Fragrances question

[kerux]

Hey everyone, new guy here.
When you all buy your colognes, do you also buy your deodorants, bath gels, aftershaves, etc. in the same fragrance?
Do you feel that various fragrances in those products would conflict when worn together?
Do some of you use non-scented aftershaves and deodorants so that your only fragrance is your cologne?
Thanks

 

[Austin]

Hi Lucas and welcome to B&B.

I rarely buy the matching AS for any cologne I buy. I see no need in the expense. I use several AS that have little to no scent. I buy unscented deodorant. The majority of deodorants add a ton of scent that clashes with what I'm wearing.

 

[joshmpdx]

Hi Lucas and welcome to B&B.

I rarely buy the matching AS for any cologne I buy. I see no need in the expense. I use several AS that have little to no scent. I buy unscented deodorant. The majority of deodorants add a ton of scent that clashes with what I'm wearing.

+1

 

[john parker]

On the other hand, I make a point of buying edts with which I can get a matching aftershave splash. But all the aftershaves that I get do have a fragrance; don't personally want the ones that don't. That is just my personal preference; probably comes from the time I used one aftershave splash for the face and for cologne (was broke).

 

[The Knize]

Hi Lucas and welcome to B&B.

I rarely buy the matching AS for any cologne I buy. I see no need in the expense. I use several AS that have little to no scent. I buy unscented deodorant. The majority of deodorants add a ton of scent that clashes with what I'm wearing.

Lucas, let me add my welcome to you, too.

I am pretty much with Austin on this and mayfeel even more strongly about or at least advocate more and more often publicly not trying to match colognes and other, what should we call them, "grooming products."

First, I like to use an enormous number of different scents, or for that matter a rather enormous number of other grooming pruducts. I do not think there is a bathroom or shave den large enough to hold an AS, ASM/B, soap, shampoo, shaving cream, shaving soap, deodorant, and whatever else for every edt I have or am interested in. So if the expense did not stop me, and it does, the space requirements surely would.

Also, I tend to think there are some independent products better than virtually all products of that type made as a part of a line by a scent manufacturer.

And for aftershaves, I like to use an alum bar and rinse it off with aftershave. No way I am going to be using that much Penhaligon's Blenheim Bouquet AS on a regular basis!

It does arguably put me in a delimna on a couple of points, however.

To further explain, I enjoy a wide variety of bath soaps, many of them rather scented (Mysore Sandal, Ogallala bay rum bath and shampoo bar) or I am not sure "scented" is the right word (Grandpa's Pine Tar Soap). I suppose some of these have some staying power, such as the Mysore, that I might correlate to other scents for that particular day, but most really do not have that much scent that lingers. I enjoy lots of scented shaving soaps and creams, but I do not think those scents linger much, especially after I use all the other face products I do.

I use of all things Axe Proximity deodorant in Bergamot or Vetiver "flavors." I have had a heck of a time with deodorants irritating my arm pits and these do not. They have a relatively low level of scent that blends okay with most stuff anyway. I just found out it has been discontinued. I used to use Thai crystal with no scent, which was great until I started to react to it!

I generally use Superior 70 bay rum and/or witch hazels. S 70 is very much bay tree leaf oil and alcohol and has little tenacity. Bay rum that have cinnamon and cloves in them have scents that last longer and could clash, but I much prefer a purer bay rum anyway, and witch hazel has no tenacity.

I find where the rub comes a bit is in aftershave milks and balms. For some reason I seem to have settled on Saint Charles Shaving's Bulgarian Lavender ASM, which has quite a bit of fragrance--pure Bulgarian lavender, which just seems so nice after a shave and after all the bay rum and such. I may be fooling myself into thinking it blends well with scents I am wear, and I could get an unscented version, or a bunch of different scented versions, but for some reason this is the one I reach for and I like how it feels and what it seems to do on my skin. So I am probably not one to ask after all!

I use pomades on my hair along with things like Groom and Clean. Most have some, but not all that much scent. I guess I hope they do not clash, but I do not worry about it usually!

Anyway, I would go insane trying to match other products to the scents I wear. Does MPG even make a Santal Noble shampoo? That probably tells you something right there. Penhaligon's does, of course, make a heck of a shaving cream (and used to a shaving soap) but they do not make one in every scent they sell as cologne, so that may tell you something, too.

 

[djh]

Welcome aboard Lucas. I will join in with the others and say that I very rarely buy a matching suite of products and I try to make sure that my shave soap/after shave/cologne don't clash but they certainly don't have to match. There are plenty of mildly-scented products which can be used with your favourite fragrances to give the desired effect.

 

[StylinLA]

Welcome Lucas.

