Pinaud Clubman Classic Aftershave IS Brut in disguise!!

[Monkeydad]

Picked up some Pinaud Classic Aftershave today. Where I bought it had no sampler so I had to just take the chance. Immediately after opening the bottle I could smell Brut (which I can live without). So I got back to the office carrying my new AS in a little bag and since I work with mostly women, they asked "so what do you have there?". So I proceeded to tell them and even let them smell the AS. There were 5 women, and all said that it's Brut in a different bottle. I'm a little disappointed as I was hoping for a new scent and not something that resembles such a familar AS.

Anyways, just had to rant. I guess the lesson I learned here is if you can't sample it, don't buy it! I guess that eliminates Speick, InnsBruck, Musgo and a alot of others I was wanting to eventually try.

It absolutely is NOT. I have both...they're not the same. I really don't even see how anyone can call them similar...I pick up two entirely different scents.

 

[Featherweight]

well now I'm confused. I thought Brut was a fougere - now watered down to being the Brut 33 mislabeled as regular Brut.

does that mean Clubman is a fougere too?



......

 

[pezdaddy]

If your Clubman is too strong for your liking, you can dilute it with witch hazel or water...though to my nose water changes the scent a little bit.

 

[my19]

Coincidentally, I picked up my first bottle of Clubman this morning at Sally's, and a few days back, tried a splash of Brut from a tester. While I do see some similarities, they're minor and they go in different directions from there. I was surprised at the strength of the Clubman scent at first, but that was only for a few minutes. After that, it was all I remembered as a kid when I went to the barber shop with my dad.

Great stuff, especially for $7.

 

[bladerunner]

The Pinaud CLubman Classic reminds me of Canoe. Avoid the Lilac Vegetal!

 

[Den]

Avoid the Lilac Vegetal!

LOL I'm surprised it took this long for someone to bring that up.

When the name Pinaud is said out loud...the Lilac Vegetal praise/bashing normally starts shortly after.

 

[DunEdinRanger]

I think I've reached a Zen state wear everything smells pretty much like Old Spice.

I fear for your olfactory sense if that includes The Veg.

 

[Niles]

I fear for your olfactory sense if that includes The Veg.

 

[Den]

Wore it again today. I see the difference between this AS and Brut after wearing it for a couple of days. Just took me longer than the rest to see the light. (I still say they're similar)

The staying power of this stuff is amazing!

 

[Topgumby]

I fear for your olfactory sense if that includes The Veg.

Well The Veg does smell like Old Spice, if you mean like Old Spice would smell if you splashed it on while buck naked, then rolled around in the recycle bin behind the funeral home where they dumped the flowers from last week, along with who knows what else, then grabbed a pugil stick and worked yourself up to a battle frenzy, charged down a hundred yard long obstacle course defended by heavily powdered grannies, where at the end, after KOing all the little old ladies and dashing through the resulting clouds of talc and false teeth flying everywhere, you made it to the end and had to slash open a yak's bladder filled with cat pee suspended over your head with a Clauss USMC straight razor while screaming "I ROCK THE VEG!!!".

Not that I've ever dreamed about that, or anything.

 

[California Cajun]

Picked up some Pinaud Classic Aftershave today. Where I bought it had no sampler so I had to just take the chance. Immediately after opening the bottle I could smell Brut (which I can live without). So I got back to the office carrying my new AS in a little bag and since I work with mostly women, they asked "so what do you have there?". So I proceeded to tell them and even let them smell the AS. There were 5 women, and all said that it's Brut in a different bottle. I'm a little disappointed as I was hoping for a new scent and not something that resembles such a familar AS.

Anyways, just had to rant. I guess the lesson I learned here is if you can't sample it, don't buy it! I guess that eliminates Speick, InnsBruck, Musgo and a alot of others I was wanting to eventually try.

We all have to go through experimentation before we narrow down the list to the keepers.

Alt InnsBruck and Musgo are definite keepers for me.

 

[christhach]

Well, it's more like Brut-lite.

More on the florals & lavender, less on the spice.

 

[40boy]

Well The Veg does smell like Old Spice, if you mean like Old Spice would smell if you splashed it on while buck naked, then rolled around in the recycle bin behind the funeral home where they dumped the flowers from last week, along with who knows what else, then grabbed a pugil stick and worked yourself up to a battle frenzy, charged down a hundred yard long obstacle course defended by heavily powdered grannies, where at the end, after KOing all the little old ladies and dashing through the resulting clouds of talc and false teeth flying everywhere, you made it to the end and had to slash open a yak's bladder filled with cat pee suspended over your head with a Clauss USMC straight razor while screaming "I ROCK THE VEG!!!".

Not that I've ever dreamed about that, or anything.

You are a frightening man Topgumby. A frightening man.

 

[jay29]

Well The Veg does smell like Old Spice, if you mean like Old Spice would smell if you splashed it on while buck naked, then rolled around in the recycle bin behind the funeral home where they dumped the flowers from last week, along with who knows what else, then grabbed a pugil stick and worked yourself up to a battle frenzy, charged down a hundred yard long obstacle course defended by heavily powdered grannies, where at the end, after KOing all the little old ladies and dashing through the resulting clouds of talc and false teeth flying everywhere, you made it to the end and had to slash open a yak's bladder filled with cat pee suspended over your head with a Clauss USMC straight razor while screaming "I ROCK THE VEG!!!".

