Top 5 Drugstore Aftershaves

[@martynowak5441]

Gentlemen- The Holy Trinity is simply this: Pinaud Clubman, Original Aqua Velva and Skin Bracer! I have recently added La Toja afther shave locion... That's my expensive daily... You cannot beat them. During the summer I freshen up with a splash of Aqua Velva or Skin Bracer! It cools things down quickly and your refreshed and ready to role!!!

[@paulie-Gualtieri.]

I use Clubman Bay Rum, it's great for combing through your hair before styling with hairspray.

[@theclown9293]

Hairspray no good for you Paulie gotta ice Oil Based pomade old school stuff 🤟🏻🇳🇬

[@paulie-Gualtieri.]

@@theclown9293 I use DAX Pomade (Bergamot) too

[@bromunn8102]

That Bay Rum is boss!

[@ScentsOfSouthJersey]

I have that somewhere actually I have just yet to use it lol

[@11ops11]

I love clubman bay rum! Add a few drops of lime essential oil and it smells even better.

[@billyjohnson4092]

I love all clubman after shaves they are great.

[@Grodd70]

Found memories, grand father always wore Old Spice. My father mostly wore Aqua Velva blue, but occasionally Brut, and Skin Bracer. Skin Bracer was always my favorite plus the original glass bottle was cool with the small dot indentations. I also remember an English Leather lime that was very good. As I have gotten older and have a thing for anything classic and old, I tried and love Mauer & Wirtz - Tabac, reminds me somewhat of an Old Spice but with florals, great frag. Excellent review I will be looking for Irish Moos

[@ScentsOfSouthJersey]

Tabac is fantastic I love the edt, prefer it over the edc. And Irisch moos is also excellent

[@ferbeybill]

My first scent in the 70's when I was 17 was Jōvan Musk, so many compliments! Others early on were Jōvan Sex Appeal, Mäurer & Wirtz - Tabac, Brut, Royal Copenhagen, Kanon and Stetson. I also had a "three pack" that contained English Leather, Wind Drift and Lime. Great content!

[@ScentsOfSouthJersey]

Kanon lol I have kanon pour Homme it’s interesting lol

[@justaddlight]

Skin Bracer probably inspired Le Male with that mint-lavender-vanilla combo. 😄 My fav aftershave for years and years before I started using lotions. Very sweet though compared to some of the other offerings out there.

[@ScentsOfSouthJersey]

It still smells old school drug store though for sure and not as heavy as le male but I vs. see what you mean

[@winnienguyen4420]

Gillette Cool Wave seems to have a slight similarity to Aventus as my husband exclusively uses that one before using his Aventus. With fragrances like Cool Water, Polo Sport, or Versace Dylan blue he uses Aqua Velva Ice Sport because it has a strong resemblance to those fragrances as well.

[@karlsenula9495]

Wasn't there an old Old Spice commercial that went "If you Dad didn't wear Old Spice you wouldn't have been born" or something along those lines?

[@marcinkwiatkowski9176]

Cool Wave is just amazing AS. It's just surprisingly long lasting, and is like AS version of Drakkar Noir. Very good.

[@kevindonovan1194]

Good choices...Clubman is pretty good during the summer.

[@billyjohnson4092]

If you like Gillette cool wave, try that little blue bottle of Gillette aftershave gel it's the same sent but a little lighter and way less expensive. Cool wave has become Gillettes signature sent and it's awesome.

[@jeremyt2212]

I actually picked up an amazing tip from a random reviewer on Amazon. For all the guys who complain that Old Spice doesn't smell like it used to, that they've dialed down the spice and made it so sweet now, search for "Original" Old Spice, rather than "Classic" Old Spice. Everyone agrees that it still smells just like it used to. It still comes in the bright white glass bottle, rather than the current one in the cream-colored plastic bottle. It costs twice as much, bringing it up to a whopping $12, and it's made in Italy. I now have both and I have to agree, there really is a difference.

[@shave-a-thon3415]

The "Original" Old Spice that's made in Europe for P&G isn't officially sold in the USA. Most of the members of the Badger&Blade shaving forum think it's about the same as the USA classic version. I'd like to try the European edt version and compare it to the USA cologne version. Have you tried the Old Spice that's made in India? The original from India along with Old Spice Lime may be a bit closer to the Shulton version, but since Shulton licensee Menezes' license expired about a decade ago, P&G licensed it to Rubicon and their version lost something. The Old Spice Lime from India is excellent, though.

[@jeremyt2212]

@@shave-a-thon3415 Very interesting, I didn't know that I'll definitely start looking out for those two versions. I can't help it, for such a cheapie, I have a very nostalgic connection to Old Spice. I haven't gotten to try the EDT, either, but I'd love to.

