Classic
Ice Blue
Cooling After Shave
Smells like menthol and citrus in the bottle, a bit of lingering moss and diesel-hint tail. Highlight is how it feels on the face, top-notch drugstore concoction there. Perfect tingle, great moisture. That bottle nose becomes a bit of a cacophony when on the skin. For such a traditional thing, it's really quite daring, start to finish. A bit of a scoundrel on a budget. Nice guys wear Old Spice, and make pretty cutting boards in their garages. Yawn.
Herbaceous. That and something like lavender fill in the in-betweens. Not necessarily harmoniously. Cinnamon and smog, ethanol and exhaust. Dulls to a chemical oakmoss vibe as a rather long-lived nigh haunting base note. Diesel/automotive bits move up. Citrus falls but menthol hangs. A note to my fellow cigar smokers: the oakmoss and diesel bits really love to make your smoke stink like your ashtray. You'll taste it in your coffee.
Hangs.
Hangs like a black velvet painting. I keep seeing a black velvet painting. I cannot make out for certain if it's of Elvis, Jesus, or Dale Earnhardt; but it is reverent. In a kitsch manner, 'natch. For a thing born in 1917, this Aqua Velva feels a lot like 1971, which is smack dab in a period of time when they were really cranking out velvet paintings. Also, one of the two people I spend much of my time with feels they might be allergic to this fragrance.
I like it a lot. It reminds me of when you'd used to see people perspire. I like it a lot, even when I wish to Dale Earnhardt up in heaven it would wear the H-E-Double Hockey Sticks off already. All gas, no breaks, hallelujah and TCB.
FINAL GRADE: B+
::: very :::