Geranium & Citrus Beard Oil

You smell the citrus first. What’s left on your beard at the end of the day is dry wood and moss, and the geranium in the middle is what holds the two together.

You get two scents out of one bottle

Citrus sits on top of any scent that has it, so it’s always the part that goes first. Mandarin and lemon are what people catch when you’re close, and the sandalwood, cedar and moss underneath keep going after the fruit thins out.

• Top: mandarin, galbanum, lemon
• Middle: geranium, nutmeg, lavender
• Base: sandalwood, cedar, mosses

Wear it with your cologne

Your cologne goes on your neck and this goes on your beard and the skin under it, so the two work at different distances. Up close the citrus is what people get, and your cologne carries from further out. Work the oil into a washed beard first and let it settle, then put the cologne on.

A short beard is the easiest time to start

Skin under a new beard is drier than it was clean shaven, and there isn’t enough hair yet to hide tight skin or flaking. Start now and the skin underneath is settled by the time the beard is long enough to shape. Three or four drops at the roots does the same work on a two week beard as on a long one, and a short beard gets through less of it. If you want the detail on what each oil does, it’s on the category page.

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.