[@ScentsOfSouthJersey]

I might check that one out eventually

[@will6509]

Fine American Blend aftershave is amazing. I’m really into wet shaving as I went to a Catholic high school too. Where I learned that cartridge razors don’t work for me.

[@ScentsOfSouthJersey]

Oh see I don’t bother with the wet shaving straight razor, to much time and more shit I need to buy lol I love the Gillette fusion 5 blade. AB by Fine accoutrements is awesome though I agree I have the aftershave, balm and edt

[@tedolphbundler724]

The Fine aftershaves do not have any skin conditioners.

[@Poeme340]

Enjoy your reviews of the less expensive frags/aftershaves many of which still, unexpectedly, get compliments.👍

[@davidhill3939]

Subscribed. Great content!

[@ScentsOfSouthJersey]

Thank you David !

[@carlanderson08]

I´m german and Irisch Moos (After Shave and EdT) was the scent of my grandpa. I just love this fragrance and nowadays it´s my jam.

[@ScentsOfSouthJersey]

It’s so good I need to get another edt because I’m like half way done lol the after shave is a bigger bottle

[@dipdip8]

I love Skin Bracer in the summer! I wish someone made an edt of it as I'd wear the heck out of it because it smells really awesome but lasts like 1h max on me.

[@ScentsOfSouthJersey]

That would be cool if they made and edt of it

[@amunra_]

spray it on clothes! it lasts way longer.

[@aginacarlo]

.. I see you remembered Pasteur Pharmacy... I sent you (Knize Ten) which I originally purchased from Pasteur over two years ago. I've purchased Irische Moos from Canadian website. I think it's great stuff!!

[@michaelbullock8011]

Great aftershave video and I enjoyed it and I like old spice and skin bracer and pinaud clubman and I'm going to try the other aftershaves and have a blessed day

[@ScentsOfSouthJersey]

Thank you for stopping by as always Michael appreciate you !

[@michaelbullock8011]

You welcome keep up the good work and thank you very much

[@JohmathanBSwift]

Will look for Sir Irisch Moos. Thank you.

[@dannytetreault]

Neat video! I’ve heard of Old Spice and Clubman. None of the rest! DannyFragrance #oldschool #classicmasculine

[@Somnus88]

Awesome that you tried out that Cool Wave. Description is spot on. Sporty, Metallic, Drakkar-esque without being generic shower gel.

[@ScentsOfSouthJersey]

That’s exactly what I thought too, it’s good stuff

[@winnienguyen4420]

I can see the Drakkar similarities but I even smell a slight resemblance to Aventus. My husband started using it before he sprays Aventus now.

[@patbarron0]

I love Cool Wave, though I don't use it much these days because I've been wearing more of other types of fragrances and I don't want them to clash. But on days when I'm not wearing some other fragrance, it's my go-to!

[@demonstructie]

Cool list, love Clubman and Irisch Moos. My favorite is Fresh Up, don't know about availability around the world but definitely worth a try if you can find it. The Gillette one I'm not about to try after that man hating ad they did, I'm not supporting that company lol

[@ScentsOfSouthJersey]

Not aware of this advertisement but I will look up “fresh up” and see what it’s like. Thank you for watching and commenting sir

[@demonstructie]

@@ScentsOfSouthJersey it's a classic and sooo clean. The 'cushion' applicator is interesting too. If you can't get it there and _really_ want to try it, I could help you source a bottle - it's readily available and quite affordable where I am, just kinda hurts to pay double the price of the product for shipping! 😅

[@eriksturdevant6857]

Aqua Velva Musk a fave...but it annihilates rooms on my skin. Great vid!

[@shave-a-thon3415]

I was surprised when he said it wasn't overwhelming. Did they reformulate it? My 2016 bottle of Aqua Velva Musk is stronger than some edt's. That thing projects for at least 2 hours.

[@eriksturdevant6857]

@@shave-a-thon3415 Same!👍

[@ScentsOfSouthJersey]

Yeah I dumped it on myself one day and by the time I was at work it was very light smelling

[@eriksturdevant6857]

@@ScentsOfSouthJersey 👍

[@daviddixon2209]

My stepdad used Skin Bracer. I often use it as an aftershave when I wear Georgio Beverley Hills and Mennen Speed Stick deodorant. I get more compliments from women in this layer combo than you'd believe.

[@shave-a-thon3415]

The vintage Giorgio for Men by Giorgio of Beverly HIlls was one of the strongest men's fragrances ever made. It was an oakmoss bomb. The current version is strong but it can't light up a room with one spray like the 1980's version did!

[@dipdip8]

@@shave-a-thon3415 I got Giorgio last week and my batch was produced just a month ago, I'm 26 but I love this stuff but sadly it projects for like 30 minutes then becomes a skin scent and the longevity is like 4 hours max, super dissapointing. I'll have to find a vintage bottle online because I really want to experience Giorgio the way it was meant to.

