OXonjaldB – 2022-07-01:

5 out of 5

I am so glad to have stumbled upon this again after many, many years! I had bought a large bottle when I was a teenager for what seemed pennies at the time and wore it everywhere. I know this is supposed to be a man’s fragrance but I just love this! I wonder if it’s why I love lilacs so much – I have planted lilacs in every yard I’ve had over the last 50 years. I’m so glad this is still being produced!

sergoval – 2022-07-01:

4 out of 5

Today is Easter, for many the beggining of spring, and it’s the first time of the year l always reach for Lilac Veg. In the fall I prefer my bay rum and old spice aftershave. In winter it use to be English Leather, but since that juice is no longer available in its original formulation, I have migrated to more practical menthol fragrances for the winter, particularly Osage Rub and Aqua Velva. Menthol based aftershaves are perfect for the winter. However, when it comes to Spring time nothing will ever beat Lilac Veg as my seasonal aftershave. I’ll repeat that… NOTHING will beat it this time of year.
Tip: For those gents that fail to be chosen by the Veg, don’t despair. Buy a skin safe Lilac essential oil and add a few drops to your bottle. Trust me it makes a world of difference and it’s absolutely beautiful while still maintaining the animalitic legendary vibe that is well known about The Veg.
And remember… Easter morning or Passover is the best time of the year to reach for The Veg.

chebushev – 2022-07-01:

5 out of 5

You’re either Chosen by The Veg or you’re not. I’m among the Chosen, and I absolutely adore Lilac Vegetal.
First whiff upon application smells like peepee on a tile floor. Not directly like peepee, but like cheap industrial lilac air fresheners commonly used to mask peepee. I can see how this would be enough to turn most people away instantly.
On my skin the peepee note goes away very quickly and gives way to very unusual bright yet powdery florals that seemingly should not work on a man but somehow do. Grandma’s purse and that powder puff she kept on her dresser and never used.
Very shortly after the vegetal notes kick in. Then it smells like Glade sprayed over a pot of rotting spinach. Yet somehow it still manages to smell great to my nose. Then the florals fade and the rotting spinach turns into the smell of Play-Doh. At that point I can’t stop huffing myself.
What should be a disgusting foul mess of a stench just… works. Do not ask me how but it does. I still can’t make sense of it. But I love this stuff. My wife merely likes it, but thankfully doesn’t hate it. I’d probably wear it anyway.
MUST be decanted into glass. The cheap funky plastic note is horrifyingly bad, but it disappears once decanted.

Haos77 – 2022-07-01:

5 out of 5

I will change my mind a little bit and say that yeah, this is certainly not the true scent of lilacs. Comparing this with Highland Lilac, which smells authentic and quite nice, this is syrup and sugar, though there is some lilac like scent mixed out of these syrups. It’s like all the pinaud products, none of them smell really all that great really. something cheap just to splash on when not using a perfume though it’s fine for that.

webcamery – 2022-07-01:

4 out of 5

John Galsworthy did a series of novels of an upper-class British family in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. “The Forsyte Saga,” written much later. The main character in the novels is Soames Forsyte. After a failed marriage to a beautiful woman, he marries a second time to a French girl, named Annette. After many years, Annette, who was a canny Frenchwoman, had a friend nammed Prosper Profond, who was Belgian. This is what Profond smelled like. Lilac with just hint of god-knows-what-else. I only wear it after I take my shower in the evening–just for me. After I go to the gym, I wear Clubman.

russia135 – 2022-07-01:

3 out of 5

Smells like a straight up urinal puck. Whoever is voting that it smells like top-shelf frags like Aventus and Neroli Portofino needs to grow up.

korshun112 – 2022-07-01:

3 out of 5

If your grandfather had worn this, you wouldn’t be… I would change it to your Grandfather wore this and somehow he still got close enough to a woman and made you.

ewz327Unlogrere – 2022-07-01:

5 out of 5

I got this the other day, I love the scent of lilacs since it is so fresh florally and springtime.
I decided to smell it for the first time on the walk home, walking outside to have a nice initial impression.
I splashed it out, trying to splash just a little, but be warned, this splashes out a lot for some reason, so be carefull if you just want a little. After all though it does say body splash too, but I got it for an aftershave/splash tonic.
Anyways, I splashed it on, and what hit me was a really nice scent of – lilacs! yes that’s right, hard to believe? smells really good I think and exactly like lilacs with it’s unique scent of floral, woodyness, crisp springtime outdoorsy lilac scent.
I mean, it is not the best lilac, you can smell some sugar and syrup in it with the smell, so it doesn’t have the lightness of true lilacs, but it does smell like them, and for $6 or $12 it’s not bad to splash on now and then.
Mixed in at times, and more so later on a sweetish powder is there smelling like the scent in the Pinaud’s Talc powder which I have.
Anyways, this stuff can be pretty strong for a while and lasts quite a few hours, and for the lilac scent it’s pretty nice.

Tolerman – 2022-07-01:

3 out of 5

THE VEG. Possibly the most polarizing scent in masculine perfumery. I’m happily one of The Chosen that enjoy its scent. Admittedly, the initial splash can be off-putting, with its “industrial cleaner” opening. However, push through that, and you’re left with a powdery floral. Clean, simple, and elegant; this is quite possibly my favorite aftershave, as well as scents in general

denis666 – 2022-07-01:

3 out of 5

I guess I’m in the “chosen” camp when it comes to the Veg. I love wearing it on the weekends in the spring/summer with some Eau de Quinine in my hair when I’m just piddling around the house or garage. I really like the “when old school wants to go old school” vibe it gives me. I would suggest that it be transferred into glass and put it away for a couple of months in a dark corner to get the funky smell from the plastic out. The difference after is like night and day and it really transforms into a wonderful fragrance. Also I would keep the plastic bottle for comparison.

axm016JeomiWogkig – 2022-07-01:

4 out of 5

As can be seen from the other reviews, Lilac Vegetal is an all or nothing fragrance, eliciting either love and appreciation or retched revulsion. My suspicion is that the scent reacts very differently with different body chemistry and/or is perceived quite differently by different people. Also, the “in the bottle” scent and initial opening on the skin is quite bizarre and somewhat reminiscent of fermentation or a (dirty) litter box. No one should draw conclusions about the potential for this scent until at least 30 min after application. For me at least, the ultimate reward of the fresh, authentic lilac/powder dry down is worth the wait. This scent to me is both classic in recalling barber shops of old, but also not dated or out of character with more modern tastes and expectations.

