favorite barbershop scent

  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.

Hey grim, thanks for the very informative and interesting post.  It was a very enjoyable read.  I still don't think of Eucris as a barbershop scent but your description certainly was.

I like Mike's Natural Soaps Barbershop but I can't stand powdery scents like Clubman and CaD.

Mystic Water and B&M Seville.

  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.

I guess I like, "Modern," barbershop scents because I like Mikes and Seville, but the actual smell I associate barbershop with is pinaud clubman. I used to walk to the barber with my grandpa on the first Saturday of every month and watch him get a haircut and straight razor shave while I watched sitting on a stool with a sucker after getting my haircut. They DOUSED everybody with that **** at the place lol, and even used the talc.

B&M Latha Original. I like Seville, but the citrus note is enough for me to give my barbershop spot to Latha Original.


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Barbershops should smell a little like Barbacide don't you think?  I can't look at that blue cylinder without thinking of Will Ferrell shaving Conan O'Brien's beard

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d-UI3RKl...U8&index=1

OK, so once again a thread on the forum has led to a shaving choice! I went with Mike's Barber Shop shaving soap tonight/morning. I followed it up with Fine American Blend AS. Win, win!

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Count me in the Eucris camp. A very deep (while still fresh) and complex timeless barbershop scent, with notes of oak moss, woods, spices, fresh herbs, musk, black currant, florals, incense, leather/tobacco...
Moreover, I get the sense that they (Trumper) did not cut corners on the quality of the (scent) ingredients (which I can't say of all of their offerings).

For me it's Maggard's London Barbershop and B&M Seville. MLB reminds me of Aqua Velva, and that is what my Dad's barber used in his shop.


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Unless it says barbershop on the label, I'm not even sure what the scent is anymore. Is it even a scent category? Clubman is a fougere. Most of the things called barbershop have a powdery scents. If you get a shave at Geo F Trumper they mist you with Spanish Leather.

Of the powdery ones I like Stirling Barbershop the best. Of the fougeres I like MdC the best. And I do love me some Geo F Trumper Spanish Leather.