Truefitt & Hill cream in Boots?

watchfan said:
Been a while since I posted but check in regularly, picked up 2 tubs of this in Boots, Liffey Valley, Dublin for a shocking price of €2.60 each (just over 2 fine english pounds), so obviously a mistake but anyone around should try and stock up, seems to be major Boots stores only.

And its smells preety damn good too :shave
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Missed that. At that price, I'd be willing to give it a whirl.
 
chrisbell said:
Didn't spot it in my nearest large branch, but I was in a hurry.
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aye ditto, I was having a ganders around the main Boots in manc city centre on market street.

It was hard to find anything vaguely related to proper wet shaving amongst all the crap for the latest face-paddle 5-razor jobbie!
 
If it helps: Don't look in the shaving aisle, that's all Mach 7 turbo ultra nutter multi blade systems. Go one aisle over into specialist mens toiletries, and you then have all the maufacturer specific smellies, i.e. shower gels, deodorants etc from the likes of Hackett and various other posh(er) lines. It's usually there. I've spotted it now in Westfield London Boots and the Uxbridge Boots. Can't see why Boots on Market Street in Manchester wouldn't stock it.... though maybe it's more Southern orientated for now? Dunno.
 
Had a look in my local Boots but not reached the sticks yet. Plenty of Hackett, Adidas, Fcuk etc. but nothing from T&H yet. They have cleared a shelf for something new so I might go back in another month or two.
 
I'm awaiting a call from the manager of the 'largest Boots in the city' who, I'm assured, will let me know when this product will be available in this fair metropolis.

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Canuck said:
So, that's the first shave done. It's actually pretty darn good this.

Sorry for a lack of photos, a friend has borrowed my card reader.

It's not the same as T+H's other creams, hard to explain but it's a slightly different consistency. Packaging is different, it comes in a garish neon green box which contains the tub itself. The tub is brown plastic with T+H's name across the lid. It lacks the ridged lid of T+H's other creams and it's a slightly different shape and a softer plastic which tell me it could well be packaged somewhere different to the other tubs.

Performance wise, it's actually pretty much a match. Very easy to use, it provides a nice, glossy thick lather with loads of glide, in fact it'll suffice to say that it performs exactly the same as T+H's main range. During the shave, If I had a peg on my nose, I'd have said it was the same cream.

Scent is the only thing I'm not so keen on just yet. I find T+H's creams are fairly subtle (almond being an exception) but this has a stronger scent. I'm not good at picking out individual notes but it reminds me very much of Moulton Brown handwash, so it's sort of warm and woody with some orange. I'm generally none too keen on woody scents so others might like this more.

I'm still foxed as to why they'd do this... I mean why produce a cream that's as good as your main range, and then sell it at half the price of the others in High Street stores? At a whole £7 less than a normal bowl of T+H, and for a cream that performs just as well, I'd say that any keen shaver should probably pick some up.
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It must be all about volume. They don't do it for charity!
 
moodymick said:
That said, the RP Boots had a load of new Old Spice products - deo stick, face wash, shower gel and a new flavour - Kilimanjaro :|
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