While on a recent trip to South Florida, I *of course* had to check out local colognes and aftershaves.
I was rewarded with a great story and some neat products.
"Crusellas" is a local fragrance company. Once the most popular soap maker in Cuba, the company was "nationalized" - meaning stolen by Castro's goons - and the family fled to Miami. The story is here: (note: not putting links to any products for sale. Crusellas doesn't sell to the public, just distributors).
There were a pretty cool company, actually giving away houses as part of their advertising promotions. Anyways.
Crusellas makes lots of aftershave/cologne products; I'll briefly review three I bought.
(Left-right) Agua de Ruda is one of several market toward the .... hmmm. Santeria or "spiritual" market. Let me leave it at that. Agua de Ruda has melon and peppermint tones that are a nice change of pace in aftershave/weak colognes. It's meant as a "jinx breaker" but that's only if you are a, ah, religious novitiate. Anyways, it's got enough alcohol in it to be a nice aftershave and got it on sale for $2 and change.
Second one, Agua Floral, is simply a takeoff on the popular Florida Water. It smells exactly the same, though it doesn't have the bluish color (see below. Actual Florida water is in the large center olive oil pourer).
However, the Crusellas version is half the price of Florida Water. Done deal!
Third one is a patchouli cologne "with root". There is indeed a sprig of some root in the bottle ... it's a weak patchouli scent; kinda smoky, fades over a few hours. Also nice for a change of pace.
OK. I used the word "crazy," that's subjective. Maybe "way out of the ordinary" would be better. Because I also found this one ...
Now come on. Who WOULDN'T want a cologne called "Destroy Everything?"
I have GOT to know what that one smells like ...
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Crazy Cuban Colognes!
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