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I'm not one that digs store brand knock-offs of already bargained priced brands. I don't understand the point of buying a 1.99 plastic bottle of fake Aqua Velva when there's a giant glass bottle on the shelf next to it for a dollar more. I've smelled them all, and for the most part they all pale in comparison to their slightly more expensive big brothers.
Having said that, I've been using the generic Old Spice for years. It's hard to miss; unlike real Old Spice it doesn't come boxed, and it has a prominent buoy shaped plastic bottle with embossed nautical motifs on both sides of the neck. I used to get it at Dollar General, who stopped carrying it in favor of the Barbasol line a couple of years back. I now get it at Family Dollar, but I suspect it's available at similar stores around the country. The front label reads Spice Aftershave with a logo of something called Ivy Club. I don't know if this is supposed to be a brand name or what but it's distributed by the Vi-Jon company of St. Louis.
The scent is of vintage Old Spice, not that pretender to the throne that Proctor and Gamble currently label as such. Nope, this is more akin to Schulton brand OS. It doesn't smell cheap at all, and most people would not guess that it's not genuine OS. FWIW, I can not wear genuine new stock Old Spice without smelling like what my girlfriend terms "a dirty old man". She positively loves this brand, though, and I've had no complaints- only compliments.
The only discernible difference I can note between this and regular OS is that this brand smells like it has more alcohol to it out of the bottle, but this may have to do with the overall more subdued scent in general. I can spot no difference in alcohol once it goes on the skin, its burn is no more or no less than what you would expect form real OS. The moisturizing quality is on the lower end of the spectrum. The scent doesn't last as long as genuine OS either; an hour or so, at best, is what you're looking at.
For 1.50 you can't go wrong. Try some today. If you perish the thought of having such a cheap aftershave in your shave den, transfer it to an old glass bottle of the Schulton brand. Besides, now that genuine Old Spice has gone all plastic, what's to stop you from branching out?
Having said that, I've been using the generic Old Spice for years. It's hard to miss; unlike real Old Spice it doesn't come boxed, and it has a prominent buoy shaped plastic bottle with embossed nautical motifs on both sides of the neck. I used to get it at Dollar General, who stopped carrying it in favor of the Barbasol line a couple of years back. I now get it at Family Dollar, but I suspect it's available at similar stores around the country. The front label reads Spice Aftershave with a logo of something called Ivy Club. I don't know if this is supposed to be a brand name or what but it's distributed by the Vi-Jon company of St. Louis.
The scent is of vintage Old Spice, not that pretender to the throne that Proctor and Gamble currently label as such. Nope, this is more akin to Schulton brand OS. It doesn't smell cheap at all, and most people would not guess that it's not genuine OS. FWIW, I can not wear genuine new stock Old Spice without smelling like what my girlfriend terms "a dirty old man". She positively loves this brand, though, and I've had no complaints- only compliments.
The only discernible difference I can note between this and regular OS is that this brand smells like it has more alcohol to it out of the bottle, but this may have to do with the overall more subdued scent in general. I can spot no difference in alcohol once it goes on the skin, its burn is no more or no less than what you would expect form real OS. The moisturizing quality is on the lower end of the spectrum. The scent doesn't last as long as genuine OS either; an hour or so, at best, is what you're looking at.
For 1.50 you can't go wrong. Try some today. If you perish the thought of having such a cheap aftershave in your shave den, transfer it to an old glass bottle of the Schulton brand. Besides, now that genuine Old Spice has gone all plastic, what's to stop you from branching out?
