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Apparently in the film Goldfinger Sean Connery is shown using a Gillette Slim Adjustable :)

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Ah yes, now then.

This is one of those subjects that's done the rounds a few times on some of the other shaving forums.

In the books, 007 uses either a Gillette or a Hoffritz but in "007 in New York" Fleming writes that Bond goes out and buys a heavy-duty, open-comb Hoffritz which he thinks is much better than the Gillettes.

I'm sure someone will pop by to tell us what Bond's favourite cologne was but he mentions a couple of times that he dislikes cologne . . . he says English men don't need it - they bathe.
 
From my long departed youth I seem to recall that in the seventies someone almost as strange as I was then asserted after researching it that the Hoffritz mentioned a couple of books and a short story was a Merkur 11c made on behalf of Foffritz Cutlery in NY & marked up with their brand name. They did a couple of models and I have a Hoffritz branded travel razor in a metal case which is virtually identical to the current open comb Merkur traveller. The Gillette slim I believe was used in Goldfinger because the props dept needed a razor with the type of handle which had something at the base which could appear to be unscrewed and used in the heel of his shoe as a tracker device.

Wow, how old do I feel now for knowing all this stuff !

JohnnyO.
 
joe mcclaine said:
I'm sure someone will pop by to tell us what Bond's favourite cologne was but he mentions a couple of times that he dislikes cologne . . . he says English men don't need it - they bathe.
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Agreed............ it is often said that GFT's Eucris was an old Bond favourite however im sure the exact reference was to the hair dressing and not to the cologne.

In Casino Royale at the end he is pictured with a Santa Maria Novella bottle but I have no interest in finding out which.............

Santa Maria Novella isn't my Italian cologne of choice :lol: :roll:
 
There is always talk about Floris No89 when Bond is being discussed, but I did read somewhere that it was actually Ian Flemming's favorite cologne, not Bond's, and isn't mentioned in the novels.

Reading the Bond novels is on my to do list, and only a few places above the item that involves Katie Price, Graham Norton, and a high powered rifle.

Ian
 
For what it's worth, the Eucris oil based hairdressing was used by Mr. Fleming & in one letter to an enquirer he specifically stated that he (Fleming) wore Eucris whilst Bond used no hairdressing. Floris (repeatedly plugged in the Bond books) did in fact send him a letter of thankies for the product placement and a complimentary bottle of Lime Bath Essence. According to his biographers Mr. Fleming did use Floris No 89 cologne, Pinaud hair tonic & was fond of Guerlain "Fleur des Alpes" soaps. These would, I imagine have contrasted nicely with his silver handled toothbrush, (bought in New York). All this allied to his custom of sitting on the toilet enjoying his custom made Morland cigarettes must have made for a most interestingly scented bathroom.

Now, if only I had kept all those first edition paperbacks I bought in my teens in the sixties, I could have a shaving container filled with (almost) as many desireable goodies as Fido or The Anster !

JohnnyO.
 
IanM said:
There is always talk about Floris No89 when Bond is being discussed, but I did read somewhere that it was actually Ian Flemming's favorite cologne, not Bond's, and isn't mentioned in the novels.

Reading the Bond novels is on my to do list, and only a few places above the item that involves Katie Price, Graham Norton, and a high powered rifle.

Ian
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The challenge would be to see if you could restrict that to item single bullet :twisted:
 
I have been working my way through the Bond books lately but have been side-tracked a bit after someone suggested Le Carre.

Within the first few pages of Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy the main character George Smiley bumps into an old colleague who is coming out of Trumpers after his weekly haircut.

Smiley was on Curzon Street on his way to Heywood Hill's bookshop to sell a valuable book.

Later that evening he meets the same man for dinner at a club in Manchester Square and catches a whiff of "one of Trumpers more sensitive creations".
 
cheese_dave said:
joe mcclaine said:
catches a whiff of "one of Trumpers more sensitive creations".
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Is it just me who got the giggles at that sentence?
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I think it's "whiff of Trumpers" that does it. You can't beat a good fart gag, and a few farts have made me gag!

Ian
 
"Whiff of Trumpers'" rather than "Trumpeting a whiff" perhaps. Dear Lord, all this from an innocent post about an adjustable Gillette Slim. Where's a steward when one requires them, high time to restore the gentlemanly decorum which should characterise civilised exchanages in grooming forums methinks. :lol:

JohnnyO.
 
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