Company Info
Castle Forbes is a family-run Scottish business that, among many things, produces high-end shaving creams, aftershaves, and other men's grooming requisites. As part of their many varied business ventures they have also recently begun a small family perfumery, producing a range of fragrances for men and women.
- Castle Forbes: Castle Forbes itself sets in the center of a 6,000 acre estate approx. 20 miles outside of Aberdeen, Scotland. A veritable upper-class theme-park, the Forbes Clan offers luxury overnight guest accommodations, as well as fishing in the River Don, which runs through the estate. A small area of woodland, featuring a 3,000 year old stone circle, is open for natural burial.
- The Perfumery: Beginning in 1996 the Forbes Clan began to produce fragrances in an adjacent dairy barn.
Product Info
Probably the most popular and respected products are shave creams. Though marketed as creams, Castle Forbes products are quite firm and are closer in consistency to soft Italian-Style shaving soaps rather than traditional English or European creams. They come in three fragrances: Lavender EO, Cedarwood and Sandalwood EO, and Lime EO. Castle Forbes also has pre-shave, aftershave, and fragrance products.
Castle Forbes also offers travel-sized versions of their shaving creams, pre-shave oils, and after-shave balms in "TSA Approved" plastic bottles. The creams are 50 ml/1.7 oz. and the oil and balms are 30 ml/1 oz. With the exception of the oil, which is unscented, these are available in the full range of fragrances. The travel size balms are also available in the 1445 scent.
From its small family-run perfumery Castle Forbes also makes a small range of colognes. Eau de Parfums, rather than the more common Eau de Toilette, these scents, the citrus and fern Gentlemen's Cologne, 1445 a complex blend of lemon and spice, the green herbs and pine Forbes of Forbes, the zesty citrus and wood Keig, and the dry herbal and complex woods blend Lonach are available in 4.4 oz glass natural spray bottles.
Castle Forbes also offers travel-sized versions of their shaving creams, pre-shave oils, and after-shave balms in "TSA Approved" plastic bottles. The creams are 50 ml/1.7 oz. and the oil and balms are 30 ml/1 oz. With the exception of the oil, which is unscented, these are available in the full range of fragrances. The travel size balms are also available in the 1445 scent.
From its small family-run perfumery Castle Forbes also makes a small range of colognes. Eau de Parfums, rather than the more common Eau de Toilette, these scents, the citrus and fern Gentlemen's Cologne, 1445 a complex blend of lemon and spice, the green herbs and pine Forbes of Forbes, the zesty citrus and wood Keig, and the dry herbal and complex woods blend Lonach are available in 4.4 oz glass natural spray bottles.
External Links
- Castle Forbes - Official website