C&S Oxford & Cambridge

[jeasley]

Just dabbed a little of this on the top of my hand.....yum.....great stuff!

It's getting even better as it's drying down!!!!

Classy!

[jeasley]

Just dabbed a little of this on the top of my hand.....yum.....great stuff!

It's getting even better as it's drying down!!!!

Classy!

this is making me want to go out and get some QED Lavender SS.....or some Taylor's Lavender cream......or some T&H SS....... ......you get the picture!

[thechief]

Castle Forbes' Lavender is a great starting point for this combo.

[jeasley]

Castle Forbes' Lavender is a great starting point for this combo.

How could I forget the Forbes?????

[Greyfox]

Oxford and Cambridge just did not do it for me. Great scent but it did not last an hour on me. For this kind of money it should be much better IMHO. YMMV of course but for lavender I think there is much better value out there.

[Evbo]

Oxford and Cambridge just did not do it for me. Great scent but it did not last an hour on me. For this kind of money it should be much better IMHO. YMMV of course but for lavender I think there is much better value out there.

See, that's what's so funny. I have exactly the opposite experience. The stuff lasts ALL day on me into the evening -- I can even smell it the next morning. And I use the AS, not the cologne!

[juja]

a medicinal lavender for me

[theperfectstorm]

See, that's what's so funny. I have exactly the opposite experience. The stuff lasts ALL day on me into the evening -- I can even smell it the next morning. And I use the AS, not the cologne!

Same here.

I have to mention that while most people get the lavender in spades, some of us seem to bring out the mint more. I did a test on several people at school and some wore it very lavender and some, myself included, really projected the mint.

[Semi-Constant Gardener]

I recently received samples of all the C&S scents (just go to their webpage, and click on "samples" in the top bar.) In general, I find that these juices must absolutely be worn in order to fully appreciate them -- a whiff on a paper card or a sniff of an open sample decant just does not do them justice. Chandler Burr reported something interesting in his book "The Perfect Scent." In it, he notes that the perfume houses are now formulating their scents so that they smell good on the paper card, because that's how people are judging scents. As we all know, colognes smell quite differently as they dry down on our skin.
I appreciate lavender in any formulation because of its clean, herbal quality. In the C&S rendition, their is a very earthy quality to athe Oxford and Cambridge scent -- reminds me of working in my garden pulling weeds from around a lavender plant. I am undecided if I like it well enough to purchase. I am thinking that the C&S scents all require repeated wearings to fully apprecitate their complexity. I love the #88, and do plan on buying it at some point (perhaps to mark the completion of my divorce proceedings ).