its all correct reallyOne thing, everything I've read gives launch date for Florid Special 127 as 1910 not 1890, not that it matters except I'd like to know. Do you have info pointing to 1890?
Yup. Super old school, but still relevant. If you wear it, you stand out because there is no current/modern scent quite like it. The only "knock" on it is the performance. It won't last longer than a few hours before it becomes a skin scent, but that is what I am shooting for anyway. To get massive performance, perfumers have to employ synthetics, and I try to avoid those a much as possible.
There are certain occasions and/or certain phases in life when skin scent is what you want.
The whole drama around English Leather has been absurd. I use the most current version of EL cologne and aftershave most of the time. I have a vintage MEM bottle of the cologne that totally takes me back to high school days (pretty much everyone else was wearing Polo green.. which seems so weird that it was so mainstream in the 80s!)
That's what my grandfather wore. I haven't smelled it in years, so I'm not sure how I'm going to react!
Your grandfather wore an 80s cologne? Again, I feel so very old. The cologne my grandfather would have worn would have been what was popular in the 1910s and 20s.
about same time frame as my grandparents!
I remember he had a bottle of it in his bathroom, definitely in the 80's/90's. I have no idea what he wore as a younger man. He passed away around 2005. My dad wasn't ever a cologne guy, he always wore Old Spice. When I was a kid he had a bottle of Aramis that he got a gift, but he told me he didn't like it. My first two were English Leather and Jovan Musk (I just turned 51).
How close is the current version to the Mem version? What I remember is that the Mem version was stronger and lasted longer (like all other reformulations today). It was probably smoother, too.
Avon Everest AS has a tiny bit of cat pee in it at first application. In about a minute it's gone. But I think that is why it lasts on me longer than any other Avon of yesteryear. Blend 7 is still my weakness, the one I will never turn down in the wild. I've even made my wife cry over that. I'm not proud, but we are both stubborn.
Honestly, I got some of the Mem at the tail end of an Estate Sale a few years ago for a dollar. Looked unused. Cologne, if that matters. It is a little, LITTLE bit better than today's. But seriously, it can't touch the smoothness or depth of Avon Leather I have that's almost as old as I am I think. Oland by Avon is kinda a stronger version of Avon Leather, and Avon Tribute is like a weaker version of Avon Leather to my nose. I doubt that @Ad Astra shares my opinion, but as usual when he and I disagree, I'm right and he's wrong. I'm also rubber and he's glue.
