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  • PorkButtsNTaters666OP
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    11 months ago

    At the place where I’m on vacation, they have Pitralon aftershave in a supermarket - both the classic red and also a blue Polar one. Should I get one, and if yes, which one and why?

    Answers telling me that the correct response is “both” will not be accepted.

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      11 months ago

      The real question is – do you live in the US and are you willing to be a mule for me?

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      11 months ago

      I’m not a fan of the polar one. Smells like alcohol and menthol.

      I’m curious about the red one. Polar is a German Pitralon, but the *normal" Pitralon there is green. Swiss Pitralon is red, but the power isn’t sold here, so what’s your red Pitralon? Where does it come from? If it’s like the Swiss Pitralon Original:

      Then it’s glorious: classic Ralon scent (which is said to be identical to the original uNoBtAiNiUm Pitralon) plus pear.

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        11 months ago

        I managed to go to the supermarket without my dear wife. It doesn’t look quite like the Swiss version:

        It’s produced by Minervium in Breda in the Netherlands.

        I will use it tonight, and report back.

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          11 months ago

          Noice. Mind lifting the secret about the country where you bought this? Asking for a Pitralon - collecting friend😅

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            11 months ago

            It’s Austria! If you go to Croatia by car, you might get a chance to aquire the elixir on the way.

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              Alas, I’m a carless millennial and we’re flying directly. I’ll have to go for a separate Schnitzel & Pitralon trip someday.

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                  11 months ago

                  Interesting! I thought I had bought all the German Pitralons. One more to chase down!

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                11 months ago

                Not to hijack, but have fun in Croatia. I went a few years ago and loved every second in the country.

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                  Thanks!

                  Yeah, Croatia is great for vacationing. I’m really looking forward😌

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      11 months ago

      The correct answer for the number of aftershaves, soaps, razor, and so on is always n+1, where n is the number you currently have. So if you buy one of them, you’ll need to buy the second one too…

      Jokes aside, I am not familiar with Pitralon. I did however go to their website and read up on the fragrance pyramid of both of them. They both sounds lovely, but I would spend my money on the classic red.

      Cedar wood just sounds better to me than freshly mown grass :)

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        I am not familiar with Pitralon.

        Pitralon features in a few German-language popsongs, among which this one. Trigger-warning: weird 1980 stuff. The song claims that “girls like it when you smell like a polecat”, and strongly suggests that the use of Pitralon is a way of achieving this.

        I assume that this version references the classic red one - and I’m both tempted and afraid of trying it.

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          That was certainly… a thing.

          Shame my deutsch ist sehr, sehr schlecht. Enough that I could pick up the gist of it. No worse that a lot of Norwegian 80’s stuff, to be honest :P

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            Well, this is not very Standard German, and the band, while having a huge success in Austria and Bavaria (and maybe in Switzerland?), never made it in the rest of Germany.

            Divided by our common language, as we say 🤷‍♂️

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              Huh, I had gotten it into my head that you’re really ÉpaulesDePorcEtPatates, but now I’m wondering whether you were SchweinsschulterUndKartoffeln all along 😅🤔

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    11 months ago

    I was expecting more people to be here once the Lather Games were over, but I totally forgot about Austere August. Are most of the users still over at reddit for AA?

    Also, how were the LGs this year?

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      Also, how were the LGs this year?

      Lather Games were a success, IMO. The top twenty or so participants really brought their A game.

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      Are most of the users still over at reddit for AA?

      I guess so: there are competitions, and prices to be won.

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        That makes sense. I really just forgot all about it.

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            11 months ago

            That’s disappointing. I don’t think I’ll go back, which I guess means no more shaving community for me. Oh well, it was fun while it lasted.

            • gfdoto@lemmy.world
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              11 months ago

              I’m off Reddit for good as well. Maybe be like me and join the Discord server if you’re missing the shaving community and don’t feel like going back to Reddit. It’s also nice to stop reading so much about wetshaving which really cuts down on the FOMO and the shaving purchases. I’ve been really enjoying the stuff I have and I’m also working on killing more soaps which is nice.

              • spj_hook
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                That’s an interesting idea, I’ve never used discord. I’ve mostly done a good job over the years of not going crazy with my purchases, but the temptation was always there, so good call on that.

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              We’ll see how things will work out - maybe in September, everybody will turn up here.