When I first started on the boards, the Royall line of aftershaves was all the rage, especially Royall Limes , Royall Vetiver, and Royall Bay Rum. You could only get it at a few places (Vintage Blades and maybe Smallflower) and it was going for around $55.00 per bottle plus shipping. Everybody seemed to have a bottle and those who didn't have one sought them out on the B/S/T.
Fast forward a bit and Royall introduced a few more scents (Mandarin, Spice) and the aftershaves became readily available on Ebay, Amazon and even at discount Brick and Mortar stores such as TJMax. The same exact aftershave, the exact same packaging but with prices at less than half the original MSRP. Funny, now that it is both readily available and more affordable, you never hear of it anymore. Strange how that happens.
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Still widely available, I see it here in town at Brooks Brothers, Merz and of all places Orvis. My favorites are Lyme, Vetyver and their new introduction Rugby.
I liked it, seemed a little more modern and had a bit more complexity than some of their single note colognes. I treat them more as cologne sprays than aftershaves but in the summer after I put on my Thayers I like a good spray of Royall Lyme!
I liked it, seemed a little more modern and had a bit more complexity than some of their single note colognes. I treat them more as cologne sprays than aftershaves but in the summer after I put on my Thayers I like a good spray of Royall Lyme!
I use the Royall Lymes as either an after shower splash or an as aftershave in the summer. It is very nice and I am a bit befuddled why it is no longer discussed much on the boards.
I also have the Royall Bay Rhum which I do not use very often.
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Yes, I would say that we don't say much about them here at SMF and I really don't see much at the other forms that I try and read. The guys over at Orvis say they sell through their stock fairly well especially during the holiday season.
When I buy, I usually look for the boxes from Bermuda as there is a licensee here in the US making them as well, I have never noticed any difference between them but you know how that goes with us shavers.
Never really use it directly as an aftershave as I find it a little to bracing for my liking. I do notice a few guys liking the Muske and Spyce, their Bay Rhum has never really done it for me.
Both bottles of the Bay Rhum I've owned were acquired via various B/S/T threads in different forums, now I'm down to half a bottle. I concur Phil, lotsa radio silence of late. I actually use it as a post workout shower body spritz at the gym (incidentally from one of your blue atomizer bottles). Fellows in the locker room remark that it smells "purty good" but wince at the price compared to the drugstore junk they buy.
Tony
"They say that dreams are growing wild just this side of Burma Shave" - Tom Waits
Back in the mid 80s I used on occasion the Lyme, Bay Rhum, and Spyce. I began to drift away from them in the early 90s. I never thought to use them as aftershaves (and I wouldn't today, either). I liked all three of them reasonably well, but I found other more or less comparable products I like more. If I were to receive one of them as a gift, I wouldn't turn it down or throw it away; however I simply now prefer other brands in each of those scent classes.
The Royall line with Guerlain Imperiale were the scents that broke me from the family alpha-omega use of Old Spice. The bay rum came with an actual bay leaf before licensing in the USA. I noticed just before the internet became a market resource local B&M stores ran the price up on both of those names.
