For months I've been eyeing the Aramis at Walmart. $48.50, must be pretty good, right? I found a bottle online for $15 and I really liked it.
For some reason, I got it in my head that I needed another bottle. Why, no idea, I have a problem and I tend to hoard things; like many of you fine gentlemen do. I got it from a different seller on ebay. Immediately I regretted it. Why do I need two bottles of Aramis? I don't! It doesn't matter how cheap it is! But what's done is done, and I can't send it back.
Well, the package for the 2nd bottle came tonight. I opened it up and saw that the box looked pretty gnarly. What the...then the bottle had these streaks and deposits, almost like salt. "Explains why it was so cheap" I thought.
I wanted to see if the juice had gone bad in this gnarly bottle so I sprayed it on. And what did I smell? Pure, gorgeous, potent OAKMOSS!
That's right, this $15.00 bottle of Aramis was pre-reformulation vintage! I smelled it side by side with the modern one I had bought first. So much better than the new stuff! Where the old was herbal, leathery and intense, the new stuff had a note almost like sunscreen or lotion. I lucked out big time with my hoarder's instinct.
So I went on ebay and bought another bottle...God, I really should see a therapist!
For some reason, I got it in my head that I needed another bottle. Why, no idea, I have a problem and I tend to hoard things; like many of you fine gentlemen do. I got it from a different seller on ebay. Immediately I regretted it. Why do I need two bottles of Aramis? I don't! It doesn't matter how cheap it is! But what's done is done, and I can't send it back.
Well, the package for the 2nd bottle came tonight. I opened it up and saw that the box looked pretty gnarly. What the...then the bottle had these streaks and deposits, almost like salt. "Explains why it was so cheap" I thought.
I wanted to see if the juice had gone bad in this gnarly bottle so I sprayed it on. And what did I smell? Pure, gorgeous, potent OAKMOSS!
That's right, this $15.00 bottle of Aramis was pre-reformulation vintage! I smelled it side by side with the modern one I had bought first. So much better than the new stuff! Where the old was herbal, leathery and intense, the new stuff had a note almost like sunscreen or lotion. I lucked out big time with my hoarder's instinct.
So I went on ebay and bought another bottle...God, I really should see a therapist!