[@ScentsOfSouthJersey]

Giorgio for men is amazing I have a vintage edt and aftershave

[@brysctt72]

I still use Gillette cool wave . Back in the 90s there was also a Gillette in a green bottle but it was discontinued.

[@ScentsOfSouthJersey]

What was the name ?

[@brysctt72]

@@ScentsOfSouthJersey I can’t remember but the bottle looked just like the cool wave bottle but green

[@Scentsory_15]

It’s Gillette Wild Rain. You can still get the green deodorant here in Massachusetts.

[@robertkerr9527]

sir Irische Moos is readily available here in Switzerland. The clove and oak moss stand out the most to me. A very fresh green scent as you said. it pairs nicely 👌 with Paco Rabanne Por Homme. I rend to use S.I. Moos more in the warmer months and classic Denim in the cooler 😎 weather. I'm of fan of aldehydes, but my wife not. I also grew up having British Sterling in the 60s and 70s which I enjoyed. But shipping and import taxes are just too high these days 🙄. Great review as usual brother. As born and bred New Yorker I love your style.

[@ScentsOfSouthJersey]

Thanks so much for watching and commenting sir ! All those mentioned are absolute classics !

[@timshull59]

Ive got 6 of those 7 but Im an old guy so it kinda figures. British Sterling was go to back in high school. Good video man!

[@shave-a-thon3415]

I hope he reads these comments. He said his vintage bottle was made in Florida. Dana bought it from Mem which was located in New Jersey. I wonder if he has the original Speidel version of British Sterling before they sold it to Mem.

[@timshull59]

@@shave-a-thon3415 Ive got a vintage bottle of the cologne but the top note is starting to turn bad... And Have a bottle the Dana aftershave it is seems pretty close to the original. Another old school after shave I like is Florida Water.

[@ScentsOfSouthJersey]

I love British Sterling regardless of the formulation

[@Steve-vl9ed]

Traveled extensively to Japan in the 80s and 90s. Given a sample of Shisedo’s Auslese aftershave on a JAL flight and was hooked. Available at every drug store in Tokyo, but real hard to find in the US. Would buy multiple bottles, and still working on my private reserve. Can find on EBay, but must pay a premium. Great stuff!

[@perfumes_a_mi_manera]

A couple of Spanish after shave that I use: - Floid Mentolado Vigoroso - La Toja afther shave locion - Masaje Varón Dandy

[@shave-a-thon3415]

Floid Mentolado Vigoroso is my go to when I need a very close shave after about a 3 to 4 day growth. Floid "The Genuine" is very close if not the same thing. Floid was purchased by the owners of Proraso recently.

[@perfumes_a_mi_manera]

@@shave-a-thon3415 I heard about that purchase and that they had changed the formulation of Floid, which now became "the genuine" or something like that. When I smelled the new version it seemed much weaker, but I have not tried it on my skin.

[@shave-a-thon3415]

@@perfumes_a_mi_manera Proraso's Red (sandalwood) aftershave is great, too.

[@ScentsOfSouthJersey]

I have to look into those, thanks for watching dude !

[@tedolphbundler724]

@@shave-a-thon3415 Floid is very similar to Clubman Classic but with menthol added.

[@ROCKGRINDER12]

I remember "Skin Bracer" (Menem) in the old times, it was my father's most used aftershave (I think one was menthol and the other one was green-spicy) and with Brut, we took a big splash after a shave ............ the Skin Bracer aftershave was great and potent back on the day ............ and I had before the Guillette cool water aftershave, it was very good aftershave, the scent lasts a very long time but I haven't used recently so I guess it has changed by now. I think you skipped Demin's original aftershave, it was and still is a great aftershave that for the price nobody can complain about.

[@ps6474]

Hello and good review of the drugstore aftershaves. So, I came across your video, because I''m trying to remember an old aftershave/cologne that was sold in drugstores and Albertson''s supermarket back the 80''s and before. I was simply curious to recall it and see the bottle for the memory, it was one my uncle loved and It happened to cross my mind , I use to buy it for him since they didn''t sell it in Europe, but I''ve googled non-stop and can''t seem to find it, if I''m not mistaken it came in a plastic bottle and the bottle was brown or black and possibly started with an S, but not sure about the letter part.

[@karl8190]

Speick is a really fresh, nice scent. I only have the deo stick, but I gather that the AS is the same scent, the aroma would really work well for that purpose. Apparently it contains some aromatic herb from the Alps.

[@shave-a-thon3415]

I just used the search function and couldn't find any reviews for English Leather! That was a drugstore brand at one time and the first cologne I've ever purchased. While the current Dana version isn't close in strength to the original Mem version, the general scent is there. You could do 10 minutes on just the ad campaigns over the years! There were several variations including a delicious smelling shaving cream. I also think there was a shaving soap at one time. You can pick up the aftershave and cologne from Fragrancenet and there are plenty of vintage ones for sale on Ebay.

