favorite barbershop scent

Many people hate it and many love it Pinaud Lilac Vegetal. It reminds me of when I was a kid and walked to the barbershop and got a hair cut. Still have some

Fine American Blend for aftershave barbershop scent. I would say Mike's Barber Shop for shaving soap. That said, Fine AB shaving soap should be here by Monday.(I had to wait for SS, because I pre-ordered the Fine Slant on the same order :-( )

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I sense that the OP question leans more towards wet shaving products, but the best "barbershop" scent I have ever smelled is Brooks Brothers 1818 cologne. Yea, that's right, the menswear/suits people - hard to believe, but true.

colognes are often used after a shave!

With what I currently use, I have to say Floïd Blue Aftershave splash.

And now for another shaving case of YMMV. Geo. F. Trumper Eucris EdT is the farthest removed from a barbershop scent that I can think of, grim. Don't misunderstand, I love the scent, own a bottle, and use it. It's just that, for me, I simply do not associate it with a barbershop scent. It makes me wonder what triggers these associations because I always thought that such a scent would be fairly universal but my thoughts are based more on childhood memories and each of us, of course, has had different experiences, both in our childhoods and now.

I never really liked "barbershop" scents...too powdery and medicinal for my taste.

That is, until I found Shaver Heaven "Barbershop" and PAA "Good Vibrations".

Shaver heaven has a somewhat typical barbershop scent with hints of talc and "stuff", but is very light, and pleasing to me. Not a lot of astringent or antiseptic qualities to it, which I always associate with barbershop scents.

Good Vibrations is my perfect barbershop scent. It has the light, clean, powdery barbershop qualities, but it smells like you are on the boardwalk, strolling past an open barbershop. It's a mix of hot bodies, sunscreen, and barbershop. It screams summertime, to me, with the barbershop taking a backseat...

My very inexperienced opinion...

I never really liked "barbershop" scents...too powdery and medicinal for my taste.

That is, until I found Shaver Heaven "Barbershop" and PAA "Good Vibrations".

Shaver heaven has a somewhat typical barbershop scent with hints of talc and "stuff", but is very light, and pleasing to me. Not a lot of astringent or antiseptic qualities to it, which I always associate with barbershop scents.

Good Vibrations is my perfect barbershop scent. It has the light, clean, powdery barbershop qualities, but it smells like you are on the boardwalk, strolling past an open barbershop. It's a mix of hot bodies, sunscreen, and barbershop. It screams summertime, to me, with the barbershop taking a backseat...

My very inexperienced opinion...

Ah, but Chris, it isn't your inexperienced opinion, its your experience and for each of us that seems to be different, sometimes radically so. That, I guess, is what I was trying to convey in my post.

Haven't tried the new Fine (hope to soon), but I, too, really like Mike's Barbershop.

Good Vibrations is my perfect barbershop scent. It has the light, clean, powdery barbershop qualities, but it smells like you are on the boardwalk, strolling past an open barbershop. It's a mix of hot bodies, sunscreen, and barbershop. It screams summertime, to me, with the barbershop taking a backseat...

That one does sound intriguing. I'm already a fan of The Beach.

Good Vibrations is my perfect barbershop scent. It has the light, clean, powdery barbershop qualities, but it smells like you are on the boardwalk, strolling past an open barbershop. It's a mix of hot bodies, sunscreen, and barbershop. It screams summertime, to me, with the barbershop taking a backseat...

That one does sound intriguing.  I'm already a fan of The Beach.

I didn't realize that The Beach was a nod to the Seinfeld episode until this afternoon. Not that there's anything wrong with that...

  Geo. F. Trumper Eucris EdT is the farthest removed from a barbershop scent that I can think of, grim.  Don't misunderstand, I love the scent, own a bottle, and use it.  It's just that, for me, I simply do not associate it with a barbershop scent.  It makes me wonder what triggers these associations because I always thought that such a scent would be fairly universal but my thoughts are based more on childhood memories and each of us, of course, has had different experiences, both in our childhoods and now.

Well, it is what popped into my head. I think I got it from here "Created in 1912 by the famed London gentleman’s barbers you can bet that at least one bottle went down with the Titanic. It is a classic woody floral musk scent that when worn is sublimely rich and sophisticated in a very old school barbershop manner. That can be a good and refreshing thing in the world of todays gourmand and oud craze. At over a hundered years old it is still a star in the masculine fragrance firmament."

"you think of laces, green ivy embracing old mansions, dusty ebony furniture, rust, dry pot-pourris, a total immersion in the Edwardian era, in a small, ambiguous barbershop in the suburbs of London."

"Eucris opens with a beautiful, gloomy oak moss accord with leather notes, spices (cloves), pungent and poisonous herbal accords, with perhaps castoreum too (a subtle, sticky and animalic heart note) with a prominent and deep "barbershop fougère" vibe"

Another: "The first barber-shop blast is all about coriander, blacky pepper and fresh lavender, ..."

If you look at the scents in the "modern" barbershops they are all mostly alike containing: oakmoss, patchouli, and some citrus (maybe some musk). I have no idea where some people got their hair cut but when I was a kid, it didn't smell of Oakmoss, patchouli and citrus. Bay Rum, maybe. Brylcream - yes. But mostly stale cigarette smoke embedded in chairs, spilled soda on the comic books and old magazine, old newsprint, linoleum floors, and maybe barbicide mixed with industrial strength bay rum. But never this powder scent being sold as "barbershop" today. I don't know where the soaps makers get the impression that 1950s/60s barbershops (if that is what they are going for) smelled like what they are selling today. But thats is just me.

Edit. I should add this post makes sense to me http://www.fragrantica.com/board/viewtop...51#p950151 this is exactly what I meant: "barbershops that offered only haircuts and shaves. The only reading materials were ... Popular Mechanics- possibly a copy of Life if you were in a University town. Smoking was not just an option, but mandatory. Combs and scissors were kept in a jar full of blue antiseptic solution that stank of lavender and menthol. ... All cuts involved straight razor finish around the nape of the neck and ears. At the end of the process the barber would take out the bottle of clubman/bayrhum/similar rub a splash between his hands and apply vigorously. That's the smell of a barbershop." Yes, that is a barbershop - not this powder thing. Except he left out the comic books and Boys Life.