афина – 2022-07-01:

5 out of 5

What karlovonamesti said was so spot on for me.
There are times for the Veg, though.
It is best for what it is.
Life can be hard at times and frankly, we can all take ourselves too seriously.
There are moments when the right thing to do is to see friends, go out and wear a fragrance you like because you want to convey your cool, refined, intelligent side.
The Veg is part of my wardrobe and shelves because sometimes what I want is to remind myself to be humourous, take a step back and embrace the irony of things. To laugh at myself. Go with the mix.
The Veg.
There is Marmite.
There is Vegemite.
There are no bad paths. Just paths. Sometimes the path least travelled.. 🙂
I have been known to wear way too much of this stuff on purpose!
There will be times when you want people to keep their distance!
Sometimes this stuff works for that!
Caution – it does not always work for that.
Double caution – when ‘that girl’ walks into the room and you think

2010 bmw 13 – 2022-07-01:

3 out of 5

The descriptions of this fragrance were so strange (and the price so low) I had to check it out. Opening is straight up lilac and surprisingly feminine. Dry down is pretty faint, powdery with a hint of lily of the valley. It wasn’t the green explosion I expected, but is unique for a drugstore brand. It would be a good “polite” scent for the train when going into the city on a spring Saturday.

gapRereprep – 2022-07-01:

4 out of 5

There really isn’t anything that smells like this. And people who sniff this for the first time might find that an understatement … with a confused additional thought of ‘why, why would someone deliberately make something that smells like this?’
If you like ‘strange’ fragrances that smell ‘strangely’ natural and fade fast into an even ‘stranger’ soft sweet’n’sour saturated flower stemish musk – boyo, you just might have found your long lost signature scent.
If you enjoy the smell of flowers stems (doesn’t matter the kind) that have been marinating in a vase of aspirin water for a week longer than they should have – this is your holy grail.
It’s ‘strange’ and almost off-putting, but it manages to work under the right circumstances. It’s an uneasy amalgam of oldness & freshness. Beautiful in their own way but ‘strangely’ uncomfortable when mixed together. It’s the Ivan Albright of aftershaves

tarzan123 – 2022-07-01:

3 out of 5

Oh, I haven’t thought of this in years! And I still have a tiny bit left shoved way back in the Narnia corners of the closet.
This is such a strange smell, like lilac and cat piss, and I mean that in the nicest way. After you’ve smelled it once I dare you not to want to smell it again. The alcohol always seems to cut through the floral miasma at the oddest moments, which keeps good old Vegetal smelling like something you might encounter if you sat in on an autopsy.
I love Lilac Vegetal; it smells terrific on my skin. It is emphatically not for everyone, but it’s so cheap that if you love perfume you should at least give it a sniff sometime-it won’t break the bank, and it will expand your mind.

dmm7 – 2022-07-01:

5 out of 5

I’m so happy the House of Clubman has finally been included! Lilac Vegetal is definitely a strange one – its weird animalic topnotes are NOT for newbies or the faint of heart. It’s sort of the old-fashioned version of Secretions Magnefique – so bad you have to love it. True “jolie-laide”(Beautiful and ugly)scent. I was at Merz Apothecary in Chicago and the saleslady and I were both completely astounded by this bizarre concoction and both bought a bottle. For the price you can wear it and tell people it’s the newest “thing” from the hippest niche house.

RavenStorm – 2022-07-01:

4 out of 5

This is a very “old fashioned” men’s fragrance, straight out of the old-school barbershops, and hence is an acquired taste for today’s men.
The lilac notes are indeed quite sweet in a way that is different from, say, Joop. There is a feel of Evening in Paris which is not what one would expect in a man’s frag.
However, I think Lilac Vegetal is an excellent daytime fragrance for a daring fellow (you certainly won’t smell like all the other guys!), and is also good for women looking for something a little different.
There is a leafy note that the previous reviewer called “spinach” but that I sensed as herbal/sharp. Normally I am not bonkers about “green” scents, but mixed with the lilac and a slight muskiness, it works.
The sillage and longevity are surprisingly strong for an aftershave.
I had a bottle of this years ago and am thinking about getting another one.
Update: Another phrase I would use to describe it is “unique charm”.

warsong – 2022-07-01:

5 out of 5

Ahhh, the “Veg.”
I had a bottle of this several years ago, the big twelve ouncer, which I used as an aftershave. It was the most difficult aftershave to use, hands down. Most of the time it smelled downright awful. Imagine chopped spinach and hard white vinegar mixed with some sort of animal urine, followed by the weirdest powdery-sweet floral note under the sun. That’s the “Veg.”
Except that occasionally, when the moon, the stars, the tides, the magnetic pull at the equator, my ex-girlfriend’s perpetual bad mood, and the winning New York lottery numbers were all perfectly aligned, that weird top accord smelled green and pleasantly bracing, and its awful floral drydown seemed refined and delicate. This literally happened once every thirty or forty wears. At some point I decided it wasn’t worth it and chucked the stuff.