With some scents that I really like, I will sometimes buy the shower gel or soap. It can help extend the scent a bit. On occasion, I've used matching AS if it's a balm. I'm not a fan of mixing regular AS with and EdT in the same scent. Could be a bit overwhelming.

Like many in this branch of the forum, I have a lot of different scents, and like The Knize said, if you tired to match a whole groooming suite for each different scent, it would get overwhelming.

I tend to favor my Trumpers Skin Food for AS. It's a light and fleeting scent that doesn't conflict with my scent of the day. Always use unscented deoderant. Often use a bar soap best suited to the scent I'll be wearing. i.e. If it's a sandalwood based EdT, I might use a sandalwood soap- but not necessarily one exactly matched to the fragrance.

If you're using cologne, EdT or EdP, it's not all that important to try and match everything. Those strengths usually carry enough of the scent to override the soap, deoderant you use. But I wouldn't mix a scented after shave with a different EdT for the most part.

 

[The Knize]

Sorry to be so long-winded today. But I thought about it a bit and have decided that I am something of a liar!

I think SylinLA and others probably have it closer to correct--and certainly less windy-- than I did, in that I probably to some extent often generally match bath, shaving soap/cream, and scent (cologne/edt). That is, I would probably more likely wear a scent with at least some sandalwood in it after using a sandal wood bathsoap. And I would more likely wear a rose base scent like 88, after shaving with a rose-based shaving cream like Cyril Salter Wild Rose or SCS Damascena Rose shaving soap. And I would more likely used some neutral bath soap or more flowery something, and SCS Bulgarian Lavender shaving cream, if I was going to wear C&S O&C or Azarro as a scent.

So no need, at least for me, to match brand name for brand name among products, but it seems pleasent to match general categories of scents to some extent.

 

[alabamalawyer]

Welcome to B&B! I usually don't buy any aftershave, shower gel, deo, etc to match a particular cologne. I do make an exception if it is a aftershave that I really like. As such, I do have the Arlington aftershave from D.R. Harris as well as the cologne. Usually, like Austin mentioned earlier, I use an unscented aftershave or one with a similar scent (so many options from places like Momma Bear, SCS, TheShaveDen, etc), that I go that route.

 

[Featherweight]

I used to buy Allure Homme eau de toilette and the accompanying hair + shower gel (2 in one).

Although the fragrance of the gel was absolutely amazing, I have to admit to feeling a little cheated on the quality of the gel itself. It always left my skin feeling kind of slimy, like I could never quite get it all washed off. I realized that for the $30 spent on one bottle of Chanel gel, I could have gotten ten bottles of shower gel from a company that actually specializes in shampoo and shower gel - like Old Spice, or Irish Spring - and stepped out of the shower feeling clean, and still smelling really good.

So yeah, it's not worth it to go nuts over a whole line of fragrance stuff IMO. At least not from Chanel.

That said, I do wash with Irish Spring gel and use Irish Spring deodorant, which really goes great with Creed OV & Guerlain vetiver.





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[kerux]

Wow thanks guys, that's really helpful.
I think I'll look for less or non-scented deodorants.
I prefer balms to splashes so I don't think I should have to worry about that.
Soaps and bath gels don't seem to linger and I don't use shampoo because I'm a shaved-head dude.

 

[OldSchoolYoungin]

No, normally I don't. My deodorant is almost always unscented, and as for other smelly stuff, I do try to buy things that complement the cologne.

 

[StylinLA]

I prefer balms to splashes so I don't think I should have to worry about that.

If you only wear a couple of different scents, AND they make a supporting AS balm, you could consider that. The balm's contain enough scent to know it's there, but they're not overwhelming.

If you catch the bug from any of us in here and start broadening your scent collection, you'll need to find unscented balms or lightly scented balms that generally compliment your EdT.

 

[chsreason37]

My deodorant is hardly scented and my AS is unscented. I only worry about cologne for my scent so it never clashes with anything

 

[BladeRunner001]

Hey everyone, new guy here.
When you all buy your colognes, do you also buy your deodorants, bath gels, aftershaves, etc. in the same fragrance?
Do you feel that various fragrances in those products would conflict when worn together?
Do some of you use non-scented aftershaves and deodorants so that your only fragrance is your cologne?
Thanks

Welcome to B&B Kerux

I, personally find that matching all the scents does one or more of the following:

1. Limit your arsenal of scents
2. Limit you from experimenting with various scents
3. Limit you from finding out what works for you and exploring the possibilities

Did I say, it is limiting?!

Get whatever scent you wish. Shower gels, shave cremes/soaps, shampoo scents tend to disappear fast (for the most part).

The last scent is the one that will matter...and that comes from the colognes, AS, or Eau de toilette (or whatever else you may think) of.

In brief, don't limit yourself too much trying to match ALL the scents.

But, then again, that's just my $0.02

Cheers,
Robert