are equal, nor opinions about opinions - if you ask me (see what I did, there?).True. In fact, I got flamed by a member here last here for bringing up that claim.
With the SB I suffer because I have a 50 year old bottle in my den as well as a 1 year old bottle and those two have very different strengths with an easy side-by-side sniff. I may be comparing my current SB plastic bottle with my 50 year old glass novelty bottle.Some people seem to dismiss any opinion statement, even as well-supported or accurately observed as it may be in reality (agreeing with Odysseus here). Not all opinions are equal, nor opinions about opinions - if you ask me (see what I did, there?).
Maybe some of it has to do with the fact that reviews of shaving products online (esp. on the Large River site) are filled with obviously ignorant claims of things having been changed, or "watered down," or even "fake/knockoff" (the latter being my favorite one at which to eye-roll). Sure, somebody went to all the trouble of manufacturing a fake bottle of a $7 drugstore product.
I've said this already, but I'll go to bat for AV being very different from a decade or two ago when I first used it. It used to fill a room with just a normal amount - on myself and on others. I experienced this at work once. It would trail people in the hallway. Now, I still recognize it as distinctly the same scent profile, but there's something missing - and the strength/power went from a lion to a kitten. OS seems far weaker in strength, too, though to me the scent profile is identical to my first bottle. SB - I just don't know. It seems pretty much the same to me now as it did when I went through my first couple of bottles, but I could be wrong about it - and it could be that my present stock is old enough that I haven't encountered any recent changes yet. Many products were - and this was well-documented and admitted-to publicly - changed some formulas right around 2014 due to new allergy restrictions (seems to me the kind that affect .000001 of the population, etc) and such. Why would these things be different from anything else, though? Sugar changed to corn syrup in drinks, metal to plastic on cars...