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Founded
in France in 1810, the PINAUD
brand and its CLUBMAN line of fine
men's toiletries can be found in virtually every barber shop and men's
club across the Unites States. The Clubman
Pinaud line offers a wide variety of men's toiletries and
grooming products including colognes, after shave lotions, skin and hair
tonics, moustache wax, talc, deodorants, hair-care products and shave creams.
To say that the Pinaud
brand and its Clubman line of fine men’s toiletries have staying power
is an understatement. After all, men have been using the products since
1810 when Edouard Pinaud, a perfumer, opened a shop in Paris. The house
of Ed Pinaud, as it was called, sold perfumes, shaving soaps, creams,
ace and complexion powders and dozens of other beauty and grooming
products. Pinaud’s specialties included the Eau de Quinine, a
fragrance for hair, as well as perfumes by the name of Violette Reine,
Brise embaumee Violette, Boquet de Foscarina, Genet d’Or and Marie
Louise. Pinaud also served as the perfumer for the court of Napoleon III
and created his first aftershave, Lilac Vegetal for the Hungarian
calvalry. He later launched his Clubman line of products, commissioning
an artist to create the trademark dapper Frenchman for the labels.
Today’s Clubman
colognes and aftershaves exude scents of lime, citrus, rum, musk, and
vanilla. But old standbys like Lilac Vegetal After Shave Lotion and Eau
De Quinine cologne still hold their own in the marketplace. Bob Hope was
a lifelong fan of the products, as are Kirk Douglas and Donald Trump,
which proves that quality never goes out of style.
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