Matching shaving creme and after shave scents?

[Eeyore]

My usual combination is Palmolive creme, or De Vergulde Hand soap, and Nivea Sensitive after shave. The Palmolive has a pretty neutral scent, that doesn't conflict with the after shave.

A friend gave me a sample of TOBS Jermyn Street, which has its own refined scent. Do you match your after shave with the shaving creme? Or use an odorless after shave (does that exist?) when using a scented creme or soap?

Thanks!

 

[Prof. Moriarty]

I match Esbjerg Grapefruit shaving cream and aftershave gel. Aside that I normally use Guinot aftershave balm and sometimes Floid Blue, regardless of soap/cream/croap used.

 

[michiganlover]

The scent of most shaving cream, and shaving soap is gone once you rinse your face with water. The scent is very short lived.

I therefore find attempts at matching your aftershave with your shaving cream/ soap to be a big money waster.

 

[Daiku]

VDH and Grey Flannel would work!

 

[Eeyore]

The scent of most shaving cream, and shaving soap is gone once you rinse your face with water. The scent is very short lived.

Thanks! That probably answers my question.

 

[John Von Wuggz]

I match the Jermyn St cream with the same scent of soap, AS, and cologne.

 

[patrickthebassbash]

I have some Pinaud Clubman Shave Cream that I like to occasionally pair with Clubman Aftershave or something similar.

 

[Wingnut]

The scent of most shaving cream, and shaving soap is gone once you rinse your face with water. The scent is very short lived.

I therefore find attempts at matching your aftershave with your shaving cream/ soap to be a big money waster.

+1 to this. Feel free, but it's certainly far from necessary.

 

[Emanon]

The scent of most shaving cream, and shaving soap is gone once you rinse your face with water. The scent is very short lived.

I therefore find attempts at matching your aftershave with your shaving cream/ soap to be a big money waster.

+1

Shave Soaps, shave creams, bath and shower soaps....gone by the time you rinse and too weak to matter even if they lasted. I don't even consider them.

 

[TheVez2]

The scent of most shaving cream, and shaving soap is gone once you rinse your face with water. The scent is very short lived.

I therefore find attempts at matching your aftershave with your shaving cream/ soap to be a big money waster.

Concur. I choose all my software on the fly. I rarely "plan" a shave in advance. Once I get to the sink, I pick whatever soap/cream strikes me at that moment. Once I'm done shaving, I apply witch hazel. Once that dries, there is rarely any scent left hanging around. So I them look at my aftershaves and grab whatever stikes me at that moment.

 

[Emanon]

Concur. I choose all my software on the fly. I rarely "plan" a shave in advance. Once I get to the sink, I pick whatever soap/cream strikes me at that moment. Once I'm done shaving, I apply witch hazel. Once that dries, there is rarely any scent left hanging around. So I them look at my aftershaves and grab whatever stikes me at that moment.

Ha ha, come to think of it there are a lot of different scents going on in my bathroom during shower and shave.
Whatever sower soap I happen to be using. The shave cream of choice for that day on my headshave. Then my shave soap which could be Mike's barbershop, or Lime or perhaps A sandlewood scent. Eucalyptus when I was using Proraso cream...whatever. Then there comes the Thayers witch hazel "lavender." My aftershave is picked by whatever I feel that day and has nothing to do with anything but that moment. Not what I did few seconds before.

 

[mistercitizen]

I try to stay in the same ballpark of scents. Lavender scents for both creams and aftershaves are pretty common so those are easy. I have alot of the matching aftershaves for the creams made by the same manufacturer.... but I don't always adhere to that. I'm not afraid to mix it up. TOBS Jermyn St. in particular is one that I don't particularly like how the aftershave performs, so alot of the time I will use Proraso aftershave splash with the Jermyn St. cream. They're pretty similar IMO.

Ben