Vintage Old Spice

[beginish]

The experience I've had with two vintage soaps has been great. The lather is unbelievable, and I get great shaves from them. Being ~50 yrs old, though, there is little, if any, scent left. My soap AD is kicking in again, and I'm getting dragged toward Vintage Old Spice. I would love it if the scent on that soap has survived. Can anyone who has this in their cabinet give me an idea of how well the scent has survived the years?

Thanks,

Bob

 

[mdunn]

the ones that are still wrapped up and unused sometimes retain scent, but generally speaking the scent doesnt survive very well

 

[beginish]

the ones that are still wrapped up and unused sometimes retain scent, but generally speaking the scent doesnt survive very well

Thanks. I think I'll pass.

 

[RILEY]

Dag nabbit. And I just bought a vintage one off Ebay the other day.
Oh well, at least I got the mug

 

[FLTiger]

I've got a puck from the 70's that still retains the scent. Yes, I got lucky, but the point is--they are out there.

 

[L. Martino]

Hiya,

At the risk of slightly derailing this thread, I'll just mention my experience using some vintage Old Spice SC.......in a can. Yeah, I've shaved with this three times now and it's a kick.

It's part of a gift set that dates from 1955-62(bottle of AS is the other part), and I believe neither was ever used.

The SC scent is still very strong....easily as potent as the AS, and maybe more. It's a small can(just over 6 ounces), and I've sorta been rationing the stuff. The top has to be turned so that an arrow lines up on the can(a locking thing), or else the button won't depress.

As a result, I'm now hoping to find a puck with the fragrance intact. Yeah, good luck with that........

Anyway, this canned stuff's been a very pleasant(but weird to use) surprise.

Martin

 

[ctakim]

I've used a number of old Old Spice soap pucks but most all have lost all but the faintest trace of an Old Spice scent. But they lather so well they are still worth it!!

 

[DogHair]

Bad stuff for sure. Anyone with a puck they don't like please PM me.

 

[Dink]

I've used a number of old Old Spice soap pucks but most all have lost all but the faintest trace of an Old Spice scent. But they lather so well they are still worth it!!

I have to agree with ctakim, my half puck has no scent but the lather and resulting shave is excellent. It is great stuff!

Cheers,
David

 

[Topgumby]

Well, dang this thread anyway.

One of my darkest shaving moments came when I first decided to ditch the cartridge and try my dad's Slim. When I was digging through the stuff I had stashed away, some from him, some stuff that I'd used and squirreled through a series of deployments, moves and marriage, I came across my old spice mug.

My memory is hazy, but I'm pretty sure that I got it as a Christmas gift to signify that I was old enough to start shaving. I don't recall getting a brush at the same time. Of course, it had the soap with it, and I used it very sporadically through the years, because it wasn't the sort of thing you just threw in a seabag. Mostly it got used with a Gillette Brush Plus brush, and it worked surprisingly well, considering the nylon thing I was using to make lather. Twenty plus years later, there was still soap in the thing.

Well, when I found that mug, sitting in a ziplock bag, the first thing I did was look at that old puck (must have been at least a quarter left, maybe a third) was toss the old soap in the trash and clean up the mug.

In my ignorance, I figured I'd just waltz on down to the local drug store and buy another Old Spice puck. When I did that, I quickly found out that wasn't going to happen, and when I went home to dumpster dive the soap was already gone.

Reading this thread made the guilt unbearable.

I looked in to the modern replacements, and the Mama Bear Aged Spice looked the most promising...certainly more reasonably priced than what I saw the Shulton stuff going for on Ebay.

But, as good as a modern re-creation can be, it's not the original, is it? So I found myself placing a bid on a sealed refill, and it should be here before too long.

Now I have to find room for the Tabac shaving stick I milled in to my Old Spice mug...or I have to find another Old Spice mug. In fact, I might have to find two more in the next six years or so, because that's about when my oldest boy will be starting to shave.

I plan on putting some nice soap in their mugs that's a little easier and cheaper to find! Maybe some Aged Spice.

 

[thunderball]

I just got a NOS Shulton Old Spice mug/soap set from the 70s and while it still smells a bit like Old Spice, the lather itself doesn't have much scent beyond a nice soapiness. The lather however is outstanding!

 

[BROWNS]

I'd imagine it varies from case to case (or soap to soap). I'm sure whether or not the scent survived the years depends on the conditions where it was stored.

 

[azra3l]

i have an early 80s old spice mug (belgian 01 model i beleive) and its still almost full, and still smells devine. it /does/ still have the plastic lid over it though. so maybe that helped retain the scent?

 

[Topgumby]

Well, I acquired another OS mug so both my vintage OS soap and the Tabac can have homes, and I'll be able to present a mug to number one son. I'll have to find one for number two son.

This is a whole new horizon of AD...I now have to have three of everything!

BTW, the mug I have is made in Belgium, marked with a "7".

 

[Bit2]

I looked in to the modern replacements, and the Mama Bear Aged Spice looked the most promising...certainly more reasonably priced than what I saw the Shulton stuff going for on Ebay.

Try Mama Bear's aged spice. No it is not the original but her soaps are amazing!!
John

 

[Klopstick]

+10 on the MB Aged Spice

I used the original Old Spice soap and mug from my beginnings back in the mid 70's and had a big stash of them (they were on sale once and I bought a bunch and they followed me around forever) and was unaware they had stopped making it until not too awfully long ago when I went to replace my supply. It was great while it had lasted...<sigh>

But then I tried the MB Aged Spice and I have to say it's got the scent down pat. Oddly, it reminds me of the deodorant from back in the old days rather than the soap, but the end result is the same. It's got a lot of scent and it's right on the money. The shave is top notch too. You won't regret trying it.

 

[Topgumby]

Got my "vintage" OS refill today, still wrapped up, with the box. UPC on the box, I'm guessing it's probably early 80's.

I'm almost hesitant to crack the wrapper and mess up the ship and stars...

 

[Topgumby]

I broke it open...no scent other than soapiness.

Pushed the puck into the mug, admired the pristine ship and stars one last time, and twirled a DeLong black badger brush a few times on the surface of the soap. No water on the puck ahead of time, nothing but a budget badger brush with some hot tap water half shaken out of it.

Started face lathering, and the result was mounds of creamy lather almost instantly. Still no scent, so after removing the lather from my face with a Bostonian loaded with a Shark I shook two drops of vintage Old Spice cologne on the puck, and just touched the brush to it to spread it around.

Ahhh, that's the smell I remember!

The shave was fantastic, plenty of lather for three passes, and the only weakness was the lather becoming a touch dry at the end of pass three. A quick touch of water on the brush cured that.

I would not call the stuff moisturizing. In fact, my face felt a little taught and dry after the shave. Not a bad feeling, just a little different than what you get with the buttered, oiled and moisturized soaps of today.

Great to have an old friend in the rotation. I did feel a twinge when I broke out that puck. There is one less pristine example in the world, and sadly, no prospect of new stock being created to replace it. To think that up until the early 1990's a guy could meander down to the corner drug store and bring home a solid shaving soap that was made from critters, not plants.