favorite bay rum products

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Hardly - I can be as birdbrained as anyone - but thank you for the kind words.

I'm not an expert of Bay Rum scents, just because I don't like spices so much, but I enjoy the Tallow+Steel West Indies, that it's not a traditional one.

Having used T&S WI, detect hardly a trace of bay rhum (which was diasappionting in all honesty). Scent more remimiscent of carribean food in my opinion

in fairness, I don't think Ryan @ Tallow + Steel marketed west indies as being a traditional bay rum.

Of course it's not, as I said. But the Bay note is rather strong. IMHO.

Didn’t intend the post as disparaging just factual.

Didn’t intend the post as disparaging just factual.

I do agree with you though. I only get subtle hints of the spiciness found in the more traditional bay rum scents.

Didn’t intend the post as disparaging just factual.

I do agree with you though.  I only get subtle hints of the spiciness found in the more traditional bay rum scents.

Having spoken to Ryan while he was working on all of his latest T+S soaps and aftershaves, he was pretty clear that West Indies wasn't intended to be a Bay Rum but rather an original creation inspired by fragrances common to the West Indies. Some of those scents are spices used in cooking so its natural that for some people they will associate West Indies with Caribbean food. I consider T+S West Indies and Chatillon Lux Blackberry Blossom Bay to be original fragrance creations that happen to have West Indian Bay as one of the scent notes. These two creations have helped me move from being a lover of bay rum to being a lover of all things bay.

Didn’t intend the post as disparaging just factual.

I do agree with you though.  I only get subtle hints of the spiciness found in the more traditional bay rum scents.

Having spoken to Ryan while he was working on all of his latest T+S soaps and aftershaves, he was pretty clear that West Indies wasn't intended to be a Bay Rum but rather an original creation inspired by fragrances common to the West Indies.  Some of those scents are spices used in cooking so its natural that for some people they will associate West Indies with Caribbean food.  I consider T+S West Indies and Chatillon Lux Blackberry Blossom Bay to be original fragrance creations that happen to have West Indian Bay as one of the scent notes.  These two creations have helped me move from being a lover of bay rum to being a lover of all things bay.

I will say, I bought a bay laurel and orange (I believe) bath soap when I was in Colorado last year and the scent was amazing.

I do agree with you though.  I only get subtle hints of the spiciness found in the more traditional bay rum scents.

Having spoken to Ryan while he was working on all of his latest T+S soaps and aftershaves, he was pretty clear that West Indies wasn't intended to be a Bay Rum but rather an original creation inspired by fragrances common to the West Indies.  Some of those scents are spices used in cooking so its natural that for some people they will associate West Indies with Caribbean food.  I consider T+S West Indies and Chatillon Lux Blackberry Blossom Bay to be original fragrance creations that happen to have West Indian Bay as one of the scent notes.  These two creations have helped me move from being a lover of bay rum to being a lover of all things bay.

I will say, I bought a bay laurel and orange (I believe) bath soap when I was in Colorado last year and the scent was amazing.

I think bay is a very masculine scent. A lot of the scents out there could be suitable (with maybe a few tweaks) for both men and women but not bay.