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Your favorite Barbershop/Fougeres

HMan

HMan

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What are your favorite barbershop or fougere fragrances and aftershaves?
I'm on a bit of a fougere bender and looking at where to go next.

These are the leading suspects from my limited collection.

1. YSL: Rive Gauche Pour Homme - The quintessential barbershop, shaving soap scent, it's alway surprising to me that this was a relatively late release, and even more that YSL has discontinued it, considering that it get universal acclaim as perhaps the best fragrance ever made in it's class.

2. Nobile 1942: Fougere Nobile - Totally different from RGpH, but absolutely wonderful for me. A brief citrus opening, vanilla and slightly animailic notes come in via tobacco and musks, followed by a laurel dry down of sandalwood and vetiver. Probably my favorite purchase so far this year. Lots fo evolution with this one, I still feel like I'm discovering it.

3. Histoires de Parfums 1745 - Very dry lavender forward aromatic fougere.

Aftershaves:

Myrsol Formula F/Extra : Spanish take on a fougere, more brown than green but wonderful stuff.

Brut: The all time classic, maybe too classic and brash?
 
HMan said:
1. YSL: Rive Gauche Pour Homme - The quintessential barbershop, shaving soap scent, it's alway surprising to me that this was a relatively late release, and even more that YSL has discontinued it, considering that it get universal acclaim as perhaps the best fragrance ever made in it's class.
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If we are talking Barbershop scents...this is my absolute favorite! And all the clones that it entails. I know a lot of people will give you the Clubman answer for Barbershop...but that style is way too powdery for me and a little tooo something else that I can't put my finger on.
 
dangerousdon said:
If we are talking Barbershop scents...this is my absolute favorite! And all the clones that it entails. I know a lot of people will give you the Clubman answer for Barbershop...but that style is way too powdery for me and a little tooo something else that I can't put my finger on.
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Rive Gauche, the undisputed heavyweight champion!

That's what crazy with Barbershop and Fougeres in general, it's a huge range of scents. None of the ones I listed small at all alike to me. I've yet to use Clubman, just never appealed to me for some reason, plus availability here is so different. I do think we have similar taste in these things.
 
I agree...YSL RG is king of barbershops!

Penhaligon’s Sartorial, at least the clone oil version I’ve tried which I’m told is a pretty good approximation, is a darn good modern, fresh barbershop.

Not sure what a good frag equivalent would be...but Irisch Moos is a classic Fougere profile.
 
So I looked at my den and honestly...of the Barbershop Scents...Fine American Blend is pretty much it (if it is actually a barbershop scent...I think it is definitely a good interpretation). This doesn't surprise me because I am not so much a powdery kind of guy. I do have Osage Rub...which is very powdery. But to be honest...the scent doesn't last long at all and the menthol usually over powers the powdery-ness. I think Sir Irisch Moos is in the Fougere realm and I do like that from time to time. It is a little powdery, but to my nose its a tad on the floral side of things and a bit sweet. I forgot that I have La Toja. I'm not sure if it is a Barbershop type scent or not. I think it is closer to Rive Gauche side of things than the powdery side of things. Either way...I dig the La Toja scent, however fleeting it is. I haven't smelled it yet, but I wonder where @CBLSoap.com / @CBLindsay 's Barba Aftershave Tonic falls in this spectrum.
 
Agreed on Fine AB and Clubman being barbershop classics. Will toss in PAA Sundown now that I have a full bottle, as it has a talc forward note that gives way to some other nice floral ones. Assume that vintage Sun Up is in that same realm but I haven't tried it. Between those three I find myself pretty well covered on the barbershop splash front.
 
My personal favorite barbershop is Mikes Natural Soaps Barbershop.

As for Fougeres, I can’t Live without Forest City Fern by Shannon’s Soaps. West Coast Shaving fougere is a close second.

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The best way to describe Barba is that the scent is very much like RiveGauche and English Fern had a secret love child. It is probably less English fern and more Rive Gauche. My old CBL BARBERSHOP scent is/was an exact match to American blend/ Rive Gauche.
 
CBLindsay said:
The best way to describe Barba is that the scent is very much like RiveGauche and English Fern had a secret love child. It is probably less English fern and more Rive Gauche. My old CBL BARBERSHOP scent is/was an exact match to American blend/ Rive Gauche.
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Why did you stop making that one? I've been looking for a Rive dupe with better scent than Fine (to me their soap smells like soap with a tiny bit of fragrance thrown in) and better performance than American Barber. PAA CaD is close, but is definitely closer to Barbasol than the original Rive Gauche.
 
Nobody has mentioned Martin de Candre Fougere yet? While I don't think the performance is out of this world the way some people do, it's still a good performer. The scent is unique, though, and very good.
 
gwsmallwood said:
Why did you stop making that one? I've been looking for a Rive dupe with better scent than Fine (to me their soap smells like soap with a tiny bit of fragrance thrown in) and better performance than American Barber. PAA CaD is close, but is definitely closer to Barbasol than the original Rive Gauche.
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I really enjoy the CBL Barbershop scent and think that BARBA is pretty great too. In fact, I think that if I could get a good clean "chrome" or metallic note into the BARBA scent it would be an exact duplicate of Barbasol. I would love to keep CBL Barber shop in the lineup but the truth is it sold very slowly. I guess if I flat out said "this stuff IS a RG clone" it might have sold differently.

In my mind, barbershop scents are very much like Barba or American blend, or something spicy and slightly powdery.
 
gwsmallwood said:
Nobody has mentioned Martin de Candre Fougere yet? While I don't think the performance is out of this world the way some people do, it's still a good performer. The scent is unique, though, and very good.
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Think this was aimed directly at the postshave world of barbershop / fougere, not the soap.

CBLindsay said:
I really enjoy the CBL Barbershop scent and think that BARBA is pretty great too. In fact, I think that if I could get a good clean "chrome" or metallic note into the BARBA scent it would be an exact duplicate of Barbasol. I would love to keep CBL Barber shop in the lineup but the truth is it sold very slowly. I guess if I flat out said "this stuff IS a RG clone" it might have sold differently.

In my mind, barbershop scents are very much like Barba or American blend, or something spicy and slightly powdery.
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Sad about that one not moving off the shelf - think that Fine AB has a large enough following out there that to Garrett's point of a RG clone with better skin food might have made it move faster. Who knows though!
 
Fightingillini22 said:
Think this was aimed directly at the postshave world of barbershop / fougere, not the soap.



Sad about that one not moving off the shelf - think that Fine AB has a large enough following out there that to Garrett's point of a RG clone with better skin food might have made it move faster. Who knows though!
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It might very well be more appealing if offered in a splash on scent as well as soap. Perhaps I will make it available as an aftershave/soap combo and see if that changes things.
 
Fightingillini22 said:
Think this was aimed directly at the postshave world of barbershop / fougere, not the soap.



Sad about that one not moving off the shelf - think that Fine AB has a large enough following out there that to Garrett's point of a RG clone with better skin food might have made it move faster. Who knows though!
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Sorry, you're right. I missed that we were in the AS subforum.
 
HMan said:
What are your favorite barbershop or fougere fragrances and aftershaves?
I'm on a bit of a fougere bender and looking at where to go next.

These are the leading suspects from my limited collection.

1. YSL: Rive Gauche Pour Homme - The quintessential barbershop, shaving soap scent, it's alway surprising to me that this was a relatively late release, and even more that YSL has discontinued it, considering that it get universal acclaim as perhaps the best fragrance ever made in it's class.
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Armaf Black Onyx is supposed to be similar to YSL Rive Gauche Pour Homme Intense
 
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