Veg

[Zerandise]

I decanted as well. very much changes The Veg

[cryhavoc]

Oh dear. I just received my bottle of VEG. Admittedly, I sort of had the opposite reaction to most. As I removed the cap and prepared to hold back a retch, I breathed deeply of this forbidden elixir. "Mmmm, this smells pretty good!," thought I. That was the point at which I squeezed the bottle a bit too much, causing a bit to splash onto my fingertips. Uh oh. I even waved my hands around frantically to dissipate the alcohol, waiting for this "lovely scent" I'd heard whispered about in tavern corners and railway yards. Instead I got baby powder, cheap floral perfume, and asparagus base notes. Even after washing my hands vigorously with quadruple-milled French soap and purest spring water, my fingertips smell like I've been hugging great-grandma.

This is an actual photo of me testing its aroma for the first time (it was a formidable scent, which stung the nostrils ... not in a good way):
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I love Clubman and I was chosen by Special Reserve. I now have a full bottle (not to be confused with "a whole half-bottle") of Lilac Vegetal available for PIF, gentlemen!


Assuming that forest is full of old women riding atop horses that are relieving themselves and baby powder trees.

Sorry you weren't chosen, but I would be glad to take that wonderful elixir off your hands. As a member of The Chosen I am highly qualified in the worship of THE VEG

[RailroadMan]

Oh dear. I just received my bottle of VEG. Admittedly, I sort of had the opposite reaction to most. As I removed the cap and prepared to hold back a retch, I breathed deeply of this forbidden elixir. "Mmmm, this smells pretty good!," thought I. That was the point at which I squeezed the bottle a bit too much, causing a bit to splash onto my fingertips. Uh oh. I even waved my hands around frantically to dissipate the alcohol, waiting for this "lovely scent" I'd heard whispered about in tavern corners and railway yards. Instead I got baby powder, cheap floral perfume, and asparagus base notes. Even after washing my hands vigorously with quadruple-milled French soap and purest spring water, my fingertips smell like I've been hugging great-grandma.

This is an actual photo of me testing its aroma for the first time (it was a formidable scent, which stung the nostrils ... not in a good way):
Attachment 262318

I love Clubman and I was chosen by Special Reserve. I now have a full bottle (not to be confused with "a whole half-bottle") of Lilac Vegetal available for PIF, gentlemen!


Assuming that forest is full of old women riding atop horses that are relieving themselves and baby powder trees.

Please, PLEASE pick me. I want some. And if you can, a little sample of Special Reserve, I've never seen it in real life.

[Topgumby]

Oh dear. I just received my bottle of VEG. ....Assuming that forest is full of old women riding atop horses that are relieving themselves and baby powder trees.

I loves me some Veg, but I loves me a good anti-Veg rant, too. Well played, sir, well played!

Before you cast it aside, or PIF it, do try decanting to glass, wait awhile, and give it another go. The ways of the Vegetal are dark and mysterious, and many who were first repulsed, return and are born again in a glorious aura of lilacs and manly self confidence.

Some, however, give it a second whirl and are mentally transported straight the incontinence wing of the Daisy Hill Senior Care Home For Habitual Baby Powder Snorters.

One never knows.

[bumbaclart]

I loves me some Veg, but I loves me a good anti-Veg rant, too. Well played, sir, well played!

Haha, I am flattered, sir! I figured I may as well have fun with it.

I will give it a shot with decanting. I didn't actually find the scent offensive so much as it's just not me. I was thinking about it earlier this evening. To me, Special Reserve is the exact opposite of Lilac Vegetal. SR is "dark", it's leathery, it's manly, it has undertones of dead animals and horse sweat.

The Veg on the other hand is "light", it's powdery, it smells like flowers. It reminded me of being crushed amidst a ring of my grandmother's friends at church as a child or some other equally horrific fate. It just didn't smell like me.

