What does Osage Rub smell like?
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Strong.
Slightly sweet and powdery Ben-Gay.
I took a second to take in my sample a bit to try and answer this for you. It has a bit of menthol and maybe even camphor odor to it, combined with an almost minty sweetness like those little sweet breath drops (possibly from oil of wintergreen)! Very non-offensive for sure.
Eucalyptus candy.
Not much of a smell. Truly. The attraction here is the freeze/burn sensation. The scent is almost medicinal, and quite faint. The burn, however, is thermonuclear! Check out Chiseled Face. They have an aftershave that's right up there with Osage on the burn/freeze meter. Not for night shavers, certainly. Use it in the morning and when you leave the house you'll be ready to take on the day. 
Bengay and burning jet fuel
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It is strong eucalyptus and menthol at first, but tones down after a few minutes. You can mix it 50/50 with Mennen Skin Bracer to make a bracing aftershave that is not so medicinal as plain Osage Rub. That's one of the recipes @OkieStubble posted called Green Freeze.
I love these descriptions. Going to try a bottle once I run down what I have in the den.
Maggard's has little sample bottles of all the clubman scents for a couple of bucks if you'd like to keep from getting stuck with it in case it's not for you!
I think it smells like Vicks Vapor Rub when it first goes on but fades pretty quickly. I love the stuff in the hot months.
Wish I knew this before I bought 12 ozs. of Lilac Vegetal.
I don't love Jet-B, but it's surprisingly "OK" compared to many scents (garbage, feces, etc...)
I agree with both descriptions. I prefer adding menthol crystals to aftershave I do like the scent of to create the cooling slap in the face we seem to like in summer.
You could always sprinkle a little in the toilet after each use to keep it smelling like a public toilet!
To me it smells kinda like a eucalyptus cough drop.
Sent doesn’t linger for too long.
Sent doesn’t linger for too long.
It smells like summer!
I didn't know that, thank you! That's on my shortlist. I'm still working through Stirling samples and then I'll have RE's 1977, which I'm dreading.
If one splashes on an popular aftershave brand like Proraso, while Proraso’s scent is amazing, one will and can still notice a ‘medicinal’ undertone of the same camphor, menthol, eucalyptus… Thing, that Proraso has when it’s freshly splashed on.
While it’s quite strong in the first minute, that ‘medicinal’ thing, totally evaporates after a minute or two; and one is only left with that wonderful Italian barbershop scent that is Proraso after the dry down.
Flood The Genuine operates in this exact same manner, with a slight medicinal undertone which disappears after a minute. Surely, I’m not the only one, who is quite addicted to this initial camphor, menthol, eucalyptus scent and quite prefer and really look forward to it, because I know it’s only temporary and will disappear leaving behind the original scent?
This was my idea behind creating Bootlegger’s Green Freeze and Bootlegger’s Artic Lime Blast. Osage Rub is camphor, menthol and eucalyptus with a barbershop powdery dry down. All of these same virtues which can be found in the great Italian classics of Proraso and Floid.
So my idea of why not get that same ‘medicinal’ base and foundation and pair it with an American Classic like Mennen Skin Bracer? They are both the exact same green color, and the Osage Rub only gives Skin Bracer, the exact same initial medicinal undertone that a Proraso or Floid has?
And in exactly 1 minute, that camphor, menthol, eucalyptus thing dries down and disappears, just like in those Italian Classics; and one is only left with a Super cold face and the heavenly smell of the Vanilla & Lavender Summer scent of Skin Bracer.
Bootlegger’s Artic Lime Blast works in the same way, but with Lime! What’s not to love?
While it’s quite strong in the first minute, that ‘medicinal’ thing, totally evaporates after a minute or two; and one is only left with that wonderful Italian barbershop scent that is Proraso after the dry down.
Flood The Genuine operates in this exact same manner, with a slight medicinal undertone which disappears after a minute. Surely, I’m not the only one, who is quite addicted to this initial camphor, menthol, eucalyptus scent and quite prefer and really look forward to it, because I know it’s only temporary and will disappear leaving behind the original scent?
This was my idea behind creating Bootlegger’s Green Freeze and Bootlegger’s Artic Lime Blast. Osage Rub is camphor, menthol and eucalyptus with a barbershop powdery dry down. All of these same virtues which can be found in the great Italian classics of Proraso and Floid.
So my idea of why not get that same ‘medicinal’ base and foundation and pair it with an American Classic like Mennen Skin Bracer? They are both the exact same green color, and the Osage Rub only gives Skin Bracer, the exact same initial medicinal undertone that a Proraso or Floid has?
And in exactly 1 minute, that camphor, menthol, eucalyptus thing dries down and disappears, just like in those Italian Classics; and one is only left with a Super cold face and the heavenly smell of the Vanilla & Lavender Summer scent of Skin Bracer.
Bootlegger’s Artic Lime Blast works in the same way, but with Lime! What’s not to love?
