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To my nose, most bay rums smell like either wet cardboard or cloves (or both). I get none of that in BBB. If I didn't read first it was a nod toward bay rum, I wouldn't have guessed when I sniffed. BBB is truly great stuff.

It was actually more of a nod to Bay inspired scents than to bay rum per se. I think Catie's Bubbles Barnegat Bay was the scent that may have led Shawn to consider the possibility of something with bay, no rum. Correct me if I'm wrong hawns.

Scent is really very subjective but I'll grant you that there are varying degrees of "refinement" in all of the bay rums on the market and I don't love them all.

To my nose, most bay rums smell like either wet cardboard or cloves (or both). I get none of that in BBB. If I didn't read first it was a nod toward bay rum, I wouldn't have guessed when I sniffed. BBB is truly great stuff.

It was actually more of a nod to Bay inspired scents than to bay rum per se. I think Catie's Bubbles Barnegat Bay was the scent that may have led Shawn to consider the possibility of something with bay, no rum. Correct me if I'm wrong @"hawks".

Scent is really very subjective but I'll grant you that there are varying degrees of "refinement" in all of the bay rums on the market and I don't love them all.

You said it well, Marko. "Bay rum" has, over time, become a trademark, so to speak, without definition. There are many variants, some good and some not so, to my nose. I haven't sniffed the Catie's Bubbles scent you describe (great soaps, by the way), but I'll venture that it's very different from the bay rums I know. That's why I also used the word "nod" to acknowledge Shawn's treatment of bay rum.

Shawn, any chance of Rose Santal making a comeback? That's one I missed out on and keep reading about what an amazing scent it is.

To my nose, most bay rums smell like either wet cardboard or cloves (or both). I get none of that in BBB. If I didn't read first it was a nod toward bay rum, I wouldn't have guessed when I sniffed. BBB is truly great stuff.

It was actually more of a nod to Bay inspired scents than to bay rum per se. I think Catie's Bubbles Barnegat Bay was the scent that may have led Shawn to consider the possibility of something with bay, no rum. Correct me if I'm wrong @"hawks".

Scent is really very subjective but I'll grant you that there are varying degrees of "refinement" in all of the bay rums on the market and I don't love them all.

Chris having me smell Barnegat Bay at a Maggard Meetup is definitely an instance in which I realized you could do a take on the genre without actually doing a bay rum. He isn't a bay rum fan, either, and he told me he wanted to do his impression of the scent without it actually smelling like that.

Shawn, any chance of Rose Santal making a comeback? That's one I missed out on and keep reading about what an amazing scent it is.

It is still available, just not in aftershave products, just as a fragrance. It probably won't come back anytime soon in shaving products for the same reason that Blackberry Blossom Bay won't be coming back anytime soon: adding my scents to the Declaration Grooming line is a huge undertaking. I originally designed the scent to be a fragrance, because aftershave products can obscure the scent (and shaving soap really does a number on scent!), plus the scent is too expensive to be able to sell shaving stuff at the price point that would keep people from storming the Chatillon Lux HQ with torches and pitchforks, so it definitely needs to be saved for a special occasion.

So perhaps down the line, but with the busy schedule I have lined up for next year, it'll be difficult to squeeze it in for the foreseeable future, unfortunately.

Rose Santal is an amazing fragrance.  Actually, I’m not overly fussed about matching shaving soaps and aftershaves, no matter what the scent, as I find the scent doesn’t usually linger on me at all.  If I like a particular scent, as I do Chatillon Lux Rose Santal, then I want to end my shave with it as an eau de toilette.

I hope you will still make Colonia Balsamica.

I hope you will still make Colonia Balsamica.

I do every year for spring and summer so no worries. If you want more information, then just head over to ChatillonLux.com and check out the Release Schedule page

Any hope for creating a matching soap (maybe Storybooks) for Taum Sauk and Colbeck?

I think he is working with Scott specifically going forward.

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