I'm not calling the chosen a load of sissies, far from it! But while some are chosen to stroll through the flower gardens of life, sprinkling enchanted baby powder onto wayward passersby, others were chosen to smell like leather and woolen tunics soaked with the sweat of a decade's campaigns or, as I've recently discovered, to liberally splash on the gasoline-and-citrus notes of such Oriental mystery lotions as Mandom and Bravas!



(I'm still having a lot of fun with this, if you couldn't tell )

So! Having said all that, I uttered the sacred acronym "PIF" much too soon. I'm going to give it one more try, after decanting. And I think I'd honestly rather decant most of it to send to people wanting to try it for the first time than simply writing it off and sending it to a veteran who already loves the stuff. I truly appreciate all the advice from the veterans, but isn't PIFing all about helping new people experience new things (in a lot of cases)?

This is far and away my favorite thread. Thank you to everyone for making it so!

[Stanley Alan Taylor]

Playing Words With Friends yesterday, I submitted the word Veg and up popped a message asking if I really wanted to stick in my opponent's head the smell of a powdery lilac plant lost in a horse stable.

[cryhavoc]

Playing Words With Friends yesterday, I submitted the word Veg and up popped a message asking if I really wanted to stick in my opponent's head the smell of a powdery lilac plant lost in a horse stable.

[Tillerman7]

Funny, sad, but funny.

[cb91710]

They should make the Chosen's "names" Veg green in out user info. that way we would instantly know who is a veg man and who isn't (aside from that intoxicating aroma that is...)

Here ya go....

[Tillerman7]

Perhaps we should petition for the moderators of B&B to provide a banner for those of us brave enough to ROCK the VEG. Sort of like the contributors banner etc. LOL

[Viseguy]

The horse manure comparison is new to me. What a welcome change from cat pee!

[California Cajun]

Put the Veg in the refrigerator and put it in a glass bottle and you'll get the intended smell. The plastic bottle gives it a bad rap. It was originally in a glass bottle before they went to plastic to save money.

[Captain H]

You know the smell you notice when your cat has peed on an article of clothing you have on but didnt notice it till you got to work? Thats it in a nutshell hahaha kinda joking here.

When i first got a bottle and sniffed it, it smelled like a freshly peed on urinal puck. My girl did not get that impression from it at all. I wear it occasionally to give it a chance and will keep it. It smells better after it has been applied to the skin.

[Viseguy]

It smells better after it has been applied to the skin.

Unlike cat urine. Or horse manure. (Just guessing here.)

[Tillerman7]

I loves me some Veg, but I loves me a good anti-Veg rant, too. Well played, sir, well played!

Before you cast it aside, or PIF it, do try decanting to glass, wait awhile, and give it another go. The ways of the Vegetal are dark and mysterious, and many who were first repulsed, return and are born again in a glorious aura of lilacs and manly self confidence.

Some, however, give it a second whirl and are mentally transported straight the incontinence wing of the Daisy Hill Senior Care Home For Habitual Baby Powder Snorters.

One never knows.

+1

[Brewshooter]

Okay, I added a bottle to my latest order from West Coast.

[ZackP]

I really gotta try the Veg if I can find some.

[The M]

I suspect a few of our members would give Usain Bolt a run for the money with some Veg spilled at the starting gate.

[sychodelix]

Got my Gary's samples of The Veg today. After hearing all of the horror stories of smelling it, I veerry carefully took a whiff. And it was awesome! I'm sure it smells harsher directly out of the bottle, but it's obvious that decanted it smells divine. I just may have found my go to aftershave.

[luvmysuper]

Got my Gary's samples of The Veg today. After hearing all of the horror stories of smelling it, I veerry carefully took a whiff. And it was awesome! I'm sure it smells harsher directly out of the bottle, but it's obvious that decanted it smells divine. I just may have found my go to aftershave.

Another brilliant man who sees beyond the hyperbole and recognizes divine elixir when he smells it.