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When do you "retire" the Summer scents for the season?

WHen do you "retire" those Summer scents?

  • Just like you don't wear white after Labour Day they go away!

    Votes: 3 9.7%

  • I keep them around all year around! Forget about it old man winter!

    Votes: 11 35.5%

  • I indulge in a little "Summer" goodness now and then...

    Votes: 9 29.0%

  • I have so much stuff I don't know where it starts or stops! I grab whatever is around!

    Votes: 8 25.8%
  • Total voters
    31
Somnos

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This is a question I have been meaning to ask more out of sheer curiosity than anything else. There are milestone dates through out the year but here in the Great White North we work off the Victoria Day or "May 24" weekend as the official start to "Beers and BBQ" season or Summer. The beginning of the end of Summer is usually signalled by those in the Toronto and Southern Ontario region with the opening of the Canadian National Exhibition or CNE. Kids know when that "Lady stops singing" its back to school! Normally it would run from Aug 20 to Sept 6 or Labour Day weekend. So for me anyway, I retire the Summer scents on Sept 7.

Do you keep them in rotation all year around? Do you put them away and dream about the warm sun on your face until them come back out again in Spring? Do you sneak one in on those dark and dreary December days?
 
I usually just grab what my nose is pleased with at that particular moment. I do tend to shy away from distinctly warmer scents during the hotter parts of the year, but everything is fair game during the cooler parts. For example, I don't think I've used B&M Leviathan during the summer...ever, but I've definitely grabbed B&M Adagio during the winter.
 
I just realized the downside of my attempts to kill the products on my counter. No beak jamming as occured. I think I might need to dig around and jam my beak into something delicious. Maybe CBL Barbershop, that's good stuff, hermano.
 
bentheduck said:
I just realized the downside of my attempts to kill the products on my counter. No beak jamming as occured. I think I might need to dig around and jam my beak into something delicious. Maybe CBL Barbershop, that's good stuff, hermano.
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I have Hermano and I do like it but it isn't in the "first round" of the Fall scents pull for me...
 
Somnos said:
This is a question I have been meaning to ask more out of sheer curiosity than anything else. There are milestone dates through out the year but here in the Great White North we work off the Victoria Day or "May 24" weekend as the official start to "Beers and BBQ" season or Summer. The beginning of the end of Summer is usually signalled by those in the Toronto and Southern Ontario region with the opening of the Canadian National Exhibition or CNE. Kids know when that "Lady stops singing" its back to school! Normally it would run from Aug 20 to Sept 6 or Labour Day weekend. So for me anyway, I retire the Summer scents on Sept 7.

Do you keep them in rotation all year around? Do you put them away and dream about the warm sun on your face until them come back out again in Spring? Do you sneak one in on those dark and dreary December days?
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A quote from Winston Churchill seems appropriate:

“This is the lesson: never give in, never give in, never, never, never, never—in nothing, great or small, large or petty—never give in except to convictions of honour and good sense. Never yield to force; never yield to the apparently overwhelming might of the enemy.”

Of course, I pretty much wear shorts, t-shirts, and Birks year round! ;)
 
For the last few years I just kept using up whatever was in my rotation.

But I realized last fall\winter that I wanted to change things up a bit for this fall\winter season.

So these 4 soaps will be going into the rotation next month

LHNC Bay Rum
LHNC Tobacco & Bay
Proraso Red cream
IColonaili Smoked Mango

Really looking forward to this change of pace. But the tough part is going to be. What I decide to take out of my current rotation for them?
 
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