Review (4/5): If you want to smell like a teenager going on his first date …
If this beard balm had one-quarter the amount of fragrance, I might have rated it five stars.
After applying it, my wife said I smelled like a high school prom with young men dousing themselves with cheap cologne.
And that’s a shame because the balm itself is very nice. It loses its hold over the day, but then again, most others do as well. It’s smooth, not greasy, and comes in a very classy package (it would make a nice gift for people with beards).
But I can’t get over the strength of the fragrance. BTW, when I said it smelled like cheap cologne, I didn’t mean to imply that it is cheap cologne. When you use too much of anything, it has that overwhelming smell of cheapness.
If I were able to use less of this and still control my beard, I would use this but, alas, the amount needed to control the beard means that the fragrance will be too strong.
I accidentally got some of this on my lower lip and was tasting it through many cups of coffee and past lunch.
If you think that the cologne or perfume that you are wearing should be obvious to anyone in the room, this could be your balm. If you, like me, prefer that only someone who is standing close might notice a pleasant fragrance coming from somewhere, I could not recommend it for you.