Old Spice Classic After Shave | Kap Reviews Everything Else, Pt. 3

Old Spice
Classic
After Shave

Big up-front stingle dials back quick, dies. Leaves a pleasantly tight-not-dry face-feel. Nice. Smells in bottle and on first splash like a hyper-flowery, powdery bay rum. Settling on the skin, it trails off fast in cinnamon nutmeg fashion. No real delineation. Somewhat limp, flaccid. Still pleasing but broad, flat, and fleetingly.

Almost completely removed from its own olfactory nostalgia via re-concocting and dare I say neutering to some extent. Possibly to the same extent as one might become a little pregnant. Not sure what any of that means. Sterile. However, it remains quite serviceable and particularly versatile. Safely inoffensive for use in churches, hospitals, AA meetings, and around the finicky chronically allergic.

Actually would pair supremely well with a nice cigar coming off a wet shave. A part of a whole scene, not the whole scene itself, then. A former star, relegated to smaller roles. But hey, work is work.

FINAL GRADE: B-

::: very ::: 

Kaplowitz Media. Cigars of the Month for June 2025

Kaplowitz Media.
Cigars of the Month
for June 2025

(listed in alphabetical order)
(names are links to full reviews)

La Gloria Cubana Los Gloriosos
My Father No. 5
Quesada Casa Magna Colorado

Happy Summer!

::: very ::: 

Brut Classic After Shave | Kap Reviews Everything Else, Pt. 2

Brut
Classic
After Shave

Great long-lived stingle on the face. A good morning wake up. Perhaps a tick toward drying. Noses in the bottle a lot like deodorant bar soap then baby powder, and both ways a little Raspberry Beret style pretty. Pine fills the in-betweens on the splash. First settled whiff is the same as the bottle note: also quick anise and lavender. A new spiciness adds to now pine base. Lasts and lasts, kindly-so.

Remarkably unremarkable. Lacks rizz. Is, however, a quite decent all-purpose hand. Some herbal notes and slight citrus warmth are fleeting but neat 'nuff further into the in-betweens. Ultimately, this fragrance strikes me as a good boy trying to be a bad boy. It's a Bart Simpson on a drugstore shelf full of Eric Cartmans. Hold on... That is its rizz; that is how it should be worn. Oh, it's good. It got me.

Cupid, with a sling-shot.

FINAL GRADE: B

::: very ::: 

Quesada Cigars Casa Magna Colorado Robusto in Review

BRAND: Quesada
BLEND: Casa Magna Colorado

WRAPPER: Nicaraguan
BINDER: Nicaraguan
FILLER: Nicaraguan

FORMAT: Robusto 5.5x52
ORIGIN: Nicaragua
INTENSITY: Medium/Medium-full
SPICE: 3/5

NOTES:
Cedar | White & Red Pepper | Latte

Pleasantly consistent, gate-to-wire. Flavors are under a blanket (suede) for the length of the track. Mixed in but trailing by half a length at most, nosing into the money occasionally: White Raisin, Sweet Spice, Butterscotch. Not the worst thoroughbred names I've ever heard.

Although the thing smokes more like the relaxed infield loveliness than the excitable track itself.

TASTE: A-
DRAW: A-
BURN: A-
BUILD: A-

FINAL GRADE: A-
A 90-100 B 80-89 C 70-79

::: very :::