After a response by Bhugo to a thread of mine, I decided he was right; I'm going to try the Veg sometime. Might as well be now.
When I got home last night, I had a box waiting for me with three items inside: TOBS Mr. Taylor talc, TOBS peppermint shaving cream, and the one I was anticipating...A big green bottle of Lilac Vegetal.
I've gone on record already, in my short time here, saying I'm not a huge fan of Pinaud Clubman (or Canoe). I have lurked here for a long time, and read threads about cats peeing on corpses, old ladies covered in old garbage, and the lingering smell of death all having odors preferable to this stuff.
I bought this bottle just to prove to myself that I don't ever need to think about it again. I was already planning, after sniffing the bottle and getting sick to my stomach, to dump some of it in my daughter's cat's litter box, just to see if it would bury it.
Instead, I unscrewed the cap, and smelled....lilacs. Who knew? Smells just like a condensed version of the lilac bush in my front yard. This morning, not willing to commit fully, I just slathered a little on one arm and wrist, and went about my day.
Now, 13 hours later, I still get a faint scent of powdery lilac.
I get the funeral home connotation. I'm old enough to have been to enough funerals to have that sickly floral scent embedded deeply in my mind. I get a little of that from this stuff. Truth be told, though, I also get it when my wife's flowers are blooming in the Spring.
So would I wear it in my rotation? No. But not because I get anything offensive from the odor. I just don't want to smell like a strong bouquet of flowers everywhere I go. Just not my thing.
But if you like floral scents, I personally get that scent - and nothing else - from this stuff. I'll keep the bottle around to let friends get a whiff and hopefully encourage some funny vomiting, and I might still see what the cat thinks of it. But it's not bad, to my nose. Not even that controversial. It's just not my thing.
So what does that mean? Am I chosen, or not chosen?
When I got home last night, I had a box waiting for me with three items inside: TOBS Mr. Taylor talc, TOBS peppermint shaving cream, and the one I was anticipating...A big green bottle of Lilac Vegetal.
I've gone on record already, in my short time here, saying I'm not a huge fan of Pinaud Clubman (or Canoe). I have lurked here for a long time, and read threads about cats peeing on corpses, old ladies covered in old garbage, and the lingering smell of death all having odors preferable to this stuff.
I bought this bottle just to prove to myself that I don't ever need to think about it again. I was already planning, after sniffing the bottle and getting sick to my stomach, to dump some of it in my daughter's cat's litter box, just to see if it would bury it.
Instead, I unscrewed the cap, and smelled....lilacs. Who knew? Smells just like a condensed version of the lilac bush in my front yard. This morning, not willing to commit fully, I just slathered a little on one arm and wrist, and went about my day.
Now, 13 hours later, I still get a faint scent of powdery lilac.
I get the funeral home connotation. I'm old enough to have been to enough funerals to have that sickly floral scent embedded deeply in my mind. I get a little of that from this stuff. Truth be told, though, I also get it when my wife's flowers are blooming in the Spring.
So would I wear it in my rotation? No. But not because I get anything offensive from the odor. I just don't want to smell like a strong bouquet of flowers everywhere I go. Just not my thing.
But if you like floral scents, I personally get that scent - and nothing else - from this stuff. I'll keep the bottle around to let friends get a whiff and hopefully encourage some funny vomiting, and I might still see what the cat thinks of it. But it's not bad, to my nose. Not even that controversial. It's just not my thing.
So what does that mean? Am I chosen, or not chosen?
, with only the proviso you send it on to someone else who wanted to try it...
