You get cold air off this one at the start, and then it turns warm and stays there. By lunch what’s left on your beard is dry wood, not the mint you opened with.
Mint on the label, no tingle on your skin
The mint and eucalyptus here are fragrance only. There’s no menthol on the ingredient list, which you can check on the label yourself. What you get is the smell of cold air on skin that’s being conditioned instead of chilled.
Cold at the start, warm by lunch
The middle is where the tonka sits, which is why the drop from cold mint to dry cedarwood doesn’t happen all at once. Amber, patchouli and cedarwood are what’s still there in the afternoon, and that’s the part people end up associating with you.
- Top: mint, bergamot, eucalyptus
- Middle: pine, clove, nutmeg, tonka beans
- Base: amber, patchouli, cedarwood
This is the only one in the line that opens cold. The other seven start warm and stay there.
What the first two weeks look like
Day one belongs to the hair. Hair looks better immediately, because oil coats hair on contact, but skin that’s been dry since October needs the full first two weeks of daily use before it stops feeling tight. That’s the gap where a beard oil usually gets written off: you judge it on the hair after one application and stop before your skin catches up.
Coarse hair takes longer than fine hair, and a long beard takes longer than a short one, because there’s more length for the same three or four drops to cover.
How to use
Work three or four drops through a freshly washed beard, starting at the roots, then comb into shape.
A 30 ml bottle holds roughly 600 drops. At three or four a day that’s about five months; at six, closer to three. Your beard size decides where you land.
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