Avon April

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SOTD: Ti68OC, Simpsons Cdore X3, leftover soap and vintage Avon Wild Country.

Vintage WC is wonderful and does have a Clubman - but - better vibe to it. New WC is nice, but has a different color and scent, to me.


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[OkieStubble]

SOTD: Ti68OC, Simpsons Cdore X3, leftover soap and vintage Avon Wild Country.

Vintage WC is wonderful and does have a Clubman - but - better vibe to it. New WC is nice, but has a different color and scent, to me.


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+1. I got some skunks WC from an outside swap meet years ago which was awful. So I bought some modern WC thinking it would be just as good as vintage WC.

It’s not. I just have to make sure the vintage stuff was kept in the sun. I just now, pour the vintage I find in the modern bottle.

Vintage is definitely better to me.

 

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+1. I got some skunks WC from an outside swap meet years ago which was awful. So I bought some modern WC thinking it would be just as good as vintage WC.

It’s not. I just have to make sure the vintage stuff was kept in the sun. I just now, pour the vintage I find in the modern bottle.

Vintage is definitely better to me.

Sunlight, apparently, wrecks the stuff... Not heat. I bought several from the flea market's "other vintage Avon Lady" and hers were kept permanently outside, but covered with a tarp and under a roof. All were fine.

I used to think WC was WC, never touched all these hinky old cars until I ran out of the new bottle.

You can tell them apart if decanted into clear glass (and then protected from sun). New is amber, vintage is Clubman-yellow/gold.


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Avon April SOTD

Omega 11574 boar
Stirling Sandalwood
'53 Super Speed
Personna Red
Spicy ('51 Studebaker)

 

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Avon April SOTD

Simpson Commodore 2
Fine Green Vetiver
'53 Super Speed
Personna Red
Deep Woods (The Rook)

 

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Avon April SOTD

Sem. 830 boar
Stirling Ozark
Timeless Ti68OC
Dorco Prime
Awful, ugly '31 Greyhound Bus of Avon's excellent Everest

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[phelix]

It is ugly to such a degree that it ends up being oddly beautiful in my eyes.

 

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It is ugly to such a degree that it ends up being oddly beautiful in my eyes.

Many collect these funky bottles. They ARE genuine Americana, no matter how tacky. Yet how many - even CAR collectors - would want a 31 Greyhound bus? The stuff within is the treasure, even after decades.



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[Vraad]

Brush: Shavemac synthetic
Soap: L'occitane lavande
Bowl: antique find made by alyson
Razor: Brit Gillette Aristocrat #16
Blade: 1948 Gillette thin
Post: Thayer rose
After: Avon Wild country from a train

 

[sliwolf]

One of my boxes

 

[sliwolf]

Another one , I also have the full chess set with the board and probably another 2 boxes of avon not counting what I have out on display.

 

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Avon April SOTD

Vulfix 2006 pure
PdP 63
'53 Super Speed
Personna Red
Oland (Packard Roadster)

 

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Avon Bravo, in the hippie-dippie 1969 bottle:

And for the unbelievers, I assure you, the aftershave is as good as the day it was made.

Kept for decades in that box!


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Noticed I hadn't used Avon's uber-classic Tai Winds in a while, so.

It's on deck for tomorrow, in the original "Vulcan" bottle. (Polynesian style, really, but not out of place in Cdr. Spock's quarters.)


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Tai Winds compliments Mogno!

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Avon April SOTD

Omega 10066 boar
Mike's Barbershop
'53 Super Speed
Personna Red
Wild Country

 

[Vraad]

Brush: Newly acquired 26mm boar
Soap: Proraso red
Razor: Gillette New LC
Blade: 1948 Gillette thin
Post: Thayer rose
After: Avon wild country

 

[OkieStubble]

Tai Winds compliments Mogno!

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What do you think of Mogno?

 

[FarmerTan]

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Have never seen another one of these.

Me either. What is in it?

 

[OkieStubble]

Razor: Trac II
Cartridge: Wilkinson Sword (final shave of 20)
Brush: Plisson Synthetic
Soap: La Toja
AS Vintage Avon Excalibur Touring Decanter