Recomendations for a shaving soap/creme with a nice masculine scent?

[Nxspam]

Hi Guys,

I'm a newbie wet shaver using a DE right now and Taylors sandlewood shaving soap. I have some spare time tomorrow to visit a barber's salon and shop not too far from where I live.

They seem to have a wide range of popular british products like: Geo Trumper, Truefitt, Taylors, Dermalogica, Gentleman's Groom Room, D.R. Harris and Edwin Jagger.

I'm looking for post shave balm, maybe an oil, and a new soap. I just want something masculine - as in not too flowery. I doubt I'll be able to unpack and smell everything they have, so I'm looking for help from my razor brothers

-Nick

 

[Pebcak]

I guess this is going to depend on what you consider a manly smell. The GF smelled Tabac when I first got it and went "ohhh that's manly, I like it" While other people feel that while the shave you get from Tabac is excellent it needs to be aired out in your garage for a month before being allowed inside. T&Hs Grafton I find very nice and lets be honest is there anything more manly than Old Spice?

 

[Mad Man]

Just sniff test and buy what you like. If they won't let you smell it go elsewhere. Fragrance is personal.

 

[Vivasanti]

Tabac

 

[Rattbones]

To me Mr Taylor is about as about as masculine as they come. But masculine is subjective. I also like Musgo Real as a masculine sent, they have bar soap (i use most days), as well as O Melhor.

 

[Mrtoadzwildride]

Mwf

 

[Elder Scrolls]

Tabac

Second that

 

[daccpa]

Love Tabac also and while your there check out DRH Marlborough.

 

[Snidely]

I'm a big bay rum fan. It's a traditional barber shop smell. My wife likes the bay rum smell a lot, and finds it manly. Ogallala makes a line of inexpensive bay rum soap in pucks and sticks. Nice, slick lather. Nice smell. Gets my vote.

 

[The Kiwi]

I'm a big bay rum fan. It's a traditional barber shop smell. My wife likes the bay rum smell a lot, and finds it manly. Ogallala makes a line of inexpensive bay rum soap in pucks and sticks. Nice, slick lather. Nice smell. Gets my vote.

The two scents I most associate in my own mind as "male territory" smells are Clubman aftershave and Bay Rum, but there's not been a cream or soap in the fixed-income, limited budget price zone, that I've personally owned, that had a matching scent. I like whatever scent that Cella has ("almond", perhaps) -- it smells "male" to me.

 

[Jayk]

+1 on the DR Harris Marlborough great manly scent, perfect for cooler weather.

 

[Mick]

Tabac
Crabtree & Evelyn Nomad

 

[Nxspam]

Thanks. Looks like a thumbs up for Malborough, Bay Rum and Tabac. I don't think I can get the Bay rum. They have the Malborough, and the tabac should be easy enough to find elsewhere.

Cheers.
nick

 

[tacchini]

i dont know about masculine, but i was checking out some soaps yesterday and came across aramis shaving soap, now i was trying think of what the smell reminded me of, i think it was the stench of the drunks in some of the rougher pubs in my area, realy woefull smell, it might be a slick shaver but the smell, on a lighter note erasmic shaving soap has a nice clean old school smell.

 

[Nxspam]

Just discovered that both Trumper and Taylor have some Bay Rum products. Thanks again.
Hej tacchini, I remember Aramis! You're going back a few years there.

 

[CB1]

I just used MW Cedar and Sage a couple times over the weekend. I thought that was pretty woodsy/manly. I think I'll use that before I depart to go camping next week!

 

[PugslyCat]

I'm a big fan of Mama Bear Soaps. She has Aged Spice (Old Spice type scent), bay rum, and one she calls Ye Olde Barber Shoppe. I haven't tried the last of those, yet, but it gets a lot of love around here.

 

[tacchini]

Just discovered that both Trumper and Taylor have some Bay Rum products. Thanks again.
Hej tacchini, I remember Aramis! You're going back a few years there.

the aramis after shave was not too bad in the 80s, thats why when i saw the shaving soap at £15 for 2 pucks i thought thats not bad, got one out of the box to have a whif , it was not like the aftershave, a brutal smelling soap.

 

[pipskicks]

Portman square, Notting hill I never see mentioned and I think it's a really nice masculine scent, works great too! I guess it is all subjective though.

 

[wuluf]

AOS sandalwood or Truefit sandalwood. OK, i like sandalwood....