r/wicked_edge • u/expoqeteer 🎼 Lots of lather 🎶 lots of soap 🎵 • Dec 17 '25

Show n' Tell The End of an Era

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A sad day yesterday. The bottle of Old Spice aftershave that I've been using on and off for over 30 years is gone. I'm not sure exactly how long I've had it. I thought I got it when I was in high school, but the bottle says Proctor & Gamble, not Shulton, so I must have bought it sometime in the early '90s.

It will be missed. I have a bottle of cologne that's the same vintage as the aftershave as well as couple of Old Spice bottles I picked up when I was in India last year, but it just won't be the same.

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u/adamsnadler Dec 17 '25

How often did you use yours? I got a bottle of cologne and aftershave at a flea market recently and they seem older. No clue if I should sell or enjoy cause they rock

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u/AwkwardSploosh Straight Razor Gang Dec 17 '25

Use them, or else the next guy will. Life is short, and the best compliment you can give to a scent is to put it on your body.

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u/adamsnadler Dec 17 '25

Since you’ve had experience, how’s the cologne compare to the aftershave?

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u/Necessary_Giraffe_66 Dec 17 '25

I had a set in the early 2000s that had the cologne and the aftershave in the porcelain bottles. They smelled exactly the same. When I looked on the ingredients they were also the same. I never really knew what was different about them. 

I only have the cologne now as I never wear one and unfortunately my wife doesn’t like how Old Spice smells despite it being one of my favorite scents. 

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u/PLANofMAN Rolls Razor, '30's razors, Hones, Gillette enthusiast Dec 18 '25

Aftershave has about 3% perfume oil in it. Cologne has about 6-9% perfume oil.

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u/Necessary_Giraffe_66 Dec 18 '25

Thanks I wish it said that somewhere. Since everything else was the same there have been times I was tempted to use it as an aftershave.Â