Please Help!!!

Hello everyone, I'm a 58 years young man in need of some recommendations for after shaves. With thousands of different fragrances out there now, I'm just realising that a hit-or-miss approach to find those that I like isn't going to work, especially, and surprisingly, that the vast majority of those that I have tried I find revolting. Throughout my life there have been many one-off after shaves, of which I can't possibly remember their names, but those I do recall using would be Tang, Burley, Fahrenheit and Norfolk Lavender, each of which lasted about a decade! I'm looking for warm, deep and pleasant fragrances. I live miles from anywhere so I don't have the opportunity to go sampling, but rely buying on eBay at present. To give you some idea of my tastes, here's what I've discovered so far : Escada Casual Friday - evil concoction ; Cerutti 1881 - horrible ; Azzaro pour Homme - ghastly ; Mary Kay Tribute - horrible ; Enliven - boring ; Dana English Leather - surely nobody would buy this? Indescribable ; Paul Smith Men - like Fahrenheit at first, before drying down to manure ; Kenzoair - horrible ; Hackett London - virtually no smell ; Joop Rococo - horrible ; L'Occitane L'Occitan - ghastly ; L'occitane Cade - extremely horrible ; Nicolr Farhi Homme - horrible ; Contradiction - seemed pleasant at first, then horrible ; Baldessarini Ambre - strange, sour and annoying ; Eau de Rochas Homme - sour, urine like and annoying ; Bvlgari Red Tea - couldn't wash this off quickly enough, smells like very sweet coconut. Evil ; Eternity - pleasant and wearable, but not likeable enough to want to buy again ; Obsession - unique, but comments as Eternity ; Yardley English Blazer - cold fragrance, but comments as Etenity ; Burberry London - I wasn't sure about this one at first, but I've come to be slightly addicted. I will buy this again for sure ; Vera Wang - this is beautiful and my favourite so far. What a shame it's so weak! I realise it's each to his own, but I hope that the above will help you to help me? Any thoughts much appreciated and my apologies for being so long-winded. Thanks, C.

petruccijc - thanks for your time and effort in making your reply. Much appreciated, C.

charlielu - I'll promise to use paragraphs if you use punctuation in future ;-)

Bigsly - thanks for your reply. I only use balms these days and I test them by spreading a little on my arm, so I doubt that I'm overpowering myself. Perhaps I'm just too old fashioned for all these newer fragrances I'm experiencing for the first time?

Redneck Perfumisto - thanks for your recommendation. At last! This is just the kind of suggestion I was hoping for when I started this thread. C.

TwoRoads & Magnifiscent - my thanks for your taking the time to make recommendations. I am (slowly) taking steps to follow them up and I will definitely let you know some time in the future how I get on. Regards, C.

Redneck Perfumisto - tried Estee Lauder Pleasures for Men but, you guessed it, I wasn't overwhelmed. Smells like a floor cleaner they use here :-/

Magnifiscent - tried Burberry Touch but, you guessed it too, I really didn't like this on me - and as I like Burberry London so much, I was surprised. Smells like burnt rice pudding :-/ and IMHO far too feminine.

danho & mikeperez23 - thanks for your suggestions. I'll come back on them when and if I can try them.

In general : to my original list I can add some other fragrances which I have tried. Calvin Klein Truth ; Oriflame Rebel ; Ted Lapidus Ted ; Thierry Mugler B*Men ; & Rochas Lui (interesting, but something vaguely familiar about this. Then I remembered! When I was a child the old lady next door wore an insect repellent that smelled just like this. I find myself, at best, indifferent to these fragrances and generally disappointed at the femininity, lack of depth and, well, overall lack of pleasantness. We have a very amusing programme here called 'Grumpy Old Men' - I think I'm off to join them now. C.

Wordbird - thanks for your reply, and it's made my day that I caused you to actually break out in a grin, but I'll have you know that I was genuinely grumpy ;-)

Seriously though, I appreciate your suggestions, especially the one about trying leather and rubber. I will certainly come back to you at a later date if I have anything to report. I shall persevere, but I don't mind admitting that I'm losing heart. C.