Bay Rum

I have been wearing this for many years and the reviews claiming that it is clove-heavy are flat out wrong. You want clove? Try Ogallala. Now THAT'S clove-heavy. The Bigelow is so much smoother and relies on the pimenta racemosa for it's luxurious scent. This juice is quite deep and rich. Straight Bay Rum would be Meehan's Bay Rhum (since the hurricane, prices are exorbitant). The shower gel and the aftershave balm are also excellent products. Order directly from the C.O. Bigelow website, otherwise you'll pay ridiculous prices.

I had this some years ago, during a phase where I was learning about traditional shaving (brush and lather, barbers razors, leather strops etc) and one of the places I bought a straight razor had this stuff. It's extremely old school smelling, but in a good, citrus spice kind of way reminiscent of an old barber shop. Clean, fresh, invigorating. Not something I wore to the club, (back then Acqua di Gio pour homme was the Sauvage of the day) but I liked it.

A scent with Savoir Faire. Some people hate the scent of cloves, cinnamon and nutmeg. I absolutely LOVE it. I've grown tired of overly used sweet base that sits in just about every fragrance these days thanks to the sugar addiction most women have (and deny having). It's so nice to get back to basics. This is rich, sexy, manly, I love it! Spice Done Right!

One of the fundamental problems I've noticed about Bay Rum fragrances is that they always go WAY too heavy on the clove. I've never really been able to find one that manages to handle the bay leaf note well without using too much clove, until I found this one a couple years ago. I was fifteen at the time, and really, I bought it because I heard it was being discontinued and I liked the smell of the matching shower gel, so I thought I'd get the cologne. At the time, I ended up not really digging it, simply because I found it too "old man" like, and perhaps a bit too "Christmas"-ey (think potpourri); of course, now that I've gotten a bit older and developed my taste in the past few years, I can appreciate Bigelow's Bay Rum for pulling off a smooth, sweet Bay Rum without using too much clove or smelling too much like Old Spice. It's warm, comforting, not too "old" at all, lasts a while, and you just can't beat the price. It's still around, and $29.50 USD for a 100ml bottle on Bigelow's website! I'm not a fan of Bay Rum fragrances, but if you're searching for the perfect Bay Rum, I'd say this is the one to get.

It's clove and pepper, not much else on me. Sure it's like Christmastime - it's a pomander ball gone bad.