Depends on the brand. I fall into the cat urine and headache crowd with the Pinaud, but the Masters version I enjoy very much. These are so different that it difficult to understand why they are called the same thing.
Really like it. To me it smells just like the name lilacs. I wear it in spring to mid summer.Okay, I've never tried this stuff. What's it like?
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Really like it. To me it smells just like the name lilacs. I wear it in spring to mid summer.Okay, I've never tried this stuff. What's it like?
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If you're chosen it smells like powdery lilacs to you and everyone around you. If you're not you just smell like cat ****.I have never crossed to the dark side and likely never will. So I have no idea if I’m chosen or not.
Reading threads a large number of folk like it while a large number think it smells of cat wee.
Now I wear fragrance I like but also too make (hopefully) make my fragrance as pleasant as possible to the people I mingle with
I wouldn’t knowingly slosh on a fragrance that I knew would be as offensive to as many people as actually like it
I would hate to think that half of the people in a crowd thought I’d recently wrestled a Tom cat with a well hydrated bladder or step away thinking my incontinence problem had returned.
Like the veg ? Or not so much. Why wear ANY fragrance a lot of people will be offended by ?
THERE YOU GO fired the shots convince me I’m wrong!
Gosh I’ve enabled myself writing this now I’ll have to buy some and find out for myself
Reading threads a large number of folk like it while a large number think it smells of cat wee.
This might come off as controversial, but to me, what does it say that LV was apparently universally or nearly universally popular a century ago - to the extent that for generations, including for me (and I'm not old) it became one of the most classic "old-time barbershop" olfactory triggers - barbers could safely use it, without asking, on any customer without a second thought, that is - and now so many people can't stand it? Suggests it's a sign of a seismic shift in the cultural of taste, one I don't think has shifted in good directions overall. That's not to say those that don't like it have bad taste, but that for all of us, sensibilities toward the olfactory spectrum have significantly narrowed in the recent past.
I agree. A lot of young people go to "Stylists" as opposed to barbers. As a kid I went to barber shops and was therefore acquainted with Pinaud Talcum Powder, Clubman, etc. Perhaps there should be a poll to see if the people who generally dislike LV are younger in age.This might come off as controversial, but to me, what does it say that LV was apparently universally or nearly universally popular a century ago - to the extent that for generations, including for me (and I'm not old) it became one of the most classic "old-time barbershop" olfactory triggers - barbers could safely use it, without asking, on any customer without a second thought, that is - and now so many people can't stand it? Suggests it's a sign of a seismic shift in the cultural of taste, one I don't think has shifted in good directions overall. That's not to say those that don't like it have bad taste, but that for all of us, sensibilities toward the olfactory spectrum have significantly narrowed in the recent past.
Neverstoplearning, thanks for the comments. Do you feel like the general breadth of taste options in the mainstream market has shrunk since you were a kid going to the barber shop, or when you first started shaving? I have noticed that every year it seems that at the average drugstore or big box chain, the classic products keep (permanently) disappearing from the shave aisle. It used to be that multiple Pinauds, Old Spice, English Leather, Stetson, Brut, Skin Bracer, Aqua Velva, and even other stuff were standard, and now it's really shrunk at most places. I wish I had bought some of those while they were easy and cheap to obtain.
I would posit that the increase in prevalence of daily showers in men had a large part to do with it.This might come off as controversial, but to me, what does it say that LV was apparently universally or nearly universally popular a century ago - to the extent that for generations, including for me (and I'm not old) it became one of the most classic "old-time barbershop" olfactory triggers - barbers could safely use it, without asking, on any customer without a second thought, that is - and now so many people can't stand it? Suggests it's a sign of a seismic shift in the cultural of taste, one I don't think has shifted in good directions overall. That's not to say those that don't like it have bad taste, but that for all of us, sensibilities toward the olfactory spectrum have significantly narrowed in the recent past.
I love all of those.. SB and AV and Clubman are incredible. But not the lilac urinal.Neverstoplearning, thanks for the comments. Do you feel like the general breadth of taste options in the mainstream market has shrunk since you were a kid going to the barber shop, or when you first started shaving? I have noticed that every year it seems that at the average drugstore or big box chain, the classic products keep (permanently) disappearing from the shave aisle. It used to be that multiple Pinauds, Old Spice, English Leather, Stetson, Brut, Skin Bracer, Aqua Velva, and even other stuff were standard, and now it's really shrunk at most places. I wish I had bought some of those while they were easy and cheap to obtain.
But not the lilac urinal.
Most people in the late 19th century, when LV first appeared, washed their bodies daily, even if it admittedly wasn't common for most people to take full-body baths daily, so with respect for your sharing of this thought, I do not imagine there's a connection to the contemporary relative dislike for LV. Tastes in drinks, candy, and other things have changed in a similar way, so it suggests to me a broader issue of cultural taste shift (no matter if we are talking about physical taste, or smell).I would posit that the increase in prevalence of daily showers in men had a large part to do with it.