What's are your top 5 aftershaves and why?

My own top 5 are:

1) Vintage Chanel Pour Monsieur / Monsieur de Givenchy (understated elegance in a bottle, for date nights only.)
2) Caldey Island Lavender (As above but good for everyday, the finest soliflore in existence... Provided you like lavender!)
3) TOBS Sandalwood gel (Makes the skin feel like latex, very strong scent that lasts for hours.)
4) TOBS No.74 Original (The scent of Edwardian Britain, now sold as a "fragrance" but it's the same old aftershave just slightly stronger.)
5) Mandom Lucido (Great face feel with mild menthol and completely unscented which everybody needs one bottle of.)
 
Floid Mentolado Vigoroso -love the menthol kick

Blue Stratos - a proper ladies man smell.

Brut - Attraction Totale- because of it's citrusy clean smell..I like all the brut aftershave collection i have but this is my favourite.

Benjamins -Mentholated bay rum. a great value for money aftershave with a wonderful menthol spicey kick. Superb Stuff!

Proraso- Eucalyptus & Menthol & Sandalwood. Both fragrances i love, especially the eucalyptus & menthol the fragrance is superb, but both leave my skin feeling silky smooth.

I have a few others i like,but these are my faves to date.
 
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I'm a bit late responding here...
I use aftershave splash straight after a shave for it's astringent and antiseptic effect, plus the aromatherapy effect of the immediate fragrance. Then, after about 15 minutes I use a balm for its soothing and moisturising effect.
My top 5 combinations are:
1. Proraso Green splash for its fresh cooling feel, followed by Proraso Green balm
2. Proraso Green splash followed by GF Trumpers Skin Food (most are great) or Nivea for Men Sensitive balm
3. Pinaud Clubman Original or Musk for its warmer scent, followed by GFT or Nivea
4. Tabac Original for same reason as Clubman, (but usually after using Tabac Original shave soap) followed by Tabac splash and balm
5. Davidoff Cool Water splash followed by Cool Water balm...a game-changer when it first came out and still fantastic today.
 
My number 1 is clearly Harris Arlington. I love the scent, which is also long lasting and its face-feel going on and afterwards. My others are, for the same reasons:
2. Trumper Wellington
3. TOBS Victorian Lime
4. TOBS No.74 Original
5. M&S Woodspice Original
 
My top five are:

Lotion Opaline
Speick
Proraso Original
Old Spice
James Bronnley Gentleman

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It's not an aftershave, and it has no conditioning ingredients, and it's very fleeting but Royall Lyme smells great on the face.
 
Not in order, but my top 5

The veg
Any Boss
Club de nuit intense man
4711
Floid vig or pinaud special reserve...can I not pick my top 20 :( 5 is too few
 
1. Eau Sauvage - The original and the very best (brown mottled box, red label).
2. Acqua Di Selva - Victor (used to buy it from Maitlands, just off Jermyn Street, no longer in existence); good all rounder.
3. Dunhill Edition; again the original, charcoal grey box, night time use only.
4. Acqua di Parma; the original in yellow box
5. Gentleman Givenchy.
All the above are classics, but still the very best, in my opinion (and stayers); there are obviously many more: Paco Robanne; Trumpers, Essence of Lime; Floris 89; Ormonde Jayne, Ormonde Man; M&S Original Woodspice Gentleman; Pino Silvestre; Witch-hazel; Aramis original; the list goes on!
 
I tend to use Thayers Astringent as an aftershave (unscented) and then I will apply an edit or edp, ( not on my face ) however I have been testing a couple of aftershave splashes for Signature Soaps ( @BrianH ) and find them to be a great aftershave because you get the sting from the alchol and then you get the skin conditioning from the other ingredients leaving your skin feeling nicely conditioned so it's much more than an aftershave with a great scent.
Soon to be on general sale from Signature Soaps I hope.
He does some great shaving soaps too! :) P.
 
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Hi @whitesix - I buy a 200ml bottle of witch hazel from Savers and add about 3ml of edt - (I used some Floris samples I had) - you could also add glycerine and vodka for their respective properties. I don't measure out mls generally but am sure there is a guide out there on the interweb :)

I suppose I should have said i'll be scenting some witch hazel but I enjoy odd turn of phrase too much :)
 
Thanks flip-68; yes, I once heard that the samples are quite a bit stronger than the normal scent (I don't know if that's true), and if so they would in effect make good mixers with the witch hazel.
 
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