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Brut Brut (Unilever) 1964 After Shave

7.3 / 10 28 Ratings

A perfume by Brut (Unilever) for men, released in 1964. The scent is spicy-fresh. It is being marketed by Unilever.
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Main accords

Spicy

Fresh

Woody

Floral

Green

Fragrance Pyramid

Top Notes

Neroli

True lavender Basil

Basil

Heart Notes

Geranium

Fern

Base Notes

Patchouli

Sandalwood

White musk

Perfumer

Karl Mann

Ratings

Scent

7.328 Ratings

Longevity

5.526 Ratings

Sillage

5.824 Ratings

Bottle

6.027 Ratings

Value for money

8.416 Ratings

Submitted by Frankie · last update on 04/24/2025.

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Variant of the fragrance concentration

This is a variant of the perfume Brut (Eau de Toilette) by Brut (Unilever), which differs in concentration.

Smells similar

What the fragrance is similar to

Brut Eau de Toilette

Reviews

2 in-depth fragrance descriptions

03/26/2025

8.5Scent 5Longevity 5Sillage

DuftBrchen
39 Reviews

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DuftBrchen

1

Timeless old-school pure

Those who know the Eau de Toilette will know how this heavenly After Shave smells.
For those who are unfamiliar, it will be very difficult to get an exact answer. In my opinion, it is truly a "fragrance explosion" that combines several scent directions and makes one melt away.
The Brut After Shave is, like the Eau de Toilette, very pleasantly fresh, green-sweet, slightly woody, and beautifully powdery at the same time - it makes you dream... of a beautiful dark green forest followed by sun, beach, and sea, or of a majestic castle surrounded by a royal garden that houses the most beautiful flowers.
It is definitely not a typically masculine scent/After Shave, rather a tender and reserved one.
Unfortunately, the longevity is not exactly the strongest; it could definitely be better. However, you can enhance it a bit with Brut's other products (shower gel, deodorant spray, deodorant).
A classic that will never go out of style.

Updated on 03/26/2025

09/20/2018

6Scent 3Longevity 6Sillage

FvSpee
323 Reviews

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FvSpee

Top Review 13

Men Who Dream of Flowers

The message that this fragrance wants to convey is unfortunately not something I can quite grasp. It bears the name "Brut" (French for "bitter") and the subtitle "The Essence of Man" (English for "The Essence of Man" or "The Main Thing About Men," or something like that, ahem). It is colorless but filled into a toxic green bottle with a very strange shape (Tip-Ex?). The advertising images show really tough muscular men (one with a bandaged hand from the last boxing match).

The scent, on the other hand, somehow starts off alcoholically-synthetic for a short time, also a bit piercing (my breathing becomes shallow and I think, I don’t really like this, could it be toxic?), only to transition after about a minute into a sultry-floral continuum that doesn’t really change significantly until the end, which approaches after about 1-2 hours. I find rose geranium, ylang-ylang, and jasmine, as well as vanilla and patchouli, very understandable here; the supposedly present fresh top notes of lavender, citrus stuff, and basil seem to be somehow omitted for me, and the "more masculine" parts of the base notes like oakmoss and vetiver, well, I don’t know. Maybe they are somehow there.

In the comments about the EdT (which has surprisingly been commented on quite often, while here for the aftershave there’s nothing, not even a statement), the EdT scent (which is represented with an identical fragrance pyramid) was astutely described by a fellow Parfumo user as one of the few existing "florientals" (floral-oriental fragrances) aimed at men. That seems accurate to me.

I don’t have any issues with orientals and flowers per se; I even occasionally wear distinctly feminine fragrances, but I somehow can’t quite deal with this thing here (floriental? fougère? Bitter? For boxers who sniff flowers like Ferdinand the Bull?).

Technical addendum: I bought this artifact (perhaps a bit hastily) in Vancouver, Canada, where in all about 10 drugstores and supermarket drugstore sections I visited, there were exactly the same 5 or 6 aftershaves, of which this one still seemed the most bearable to me (poor Canadians). On the back, it is noted that the product was manufactured in Mexico on behalf of the company "Helen of Troy" (also funny in the ultra-masculine context: Helen of Troy, aka "the beautiful Helen"). One of the EdT comments indeed reveals that several companies worldwide are allowed to brew the stuff under license, including this one.

Updated on 09/20/2018