[@ScentsOfSouthJersey]

I have an English leather gift set from fragrancenet and it smells like urine I can’t wear it

[@shave-a-thon3415]

@@ScentsOfSouthJersey Gift set? Is that the one with the balm and another tube? That's pretty old. It might have gone bad. Dana stopped producing English Leather a few years ago and those sets were possibly manufactured a few years before that. I think the bottle in that set was also weaker than the aftershave. Dana started producing it again about 2 years ago. Try the current cologne and compare it against a vintage Mem version. There are plenty on Ebay.

[@tedolphbundler724]

It's not an aftershave. It is a cologne.

[@shave-a-thon3415]

@@tedolphbundler724 English Leather is released in both cologne and aftershave versions. Even when Mem owned the company when I first started wearing it 50 years ago, there was a cologne and aftershave version. The musk cologne and musk shaving cream were great, too!

[@Davis.Official]

I was really surprised by addidas dynamic pulse has the olskool fougere vibe with a modern touch I bought that and the the cologne to match and was let down a lil because the aftershave lasts longer than the edt

[@ScentsOfSouthJersey]

Active bodies ? Or dynamic pulse ?

[@Davis.Official]

@@ScentsOfSouthJersey dynamic pulse but I have active bodies too

[@blainetrahan8883]

I took me a while to get into aftershaves. But I’ve smelled all of them.

[@shave-a-thon3415]

Have you tried the Clubman Reserve aftershaves? There are 6 of them, all with boozy notes.

[@bromunn8102]

@@shave-a-thon3415 I haven't but they sound great. I love a boozy note.

[@blainetrahan8883]

@@shave-a-thon3415 yes. I actually have a bottle. My brother in law is a barber and that’s what he sprays on people after he give you a cut.

[@shave-a-thon3415]

@@blainetrahan8883 A bottle of what?

[@blainetrahan8883]

@@shave-a-thon3415 clubman reserve

[@Somnus88]

I have found that the ladies like Skin Bracer. One girl told me it reminded her of sugar cookies.

[@jlmcgrot]

I've been told the same.

[@ScentsOfSouthJersey]

I don’t get the sugar cookies scent but the smell is awesome regardless

[@blake2517]

Nice review! Any frags remind you of Barbasol shave cream?

[@ScentsOfSouthJersey]

Rive gauche of course, Drakkar noir, azzaro pour Homme to name a few

[@sportybaeza2407]

Skin bracer was my go to after shave for many years, but recently I’ve been using Stetson cooling moisture.

[@shave-a-thon3415]

Mennen has a few aftershaves in France manufactured in glass bottles as the brand is owned by L'Oreal there. Here in the USA, we're stuck with the old one in the cheap plastic bottle.

[@ScentsOfSouthJersey]

Can’t go wrong with skin bracer !

[@shave-a-thon3415]

@@ScentsOfSouthJersey Especially if you can find the French versions! They also have balm shaving sticks there.

[@theo2z1z94]

I sport a beard so I miss out on the aftershave stuff unfortunately ( I remember when I shaved finding some real nice strong bright clean fresh unique scents) but I really wanna try Aqua Velva because (if I remember correctly) Danny Davio got it as a gift in the movie Twins and tossed it in the trash and I wanna see if it was really as bad as he thought. I don't remember which Aqua Velva it was.

[@ScentsOfSouthJersey]

Hahah twins lol Arnold !

[@theo2z1z94]

@@ScentsOfSouthJersey 😆

[@winnienguyen4420]

Aqua Velva Ice Sport is the most pleasant. Similar to Cool Water or Polo Sport

[@andresnatalino584]

TABAC!

[@ScentsOfSouthJersey]

Easily could have made this list I love the stuff !

[@georgeohwell7988]

Before I watch the video I'm going for Denim, go on.. make my day....😉

[@ScentsOfSouthJersey]

That one is hard to find in the USA now unfortunately I thought about adding it though but I recently talked about that one and have a full review

[@georgeohwell7988]

@@ScentsOfSouthJersey And a damn good review it is too....😉

[@tedolphbundler724]

Ladies like Clubman. Also conditions the skin without being greasy.

[@JesusChrist5000]

The best and simultaneously least expensive in the drugstore is Aqua Velva musk

[@ScentsOfSouthJersey]

It does smell great, a few others were saying it lasts a long time, for me, that bottle at least does not last long on me

[@winnienguyen4420]

The Ice Sport is a bit more pleasant. Similar to Cool Water or Polo Sport.

[@stevecinneide8183]

Where do you buy your shirts?

[@DanielMedina924]

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[@ScentsOfSouthJersey]

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