Skin Bracer Mennen 1931

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Skin Bracer is a popular perfume by Mennen for men and was released in 1931. The scent is fresh-green. It is still in production.

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Main accords

Fresh

Green

Spicy

Powdery

Sweet

Ratings

Scent

8.428 Ratings

Longevity

7.025 Ratings

Sillage

6.024 Ratings

Bottle

4.429 Ratings

Submitted by DonVanVliet, last update on 05.01.2024.

Reviews

2 in-depth fragrance descriptions

11/23/2023

9
Pricing 5
Bottle 6
Sillage 6
Longevity 8.5
Scent

SiameseDream
1 Review

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SiameseDream

Very helpful Review

Razor burn? - Call 911 - The Skin Bracer

Mennen Skin Bracer
A typical drugstore aftershave of American origin.
It has been on the market for almost 100 years now - available almost all over the world in glass or plastic.
At first glance, the packaging might suggest mouthwash or antifreeze.
But appearance should not be the main criterion here.
Cap off and go!

The skin tightener goes to work with herbaceousness during initial treatment.
Irritated skin must be soothed and cared for as quickly as possible.
Medicinal mint, a little lavender, sage, a hint of spicy coriander and perhaps thyme. Everything is gently dabbed onto the wounds.
An authentically cool breeze, like entering a cold store, leaves the pores shock-frozen with joy and immediately refreshed.

Immediately afterwards, a fluffy, sweet marshmallow flavor spreads.
Powder dusts onto shiny baby bums.
A huge bubble, made from a whole blister of ball chewing gum, bursts into the finest tuberose particles.
They transform into thunderclouds and are discharged in woodruff-like showers of coumarin.

A mixture that smells like the entire confectionery department of a US supermarket in the era of the economic miracle.
Squeaky-colored advertising blocks flicker before my mind's eye.
Sammy Davis Jr. aka "The Candyman" jingles from his car and meter-high vanilla soft ice cream spirals spill into the waffles.
I taste memories of toothpaste from the early 80s - my childhood.
Tooth decay is getting the better of me, a talking beaver tells the viewer about dental hygiene, and if you brush properly, you can still bite hard tomorrow.
At the end, I fall into a fluffy XXL musk bed. The mattress is pore-deep clean and moss-primed.

This aromatic fougère really refreshes in an incredibly pleasant way.
A blend of Lancaster's Eau de Toilette Concentrée and Davidoff's Relax.
Coupled with this aftershave-typical freshness kick start, this is really fine stuff.

10/01/2018

2
Bottle 4
Sillage 5
Longevity 9.5
Scent

Anika
6 Reviews

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Anika

Top Review 23

No better way to face the day

By chance I discovered the metallic-green cardboard in the After Shave shelf of a drugstore during my holidays.
That's crazy: that's my dad's After Shave!

At the end of the 90s my father worked together with young Americans in gastronomy. "Official language" was English. They shared an interest in vintage cars, music, the American lifestyle and didn't take themselves too seriously, laughed a lot. To this day it seems to have been the best time of his life when he talks about these days. At his request, a colleague brought him a bottle of After Shave from the supermarket for Americans stationed in Germany. A transparent plastic bottle with a black screw cap. Looks like nothing special for now... Today it is all the more so.

I remember exactly how my father smelled back then. But when I was a kid, I didn't realize he smelled like After Shave. The smell was: simply he.
As a little child I loved to sit on the washstand and watch my father shave his face in the steaming, warm bath after taking a shower. "How much I'd love to be a man later, I could be as great as my dad." He winked at me, let his big hands run full under the tap and washed his face with hot water. The water pearls dripped from his blond eyelashes. The towel followed.
The final step was the clapping application of the after shave to the cheeks, neck and neck. I can hear it until today when I think about it.

Mennen Skin Bracer smelled intensely sweet, then as now.
I find it hard to take it apart. Because it's one in my olfactory memory. A scent. A smell.
Immediately after the application on the skin something massive is to be noticed. Herbaceous somehow. Lavender? Lavender may be in it, too. In any case, menthol is there that you can smell and "feel". The After Shave lies wonderfully cool on the skin. Vanilla is the main actor in Skin Bracer.... sweet and very present, but never cheap. I also mean to smell tonka bean, amber and this green note that doesn't open up to me. Something mossy, angular. It only lingers a moment. Almond could also be in it - something that smells like "care" and is very gentle. I can also make out a citric, sweet note. Grapefruit?
At first Mennen Skin Bracer is very intense and strong. That will resolve itself in the first ten minutes (unfortunately). The further course is exclusively sweet and powdery. I associate baby powder.
As a woman, I like to wear it today, too. I don't think he's clearly male. I have to say that I have always liked men's fragrances and therefore I do not necessarily have to be agreed with. Unfortunately, after a short time I no longer perceive it in myself. I have to go to the forearm with my nose to smell it again. But it's an aftershave and not an eau de parfum...
At my father he still smelled after hours at a distance of 2-3 meters. Was Skin Bracer the victim of a reformulation? My father recently denied my suspicion
Two years ago I gave my father a new bottle.
Now there are two in the bathroom. The same, almost empty bottle from that time and "mine". I am happy for my father that he can use his Mennen After Shave more often again. If it gets empty, he now knows that he will be able to get his scent from good days without any problems.
So for my dad it's "Mennen - No better way to face the day" again - like in the commercial.

I love you, Daddy.