When you start noticing these things it really is amazing the length to which the progressive agenda is pushed in media and entertainment.  Was watching some reno show (typically bad and useless) with my daughter and these 2 homosexual homeowners were clearly solely chosen because of their orientation.  I don't have a problem with homosexuals whatsoever. The agenda I do however!  But it all starts at home doesn't it, and so why was I even watching that show i the first place?....

Back to fragrance,  I might be missing something but Acqua Di Parma make several.  I prefer "leather" and "oud" is OK.  "leather" smell close to Tom Ford's "Tuscan Leather" without the raspberry. A like alot of the older Tom Ford private blends such as Noir de Noir, Oud Wood, Velvet Gardenia, Bois Marocain, black Violet and more recently "Santal blush"

My first true love for fragrance was Ralph Lauren's Tuxedo, which was actually a women's fragrance in the very early 80s. It failed miserably because there was no way a woman would wear this it was so manly.  For vetiver, Christian Dior's "Vetiver" was not bad.

Now I am starting to purchase the pure essential oils/absolutes from various places. Got my hands on some true first grade oud and sandalwood from india and vietnam. The natural oud oil is extremely expensive and its clear why pretty much all the labels now use synthetic oud. Getting small quantities isn't complicated but the CITES permits for large quantities must be tough to secure. 

Will make my own fragrances with all the natural juices and instead of using pefume grade alcohol as the solvent was thinking of using a fine scotch instead.

I actually thought Casino Royale and Skyfall were very good and a step in the right direction.

I found them as close to the books as anything since From Russia With Love.

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I like that Bond likes scrambled eggs for dinner.  Somewhere I read that he uses Floris Limes bath gel so I have used it too and it is so nice but rather expensive for an everyday tipple, now I use Spanish bubble bath, I think Agent Double Oh-Oh would have liked them too.

My biggest James Bond takeaway is from one of the Roger Moore ones, Live and Let Die I think, in which he shaves while sitting in the bathtub.

Getting back to the grooming origin of the thread, I really like to put on a good record, get into the bathtub, read the New Yorker, and have a nice wet shave.  Trumper's coconut cream if flush, Gillette menthol if skint, and Irisch Moos from the tube if it's an extra-special occasion because that wonderful spicy product was discontinued to my chagrin.

I'm a hairy guy, and I've just always liked the fact that Connery was hairy.  That's pretty much all I've taken away from it.

Oh, PI had it in spades.  He just oozed hirsute sex out of his collar.

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What a way to herald one's own arrival.

Never read the books. So there.
But the best Bonds (Moore, Connery) had a bemused and ironic above it all attitude, they just knew you either envied or resented them.
Craig is all embroiled in his own emotions, and his f*ck you attitude is that of a hurt boy. If anything, he cares too much. We're in the 21rst century, you know, where heroes care.
The new Bond: More muscle, less brain. More fashion, less style. More furrowed brows and pursed lips, less arched brows and smug grins.

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