Not that I've ever dreamed about that, or anything.

What a wild a$$ed imagination!

 

[Royall Lyme]

Clubman and Brut are not even in the same league.

Brut just smells cheap and has a "trashy" element to it. Brut is the quintessential 70's "eau de disco" that screams polyester, high heel boots, and madallions upon an exposed hairy chest. I found a bottle of Brut on a campout (WOW...I guess Brut can get you some action even in the woods after a drive-in movie! LMAO...very classy!!) once when I was in the Boy Scouts and we used it as lighter fluid to start a fire. YMMV...but Brut is horrible stuff in my book!!!!

Clubman on the other hand was used in my childhood barbershop. I remember the barber would splash a little on me so I could the get the "works". This stuff sat in the lockeroom of the countryclub that my family had a membership to. Clubman exudes class and gentlemanly tradition. Yes Clubman can "be in your face" but subdue it a bit by applying water to your face first and then slapping some on. Also decant it from the plastic bottle into a glass one. Enjoy your Clubman.

 

[Topgumby]

...I found a bottle of Brut on a campout...

Man, after all these years, I know where I left it!

The nettles made things a little dicey, but ah, those memories....

 

[Topgumby]

Based on this thread, my fondness for the Pinaud Special Reserve, Bay Rum and Lilac Vegetal, I had to fix a pretty gaping hole in my AS experience: I'd never tried regular Clubman. Off to the drugstore I went.

There are some very Brut-ish notes to Clubman. However, it's different enough that it is...different. Yet, like an earlier poster pointed out, they are cousins.

If Brut is the Mr. T starter kit on the hairy chest used car salesman in polyester cousin, Clubman went to a better school and got a nice job in real estate, coaches the local little league and knows enough about style to stay away from the lime green sports coat and plaid pants...but if you put a few drinks in Clubman and over-applied, he'd be yuckin' it up with cousin Brut at the family reunion, leering at the ladies and laughing at Brut's bad jokes.

I get a barbershop vibe that's totally lacking in Brut, but I can see where that first whiff out of the bottle might be Brut-ish enough to send the anybody who dislikes Brut heading for the exists.

It's an interesting scent to a Brut skeptic like me, and I think it will probably grow on me...but I'm not positive.

 

[Swampfox]

Well The Veg does smell like Old Spice, if you mean like Old Spice would smell if you splashed it on while buck naked, then rolled around in the recycle bin behind the funeral home where they dumped the flowers from last week, along with who knows what else, then grabbed a pugil stick and worked yourself up to a battle frenzy, charged down a hundred yard long obstacle course defended by heavily powdered grannies, where at the end, after KOing all the little old ladies and dashing through the resulting clouds of talc and false teeth flying everywhere, you made it to the end and had to slash open a yak's bladder filled with cat pee suspended over your head with a Clauss USMC straight razor while screaming "I ROCK THE VEG!!!".

Not that I've ever dreamed about that, or anything.

Not surprising, this made it in the Classic Quotes thread.

 

[DavyRay]

Well The Veg does smell like Old Spice, if you mean like Old Spice would smell if you splashed it on while buck naked, then rolled around in the recycle bin behind the funeral home where they dumped the flowers from last week, along with who knows what else, then grabbed a pugil stick and worked yourself up to a battle frenzy, charged down a hundred yard long obstacle course defended by heavily powdered grannies, where at the end, after KOing all the little old ladies and dashing through the resulting clouds of talc and false teeth flying everywhere, you made it to the end and had to slash open a yak's bladder filled with cat pee suspended over your head with a Clauss USMC straight razor while screaming "I ROCK THE VEG!!!".

Not that I've ever dreamed about that, or anything.

I thought you were getting a bit 'drama queen' with this, until you mentioned cat pee. You are an authentic American forum poster. Go for it!

 

[DavyRay]

Clubman and Brut are not even in the same league.

Brut just smells cheap and has a "trashy" element to it. Brut is the quintessential 70's "eau de disco" that screams polyester, high heel boots, and madallions upon an exposed hairy chest. I found a bottle of Brut on a campout (WOW...I guess Brut can get you some action even in the woods after a drive-in movie! LMAO...very classy!!) once when I was in the Boy Scouts and we used it as lighter fluid to start a fire. YMMV...but Brut is horrible stuff in my book!!!!

Clubman on the other hand was used in my childhood barbershop. I remember the barber would splash a little on me so I could the get the "works". This stuff sat in the lockeroom of the countryclub that my family had a membership to. Clubman exudes class and gentlemanly tradition. Yes Clubman can "be in your face" but subdue it a bit by applying water to your face first and then slapping some on. Also decant it from the plastic bottle into a glass one. Enjoy your Clubman.

This is bad? Do you really remember the 70s? Most of us do not. That is how we know we were there.