I bought these on ebay a few days ago and the big bottle just arrived. I had smelled AV in the bottle when I first started DE shaving last year and hated it, but I gave it another chance and now I love the stuff.
Vintage Aqua Velva Bottles
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That's a very cool bottle!
Nice! You can keep refilling these guys for years.
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Thanks, that's what I am planning on doing. I never got a chance to buy a glass bottle when they had them around, so I figured I'd pick some of these up for a few dollars and just decant the new stuff into an old bottle.
Very nice bottles, they'll hold the blue stuff for many many years.
don't lose those bottles. even on the new line they stopped glass production and moved to plastic. very cool and vintage looking.
I have a bottle with the same label/shape, but 8.5 oz.
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Yeah I was shocked to see how expensive they were, $50-$90 for a bottle is outrageous. I threw in a bid on the large one for around $15 thinking I'd get outbid but I lucked out.
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Just got a couple bottles of vintage Williams Aqua Velva from Italy yesterday in the mail. One is Ice Blue and the other is Mentolo. They are both approximately 4 oz and are about the same vintage as your's I would guess except all of the writing is in Italian. I got the boxes as well. I will have to take some photos and post them sometime. The best part is that the juice still smells good. I was worrying because they came from Italy and it took a good 2 weeks for them to arrive. With the heat we've been having lately I was worried something would go bad in the shipment but I lucked out. Honestly, I wouldn't have been too upset if the juice had gone bad because I plan on using them rather than keeping them as a collectable. AV is cheap and I can just keep refilling the cool old glass bottles. The Mentolo one is green juice. When I run out of it I should find some heavily mentholated AS with a similar scent and green color to replace it. To the AV experts out there..... any suggestions?
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Ben
What is that menthol one like? I've always seen that, and considering the original AV has menthol I was curious to how it was.
On a green menthol, Osage would fit well
On a green menthol, Osage would fit well
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Or Proraso splash would work well too
Okay guys.... here are the pictures of the Italian AV I was telling you about:
Ben
Ben
How is Mentolo?
